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Australia Battles Oil Slick on Yarra River

...ational area. The park is home to more than 180 native species, including 13 of the state's threatened sp...ailed black cockatoo. Mammals include echidnas, native water rats and brushtail and ringtail possums. "The major potential risk is wildlife or animals co...

Japanese Flower Art Helps Calm a Frantic Moscow

...a 10-year veteran of the art. Her teacher, Moscow native Olga Fomicheva, is equally wrapped up in the lines of composition. "When the weather is very hot, it is vital to evoke an impression of freshness," she told a class in Moscow recently. "If your composition is too dense, it will not quiver." Back i...

Hunt for Sea Delicacy Taking a Toll in California

...ng Kong, Vietnam and South Korea -- spoke in their native tongues. "A long time ago it was food for the king only," said Tam Vuong. "Very, very rich people can eat abalone. It's really expensive and hard to find." With a 34 dollar fishing license, a 16 dollar abalone report card, and the requisite gear,...

Increase in Pneumococcal Infections That are Not Covered by Vaccine

Children, native of Alaska, are experiencing increased rates of serious infections caused by strains of pneumococcal bacteria that are not covered by the current childhood pneumococcal vaccine,// according to a study. Before introduction of 7-valent pneumococcal co...

Pneumonia Strains Not Covered by Vaccines on the Rise

...are fast emerging. In Alaska, for instance, the native children are already protected against seven strains of pneumococcal disease due to vaccination. But the rate of serious infection by other strains is increasing there by as much as 140 percent. "The vaccine has been very effective and has done exa...

Breakthrough in Converting Blood Groups

...ore than half of African Americans, and nearly all native Americans are O, and so require type-O blood. GPL...

‘Nursing’ a Dream in Foreign Lans

...s has made the noble profession,// lucrative. Many native nurses are making a beeline to foreign lands, in search of greener pastures. Therefore, it has become an exciting profession in recent years. According to census figures, there has been an exodus of nurses leaving their homeland to find work in th...

Treating Male Infertility With Stem Cells

...iated donor (green) cells were also found near the native recipient cells of the same type, demonstrating that the local cellular environment likely influenced the fate of the donor stem cells. As further confirmation of the differentiation status of the donor cells, the expression of specific proteins o...

Are Oysters Really Aphrodisiacs?

...ns the herbs which have been used for centuries by native peoples throughout the Americas as aphrodisiacs and libido-boosters. Together with the oyster extract it gives the perfect effect on male potency. Veyron-S is already available over-the-counter in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong, where it has proven...

Stem Cell Transplants Explored as a Possible Treatment for Hearing Loss

...ngology, whose accent still bears the trace of his native Germany. 'I tell them the devil is in the details.' James Battey, MD, director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, lauded Heller as 'one of the leading auditory neuroscientists' and points to his stem cell regen...

Tea Tree Oil-containing Beauty Products may Contribute to MRSA Increase

...ken from the leaves of the Melaleuca alternifolia, native to Australia, is commonly used in many products including shampoos, body lotions and toiletries. It is well known for its anti-bacterial and anti-microbial properties. However, there is no legislation-requiring manufacturer to state the concentr...

Attractive Male Not Only Attracts but Stimulates

...tive population of green swordtail fish, a species native to Central America and popular in tropical aquariums. The green swordtail is named after the striking sword-like growth, which males develop on their tail-fin, so they appear larger and more attractive to females. The females in the group that were...

Early Treatment May Thwart Mad Cow-Type Disease

...hat controversial…as the physiological role of the native protein is still unclear." They note, however, that normal prion depletion itself had no effect on behavior and cognition in uninfected animals in the current study. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Woven Cartilage

...have created had the same mechanical properties as native cartilage. In the near future, surgeons will be able to impregnate custom-designed scaffolds with cartilage-forming stem cells and chemicals that stimulate their growth and then implant them into patients during a single procedure, the researchers sa...

Human Skin Harbors Many More Types of Bacteria

...outnumber our cells 10 to 1. The body has microbes native to the body, including the skin, and these populations change according to how we live, he says. "Ultimately what we want to do is compare disease and health," says Dr. Blaser. Keeping bacterial populations in our body stable may be part of staying h...

Anti Cancer Drug from Blue Green Algae

...ng gold. "It was simply too difficult to use the native blue-green algae for high-level production using traditional fermentation approaches," said Sherman. But the compound, called cryptophycin 1, held so much promise as an anti-cancer drug that organic chemists got busy trying to find ways to make a syn...

Natural Remedies Ineffective to Ease Menopausal Symptoms:study

... America, from which various medicines are made by native Indians to treat illnesses, including female disorders. Black Cohosh was used by many women to ease night sweats and hot flashes. The women who took part in the study were randomly divided into five groups. One group were treated with Black Cohosh,...

High risk of mental illness linked to early parental separation

...ffer// from major mental disorders rather than the native Britishers. African-Caribbean and Black Africans ...ricans nine times in African Caribbean people than native Britons. Dr Paul Fearon, lead author of one of the studies told media that the team studied a sect...

Ethnic Variations in Hormone Levels May Cause Differences in Breast Cancer Risk

... the five primary ethnicities/races in the cohort, native Hawaiians have the highest risk of breast cancer—6...gens. “We had observed that some groups, such as native Hawaiians have higher breast cancer rates compared to white women. We knew hormones are a factor, so...

History of Brain Surgery Now in a 'Grey' Area Following Archeologists Finding

... cross cultural tribes of Indo-European origin and native settlers in the Balkan region dating back to the Early Bronze Age. Thus this discovery noticed for being the first of its kind dating back to pre historic ages. A crude form of surgery involving drilling a hole in the skull is mentioned in the anna...

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