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Chilean Lake Disappears, Thanks to Global Warming

...ut the cause at this point, said Romero. Experts now say melting glaciers put pressure on an ice wall that acted as a dam, causing it to give way. After flying over the lake on Tuesday, scientists said they were able to draw preliminary conclusions that point to climate change as the leading culprit...

Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes

... Mr Khaw said the main problem is that mosquitoes now carry a different strain of dengue that causes more people to come down with the illness....

Harnessing Immune System Power Heralds Next Era of Cancer Treatment

...University's Jonathan Bramson, the researchers are now working to accelerate the ongoing immune system research through a new Cancer Immunotherapy Program, being launched with 3.5 million dollars in funding from the Terry Fox Foundation through the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC). "This immu...

Alternative Splicing in Neuronal Development

...n has remained elusive. Dr. Black and colleagues now show that a switch in expression between PTB and nPTB induces changes in a large number of alternative splicing patterns during neuronal development. "This reprogramming of splicing by the switch in PTB proteins adds a new layer of genetic change det...

Smashing Times for Stressed Spaniards

...e "boss" around the ears. Miguel Angel, who will now move in to oversee the rooms' renovation, came along to watch. "I'm here to ensure they don't hurt themselves," he remarked. Angel was not convinced of the merits of the exercise. "I'm sure that it will give us extra work. It's not really the w...

Reduction in Antidepressant Leads to Suicidal Risks

...s are unclear, the authors note. Thus, while it is now evident that regulatory interventions can alter patterns of practice, whether this is desirable is uncertain, they conclude. There is an urgent need for better data on the efficacy and safety of antidepressants to guide pediatric practice....

Macrobiotic Diet Made Courtney Love Gain 50 Pounds, Not Lose!

...ited a good diet and yoga for the weight loss, has now admitted that she tried to follow Paltrow's healthy example, and adopted a macrobiotic diet to lose weight. "At the time I had Gwyneth's cook who does macro food. I thought, it can't make me fat he's Gwyneth's cook! [But] I saw those pictures and ...

Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma

...ially in urban areas with poor air quality, and is now the commonest chronic disorder in childhood today. It is controllable, using drugs, but not presently curable. "(ORMDL3) does not seem to be part of the allergic process," said Cookson. "As its expression is increased in asthmatics, it may be possi...

For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week

...rains would rise by as much as 50 per cent between now and 2016....

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

...spite huge challenges facing the sector. "We are now actually losing market share to dynamic producers in other parts of the world, consumption is falling and imports are increasing by about 10 percent," Fischer-Boel told journalists. With 500 million euros currently spent each year getting rid of un...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

...he actor-turned-politician, Arnold Schwarzenegger, now Governor of California , is sought to be made out ...ities to reduce emissions. And the green tide is now rising in Washington too, where Nunez's Democratic colleagues gained control of Congress in November...

American Bests Japanese Hot Dog Eating Champion, Sets Record

...e competitive eating calendar. Most participants now use the 'Solomon technique' patented by Kobayashi, breaking the wieners in half before wolfing them down. The buns are eaten separately after being dunked in water to make them easier to swallow. The only real rule is to avoid regurgitation -- or '...

Lab Tests Throw Up New Path for Parkinson's

...ial cell-derived neurotrophic factor), which until now has generated the most excitement in this field, they say. The findings are published on Thursday in a letter to Nature, the British science journal, by a team led by Mart Saarma of the University of Finland. Parkinson's causes uncontrollable sha...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

Once embraced only by tree huggers but now by Madonna, Sting and other stars, global warming had a turbulent ride before being adopted as a celebrity campaign issue in Saturday's Live Earth concerts. For much of its history, climate change has faced indifference or ignorance, thanks mainly...

Anti-doping Rules Must Avoid Unsatisfactory Decisions: WADA

...ogue decisions, the Daily Times reported. We are now looking forward to the full implementation of the World Anti-Doping Code by the ICC (which adopted the code in July 2006) and its national associations at the earliest, and to pursuing its cooperation with the ICC in the fight against doping in sport...

EpiCept Accelerates Development of Phase I Clinical Study for Cancer

...in cancer cells. The Phase I trial of EPC2407 is now being conducted in three U.S. cancer centers and will administer increasing doses to small groups in approximately 30-40 patients with advanced stages of solid tumors. The primary objectives of the study are to determine the safety (maximum tolerated...

Women's Empowerment Key to Curbing AIDS: UN

...25 years ago as a disease of the white gay male is now increasingly affecting women all over the world," he told some 1,500 delegates. In sub-Saharan Africa, 60 percent of all adults living with the virus are female. Piot cited the example of Kenya, where the ratio reaches 67 percent. "As an optimist...

Scientists Find Single Circuit Channeling Depression in Rats

...iple causes and brain processes for depression may now have a single "holy grail" brain pathway to focus on for treatment, according to a new research study released Thursday. Studying the brains of rats, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered a single brain circuit ...

New Asthma Gene Identified

...he United Kingdom born in 1958 and monitored until now for the presence of disease. "This is a large study involving doctors and scientists from many countries, and we are confident that we have discovered something new and exciting about childhood asthma," said Dr. Miriam Moffatt of the National Heath...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

...nts of the agency do make fascinating reading. And now Cuban intelligence sources too add some icing to the cake. The closest the CIA came to killing Cuba's Fidel Castro was a 1963 attempt with a poison pill delivered by American mobsters that was to be slipped into a chocolate milkshake, a former Cuba...

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