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Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase

...cation while an estimated 450 million have stunted growth because of childhood malnutrition. "Why, in an era that saw the term 'girl power' coined, are millions of girls being condemned to a life of inequality and poverty?" the report asks. While many of the most shocking figures in the Plan International...

Glucosamine-like Supplement Inhibits Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes

...an the widely available glucosamine, inhibited the growth and function of abnormal T-cells that incorrectly ...ar GlcNAc and other related nutrients modifies the growth and autoimmune activitiy of T-cells. Virtually all proteins on the surface of cells, including T-cel...

Female Reproductive Function Influenced by Childhood Environment

...respond to chronic environmental conditions during growth and to make decisions about how to apportion energy between reproductive and other bodily functions. Five groups of women were selected and compared for the study. These included women who had grown up in Bangladesh but moved to the UK as adults; t...

Massive Wildfire Forces Evacuation of Hundreds of Home in Florida

...lorida has undergone an explosion in population a growth of about 13 percent between 2000 and 2006. This has meant that more and more people are pushing into rural areas. In dry weather conditions, such regions can be rife with dry, crackling brush ideal kindling for a wildfire sparked by a bolt of lightn...

Extinction Risk of Grazing Animals Depends on Reproductive Speed

...se plant seeds through their manure and keep plant growth in check. You can completely change the ecosystem without knowing it if you hunt these animals to extinction," Price said....

Effects on Breast Tumors of DNA Alternations in 3 Genes Described

...process that causes genes that promote normal cell growth to produce proteins that cause malignant behavior, or unregulated cell growth. Until now, data has been very limited regarding the mechanism and causes of hypermethylation, especially forhypermethylation in breast cancer. The purpose of the current...

Investigating Coral Reefs to Help Understand Past and Future Climate Change

...eef environment will lead to changes in coral reef growth and composition. Thus, a fossil coral reef drill sample gives accurate information about the sea level, salinity and temperature at different times in history. Interpreting this information provides a way to reconstruct past climate change. Using c...

Cow Protein Aids in Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorder

...ously been found to be effective at inhibiting the growth of microorganisms and reducing the side effects of antibiotics, respectively, but the new study marks the first time that they have been used together to treat H. pylori. The study found that the infection-causing bacterium was eliminated in more p...

Soy Products a Double-edged Sword for Breast Cancer

...hat estradiol, a primary human estrogen, spurs the growth of existing estrogen-dependent breast tumors. H... like estradiol dietary genistein stimulates the growth of estrogen-responsive tumors. They also found that dietary genistein interferes with treatments, su...

Study Implicates Protein as a Trigger of Advanced Prostate Cancer Recurrence

...te cell that would need an androgen signal for its growth to one that is independent of the androgen signal," said senior study co-author Dr. Shelton Earp, director of the cancer center, Lineberger professor of cancer research and professor of pharmacology and medicine. Earp noted that until now scientist...

Memory Loss Linked to Cognitive Disorders

...d be fully reversed through treatment with a brain growth factor released at synapses. Ampakines, a new c...mers disease and ADHD, increase the levels of this growth factor and potentially emerge as a therapy for the cognitive problems associated with Huntingtons. ...

It is Possible Reverse Hair Loss, US Scientists Say

...ce. Writing in the journal Nature, they say hair growth can actually be encouraged using a single gene. The human head comes equipped with 100,000 tiny hair follicles, from each of which grows a single hair. These follicles are produced by the embryo in the first stages of pregnancy, and it was thought ...

Saving Powers Of The Ocean On The Wane

...ocean chemistry. The resulting changes have slowed growth of plankton, corals, and other invertebrates that serve as the most basic level of the ocean food chain. Scientists warn, the impacts on marine life could be severe. "The oceans are performing a great service to humankind by removing this carbon di...

NIH Study Normal Brain Development in Children Across US

...s. But the lack of evidence for dramatic cognitive growth during adolescence was a surprise. The long-term...n ages 6 and 10, with much less dramatic cognitive growth in adolescence. This result fits with previous research suggesting that in adolescence, there is a s...

Faulty Hormone Tests Compromised Healthcare Of Breast Cancer Patients

...its ability to block the hormones that promote the growth of cancer cells, it adds. A subsequent document, filed this week, showed that 36 women who have since died received inaccurate hormone receptor tests. Accordingly, Eastern Health was aware of the error rate in the winter of 2006, but the public w...

Sylvester Stallone Regrets Smuggling Banned Substances to Australia

...s apologized profusely for trying to smuggle human growth hormones and testosterone into Australia. Stall...o Sydney had revealed 48 vials of the banned human growth hormone product, Jintropin. Three days later he threw four vials of the male hormone testosterone...

Role of Protein in the Development of Prostate Cancer Identified

... and may be an important factor in controlling the growth of prostate cancer cells. The authors hypothesize that the constant activity of ER-TRPM8 may be the result of the expression of a truncated form of TRPM8. The authors suggest that specific inhibition of ER-TRPM8 or PM-TRPM8 may prove to be of ther...

Babys Birth Weight and Future Risk Has No Scientific Basis

... suggested that strategies to increase early fetal growth could reduce the number of deaths from heart disease. However, interventions during pregnancy could really only increase birth weight by as much as 100g, which would translate in to a 1-2% lower risk of heart disease." Dr Huxley added. "By compari...

Health Benefits Of Traditional Land Ownership

... Over the past 30 years, there has been a steady growth in research indicating that Indigenous people who regain ownership and control of their traditional lands enjoy improved health, says Ms Nicole Watson, Senior Research Fellow at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydn...

Spending on Diabetes Drugs Soars in US

...ol medications in total prescription drug spending growth in 2006. An aging population and the alarming ri...g cause of diabetes are expected to push spending growth rates on diabetes drugs up 16 percent to 20 percent annually. The analysis projects that, by 2009,...

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