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- Fete Over Dutch Dope Culture by Pro-pot Supporters
- Aircraft All Set To Fly Out With Biobased Jet Fuels Soon
- Breast Cancer Cells on the Move Being Tracked
- Improved Oral Vaccines, Treating Intestinal Disease Probable With Control Gene For 'Conveyor Belt' Cells
- People With Resected SCLC or Large-cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma, Chemotherapy Is Effective
- Rely on Luck to Get Employed : Survey
- Weaver Syndrome / Weaver-Smith Syndrome
- Keyed, 'Jack Spratt' Diabetes Gene
- Exercise-related Growth Hormones Perhaps Don't Reward Bodybuilders
- Attempt to Find Genetic Proof of Coronary Artery Disease Risk Lead by U of M Public Health Researchers
- Low Magnesium Intake Increases Risk for Metabolic Syndrome and Depression in Elderly Diabetics
- Sketching a Plan to Freeze Preventable Child Fatalities In A Generation
- Easy to Use, Free 'Blood Pressure Cuff' for Dementia Found Reliable and Valid: Study
- 'Indignants' of Spain Battle Exigence With Food Aid
- No Link Between Soft Drinks and Childhood Obesity
- Quiz on Diabetes Medications
- Link Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
- Olive Oil Cuts Heart Disease Risk
- Breast Milk can Protect Against Oral Transmission of HIV
- Researchers Say Listening to IPod at Full Volume can Damage Hearing
- Genetic Link Between Alzheimer's Disease and Diabetes
- Bacteria That Produces Neurotransmitter Identified
- Report Says Elderly Prisoners Need Better Medical Care
- Increase in Number of Cancer Survivors in The US
- Impulsiveness can be Controlled by Conditioning the Brain
| Fete Over Dutch Dope Culture by Pro-pot Supporters Posted:  On Sunday, countless pro-pot supporters assembled in Amsterdam to celebrate 'cannabis culture' in the Netherlands, currently under danger by government steps to ban sales to foreigners, said an organiser. Up to 4,000 people attended the fourth annual "Cannabis Liberation Day", said Joep Oomen, adding it was held this year to protest the introduction of the so-called "wietpas", or cannabis card. "Today's festival, the largest in the Netherlands to celebrate ... |
| Aircraft All Set To Fly Out With Biobased Jet Fuels Soon Posted:  Eager and ready to fuel up with biobased jet fuel are airline companies. This fuel is made from waste cooking oil from fast-food and other restaurants, waste fat, biomass and even algae - the stuff of 'pond scum.' In the article, C and EN Senior Business Editor Melody M. Bomgardner explains that successful test flights with biobased jet fuel has been completed. Biobased fuels are blended into conventional Jet A-1 fuel. Airlines are interested partly ... |
| Breast Cancer Cells on the Move Being Tracked Posted:  A patient's chance of survival decreases as the breast cancer cells frequently move from their primary site and invade bone. This complex process of metastasis factors both within the breast cancer cells and within the new bone environment play a role. Roger Gomis and colleagues at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Spain investigate how breast cancer cells migrate to bone in next week's IJournal of Biological Chemistry /I"Paper of the Week." In particular, ... |
| Posted:  Premier regulator gene required for the development of M cells, a mysterious type of intestinal cell involved in initiating immune responses discover scientists. M cells act like "conveyor belts," ingesting bacteria and transporting substances from the gut into Peyer's patches, specialized tissues resembling lymph nodes in the intestines. Better knowledge of M cells' properties could aid research on oral vaccines and inflammatory bowel diseases. A team ... |
| People With Resected SCLC or Large-cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma, Chemotherapy Is Effective Posted:  People with limited large cell neuroendocrine tumors or with limited stage small-cell lung cancer who were treated with perioperative chemotherapy and surgery had better overall survival outcomes than patients treated with surgery alone concluded research presented in the July 2012 issue of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's (IASLC) IJournal of Thoracic Oncology/I. Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) represents about 15 percent of lung ... |
| Rely on Luck to Get Employed : Survey Posted:  Eventually the interview for the dream job gets scheduled. Endowed with apt skills, aptitude, educational proficiency and professional background, might still leave you doubtful unless you have the X factor...Luck Factor? Eighty percent of those surveyed by leading online career and recruitment solutions provider Monster India, felt that getting a good job is dependent on luck in addition to your experience and capabilities. In addition, 69 percent ... |
