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Fate of France's Cheeses in Doubt as Producers Cite Health Risks

... mass-produced "vin de table." "Camembert does not exist unless it is made with untreated milk. 'Lait cru' is what gives the richness, the taste, the originality. If you heat the milk, you'll still have a cheese, but it won't be Camembert," said Roger. Half a century ago there were scores of independ...

Concern Expressed Over Poor Quality Bird Flu Vaccine Used in Nigeria

... in 22 of Nigeria's 36 states and infections still exist in 14 of those states. In the countrys commercial capital Lagos one person died of the virus in February. Bird flu experts are concerned about reports that large-scale farmers around Lagos and in the north of the country have been buying the imp...

Antibiotics Highly Effective for Treating Lyme Disease

...nt of infected patients. "While other guidelines exist to help diagnose and treat general Lyme disease, there continues to be considerable controversy and uncertainty about the best approach to treating neuroborreliosis, in which Lyme disease involves the nervous system," said lead guideline author John ...

Researchers Make Insulin from Human Umbilical Cord Bloods Adult Stem Cells

...er, known as SSEA-4 that was previously thought to exist only in embryonic cells. They also found that just as embryonic cells have been shown to do, these adult stem cells produced both C-peptide, a part of the insulin precursor protein, and insulin itself. Confirming the presence of the C-peptide w...

Appetite-regulating Peptides Influence Alcohol Cravings

...cal applications. "Our findings show that there exist important differences between alcohol-dependent patients, not only regarding psychosocial but also regarding neurobiological influences," said Hillemacher. "To explain addiction, we need mechanisms of different types of craving. Addiction is not c...

Hypnotherapy may Help Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

...rly not depressed. Other psychological therapies exist that patients with IBS should be made aware of, they say. For example, talking therapy (known as cognitive behavioural therapy) is as effective as antidepressant treatment and its benefits last longer. Hypnotherapy has also been reported to be an e...

Astronauts can Now Feed on 'radiation-eating' Fungi

...ronauts. Scientists have long assumed that fungi exist mainly to decompose matter into chemicals that other organisms can then use. "The fungal kingdom comprises more species than any other plant or animal kingdom, so finding that they're making food in addition to breaking it down means that Earth's ...

Wrinkles can Be Really Ironed Out, Thanks to Vitamin A

...o reverse the atrophy of natural skin aging do not exist currently," they wrote. This is not the first study though to support the use of vitamin A creams to improve the appearance of ageing skin. Earlier this year, a favourable report from Manchester University scientists on a "No.7" cream, screened a...

New Brain Neuromarker May Shed Light on Autism and Schizophrenia

...t. Phi is one of a number of brain rhythms that exist in the awake human brain and appears to have a social function. Rhythms or oscillations are the natural language of the brain. They are the signature of the underlying cortical networks and are characterized by their frequency, strength and location....

New Critical Path Report Highlights Research Needed to Foster Generic Drug Development

...ve, established in 2004 to discern what challenges exist in moving a promising drug, biologic or device along the critical path from discovery, or proof of concept, to a marketable product. Solving these challenges will require the expertise and input of many groups, including scientists from universities,...

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

...e known benefits and risks, and what uncertainties exist with regard to future benefit and harm? who should be using such medications? are women provided with accurate information to make informed choices?...

Sleep Deprivation can Affect Competent Decision-making

...umbers of persons affected, but also because there exist today unprecedented opportunities to incur damaging losses by means such as online gambling. This work is one of many evaluating the neural correlates of decision making but the first to apply such methods to sleep deprived individuals." Experts re...

"Decryption" of Enzyme's Functions Paves Way for Future Drug Discovery

...ked unstable "intermediate" molecules - those that exist only briefly as the catalyst turns the substrate into a new molecule. "To tell the truth, we were very surprised that the docking approach worked to determine the substrate. There's so many ways that the approach can go wrong. We're all very grati...

Loss of Antenna Leads to Cancer in Insects

...so tantalizing to consider that closer connections exist between dysplastic disorders leading to cysts and cancer than have previously been appreciated, the authors wrote. Overall, deregulated Aurora A/HEF1/HDAC6 signaling may have broad implications for studies of human development and disease. The auth...

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...ll be a high and uniform standard of care; systems exist to ensure that happen. An important part of delive...rientation and primacy. Does the healthcare sector exist to make money by delivering care? Or does the healthcare sector exist to provide healthcare by using...

Angioplasty may Damage Kidneys

...y be effective in improving results. New devices exist that may prevent the passage of this debris into the kidney and may lead to better patient outcomes, said Edwards. We are currently conducting a clinical trial to explore this question. As many as 3.5 million Americans over age 65 years have blocke...

Reduced Lung Capacity Linked to Cardiovascular Disease by Inflammation

...at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease may exist in older adults with COPD because inflammation is a risk factor for hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis. However, this study found an association between higher serum CRP and lower lung function in adults as young as 26 years, who the auth...

Smoking Hampers Alcoholics' Neurocognitive Recovery During Abstinence

...one leads to cravings for the other; and there may exist a genetic vulnerability for concurrent active cigarette smoking and alcohol dependence, Durazzo added. Durazzo added that earlier research had shown that chronically smoking alcoholics display poorer performance in several areas of cognitive functi...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

...d opportunities to address these global challenges exist right now, with international interest and investment higher than ever: The G8s 60bn pledge to fight disease in Africa; record levels of philanthropy - 1.5bn from the Gates Foundation in 2006. But globalised one-size-fits-all solutions ignore diffe...

New Tumor Markers for Pancreatic Cancer

...ible messages sent by the nearly 30,000 genes that exist in the human genome. When RNA is exposed to the microarray, each message binds to its matching DNA, producing fluorescent signal. These findings reveal some of the orders that allow pancreatic tumours to grow quickly, feed and invade other tissues....

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