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Pork or Nothing for Pupils, Says French Far-Right Leader

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In towns where France's anti-immigration far-right National Front party won local elections, school canteens will no longer offer non-pork meal options, Party leader Marine Le Pen has said. Le Pen reignited debate on a sensitive issue about the substitution meals targeting mainly Muslim and Jewish pupils for whom pork is taboo. "We will accept no religious requirements in the school lunch menus," Le Pen told RTL radio. "There is no reason for religion ...

Pocket Bibles Will be Handed Out on St Peter's Square on Sunday

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Following a reprimand from the Roman pontiff himself, The pilgrims and tourists who flock to St Peter's Square every week to see Pope Francis will get pocket bibles this Sunday. Volunteers on the famous Vatican piazza will hand out thousands of Italian copies of the New Testament and the Acts of the Apostles before Francis delivers his weekly Angelus prayer and address from a balcony. "Pope Francis has already encouraged the faithful several times to ...

France Sends (Dollar) 1 Billion Worth of Art to China

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Heavy security was evident as the last of 10 artistic masterpieces from France arrived in China for a show featuring a billion dollars' worth of art. The exhibition at Beijing's National Museum will include Auguste Renoir's masterpiece "Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette", normally kept at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Among the other renowned canvases in the ten-picture show are Pablo Picasso's "Matador" and Hyacinthe Rigaud's full-length portrait of king ...

Here are Some Simple Make-Up Tips to Enhance Your Look

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A perfect spring look can be brought about by colorful outfits teamed up with light and simple make-up. Follow an easy do-it-yourself routine to put your best foot forward, suggests an expert. Here's a tutorial from Navyata Malkani of Fashion on my Own (FOMO) for a spring-summer make-up: * Start off by washing your face with a gentle face wash and dabbing it dry. * Next, apply some face primer all over your face which will help your make ...

Research Explores What Shapes the Sound of Words Since Birth

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The existence of biological bases of language, which precedes language learning in humans, has been hypothesized by linguists. David Gomez, a SISSA research scientist working under the supervision of Jacques Mehler and first author of the paper, and his co-workers decided to observe the brain activity of newborns. Gomez said that in fact, if it is possible to demonstrate that these preferences are already present within days from birth, when the newborn ...

Various Immune Responses Must be Taken into Account in HIV Vaccine Research

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A scientific meeting was held last year by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, to examine why certain investigational HIV vaccines may have increased susceptibility to HIV infection. In a new perspectives article appearing in the journal emScience/em, HIV research leaders from NIAID (Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D.) and its grantees at Emory University (Eric Hunter, ...

Health Issues in Kidney Disease Patients Linked to Poor Quality of Life

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A new study suggests that kidney disease patients with poor quality of life are at increased risk of experiencing progression of their disease and of developing heart problems. The study appears in an upcoming issue of the iJournal of the American Society of Nephrology/i (iJASN/i). The findings suggest that quality of life measurements may have important prognostic value in these individuals. Approximately 60 million people globally have chronic ...

Heart Regeneration in Mammals may be Doubtful, Says Study

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Scientists have always believed that the mammalian heart lacks the ability to repair itself after injury. However, a 2011 study in newborn mice challenged this view, providing evidence for complete regeneration after resection of 10% of the apex, the lowest part of the heart. In a study published by Cell Press in iStem Cell Reports/i on April 3, 2014, researchers attempted to replicate these recent findings but failed to uncover any evidence of complete heart ...

More Than Half of High-Risk Alcohol Users Report Improvement After Weight Loss Surgery

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More than half of high-risk drinkers are actually less likely to report high-risk drinking behavior after weight loss surgery, a new study from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center suggests. The results appear in the journal, emSurgery for Obesity and Related Diseases/em. "This is the first study to show that high-risk drinking may actually improve post weight loss surgery," says lead author and principal investigator Christina Wee, MD, Director ...

Researchers Study Bank Voles to Know About Prion Disease Transmission and Neurodegeneration

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Previous research has shown that when cannibals ate brains of people who died from prion disease, many of them fell ill with the fatal neurodegenerative disease as well. Likewise, when cows were fed protein contaminated with bovine prions, many of them developed mad cow disease. On the other hand, transmission of prions between species, for example from cows, sheep, or deer to humans, is-fortunately-inefficient, and only a small proportion of exposed recipients ...

Researchers study Vascular Changes Caused by Deep Brain Stimulation Using Brain MRI

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In recent decades, deep brain stimulation has been widely used to treat patients with movement disorders. Researchers have also paid increasing attention to its use in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders. However, the influence of subthalamic nucleus or pallidal deep brain stimulation on cerebral vasculature is poorly understood. Even though the metabolic changes caused by deep brain stimulation are being studied using positron emission tomography, ...