| Weaver Syndrome / Weaver-Smith Syndrome Posted:  Weaver syndrome is a genetic disorder in which children show accelerated bone growth, advanced bone age and a characteristic appearance of the face. |
| Keyed, 'Jack Spratt' Diabetes Gene Posted:  Type 2 diabetes is commonly linked to obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. Nevertheless, similar to existence of obese people without type 2 diabetes, there are lean people with the disease. It has long been hypothesised that type 2 diabetes in lean people is more 'genetically driven'. A new study from a research team led by the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD), University of Exeter, which involved research institutions from around the world, has ... |
| Exercise-related Growth Hormones Perhaps Don't Reward Bodybuilders Posted:  Exercise-related testosterone and growth hormone do not influence in building muscle after weightlifting, despite conventional wisdom suggesting otherwise expose scientists at McMaster University. The findings indicate that bodybuilders who look to manipulate those hormones through exercise routines are wasting their time. In two separate studies, researchers found anabolic hormones-long thought to be essential for building a muscular frame-do not influence ... |
| Posted:  Two high-signal genetic markers correlated with coronary artery disease (CAD) that should help define genetic fingerprints that can signal an elevated risk of developing the disease have been reported by researchers of University of Minnesota School of Public Health. The results also offer biological and clinical data supporting future research into the genetic markers and their relationship to CAD, a condition that impacts more than 13 million Americans each year. The ... |
| Low Magnesium Intake Increases Risk for Metabolic Syndrome and Depression in Elderly Diabetics Posted:  There is a connection between magnesium intake and metabolic syndrome, depression and physical activity in elderly people with type 2 diabetes, according to a study from Taiwan, published in the Nutrition Journal. The term metabolic syndrome, a disease of the modern times, is generally referred to a group of conditions viz. obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. One common feature in patients with any or all of these conditions is the deficiency of ... |
| Sketching a Plan to Freeze Preventable Child Fatalities In A Generation Posted:  Preventable childhood deaths owing to maladies such as pneumonia and diarrhea can be almost eradicated in 10 years state researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the National Institutes of Health. In a new commentary featured in the June issue of the IJournal of the American Medical Association,/I researchers outline a strategy and benchmarks for curbing childhood preventable deaths and recommend a new common vision for a global commitment ... |
| Easy to Use, Free 'Blood Pressure Cuff' for Dementia Found Reliable and Valid: Study Posted:  Practical clinical tool to evaluate severity of dementia symptoms developed by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of Medicine is reliable and valid states study. The Healthy Aging Brain Care Monitor is simple, user-friendly and sensitive to change in symptoms. "The HABC Monitor is a 'blood pressure cuff' for dementia," said Regenstrief Institute investigator Malaz Boustani, M.D., MPH, associate professor of medicine and ... |
| 'Indignants' of Spain Battle Exigence With Food Aid Posted:  'Indignant' demonstrators of Spain opposing economic injustice, who erstwhile inspired a global revolt, appear to have vanished from the headlines right at the prime of a financial crisis. But that does not mean they have given up. In fact, far from the public squares they once occupied in their tens of thousands in a blaze of publicity, the "indignants" are building an extraordinary street-level network to help those hardest hit by economic hardship. ... |
| No Link Between Soft Drinks and Childhood Obesity Posted:  Soft drinks don't contribute to childhood obesity, say researchers. The study examined the link between beverage intake patterns of children and their risk for obesity. "We found sweetened drinks to be dominant beverages during childhood, but saw no consistent association between beverage intake patterns and overweight and obesity," says Susan J. Whiting, professor of nutrition and dietetics from Canada's University of Saskatchewan, who led the ... |
| Posted:  How much do you know about the medications used to treat diabetes? Here are a few questions you could attempt to test your knowledge. |
