Good news for chronic migraine

Good news for mice!

Each December, science reporters dutifully sit down and compose stories about all the good things science has done for humanity in the past year. As my colleagues and I at National Public Radio contemplated this annual rite, we reluctantly came to the conclusion that 1999 hasn’t been all that notable a year, scientifically, for human beings. But it has been a spectacular year for mice. The firs...

NO news is good news for plants.

The organization of redox signaling and the use of nitric oxide (NO) to transmit information, modulate biological processes or create cellular damage are highly complex. Recent reports provide an exceptional picture of NO production, of the regulation of NO bioactivity through detoxification reactions and of biochemical events by which NO transduces signals into cellular responses, in particula...

No News is Good News

It seems plausible that an increase in stock market volatility raises required stock returns, and thus lowers stock prices. We develop a formal model of this volatility feedback effect using a simple model of changing variance (a quadratic generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic, or QGARCH, model). Our model is asymmetric and helps to explain the negative skewness and excess ku...

NO news is good news.

[Good news for Spanish neonates].

There is no longer any doubt that sick new-born, and in particular premature-born, infants suffer immediate, but also long-term negative effects as a result of the pain and stress they experience during their hospital stay. It was first shown by Anand and Hickey in the late the 1980s that the outcome after cardiac surgery performed on new-borns was much improved if an opioid was added to the tr...