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Prions Prevent Alzheimers Disease

...ch debated agents of mad cow disease and vCJD, has been identified. It appears that the normal prions pro... to cause disease. The normal function of PrPc has been unclear. Using cells grown in the lab, the team looked at the effect of high and low levels of nor...

Swans Checked in France for Deadly Bird Flu Virus

... known Thursday, and in the meantime measures have been taken to seal off the lake in the Moselle departme...rms, a one kilometre (0.6 mile) exclusion zone has been established around the Assenoncourt lake, as well as a wider 15 kilometre 'observation' zone....

Luciano Pavarotti Believes He is 'nearing His End'

...ed with pancreatic cancer last year and he has not been seen in the public arena since then. His daughte...sen to stay out of the public eye but he has still been working. He is giving lessons and he is concentrating on his health," Robinson said....

Stray Kerala Dogs Face Keyhole Surgery to Control Birth Rate

...ve hands on training to local vets. The SPCA has been provided with a fund of rupees 445/- for each dog, which includes medicine, surgery equipment, vaccinations and other expenses. For the first phase, a financial assistance for 500 dogs is provided to the SPCA. It has targeted 1000 keyhole surgeri...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

...ists, many with family roots in Pakistan, who have been implicated in previous conspiracies here. Britai...ot as doctors, but as terrorists. Perhaps they had been radicalized by the Iraq war and brought their grievances with them to Britain, he said. Prasad Rao...

Pete Doherty Gets a Rehab or Jail Ultimatum

Singer Pete Doherty has been given an ultimatum; that he will face jail if he d...Doherty another chance, after learning that he had been offered the chance to undergo rehab in Harrogate, northern England, later this month. These six of...

Australian Father Gets 15 Year Jail Term for Forcing Bestial Acts on His Daughters

...s. The details are shocking, but no names have been revealed. The South Australian District Court he... their ability to lead a normal and happy life has been destroyed." The judge said the man had been diagnosed with severe borderline personality disorder ...

Yawning Actually Helps You Keep Awake

So far, the common notion has been that yawning is a precursor to sleep, but a new study has found that the yawn is in fact designed to prevent sleep. Researchers at the State University of New York have demonstrated that a yawn is the body's way of making us more attentive and aler...

Men, Not Women, Spend a Longer Time on the Phone!

...se phones, but also on the their mobiles. It has been estimated that men are hooked to their phones for 32 minutes today, as compared to 22 minutes in 2002. However, women spend only 26 minutes, which has come down from 35 minutes five years ago, reports the Daily Mail. The survey of 3,500 adults re...

Too Much of Videogames Hampers Study Time in Children

...d less time reading and doing homework, there have been some studies that show that high academic achievers spend less time doing homework," Cummings said....

Aguilera's Dad Confirms Her Pregnancy Rumours

...g wonderful and taking good care of herself. She's been planning this for a while, so her health is better than it's ever been," the source said. The source revealed that the 'Back To Basics' singer hopes to follow the footsteps of successful women who have managed their careers and kids well. "Christ...

Chilean Lake Disappears, Thanks to Global Warming

Scientists have been warning that glaciers are receding and lakes are drying up in Latin American America because of global warming. Even while some sections are adamantly skeptical about such assertions, Chilean scientists have reported the disappearance of a whole...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

...e, will focus on gastric or stomach cancer, it has been announced. In Singapore, gastric cancer (or sto...ugs for patients [for whom] standard treatment has been exhausted. So hopefully for advanced stages of cancer, this group of patients will benefit through a...

Former US Vice President Al Gores Son Continues to Be Dogged by Drug Abuse Problem.

...raduated from Harvard University in 2005. He had been suspended from St. Albans School for smoking marij...nd convinced them not to publish the story, it has been reported. The boy was the victim of a near-fatal car accident while attending a Baltimore Orioles...

Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes

...or breeding grounds found. Health officials have been combing public housing estates in search of mosquito breeding sites. Dengue-carrying insects breed in tiny pools of water found in flower pots, discarded bottles or cans, or old tires. Only recently Minister for the Environment and Water Resources ...

Chemical Injections for Fat Removal

...ators at Georgetown University Medical Center have been able to use simple, non-toxic chemical injections to add and remove fat in targeted areas on the bodies of laboratory animals. They say the discovery, published online in Nature Medicine on July 1, could revolutionize human cosmetic and reconstruc...

Combination of Bronchoscopic Techniques is Very Effective for Lung Lesions

...-- in the diagnosis of peripheral lung lesions has been shown to be more effective than either procedure alone and does not compromise patients safety. Multimodality diagnosis with the joint use of EBUS with ENB has pushed the diagnostic yield of flexible bronchoscopic procedures closer to the sensitiv...

Dark Chocolate Possible Medicine for Blood Pressure

...ert's team writes. On a population basis, it has been estimated that a 3-mm Hg reduction in systolic BP would reduce the relative risk of stroke mortality by 8 percent, of coronary artery disease mortality by 5 percent, and of all-cause mortality by 4 percent, the authors wrote. The reduction of mort...

Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

...ells from the patients own immune system that have been activated to the presence of cancer antigens and delivered back to the patient along with additional proteins that facilitate immune activation; and vector-based, where an engineered virus, or vector, is used to introduce cancer proteins and other mo...

Gene Variation Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer

...ica and asbestos, inhaled into the lungs, has also been shown to increases lung cancer risk. Inflammation has long been thought to be a factor in many cancers, including lung cancer, and could provide an explanation how ...

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