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Sea Snail Venom Paves Way for Potent New Painkiller

... but scientists found that chemicals in the poison could also obstruct pain signals in the human brain. About 25 years ago, scientists at the University of Utah, in the US, were able to detach a molecule from the venom that also had painkilling properties in humans. Now researchers have produced a synt...

Five Killed by Methane Gas on Virginia Farm

...rs. A family member questioned whether cattle feed could have trickled into the pit and accelerated the for...said he tried to pull the woman out of the pit but could not. She died, along with daughters Shayla, 11, and Christina, 9, and farmhand Amous Stoltzfus, 24. ...

Mira Nair Takes AIDS Message to Indian Cinema Halls

...rus (HIV)," the magnitude of India's AIDS epidemic could equal that of Africa in a few years. The director, who now lives in Uganda, knows the problem firsthand. Figures of a 2006 UN study show that 72 percent of the 2.6 million global AIDS deaths were in sub-Saharan Africa with devastating socio-economi...

Test-tube Babies: Mood Swings are Key to Fertility Choice

...T (single-embryo transfer) were to increase, there could be huge benefits, not just emotionally and physically to mothers and children, but also in terms of costs to healthcare systems,' he said....

Daily Dose of Dark Chocolate Helps the Heart: Study

...ressure, but doctors have worried that any benefit could be offset by high doses of sugar, fat and calories. The study conducted by German researchers at the University of Cologne sought to examine the effect of consuming small amounts of dark chocolate -- which has lower levels of sugar and fat, said th...

Complementary Therapy may Reduce Pregnancy Chances in Women

...r fertility problems than non-users, and that this could account for the fact that they were willing to use complementary therapies that were not proven to improve fertility. Many women use complementary or alternative therapies (CATs) to resolve fertility problems, even though there is little evidence t...

Egyptian Clerics Say Female Circumcision Un-Islamic

...h of Cairo, for the operation. She died before she could be transferred to hospital....

Skin Rashes Signifies Longer Survival in Cancer Patients

...ts treated with a placebo developed a rash, but it could be due to the strength of their immune system, and that is why they survived longer," Wacker said. In the second clinical trial (known as PA.3) that tested Tarceva and the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine against a placebo drug and gemcitabine in 521 ...

Mother Donates Eggs So Daughter can Give Birth

... Boivin should become infertile, her mother's eggs could make it possible for her to give birth nonetheless...er a year of thinking about it, we decided that we could go through with it." Tan said the egg-freezing procedure has "reached a stage where we can offer t...

Elderberry A Natural Boost to Skin

...surgery, a compound found in the humble elderberry could give a natural boost to skin. In the first study of its kind, a team of researchers led by Prof Aedin Cassidy at the University of East Anglia and Dr Paul Kroon at the Institute of Food Research, will explore whether the skins condition is improve...

Prions Prevent Alzheimers Disease

...rion protein controls beta amyloid, knowledge that could be used to design anti-Alzheimers drugs. Theoretically, if we can find a way of mimicking the prions function we should be able to halt the progress of Alzheimers. However, theres still a lot of work to be done in looking at levels of prions in the h...

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

...y enemy, my duty is to heal the sick, he said. How could I remotely plan to kill and maim innocent people? ...ody, said that she found it plausible that doctors could become terrorists. In the end, these people are attracted to the U.K., to the medical profession, ...

Humans are Gobbling Up a Quarter of Nature's Resources, Reveals Study

...met by producing food more efficiently, but things could get worse, "if plants like palm oil and rapeseed are grown for biofuels to ease reliance on fossil fuels". "We are asking for trouble, if we expand production of biofuels, as the only fertile land available is tropical rainforests," said Haberl. ...

Yawning Actually Helps You Keep Awake

... University of Maryland in Baltimore, said yawning could mark the body's readiness to become alert. Yawning signals a transition between the behavioural states of wakefulness and sleepiness, and boredom to alertness, Provine said....

Boeing Unveils 'green' Dreamliner Passenger Jet

...ay's similarly sized airplane." Lower fuel-costs could in theory lead to cheaper long-haul travel, aviation industry analysts say. Richard Aboulafia, chief analyst with the Teal Group Corporation, said the Dreamliner was poised to revolutionize air travel if its projected rates of fuel-efficiency prove...

Chronic Insomnia can Lead to Anxiety Disorders and Depression

...might last for several weeks and if left untreated could lead to both short- and long-term health problems....e researchers suggested that many mental disorders could be detected earlier if anxiety and depression are linked to chronic insomnia. "Focusing on chronic...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

...d with it and 400 die from it. But these numbers could soon be reduced if the Singapore Gastric Cancer Co... to identify bio markers of gastric cancer. This could mean that in future, the risk of getting gastric cancer can be determined by a blood test. Current...

Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes

.... If found guilty, the owner of the fishing pond could be fined a maximum of S$5,000 or face a jail term of up to three months, or both. NEA said the cluster at Pasir Ris Drive 6 stands out for the large number of outdoor breeding grounds found. Health officials have been combing public housing estat...

Chemical Injections for Fat Removal

...ry, published online in Nature Medicine on July 1, could revolutionize human cosmetic and reconstructive pl...ed to prove that. More immediately, the findings could provide some comfort to stressed individuals who blame themselves for a weight gain that seems outsi...

Cognitive Test Takers and Score Variation

...Yet the apparent fuzziness of one-time assessments could make it hard to tell whether someone is truly impa... variation, classification based on one assessment could be way off the mark. Salthouse says it may be time to view cognitive abilities as a distribution o...

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