Two Genes That Modulate Risk of Breast and Ovarian Cancer Discovered

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It is well-known that women carrying BCRA1 and BCRA2 gene mutations have a 43% to 88% risk of developing from breast cancer before the age of 70. Taking critical decisions such as opting for preventive surgery when the risk bracket is so wide is not easy. Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) researchers are conducting a study that will contribute towards giving every woman far more precise data about her personal risk of suffering from cancer. The ...

Additional Link Between Endometriosis and Ovarian Cancer Revealed by Screening

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A University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) study conducted in partnership with Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) has revealed that some women with endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disease, are predisposed to ovarian cancer. The researchers add that a genetic screening might someday help reveal which women are most at risk. Monday at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2014, UPCI and MWRI researchers will present the ...

Research Reveals Combining Cell Replication Blocker With Common Cancer Drug Kills Resistant Tumor Cells

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An agent that inhibits mitochondrial division can overcome tumor cell resistance to a commonly used cancer drug, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), a partner with UPMC Cancer Center, have found. The research also showed that the combination of the two induces rapid and synergistic cell death. Separately, neither had an effect. These findings will be presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer ...

Researchers Explore Link Between Time Spent at the Computer and Bone Mineral Density in Adolescents

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Higher screen time was adversely associated to bone mineral density (BMD) in boys at all sites even when adjusted for specific lifestyle factors, results of a study presented at the World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases revealed. The skeleton grows continually from birth to the end of the teenage years, reaching peak bone mass - maximum strength and size- in early adulthood. Along with nutritional factors, physical activity ...

Heart Failure Risk Increased by 40 Percent in Depressed Individuals

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A study of nearly 63,000 Norwegians has shown that moderate to severe depression increases the risk of heart failure by 40 percent. The findings were presented for the first time today at EuroHeartCare 2014. EuroHeartCare is the official annual meeting of the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions (CCNAP) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). This year's meeting is organised jointly with the Norwegian Society of Cardiovascular ...

Exercise Recommendations for People With Osteoporosis and Spine Fractures Issued

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The results of an international consensus process to establish exercise recommendations for people with osteoporosis, with or without spine fractures were presented by experts from the Too Fit to Fracture Initiative. The results were presented at the World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases in Seville, Spain. Using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) method, the international ...

Unhealthy Weight Control Methods Associated With Indoor Tanning by Teens

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New research suggests that high school students who use indoor tanning also have higher rates of unhealthy weight control behaviors that include taking diet pills or vomiting to lose weight. The study appears in the April Journal of Developmental (and) Behavioral Pediatrics/i/a, the official journal of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics/a. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams (and) Wilkins/a, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health/a. The ...

Among Non-White Women, Higher Social Class is Linked to Fewer Bone Fractures

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A UCLA-led study suggests that your social class may play a significant role in how likely you are to suffer bone fractures if you are a middle-aged African-American or Asian woman. The study, published in the current issue of emOsteoporosis International/em, is unique in that it followed Asian, African-American and white women for a period of nine years during mid-life; most previous studies on socioeconomic status and osteoporosis risk had focused solely ...

DNA Repair is Impacted by Loneliness

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Research has demonstrated that grey parrots are often kept in social isolation in captivity, which can have detrimental effects on their health and wellbeing. So far there have not been any studies on the effects of long term social isolation from conspecifics on cellular aging. Telomeres shorten with each cell division, and once a critical length is reached, cells are unable to divide further (a stage known as 'replicative senescence'). Although cellular senescence ...

Microarray Technology May Be the Game Changer in Diagnosis of Leukemia

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Genetic analysis using microarray technology may better define prognosis and treatment in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia, suggests new study. a href="http:www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/acute_myeloid_leukemia.htm" target="_blank" class="vcontentshlink"Acute myelogenous leukemia/a (AML) is a type of a href="http:www.medindia.net/slideshow/leukemia.asp" target="_blank" class="vcontentshlink"blood cancer/a; it is the most common ...

Study Explains How Zebras Got Their Stripes

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Biting flies led to the zebras' evolving stripes, say researchers. The research team mapped the geographic distributions of the seven different species of zebras, horses and asses, and of their subspecies, noting the thickness, locations, and intensity of their stripes on several parts of their bodies. Their next step was to compare these animals' geographic ranges with different variables, including woodland areas, ranges of large predators, ...

New Genetic Driver of Bladder Cancer Discovered

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New study conducted by scientists links AGL the liver disease gene to bladder cancer. The findings of the study are published in iJournal of the National Cancer Institute/i "We tend to think of cancer resulting from mutations that let genes make things they shouldn't or turn on when they should be quiet. But cancer can also result from loss of gene function. Some genes suppress cancer. When you turn off these suppressors, cancer grows," says Dan Theodorescu, ...