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Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted

...larly for fish caught in Lake Ontario, where there has been a marked rise in the number of advisories recommending reduced fish consumption. Contamination levels are also worrisome in Lake Huron and many areas with unsafe-to-eat fish remain in Lake Erie and even Lake Superior, the least polluted of the G...

Cat Exposure Increases Bronchial Responsiveness

...tudy supports and clarifies previous research that has found that asthma is strongly related to indoor allergens and that patients with specific sensitizations exhibit greater BR in response to exposure to the allergens to which they are sensitized. However, the interaction between sensitization of any k...

Lab Tests Throw Up New Path for Parkinson's

...cell-derived neurotrophic factor), which until now has generated the most excitement in this field, they say. The findings are published on Thursday in a letter to Nature, the British science journal, by a team led by Mart Saarma of the University of Finland. Parkinson's causes uncontrollable shaking...

Dietary Counseling Leads to Weight Loss

Dietary counseling has resulted in weight loss of approximately 6 percent...erm. "Moderate weight loss -- 10 to 20 pounds -- has a dramatic effect on most of the medical problems caused by obesity. Diabetes, cholesterol, blood pr...

Will Seven Be the Lucky Number for Las Vegas Newlyweds?

...lamingo Las Vegas, a seventh on-site wedding venue has been added to accommodate the 77 scheduled wedding...ay the number seven is lucky, and those who say it has religious connotations for them, Richards says. To help boost profits and provide mementos for the...

New Oncogene for Brain Cancer

...n drug-resistant tumors. Overabundance of IGFBP2 has since been shown to be an indicator of poor progno...of the most advanced stage of glioma, gliobastoma, has not significantly improved for decades, note Zhang and Fuller. We hope IGFBP2 will provide an effect...

New York, the City That Roars 24/7, is Forced to Quiet Down

...he City that Never Sleeps and Makes a Lot of Noise has had to turn it down a notch after a tougher new no... The city's Department of Environmental Protection has a phone line, 311, for quality-of-life complaints. And the top source of environmental disturbance...

Influenza Virus Samples of 1918

...find preserved samples of the 1918 influenza virus has been a pursuit of both historical and medical importance . The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most devastating single disease outbreak in modern history, and examining the virus that caused it may help prepare for, and possibly prevent, future pande...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

...ion of the brain for many years and Florian's data has produced a different scenario, so we have to readj... desired type of neuron". The Alvarez-Buylla lab has identified neural stem cells in the adult human brain, but it is not known if these cells are hetero...

France Steps Up Vigilance After Bird Flu Outbreak

... is not threatened by a bird flu pandemic as there has not been, for the moment, a human contamination fr... laboratory of the French agency for animal health has confirmed the presence of the H5N1 highly pathogenic virus on the three swans found dead in a pond n...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...oncerts. For much of its history, climate change has faced indifference or ignorance, thanks mainly to ... Protocol on tackling greenhouse gases. The IPCC has issued four reports since 1990, delivering judgements that are progressively more emphatic -- call i...

Pre-packed Sandwiches Saltier Than Crisps

...much salt as seven bags of crisps. Many a times it has more salt than an adults daily dose requirement . ...volve the assembly of ingredients. Some bread also has a relatively high salt content. The level of salt also increases with the ingredients used in making...

Dinner Guest Recover Bodies in Freezer

.... Didier is a very violent man, especially when he has had a drink when he is no longer master of his words or behavior. Even if this drama is terrible it could have happened earlier. For my part I have warned the police on a number of occasions following aggressive behavior towards me and my son....

Anti-doping Rules Must Avoid Unsatisfactory Decisions: WADA

...doping rules , the World-Anti Doping Agency (WADA) has said that the fight against doping will be severel...k, CAS ruled with some considerable regret that it has no jurisdiction to take up an appeal filed by the WADA in this regard. The CAS said that the appea...

NHSs Golden Handshake Shocks People

...ed and disappointed that such a large sum of money has been paid out to one individual. The Strategic Health Authority has some tough questions to answer. This is a consequence of a botched re-organization, and entirely bur...

Four Pakistan Children Abused Daily: SPARC Report

... Rights of the Child (SPARC), in its annual report has stated that cases of child abuse are on the rise i...protect their children and the Pakistan Government has also failed in its effort to check child abuse. "Indeed we have failed in protecting our children,...

New "second-line" AIDS Drug Shows Promise in Trials

...V patients who have exhausted first-line treatment has shown early promise in long-awaited trials, The La...(NNRTIs). An international consortium of doctors has been testing etravirine on NNRTI-resistant patients in two 48-week trials, the third and final phase...

EpiCept Accelerates Development of Phase I Clinical Study for Cancer

...portant clinical trial later this year." EPC2407 has shown promising vascular targeting activity with n...linical in vitro and in vivo studies. The molecule has been shown to induce tumor cell apoptosis and selectively inhibit growth of proliferating cell lines...

Dozens More H5N1 Bird Flu Cases in Germany

...ler Institute, the national veterinary laboratory, has suggested the disease could have jumped the border from the Czech side where it has infected turkey and chicken farms. In Germany, the new outbreak has been restricted to swans, gees...

SKorean Online Dogmeat Retailer Closes Site Amid Uproar

...sial cuisine. The online shop (www.e-bosin.com) has been under fire from critics, including animal rig...are illegal. "To be honest with you, the country has no rule directly regulating dogmeat," one health ministry official said while asking for anonymity. ...

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