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Skinny Girl-bands are Making Detrimental Impact on Teenage Girls

...y dissatisfaction significantly, whereas the music itself had no such detrimental effect, the researchers concluded. The study is published in the journal Body Image....

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

...town of McCloud has worked hard to try to reinvent itself in recent years. McCloud is a former timber town that is learning how to stand on its own feet again after the lumber companies bottomed out and took off. The town has less than 1,400 people and a high school of four students. But one thing McCloud...

Aerobic Exercise Helps Maintain Muscle in Elderly: Research

...n-building amino acids, glucose and insulin (which itself also works within muscle cells as a powerful protein growth factor). In young adults, these normally closed vessels open wide in response to the insulin increase generated by a meal, providing clear passage for muscle-making materials. In elderly peo...

Cigarette Smoke Alters DNA in Sperm, Genetic Damage Could Pass to Offspring

...colleagues plan to study how altered DNA manifests itself in the children and grandchildren of male mice that are exposed to firsthand smoke. They also plan to study the effects of secondhand smoke on male mice as well the possibility that the eggs of females are affected by smoke....

New Platform for Regulating Expression of Therapeutic Genes Unveiled

...mmature embryonic stem cells, but began to express itself as the cell turned into more defined tissues. This new platform now provides a means for scientists to achieve highly tailored gene expression patterns when delivering recombinant genetic material into cells. We had been looking for ways to regulat...

Zambia Trying Hard to Tackle Crisis in Mental Health Care

...he situation, the Zambian Government has committed itself to tackling the problem throwing in whatever resources it could muster. It is in the process of revising the 1951 Mental Disorders Act, which refers to mentally ill persons as idiots, imbeciles and invalids. The revised Act will define both the leg...

Recurrent Gliomas: Vorinostat Shows Anti-cancer Activity

...ys that study findings indicate that vorinostat by itself shows anti-cancer activity in glioblastoma multiforme. Plans are ongoing to combine vorinostat with other drugs in future clinical trials for brain tumor patients....

Bird Flu Reappears in Malaysia

... there were no human cases and the nation declared itself free of the disease last June. In March this year officials said the country was on high alert for a possible outbreak of bird flu following fresh reports of the deadly virus around the region. Neighbouring Indonesia, the country worst hit by bir...

Drugs Lure Hong Kong Youth Across China Border

...many of the clubbers hail from Hong Kong the venue itself is not in their home city. Welcome to Shenzhen, across the border in mainland China and an increasing draw for young people from Hong Kong in the 10 years since the former British colony was handed back to Beijing. Shenzhen is cheap, it's vibrant a...

Cannabinoids Regulate Inflammation Process

.... Both receptors are made such that THC can attach itself to them. In the brain this causes the intoxicating... normal,' Professor Thomas explains. 'THC attaches itself to cannabin-oid receptors and activates them. In this way the active substance reduces the allergic ...

Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $710,000 to Understanding of Parkinson's Disease Subtypes

...gnificant variability in how the disease manifests itself from patient to patient," said Sarah Orsay, chief executive officer of the Foundation. "The retrospective studies funded under PD Subtypes aim to analyze data already gathered on different forms of the disease. This analysis could yield valuable in...

India to Propose Global Fund for Clean Energy Technologies

Calling itself a responsible nation towards climate change, India will propose a dedicated global fund at the G8 Outreach Summit Friday to finance the development of clean energy technologies based on the resources available with the developing world. In a posit...

Five Malaysians in Hospital After Bird Flu Outbreak

...breaks followed elsewhere but the country declared itself free of bird flu in June. H5N1 has killed 188 people and ravaged poultry flocks worldwide since 2003, according to the World Health Organisation....

Malaria Parasite can Cause Severe Lymphatic Cancer

...mant, and thus relatively harmless after inserting itself into the carrier's DNA. As part of the study, researchers analysed whether CIDR1, a protein produced by the malaria parasite could reactivate EBV, by exposing the immune cells of healthy African children who had Epstein-Barr virus, to CIDR1. Rese...

Apollo Launches Chest Pain Clinics in Kolkata

... when the blood supply to part of the heart muscle itself - the myocardium - is severely reduced or stopped. The reduction or stoppage happens when one or more of the coronary arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle are blocked, Maini told a press conference here Friday. 'It may not be possible for a...

Sunscreen Maybe Helpful in Preventing Skin Cancer

... to produce more of the pigment melanin to protect itself from too much harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Large amounts of UV radiation damage the DNA in skin cells and can even lead to skin cancer. Sunscreen protection should begin during the car trip to the holiday destination. 'UVA radiation (long-...

Selection of Best X Chromosome in Women

... Researchers believe that this suicide gene can be itself blocked by a plug of proteins forming on top of its specific location on the chromosome but they had little idea as to why this should happen randomly to one X chromosomes gene and not the other. Scientists are extremely uncomfortable with this ran...

Researchers Develop Material That Self Heals Like Human Skin

...aling material, which mimics human skin by healing itself time after time . According to Nancy Sottos, a W...upply of healing agent, so the material could heal itself indefinitely, said Sottos, who is also a researcher at the universitys Beckman Institute. In the s...

Breast Reduction Surgery Among Boys Rising in US

...ents who are not obese, the condition will resolve itself spontaneously as the boy progresses through adolescence and produces more testosterone, said Dr. Brenda Kohn, an associate professor of pediatrics who specializes in pediatric endocrinology at New York University School of Medicine. As such, she sa...

New International Health Regulations to Enter into Force Tomorrow

...cades shows that no individual country can protect itself from diseases and other public health threats. All countries are vulnerable to the spread of pathogens and their economic, political and social impact. The emergence of SARS in 2003 demonstrated as no previous disease outbreak ever had how interco...

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