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Hundreds of Thousands Attend Madrid Gay Pride Parade

...ranco in 1975. Most European countries have some kind of Gay Pride event, but often at different times of the year. Last weekend saw 1,000 people turn out in Athens, and about 400,000 in Berlin, while Stockholm, home to Europride 2008, has its event on August 4....

Blocking the Y2 Receptors can Prevent Obesity

...ity caused by stress and diet, including the worst kind of obesity; the apple-shaped type, which makes people more susceptible to heart disease and diabetes, says senior author of the Nature Medicine paper, Professor Zofia Zukowska of Georgetown University. Using animal models, in which we have either ...

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

... Center. All the patients had suffered either a kind of severe heart attack called ST-elevated myocardi...(ACS), which includes non-STEMI heart attack and a kind of chest pain called unstable angina. Between 1999 and 2006, the use of heart-protecting drugs in ...

Gene Responsible for Ageing Process Discovered and Calorie Restriction Could Help

... could continue to pursue his passions . Another kind of help is at hand now. For scientists say they have discovered a gene that plays a central role in the ageing process. And by manipulating that gene perhaps one could live longer, they hope. The gene appears to be critical in extending the lifespa...

Tainted Pet Food a Health Risk for Human?

... make it look having more protein. How long this kind of tainted food has been coming in from china nobody knows. The understaffed food inspection authority find it difficult to check each and every consignment that comes in. 'Clearly that is a concern if that has been going on for a long period of time...

Malfunction of Gene Causes Schizophrenia, Depression

...Both types of DISC1 mutant mice exhibited the same kind of reduced brain volume seen in people with schizophrenia and depression, and both types showed biochemical abnormalities in the function of the protein produced by the DISC1 gene. The researchers concluded that the different effects of anti-psycho...

New Health DrinkCoffee

...rinking coffee wards off Type 2 diabetes and some kind of cancers too. Some experts believe that it can also lower the risk of heart disease and cirrhosis of the liver. Antioxidants in coffee help control the cell damage that can contribute to the development of the disease. It is also a source of chl...

Placental Problems in Women Linked With Caesarean Section

... This is the largest population-based study of its kind to date. Researchers found that women who previously delivered by caesarean section had a 47% increased risk of developing placenta praevia and a 40% increased risk of placental abruption in the following pregnancy. The authors believe that caesa...

Scientists Discover Rare gene-for-gene Interaction That Helps Bacteria Kill Their Host

...of Bath. People studying diseases think that the kind of gene-for-gene interaction between pathogen and host that we have found is quite common, but actually rather few are known, which is why this research is so interesting. The immune systems of all animals, even relatively simple ones like insects,...

Hazardous Medical Waste Discovered Again In San Jose

...ems in loads coming from all sources. "Everybody's kind of on high alert since the previous discoveries, she added....

Denim, Not Cotton, Apt Wear for Summer

...is turned on its head yet again, this time on what kind of dress is best in a hot summer. No, it is not cotton or linen , but denim and wool, Swiss researchers say after reviewing 500 studies from around the world on how people protect their skin. Writing in a study published online by the Lancet, they...

FDA Advises Manufacturers to Test Glycerin for Possible Contamination

...hain and problems that continue to occur with this kind of contamination in some parts of the global supply of glycerin. DEG poisoning is an important public safety issue and FDA is exploring how supplies of glycerin become contaminated. In addition, FDA is working with a variety of manufacturing and p...

Brian Lara Opens Cancer Center Named After Him

...n Lara Cancer Treatment Center is the first of its kind in Trinidad and Tobago and the Commonwealth Caribbean. It boasts of state-of-the-art technology in cancer treatment, including linear accelerators, three-dimensional treatment planning and high precision targeted intensity modulation radiation therap...

Sewage Flows into Hudson River in a Torrent

...C spokeswoman. "We'll be monitoring it to see what kind of remediation is necessary." The Hudson River is the thirty-third most polluted river in the United States. Contaminants such as PCB's (Polychlorinated biphenyl's) and DDT are present in the Hudson River. It has been declared as a superfund site. ...

Estrogen May Be a Good Therapy for Women Before They Turn 65

... therapy, how long or recently she took it or what kind of prior therapy she used," said study author Victor W. Henderson, MD, of Stanford University. "Further studies are needed to support these findings and learn more about how hormone therapy affects the long-term cognitive health of women who begin ...

Study Evaluates the Incompetence of Blacks as Living Kidney Donors

...to not completing the process. "I did find this kind of surprising because more women successfully donate than men, at a rate of 58 percent versus 42 percent," said Reeves-Daniel. "We hope all of these results will help with understanding so we can recruit successful donors in the future."...

Swallowing The Bitter Pill-Oral Sex Linked To Oral Cancer

... Medical Institutions in Baltimore:"There's been a kind of sea change in the last 10 years in who we're seeing with these cancers. It makes sense with some changes we've seen in sexual behavior." The study, involving 100 people with throat cancer and 200 without it, found that those infected with the hu...

Health Authorities Fear West Nile Season Again in US

...he spread of this disease and it is not clear what kind of season awaits Houston during 2007. It is generally believed that the spread of the disease may happen late. The West Nile virus transmits between mosquitoes and birds. Infected mosquitoes transmit the virus to birds, animals and also to humans.A...

Study Offers Clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

...preceded by an emotional or physical shock of some kind and almost always strikes women. One thing is certain: Patients are usually critically ill during the first 48 hours. "These patients can be difficult to manage for emergency physicians and cardiologists alike," said cardiology fellow Richard Regna...

Study Revises Dynamin's Role in Nerve Cell Function

...e long run, what we're trying to achieve here is a kind of biochemical repair manual' for the brain and brain cells,' Dr. Ryan explains. 'So, in the future, if we find out that a particular illness is caused by a flaw in dynamin 1 function or proteins that interact with dynamin 1, we'll have answers on ha...

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