Gene Variation Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer
...aging substances 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 explanation how damage to lung tissue leads to cancer, Engels said. Knowing...Nutrition Education Has Proved to Be Futile
...ity. It will fund programs that bring supermarkets into poor neighborhoods, studies that measure the weight of children who exercise more at school and meetings of advocates who seek to restrict junk food ads....Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks
...c differences and socio-economic factors are taken into account," "Our study identifies people with newly diagnosed epilepsy as a vulnerable group that require special attention." ``The effect on daily lives of patients, such as loss of job and driving license, is greatest shortly after diagnosis,'' the ...Reduction in Antidepressant Leads to Suicidal Risks
...the authors write. The study months were divided into two periods. The period before the regulatory warnings included the 24 months from Jan. 1, 2002, through Dec. 31, 2003, and that after the regulatory warnings included the 21 months from Jan. 1, 2004, through Sept. 30, 2005. An average of 405,000 chi...Young Girls Turning to Speed for Losing Weight
...n bingeing. From there it doesn't take a lot to go into an eating disorder, the Daily Mail quoted Herne, as saying. Miss East Anglia, Rosanna Carr Taylor, who supports eating disorder charity B-eat, said that size-zero fad promoted by skinny models has resulted in drug induced look. 'The use of skinny...Anchoring Lives Aboard Warship: Nimitz
...r who sustained a leg injury jumping from the ship into the Arabian Sea was treated. The foremost duty of the department, though, is prevention of any disease, even if it is mild, from spreading to others. In May, the medical department noticed that a large number of crew were presenting themselves with...People With Higher IQs are More Patient in Financial Matters
...s. The participants could put this amount straight into their pockets. However, they could also invest it ...lities is even valid if the income factor is taken into account. "What's more, according to our analysis, other indirect factors of influence can be excl...Cheap Indian Medicines Illegally Flooding Pak Markets
The illegal inflow of affordable Indian medicine into Pakistan is continuing unabatedly through green ch...of Indian vaccine through third country import get into Pakistan each year, adding that if the government allows, the needy would get cheap treatment of Hep...Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma
... much as 70 percent, according to an investigation into asthma-prone infants in five countries . The culprit gene, called ORMDL3, is located on Chromosome 17, the paper, published online on Wednesday by the British science journal Nature, says. Twenty-four experts from Britain, France, Germany, the Un...Malaysian Astronaut to Conduct Cancer Research in Space
...ost Malaysians thought sending a fellow countryman into space was a waste of time and money. "Worse, man...per. Russia will send Malaysia's first cosmonaut into space in October 2007 as part of a scientific mission aboard the International Space Station. The ...Diabetics Risking Health by Using Alternative Medications Without Consultation
...ing alternative medicines, or that they might 'get into trouble' for taking them. "The evidence is that patients are using these products and may even reduce their conventional medicine doses and modify the timing of doses so they aren't taking both together," she said. "While it might be impossible ...New Diagnostic Test for Mad Cow Disease Developed
...trasound, as a result of which the prions break up into more numerous, smaller particles. The researchers, however, concede that further study is needed to determine whether the technique that has been applied to brain tissue can be applied to other tissues like the ones taken from blood, which may be ...Stem Cell Treatment may Prolong Lives of Children With Brittle Bone Disease
...enchymal stem cells through the wall of the uterus into 14-day mouse foetuses. It was found that at the age of 3 months, mice treated with stem cells had suffered just one-third of the long-bone fractures, as compared to their untreated counterparts. The experimental mice also had stronger bones and lon...Genetic Mutation That Makes Common Cancers Resistant to Drugs Identified
... the information gained to stratify patients going into clinical trials for AKT inhibitors," he added. T...f sophisticated techniques to provide new insights into the tumourigenic process," said Dr. Bert Vogelstein, Director of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Geneti...For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week
...nsform the standard "dollar a day" poverty formula into mathematics that hits home. Save the Children also looked at Ethiopia, where families need the equivalent of 677 pounds a week to feed themselves; Tanzania where it's 593 pounds and Burma where people need 584 pounds. Researchers found that in Ba...Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted
... industrial pollutants are being released directly into the lakes, according to the report. Although fis...g action to reduce discharges of harmful chemicals into the water. Fish advisories due to damaging levels of toxic contamination in Great Lakes fish serve...... with the gene, or genes, of interest and injected into the mouse brain. The viral particles infect only glial cells, where the genes are expressed. This system allows the researchers to observe whether a gene identified in a correlation study plays an active role in tumorigenesis. It also permits the d...New York, the City That Roars 24/7, is Forced to Quiet Down
...e at the whim of the inspector and that is written into the law. It says that many noises, if they are pla...n a bit. It is not saying we want to turn the city into a quiet place, but a more livable place. "The noise code is making the city a more livable place, ...Influenza Virus Samples of 1918
...is discovery in the context of decades of research into the cause of pandemic influenza, and the authors detail the strange convergence of events that allowed them to recover and sequence the virus in the first place. Its genetic material is so fragile that it should not have survived for days, let alone ...Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies
...t migrate to the olfactory bulb, where they mature into several distinct types of interneurons, neurons th...hey were taken out of their niche and transplanted into another region of the subventricular zone, they continued to produce the same subset of interneurons...