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Meditation May Fine-Tune Control Over Attention

...rs were asked to look for target numbers that were mixed into a series of distracting letters and quickly flashed on a screen. As subjects performed the task, their brain activity was recorded with electrodes placed on the scalp. In some cases, two target numbers appeared in the series less than one-half s...

Hazardous Medical Waste Discovered Again In San Jose

...hauler apparently didn't realize medical waste was mixed in with regular trash. However, she added that landfill workers were trained to watch for unacceptable items in loads coming from all sources. "Everybody's kind of on high alert since the previous discoveries, she added....

Shisha Owners Mobilise Against July 1 Smoking Ban in England

...o love the apple or other fruit and honey flavours mixed with the tobacco, the merchants association of Edgware Road in London -- home to many shisha businesses -- has launched a "save the shisha campaign" which has attracted 500 members. A petition on the prime minister's website had recorded 9,439 sign...

Indian Researcher Finds Human Urine Grows Better Fish Food

... Bihari Jana and his colleagues at the university, mixed ground water with human urine from the university's urinals and added the zooplankton Moina micrura, which is often fed to hatchling fish in commercial fisheries. They also tried rearing the plankton in various cocktails of cow urine, vermin compos...

Canadian Mountain Bikers Hit by Bacterial Infection

...mours circulating, he said. One suspect? The mud mixed with animal waste. "It [the waste] gets wet. It gets washed into a puddle. It gets churned up with dirt, which turns into mud, which covers everybody," said Miller. Suspect No. 2? The ground- water, he said. "There's been a couple of reports of...

Same Sex Pair Get Relief in Pakistan

...ame sex' pair is making waves in Pakistan, evoking mixed reactions. <brTheir courage to declare themselves so in public was something extraordinary. Then the Lahore High Court sent them to jail, predictable that. But what comes as a pleasant surprise is the decision of the countrys Supreme Court ...

Novagali Pharma Presents Phase III Clinical Trial of Vekacia(R) for Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis

...s, 76.3%) and were presented at study entry with a mixed form of VKC (87 patients, 73.7%). Vekacia(R) improved both signs and ocular symptoms of VKC in children who received treatment. The superiority of Vekacia(R) over its vehicle has been demonstrated by the statistically significant improvement of bot...

Make Up Unhealthy for Skin

...have no idea what these chemicals do when they are mixed together, the effect could be much greater than the sum of the individual parts.' Some synthetic compounds involved have been linked to side effects ranging from skin irritation to premature ageing and cancer. Traces of parabens have been found in ...

Excessive Use of Cosmetics Leads to Adverse Effects on the Body

...have no idea what these chemicals do when they are mixed together, the effect could be much greater than the sum of the individual parts," the Telegraph quoted Bence, as saying. Bence, an advocate of organic beauty products, also said that taking in chemicals through the skin is more hazardous than gulpin...

Insilico Studies on Chlorine Eating Bacteria

...anup sites. The bacterium also grows better in a mixed community with other kinds of bacteria. "There are some factors it needs from other organisms, and we don't know yet what they are," she said. Her laboratory will test the D. ethenogenes strains under a variety of different conditions, such as expo...

Elton John's Free AIDS Awareness Concert in Ukraine

...on already funds projects in Ukraine, has received mixed reviews from the people, with some appreciating it and others slamming the show. According to the show bosses, the UK star's performance would increase AIDS awareness in the country that has one of the highest HIV infection rates in Europe with a n...

Penis Loses Its Most Sensitive Parts During Circumcision Process

...cumcised and uncircumcised men were compared using mixed models for repeated data, controlling for age, type of underwear worn, time since test ejaculation, ethnicity, country of birth, and level of education. Analysis of results showed that the glands of the uncircumcised men had considerably lower thre...

Breast Cancer Risk is not Reduced by a Diet Rich in Fruit and Vegetables

... fat and prevention of cancer progression has been mixed in epidemiological studies,' the authors write. John P. Pierce, Ph.D., of the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues conducted the Womens Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) Study to assess whether a dietary pattern very ...

Indian Introduces Paan-flavoured Condoms

...nut, tobacco and often sweet and bitter pastes are mixed in a concotion called paan sold at street-side stalls across South Asia. Aficionados chew the mixture wrapped in a leaf and then spit the red saliva onto the sidewalks or buildings that are adorned with the tell-tale stains. The condoms will be s...

Study Shows Positive Results for Zestra(R) Feminine Arousal Fluid

...in approximately 200 women diagnosed with acquired mixed interest/ desire/ arousal/ orgasm disorders in conditions of home use in conjunction with sexual activities. Of the 296 women screened at 13 research sites, 256 were randomized to Zestra(R) or placebo. A total of 178 completed the entire study. The...

Now, Fibre-enriched Tasty Snacks in the Making

...lour enriched with varying levels of bran. They mixed the bran-enriched wheat flour with water using a standing mixer like the one cooks may use at home, and they let the dough sit overnight. The hydrated flour was then sent through a machine called an extrusion processor. The processor uses a series...

Snack Foods Fortified With Fiber

...d flour enriched with varying levels of bran. They mixed the bran-enriched wheat flour with water using a standing mixer like the one cooks may use at home, and they let the dough sit overnight. The hydrated flour was then sent through a machine called an extrusion processor. The processor uses a series ...

EU Aims to Shake Up Wine Industry With Root-and-branch Reform

...ich still has to be backed by member states, won a mixed reaction from the wine sector, with farmers up in arms and traders pleased with the shake-up. "The Commission's reform wants to introduce the New World's agro-industry model in the EU and do away with the age-old European model of traditional viney...

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