Somerville, A Town Committed to Tackle Obesity Among Kids
...prove their chances of maintaining a normal weight into adulthood. It hasn't come without effort, but on...ies and eat healthy foods could only turn the town into a better place to live. And so it began. The people running the programme aimed to spend the least...An Electronic Shirt That Monitors Your Hearts Health
...and for preloading news, music and daily schedules into smart garments....Single Drug to Check Both Glucose and Cholesterol in Diabetics on the Cards
...hers conducted a clinical trial, dividing patients into two groupsexperimental group (receiving colesevelam HCl), and control group (receiving placebo). It was found that patients in the experimental group had had significant reductions in blood sugar levels, besides registering a substantial improveme...Gene Expression in Blood may Hold Clues About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
...process by which a genes DNA sequence is converted into the proteins that ultimately determine the manifestations of disease. Researchers studied the expression of 30,000 genes in the blood, testing each person between four and five times over a 12-month period. The study found that there were just 35...Genetic Factors Behind Mosquitoes Resistance to Malaria Identified
...ction is triggered that physically transforms TEP1 into an active state capable of grabbing on to the parasites surface and targeting it for termination, they say. In a study, reported online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers used a method called X-ray crystallograp...Discourage Less Educated Women from Conceiving , Says New Zealand Academic
...ner for Children Cindy Kiro said Flynn was getting into "dangerous territory if you start making assumptions that there is a direct correlation between your intellectual and emotional intelligence and your socio- economic status". "Rather than talking about encouraging smart women to have babies and dum...Tobacco Firm's Research Funds Spark Protest in SKorea
...lion dollars from a US tobacco giant for research into smoking. Philip Morris International is conducting the research simultaneously in South Korea and Japan, said Jang In-Jin, a pharmacology professor at Seoul National University Hospital who heads the project. He said it also involves Catholic Uni...Eleven People Hospitalized in South Africa After Anthrax Scare
...hospital in South Africa on Friday after they came into contact with an envelope suspected to contain anthrax powder, police said. Inspector Juanita Kilian said police had received a complaint from the post office in the district of Alberton, south of Johannesburg, about a "suspicious" envelope, she to...Britneys Confession - 'I'm Not a Virgin'
...person my whole life," she said. "It was two years into my relationship with Justin, and I thought he was the one. But I was wrong!" Britney said to a magazine The most painful thing I have ever experienced was that break-up," Spears told the W magazine,. "We were together so long and I had this visio...Protein That Absorbs Lipids may Provide Future Weight-loss Strategies
...bsorbed in the proximal areas ends up being bumped into the distal intestine where different systems absor...to determine the same the findings of mice studies into humans, where variations in the CD36 gene are common. She, however, admitted that before so doing, s...Brain Pathway for Depression Revealed
...hurdles to depressed people, causing them to lapse into helplessness. Reasoning that the brain is essent... circuit activity, which the researchers introduce into the animal brain tissue. As dyed circuits light up and darken again in response to electrical activi......he virus treatment in four weekly infusions direct into blood stream, followed by two cycles of approved chemotherapy. Six months after treatment, scans showed the liver masses had nearly disappeared. The reduction in the tumor masses was really impressive in this patient, Dr. Mescheder said. The hepati...Prions Capacity can Be Aggrevated by Solid Particles
...dom and Iceland have shown that animals introduced into pastures that once held infected animals could become infected. Infectivity of prions was also enhanced when they were bound to whole soil. "Since the 1940s it's been known that 'infected pastures' have the ability to infect new animals," according...Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns
.... The pair also admitted they attempted to enter into a "no-compete" arrangement with another heart surgeon, James Edwards, which meant they would not take private cases at his hospital if he agreed not to work at theirs. Justice Mansfield found that while the respondents acted in good faith and did n...Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US
...long, flexible plastic catheters that are threaded into the heart through veins. Full-scale clinical trials have not yet demonstrated the long-term benefits from the catheter-based treatment. But, based on promising results from less rigorous studies, major medical societies have endorsed it. Atrial ...An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk
...ation, with one in ten patients being reclassified into high or low risk, they say. QRISK is likely to provide more appropriate risk estimates of cardiovascular disease risk based on age, sex and social deprivation, write the authors. It is therefore likely to be a more equitable tool to inform managemen...China Bans Sales of Leukemia Drug in Latest Medicine Scare
...s China's quality-control systems have been called into serious question both domestically and internationally due to incidents ranging from fake drugs to tainted food. The State Food and Drug Administration on Saturday suspended the sale of methotrexate after children being treated for acute leukemia r...Vegas Couples Hope Sevens Will Be Lucky Wedding Day
...as the day for us," Balcita said. "Everything fell into place, we were ready and the date just seemed right. We're hoping luck stays with us throughout our marriage." Luck and love were part of the chaotic atmosphere on Friday in the city, when hundreds of couples lined up outside the Marriage Bureau in...Neurotransmitter That can Yield New Insights in the Fight Against Diabetes Identified
...er group was injected with norepinephrine directly into the paraventricular nucleus. The researchers then compared brain tissue sections from both groups of animals, and examined their blood samples for the presence of hormones released by paraventricular nucleus activity. The same paraventricular ne...Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts
...luding Sheila Clark, a Lakeville resident who went into a coma. Phillips attended a fund-raiser in May for Clark, and expressed her sympathies to the family. "I wanted to tell her husband that there is still hope," she said. Phillips previously worked for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, ...