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American Bests Japanese Hot Dog Eating Champion, Sets Record

...opping out of the event after arthritis of the jaw and a pulled wisdom tooth left him in pain. He ralli...vomit forced him to block his mouth with his hands and settle for second place -- disqualification follows if vomit spills out of the mouth. Chestnut, a 23...

Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted

...ted by industrial chemicals such as dioxins, PCBs, and methyl mercury that they are unfit for human consu...emicals include damage to the nervous, respiratory and immune system, as well as cancer. While there have been reductions in contaminants in parts of the...

Cat Exposure Increases Bronchial Responsiveness

...those individuals who were exposed to cat allergen and whose blood tests showed that they were allergic t...s. Dr. Chinn, of the Imperial College in London, and 12 other researchers reported their findings in the first issue for July 2007 of the American Journa...

Lab Tests Throw Up New Path for Parkinson's

...cells that produce the key brain chemical dopamine and can even help damaged cells to recover. Tested o...uncontrollable shaking, along with impaired speech and movement. In approximately one third of cases it also results in dementia. The disease affects at le...

Dietary Counseling Leads to Weight Loss

...g in dietary counseling-based weight loss programs and 5,467 people not involved in formal weight loss programs. Programs with more frequent meetings and greater calorie restrictions tended to produce greater weight losses over time. Approximately half...

Will Seven Be the Lucky Number for Las Vegas Newlyweds?

In Las Vegas you roll the dice and hope they come up seven: on Saturday thousands of ... placing their bets on future domestic tranquility and happiness. In small chapels that have hosted weddings for decades and at large glitzy resorts wher...

New Oncogene for Brain Cancer

...nnects with two other proteins to fuel development and progression of brain tumors, says senior author We...ivery system in a mouse model, a team led by Zhang and Professor of Pathology Gregory Fuller, M.D., Ph.D., shows that IGFBP2 plays an active role in the tu...

New York, the City That Roars 24/7, is Forced to Quiet Down

The City that Never Sleeps and Makes a Lot of Noise has had to turn it down a not...lems that range from hearing loss to psychological and behavioral problems. "The revised Noise Code will help make the City that Never Sleeps a little mo...

Influenza Virus Samples of 1918

...luenza virus has been a pursuit of both historical and medical importance . The 1918 influenza pandemic w...stating single disease outbreak in modern history, and examining the virus that caused it may help prepare for, and possibly prevent, future pandemics. ...

Use of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Canada Lags Behind U.S

... than that in the United States. Dr. David Birnie and colleagues from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute report that, between 1995 and 2003, the use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators in adults who survived a cardiac arrest inc...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

...eported online in "Science Express" today, July 5, and will be published in an upcoming issue of "Science...ypes of brain cells - astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and neurons. Their role in producing neurons is of particular interest to scientists because neurons orc...

Aboriginal People Less Likely to Use Methadone Therapy

...for treatment of their addiction. Dr. Evan Wood and colleagues evaluated factors associated with use of methadone maintenance therapy among 1603 injection drug users from May 1996 to November 2005. At enrolment, 12.4% of Aboriginal participants used methadone, compared with 21.2% of non-Aboriginal par...

France Steps Up Vigilance After Bird Flu Outbreak

...cases of the H5N1 virus were discovered in Germany and the Czech Republic last month. Authorities had s...according to its June 29 tally. Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand top the list of most affected countries....

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...ced only by tree huggers but now by Madonna, Sting and other stars, global warming had a turbulent ride b...tics who challenged the sometimes-sketchy evidence and fossil-fuel lobbyists who dismissed it as nothing more than a greenmongering scare. Thirty years a...

Low Income Family Adolescents Suffer Migraine

...ted with low socioeconomic statusstress, poor diet and limited access to medical care, for example increa...of the U.S. population with respect to gender, age and geographic region. More than 32,000 teens were identified in this sample, and more than half of them...

Wordlist for Allergies to Help Cross-border Travellers

... wordlist of more than 200 ingredients , from nuts and shellfish to soya and gluten, that have been translated into 30 languages. The list, available on (http: www.food-info.n...

New Clues About Multiple Sclerosis

...on University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, and member of the American Academy of Neurology. Rin...e more disability, but the products of these genes and the mechanism of their effects remain unknown. The study found that African Americans had MS for a...

Skin Cancer can Be Triggered by P53 Mutation

...te studies by research teams at Glasgow University and Baylor College of Medicine uncover 2 previously un... of these two studies, Dennis Roop, Carlos Caulin, and colleagues from Baylor College of Medicine, set out to determine whether gain-of-function or loss-of...

Pre-packed Sandwiches Saltier Than Crisps

...rvey was conducted by the Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH), an alliance of doctors and scientists that lobbies the food industry to use less salt. They surveyed 140 readymade sandwiches m...

Diabetic Skip Jabs to Stay Slim

...ng this at the risk of of blindness, heart disease and even death. Diabetes UK says that ups to a thir...ss blood glucose. As the glucose keeps circulating and the blood sugar levels keep rising, it produces rapid weight loss as the body is starved of energy. ...

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