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

At last justice has caught up with an Australian who sexually assaulte...case their ability to lead a normal and happy life has been destroyed." The judge said the man had been diagnosed with severe borderline personality diso...

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 N...

Boeing Unveils 'green' Dreamliner Passenger Jet

... in exceptional environmental performance," Boeing has said. "The airplane will use 20 percent less fuel ...build 2,000 Dreamliners over the next two decades, has so far received 634 orders from 45 companies for the plane, which has a catalogue price of between 1...

FDA Extends GRAS Approval Listex to All Food Products

...ptics tests confirming that LISTEX(TM) is safe and has no impact on taste, smell, colour, and other physical properties of treated products. Bacteriophages ('phage') are the most abundant micro-organisms on earth. Fresh water and seawater can contain as many as 1 billion phages per ml, while in fresh a...

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

...omen are the biggest chatterboxes, but a new study has revealed that men spend more time on the phone than their female counterparts. The study has found that men not only spend more time on house phones, but also on the their mobiles. It has bee...

Aguilera's Dad Confirms Her Pregnancy Rumours

... time the singer/songwriter's estranged dad Fausto has confirmed the reports. The grandfather-to-be in...rce, the 26-year-old singer is very 'thrilled' and has become very health conscious. "She's thrilled. She's feeling wonderful and taking good care of he...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

...apore, will focus on gastric or stomach cancer, it has been announced. In Singapore, gastric cancer (o...w drugs for patients [for whom] standard treatment has been exhausted. So hopefully for advanced stages of cancer, this group of patients will benefit thro...

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

... world with a 24-hour musical spectacular, the son has a run-in with the law. He is hoping to arouse t...ople on the burgeoning climate crisis, but his son has handed him a huge embarrassment by being hauled up on drug abuse charges. Orange County sheriff's ...

Chemical Injections for Fat Removal

...udy. This is the first study to show that stress has a direct effect on fat accumulation, body weight and metabolism, she said. In humans, this kind of stress-mediated fat gain may have nothing to do with the brain, and is actually just a physiological response of their fat tissue. And perhaps the mo...

Cognitive Test Takers and Score Variation

...nitive psychologist at the University of Virginia, has demonstrated that giving a test only once isnt eno...l short-term fluctuation. Accordingly, Salthouse has come to believe that everyone has a range of typical performances, a one-person bell curve. Any give...

Harnessing Immune System Power Heralds Next Era of Cancer Treatment

...e of Canada (NCIC). "This immune system research has enormous potential and is one of the top cancer research projects in Canada. We eagerly anticipate the results," says Dr. Michael Wosnick, executive director of the NCIC. Besides continuing the development of vaccines specifically for breast cancer...

Combination of Bronchoscopic Techniques is Very Effective for Lung Lesions

...ENB)-- in the diagnosis of peripheral lung lesions has been shown to be more effective than either proced...lity diagnosis with the joint use of EBUS with ENB has pushed the diagnostic yield of flexible bronchoscopic procedures closer to the sensitivity obtainabl...

Alternative Splicing in Neuronal Development

... expressed solely in nerve cells, but its function has remained elusive. Dr. Black and colleagues now show that a switch in expression between PTB and nPTB induces changes in a large number of alternative splicing patterns during neuronal development. "This reprogramming of splicing by the switch in PT...

Dark Chocolate Possible Medicine for Blood Pressure

...ff hardening of the arteries among smokers, and it has more antioxidants per gram than red wine, green te...Taubert'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 mort...

In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash

For a law student, Zhao Mengyuan has a peculiar way of making money -- slaying dragons,...online gamers who are too busy to do it themselves has become a handy source of extra income for the 21-year-old -- and a full-time job for thousands of ot...

Gene Variation Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer

... like silica 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 explan...

Nutrition Education Has Proved to Be Futile

... even younger children, ages two to five, the rate has tripled. However, the review also holds out a promise. It says that there may be a solutions found in limited studies currently being tested around the country. In some situations, obese and overweight children can lose weight and get healthy throu...

Patients Find Healthy Vein in Old Austrian Mine

...ess, lie down on camping beds and take a cure that has drawn millions of people worldwide to the unexpect... to radon can increase the risk of lung cancer. It has been a major headache for some home and office owners in radon-prone areas, notably parts of the Uni...

Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

... the diagnosis of epilepsy and its management." It has been seen that women with the illness were more likely to take their own life then men. The incidence of suicide decreased as sufferers grew older. In fact, more quickly, than in the non- epileptic population. ``Improvement of epilepsy care, introd...

Survey Finds Wide HIV Ignorance in the UK

...norant about HIV, that they believe that the virus has a cure, according to a poll. The poll was conducted to mark the 25th death anniversary of Terry Higgins, who was among the first people known to die of an AIDS-related illness in England in 1982. About a quarter of people in the same age group ...

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