New York, the City That Roars 24/7, is Forced to Quiet Down
...will help make the City that Never Sleeps a little more comfortable for those who occasionally do," the en...5 dollars. If your car alarm goes off at night for more than three minutes, your car can be towed and you may receive a fine of 350 dollars. Alan Fierstei...Influenza Virus Samples of 1918
...evig Mission, a large Inuit woman lay buried under more than six feet of ice and dirt for more than 75 years. The permafrost plus the womans ample fat stores kept the virus in her lungs so well...Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool
... fossil-fuel lobbyists who dismissed it as nothing more than a greenmongering scare. Thirty years ago, o...1990, delivering judgements that are progressively more emphatic -- call it gloomy -- about the nature and severity of climate change. They have also beco...Low Income Family Adolescents Suffer Migraine
...hat adolescents from low-income families are much more likely to suffer from migraine headaches than teen...n 32,000 teens were identified in this sample, and more than half of them (58.4 percent) answered the questionnaire. It is well known that heredity strong...Wordlist for Allergies to Help Cross-border Travellers
...on a website where they can download a wordlist of more than 200 ingredients , from nuts and shellfish to soya and gluten, that have been translated into 30 languages. The list, available on (http: www.food-info.net/allergy.htm), can be shown in restaurants when ordering a meal and to compare ingredient...New Clues About Multiple Sclerosis
...which may explain why African Americans experience more disability, but the products of these genes and the mechanism of their effects remain unknown. The study found that African Americans had MS for an average of nine years before needing a cane, walker, or wheelchair, compared to an average of 17 yea...Skin Cancer can Be Triggered by P53 Mutation
...-function or loss-of-function mutations in p53 are more critical for SCC development. The authors show that certain p53 mutations occurring in human SCCs demonstrate gain-of-function properties that accelerate the frequency and progression of malignant SCC. Future studies will hopefully discover ways to...Pre-packed Sandwiches Saltier Than Crisps
... salt as seven bags of crisps. Many a times it has more salt than an adults daily dose requirement . The ...at a total of 40% of sandwiches tested had 2g or more of salt, or a third of an adult's recommended daily requirement. It is as same as in a big Mac burge...EpiCept Accelerates Development of Phase I Clinical Study for Cancer
...ished tumors of a number of different cancer types more effectively than the other VDAs tested and was synergistic when used in combination with anticancer agents, such as Cisplatin. The combination of EPC2407 with other anticancer agents in a Phase 1b trial is planned to follow the current monotherapy tr...Scientists Discover Key to Manipulating Fat
...plain why people who are chronically stressed gain more weight than they should based on the calories they consume. This pathway involves two players -- a neurotransmitter (NPY) and the receptor (Y2R) it activates in the fat tissue: endothelial cells lining blood vessels and fat cells themselves. In ord...Dozens More H5N1 Bird Flu Cases in Germany
..., bordering the Czech Republic which is battling a more severe outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu. Germany's Friedrich Loeffler Institute, the national veterinary laboratory, has suggested the disease could have jumped the border from the Czech side where it has infected turkey and chicken farms. In Germa...New Spinal Cord Stimulation System Launched
...chnology and support infrastructure needed to gain more than 25 percent share of the pain management market," said Michael Onuscheck, President of Boston Scientific's Pain Management Business. "The advances in the new Precision Plus system will help to enhance the treatment information for the clinician, ......oday in the journal Nature. In a genetic study of more than 2,000 children, scientists from the Universit... in every 600 nucleotides, and scientists examined more than 317,000 of these mutations, known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms, to find those specific to...Protestors Strip, Don Horns Against Spain's Running of the Bulls
...ical Treatment of Animals), which said people from more than 30 countries took part. Thousands of tourists are expected to attend the week-long festival of the bulls, which starts on Friday. The running of the bulls was immortalised in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises"....When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!
...ial bind. But Orta got cold feet. Escalante said more poisoned pills, one batch disguised in a bottle of...ers in 1976, Escalante sees the hand of the CIA in more recent attempts by anti-Castro militants trained by the agency for the failed Bay of Pigs invasion o...New Drugs Show Promise in Fighting Drug-Resistant HIV
... III clinical trial, which involved 18 nations and more than 30 centers in the United States, is the first...he second largest provider of HIV care, caring for more than 17,000 HIV infected patients. More than one million Americans are currently living with HIV, an...Australian Research Reveals AIDS, Cancer Link
...Australia, the US, Europe and Canada and involving more than 444,000 people with HIV/AIDS and some 32,000 ...nis. HIV/AIDS patients were found to be 11 times more likely to develop Hodgkin's lymphoma while those who had undergone a transplant were almost four tim...Snack Foods Fortified With Fiber
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