| Link Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy Posted:  In patients with type 2 diabetes, strong association exists between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN). "OSA is known to be associated with inflammation and oxidative stress, so we hypothesized that it would be associated with peripheral neuropathy in patients with T2DM," said lead author Abd Tahrani, MD, clinical lecturer in endocrinology and diabetes at the University of Birmingham in the UK. "This is the first report ... |
| Olive Oil Cuts Heart Disease Risk Posted:  2 teaspoons of olive oil could reduce heart disease risk, reports study. The equivalent of one tablespoon cuts the risk by around 28 per cent. There have been numerous studies highlighting olive oil's benefits to the heart, but few have investigated the extent to which this translates into reduced death rates. The results are based on the diets of nearly 41,000 adults in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, which began 20 ... |
| Breast Milk can Protect Against Oral Transmission of HIV Posted:  Oral transmission of HIV can be blocked by breast milk, reveals study. More than 15 percent of new HIV infections occur in children. Without treatment, only 65 percent of HIV-infected children will live until their first birthday, and fewer than half will make it to the age of two. Although breastfeeding is attributed to a significant number of these infections, most breastfed infants are not infected with HIV, despite prolonged and repeated exposure. ... |
| Researchers Say Listening to IPod at Full Volume can Damage Hearing Posted:  Listening to your iPod at full volume can damage hearing, say researchers. Edith Cowan University School of Psychology and Social Science researcher Paul Chang's new project focuses of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL), and how it can mean a lifetime of hearing damage for young people. Chang surveyed three groups from different age ranges to get an understanding of how often they are exposed to loud noises, and whether they understand the consequences. ... |
| Genetic Link Between Alzheimer's Disease and Diabetes Posted:  Alzheimer's gene linked to diabetes, report researchers. "Mutations in three genes, including the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene, have been correlated with the inherited form of Alzheimer's disease in humans," said Chris Li,Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Biology at CCNY-CUNY. "Because the equivalent gene we're studying in the model organism iC. elegans/i is involved in many metabolic pathways, it suggests that the human ... |
| Bacteria That Produces Neurotransmitter Identified Posted:  Intestinal bacteria that produces a neurotransmitter has been discovered by Baylor College of Medicine researchers. Neurotransmitter may play a role in preventing or treating inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease. "We identified, to our knowledge, the first bifidobacterial strain, Bifidobacterium dentium, that is capable of secreting large amounts of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). This molecule is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central ... |
| Report Says Elderly Prisoners Need Better Medical Care Posted:  According to a recent report, elderly prisoners need better medical care. As the American penal system confronts a costly demographic shift toward older prisoners, the authors call for an overhaul in health care practices for elderly inmates who disproportionately account for escalating medical expenses behind bars. The recommendations include screening for dementia among prisoners, improved palliative care, and standard policies for geriatric housing units ... |
| Increase in Number of Cancer Survivors in The US Posted:  The number of people in the United States who have survived cancer is set to reach nearly 18 million in the next decade, up from 13.7 million currently, said a US study out Thursday. The number of survivors is growing because of better treatments and an ageing and expanding population, even as the overall rate of cancer is falling, it said. The research appears in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and was compiled by the American Cancer Society and ... |
| Impulsiveness can be Controlled by Conditioning the Brain Posted:  Conditioning the brain can help curb impulsiveness and can be a good way to treat addiction to gambling, drugs or alcohol. The study evaluated whether asking people to stop making simple movements while in a simulated gambling situation affected how risky or cautious they were when betting. In a first experiment, conducted by psychologists from the Universities of Exeter and ... |
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