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Air Pollution in India Causes 527,700 Deaths a Year

...t access to certain World Bank reports on China is now being blocked in Beijing. An official said the World Bank is still holding talks with Beijing on the final version of the pollution risk report, which is set to be published soon. WHO leaders, meanwhile, say that meeting new targets on clean ai...

Scientists Identify New Genetic Mutation Behind Common Dementia

...ene," the researcher added. The researchers are now planning to conduct a study to identify the modifying factors responsible for the severity of the disorder, and to identify the second gene responsible for dementia in the same family. "Another intriguing aspect in this Italian family is the varia...

Two In One Drug For Smokers And Drinkers

... proved safe for people trying to stop smoking, is now a potential drug to fight alcohol dependence." In the study, the researchers trained rats to drink alcohol and measured the effect of varenicline once the animals became the lab equivalent of heavy drinkers. They found the drug curbed their drinkin...

Ice Bath by Sports Star Questioned

... a study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine now claims that the opposite may be true. Ice baths have become a most fashionable way to recover after an intense game or race. Adherents of the therapy include Paula Radcliffe and the England rugby team. Paula Radcliffe says when she emerges from the...

Advancement in Gene Associated With Colon Cancer

...lationship between our genetic code and disease is now starting to become clear, and many scientists are turning to the same chapter to find important clues to colorectal cancer. He and his colleagues plan to continue their effort to zero in on the genetic variations involved in cancer. While there is ...

Switzerland Approves Brain Cancer Vaccine

...American and European markets, the vaccine will of now be administered in various treatment centers, across Switzerland. Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc. has made public that in clinical trials, patients treated with DCVax-Brain survived twice as long as those who did not receive the vaccine, and this to...

Parental Match-making Blossoms in a Beijing Park

...has a very good education, she has a doctorate but now she has graduated it is hard to find the right boy at the right age," he explains. Then he reverts to his quiet salesman pitch: "My daughter is a very good teacher, she has been abroad." The grumbles of mothers of daughters rang throughout a rece...

Study Confirms No HRT Benefit for Older Women

...round the world stopped taking HRT. But scientists now believe that these risks may only apply to older women who do not normally use HRT. In 1999, another trial (WISDOM) began to assess the long-term risks and benefits of HRT after the menopause. This trial was also stopped after the first WHI results...

Gallstone Gene Discovered by Research Team

...run permanently at high speed." The researchers now hope that their finding will have positive consequences for prevention and therapy. Professor Lammert thinks that, "It may be possible for certain patients to be helped with drug treatments in future, thus avoiding the need for an operation." Howe...

Male Wallflowers-Watch Your Heart

...ior and so more likely to die. The researchers now opine that either shy men get more stressed out by new situations, or there is a link between their introvert personality and that section of the brain that keeps the heart operating smoothly. This is not the first such study to link personality t...

'Rehab Changed by Life' Says Lindsay Lohan

...ike, 'nah', and then I was, 'OK, I'll read it' and now it is always with me," she added. The actress checked into rehab for the second time earlier in June, after she was arrested for drunk driving....

Scientists Identify "master Switch" for Brown Fat in Mice

...ategy for treating obesity. The researchers are now planning to rev up the control in mice and overfeed them to see if they are resistant to becoming obese. "Brown fat is present in mice and in human infants, where it keeps them warm by dissipating food energy as heat, instead of storing it as white...

Viagra Improves Heart Function, Finds Study

...y researchers at the University of Alberta who are now encouraging doctors to consider prescribing the drug when a patient has a failing right ventricle of the heart, a dire condition for which there are currently no treatments available. Dr. Jayan Nagendran, a cardiac surgery resident at the U of A an...

Insulin Sensitizer- Energy Conserving Signal to Brain

...entral nervous system, he added. The researchers now report evidence in mice that adiponectin receptors are present in the hypothalamic region of the brain and that some forms of the chemical enter the cerebrospinal fluid from the blood. Once in the brain, adiponectin enhances the activity of a metabol...

Envisat Captured Breath of Volcano

...tify and analyse long-term trends and changes. ESA now has a 16-year archive of homogenous data thanks to the continuity of satellites ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat. Envisat and ERS-2, with a difference in overpass time of 30 minutes, are continually adding to the archive. To boost the use of Earth Observat...

Late Nights may Make Preteens Antisocial and Aggressive

...The novel finding of the study is that the link is now apparent as early as 8 year old kids." Susman thinks eveningness could make young adolescents vulnerable to antisocial behaviour. "Eveningness contributes to lack of sleep, and this in turn causes problems such as lack of control and attention r...

Scientists Revealed the Key Molecule That Controls Pain

...pain management through one or more medicationsBut now researchers at The University of Manchester have examined microscopic amoeboid organisms commonly called slime moulds in a bid to gain greater insight into these pain molecules, known as P2X receptors. In humans, P2X receptors look identical to one ...

Physios Find It Difficult to Find Job in NHS

...uld suggest. It is a complete scandal that we have now got a position where it looks as if a sizeable number of the 2007 graduates won't be able to get in." A spokesman for the Department of Health admitted that there had been a shortfall of jobs. HE said Physiotherapists have an increasingly importan...

New Understanding on Growth of Human Stem Cells

... insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF-II), which they now show could be the protein to sustain hESCs. Researchers are interested in the relationship between stem cells and their niche, because the niche represents a route for modifying stem cell behaviour if human ES cells can be reliably guided down a pa...

New Lifeline Express Train Inaugurated

...ilities to the poor people of far-flung areas, has now been included in the school syllabus of the Central Board of Secondary Education. He said that the new Lifeline Express Train would remain for display for four days at National Rail Museum, Chanakayapuri, New Delhi for public, especially for school c...

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