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Health Tourists Put Spanish Service Under Strain

...h "tourists" and foreign residents buying into the idea of retirement by the sea have been making increasing use of Spain's health facilities -- to the extent that they are now causing a headache for service providers. EU tourists here, comprising in their majority Britons, Germans and Belgians, are enti...

India to Get a Taste of 'British' Curries

...sorbed outside influences, was on the menu. "The idea is to have fun by doing something different. After all, I love spices. The British love spices. Everybody loves spices," she said....

Researchers Find Way to Safely Store Hydrogen for Use in Future Cars

...tch the energy content of gasoline. As such, the idea has always been to find materials with high surface areas that soak up hydrogen at much higher densities than previously possible, and without the need for extreme cooling or pressurisation. "Most of the scientists working on this field of research...

Experimental Drug Ketasyn(TM) (AC-1202) Treats Alzheimer's as Diabetes of the Brain

...thought of as brain-specific "type 3 diabetes," an idea that is further supported by brain images of AD patients showing decreased glucose metabolism. All cells in the body require glucose, which is controlled with the aid of the hormone insulin. In type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90% of the 180 mil...

Personal Disclosure by Physician may Harm Patients

...rn. Most doctors think self-disclosure is a good idea for building relationships, said Susan H. McDaniel, Ph.D., lead author of the article and a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. The health care system now requires doctors to se...

Now, a Diet Pill That's as Filling as a Plate of Spaghetti!

...h an ice cream," he said. Ambrosio said that the idea of the pill struck them when they were designing nappies' lining. "The idea came to us while we were working on a project to design a lining for nappies," he said. "One of my...

Surgery- Very Effective for Common Back Pain

...on back problems. While it is generally not a good idea to rush into back surgery, the SPORT trial shows there are conditions for which surgery clearly is the most effective treatment choice. These findings will help doctors better counsel their patients about treatment options. The mission of the Natio...

Successful Dads Have Not So Successful Daughters

...important reason why differences remain. Maybe the idea that some genes are better than others is too simplistic: it depends on the sex of the individual." The study and its findings are published in Nature magazine....

War Spreading AIDS a Myth-UNHCR

The idea that war, forced migrations, refugee crisis, large-scale rape of women in sub-Saharan African nations has increased the prevalence of HIV in that area is a myth. This is according to a new study by UNHCR of seven African nations that was published t...

Immune Substance in Semen may Help Determine Male Fertility

...analysing the levels of MIF, they did not have any idea as to whether the samples came from infertile men or from healthy controls. It was observed that the MIF levels in men with infertility problems were either too high or too low, while healthy controls had levels that were just right. Upon addin...

Tech Heads Go Gaga Waiting for Apple's IPhone

...t in line with other group volunteers. "We had the idea over the weekend. We knew the media would come to cover it." Some fans have already sold their place in the line for 500 dollars to customers who will show up just before the store opens, Vulkan said. Tech geeks also lined up outside Apple stores...

Immune System Protein Could Be the Key Infertility

...l abstinence and analyzed by scientists who had no idea which group of men the samples belonged to. The researchers found that the infertile men had MIF levels that were either too high or too low. When the scientists added MIF into lab dishes filled with healthy sperm, it decreased the count and impa...

Dutchman Rebuilds Noah's Ark to Spread His Faith

...ial man with a smile for everyone, said he got the idea to build his ark after having a dream that the Net... -- elephants, giraffes, apes -- to give people an idea of what it would have been like, and visitors were in awe. "The Bible story starts to become alive...

Indian Wine Major Indage Celebrates 25th Anniversary

...licious," said Rajesh Kumar, a businessman. "The idea of having a wine fest is quite extraordinary. We just have wine tonight and no other drinks. Delhi has a taste bud for wine and we thought of giving its people what they never enjoyed before," said Ajay Kumar Gothwal of Chateau Indage. Chateau Inda...

90% Young Clubbers Have Symptoms of Hearing Damage After a Night Out

...nent hearing damage after a night out, yet have no idea how to prevent it," the BBC quoted him as saying. "With regular exposure to music at high volumes in clubs, gigs and bars, it's only too easy to clock up noise doses that could damage their hearing forever," he added. He believes that the Brit...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...weighed against mission success,' Wolpe says. 'The idea that we will always choose a person's well-being over mission success, it sounds good, but it doesn't really turn out to be necessarily the way decisions always will be made.' For now, astronauts and cosmonauts who become critically sick or injured...

UN Agencys Checklist on Health Care Error

... could kill or harm us, so, this isn't some remote idea that affects people who are patients in other parts of the world that we never hear about day-to-day. They could affect any one of us in this room, and that's really what this program is about, trying to reduce risk for health care everywhere for eve...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

...stract nature of the concept - climate - dwarf any idea that an individual could have an impact through hi...s, but most continue on their current paths. The idea of climate is very "abstract" - despite efforts by environmentalists and the media to portray the ur...

Novel Technology to Locate and Treat Tumors

...ng on the intended outcomefor treating cancer, the idea is to cause cell death. In addition to targeting tumors, other disease states that produce inflammation and cause tissue to be acidic are a target for pHLIP. Acidosis is a physiological marker of many diseases and pHLIP feels acidity, said Reshetn...

Study Reveals Little-known Cell Networks Vital to Circadian Rhythm

...of clock mechanisms has rested precariously on the idea that if we studied behavior, we could assume that same thing was happening at the single cell level. Our study shows that's not the case." The lack of networked interactions in peripheral tissues may actually be an adaptive feature in most circums...

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