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White Blood Cell Booster May Help Cancer Patients Avoid Deadly Complications

...aid Nicole M. Kuderer, M.D., a hematology-oncology fellow at Duke and lead author on the publication. "When patients' white blood cell counts drop too low, they are at risk for dangerous infections that can cause death." Often, chemotherapy must be delayed, reduced in strength or halted when a patient's wh...

Malaysian Astronaut to Conduct Cancer Research in Space

...e director, said most Malaysians thought sending a fellow countryman into space was a waste of time and money. "Worse, many think we will spin a top in space or make milk tea," he was quoted as saying by the Star newspaper. Russia will send Malaysia's first cosmonaut into space in October 2007 as part o...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

... the climate. Although Hansen came under fire by fellow scientists who thought his pronouncements premature or even alarmist, the media splashed his testimony and "global warming" entered the general vocabulary. Within months, the UN and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) set up a paramount sci...

New Insights into Prion Propogation

... The work was done with former UIC post-doctoral fellow Vibha Taneja and University of Bordeaux researchers Sven Saupe, Marie-Lise Maddelein and Nicholas Talarek. Previously, Liebman focused her studies on prion-forming proteins found in baker's yeast, while Saupe's research looked at prion protein in a...

Novel Light Weight Polymers Made Up of Carbon Nanotubes

...bility. Gupta's team included U.Va. postdoctoral fellow Dr. Y. Yang, and colleagues at the National Institute of Aerospace and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. They will receive the Nano50 award in November 2007 at the NASA Tech Briefs National Nano Engineering Conference in Boston....

Exercise Reduces Inflammation

...hings down, said Victoria J. Vieira, a predoctoral fellow in kinesiology and community health and in nutritional sciences, and the primary author and designer of the study, published in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. So when youre exercising, your sympathetic nervous syste...

Americans Bloated On Happy Pills

...r. Dworkin, a Maryland anesthesiologist and senior fellow at Washington's Hudson Institute, who has authored: "Artificial Unhappiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class, doctors are now medicating unhappiness. "Too many people take drugs when they really need to be making changes in their lives, he say...

Cane Sugar,corn Syrup Have Similar Effects on Hunger

...study is authored by Dr. Pablo Monsivais, research fellow in the UW Nutritional Sciences Program, and co-authored by Drewnowski and UW graduate student Martine Perrigue. The Seattle investigators provided subjects with a beverage mid-morning, then tracked hunger, appetite and thirst for two hours, and th...

U.S Shows Increased Obesity Rate

... Beydoun, coauthor of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in the Bloomberg School of Public Healths Department of International Health. Obesity is likely to continue to increase, and if nothing is done, it will soon become the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. In a related study, t...

McDonald's to Start Coffee Chain in Japan

...ns are now competing in Japan including Starbucks, fellow Seattle company Tully's Coffee and several local franchises....

Queen Latifah Set to Open Burger Joint

...ials for the line, as well as in a commercial with fellow spokeswoman and singer Faith Hill....

Worms are Killing the Planet

...sources journal, Jim Frederickson, senior research fellow at Britain's Open Universities faculty of technology, said the German research showed that worm composting has deleterious effects on the environment that should be considered more seriously. Worms naturally produce nitrous oxide gases when they are...

Virginity Rules-Meant To Be Broken?

... the stickiness away. It was Mr. Robert Rector, fellow at the Heritage Foundation, that wrote the first bill that legally defined abstinence education. According to Rector, viewing abstinence primarily through the lens of public health distracts the focus from marriage. Once you understand that thats t...

Beijing Legislator Calls on Government to Regulate Sexually Suggestive TV Ads

...e monitored commercials for three months alongwith fellow legislator Tang Xilan before taking the step of advising the government to set ratings and timings for ads deemed improper for minors. According to The China Daily, the present law on advertising, implemented 12 years ago, vaguely prohibits "conten...

Australia is Shamed by an Inquiry Report on Child Sexual Abuse in Aboriginal Communities

...ild, co-chairman of the inquiry. Pat Anderson, his fellow chairwoman, said: ``Our children are suffering from one end to the other.'' The report revealed of Aboriginal girls engaged in rampant informal sex trade with non-Aboriginal workers from a mining company for alcohol, cash and other goods in exchange...

Genome Annotation by Mutation

...A in the mouse genome, says Sen Wu, a postdoctoral fellow in human genetics at the University of Utah and HHMI. The best way to know the function of the genetic blueprint is by removing part of the DNA and seeing what goes wrong. We have found a way to do this job on a large scale that is simple and practic...

Boffins Develop New Technique to Hunt Illness-causing Mutants in Non-gene DNA

...mount of the total genome." Sen Wu, a postdoctoral fellow in human genetics at the University of Utah, says human diseases were studied in mice, "we want to know the function of every piece of DNA in the mouse genome." "The best way to know the function of the genetic blueprint is by removing part of the ...

Actor Travolta Blames Psychotropic Drugs for US School Shootings

...olta, as saying. The Hairspray actor agrees with fellow Scientologist Tom Cruise who is one of the most outspoken members of the Church of Scientology. "I don't disagree with anything Tom says, he said. According to Scientology there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance, and psychiatry is a form of ...

Desalination of Sea is Not a Solution to Tackle Global Water Scarcity: WWF

...global basis, is a problem," said Richard Bowen, a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. "Desalination is set to become more important because the demand for water is going to increase, and a large percentage of the world's population is situated in coastal areas, the BBC quoted him as saying. The s...

Video Game Addiction to Be Termed as a Medical Condition

...essor at the University of Illinois and a research fellow with the Pew Internet & American Life Project. "Just because any activity might interfere with other activities is not enough to call it an addiction." Video game makers scoff at the notion that their products can cause a psychiatric disorder. Eve...

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