Plugging these figures into computer models of disease spread showed that control measures as deployed in the real world had an impact at least an order of magnitude greater than any climatic influence.
In another application, scientists selectively stimulated brain cells in animal models of Parkinson's disease, a disease that involves the disruption of information-processing in the brain.
Its findings will be published next March and it will lead to a new chapter being added to the National Service Framework (NSF) on coronary heart disease, setting out the standards and models of care for such conditions.
AIDS. Rian Malan, a South African writer, recently documented how models used to estimate the number of deaths from the disease have been abandoned in quick succession as they have failed to track changes in mortality rates.