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Urine is a Rich Source of Phosphorus

...duces in a year is recycled, the danger of running out of phosphorus can be averted. "Urine is the mos... dilute that through our sewage system and send it out to the ocean," Discovery News quoted her as saying. "In the industrialized world we must start mov...

Envisat Captured Breath of Volcano

...eastern province of North Maluku, started spitting out flaming material, indicating magma was approaching...e is no way ground-based monitoring can be carried out on all volcanoes across the globe, space-based monitoring helps identify the volcanoes presenting th...

Scientists Revealed the Key Molecule That Controls Pain

...they function, said Dr Chris Thompson, who carried out the research with Professor Alan North and Dr Sam Fountain in the Faculty of Life Sciences. By looking at slime mould we were effectively able to turn the evolutionary clock back a billion years to see how a more primitive P2X molecule functions. T...

Physios Find It Difficult to Find Job in NHS

...ts who completed their courses last year are still out of work, it was revealed. The training costs the NHS 30,000 for each student, said the CSP. The Government had ignored the plight of physiotherapists while "bending over backwards" to ensure that no junior doctor was left unemployed as a result of th...

40 Percent of Community Pharmacists Dispensed Off-label Drug

...tion education, took part in the research, carried out by the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Aberdeen, UK. The community pharmacists who responded to the questionnaire appeared to be aware of and concerned by - the issues surrounding off-label prescribing to children says...

Walking is Vital to Keep Yourself Fit

...t, for how long and at what exertion level.Getting out there and taking a walk is what its all about, says James Levine, M.D., Ph.D., and a Mayo Clinic expert on obesity. You dont have to join a gym, you dont have to check your pulse. You just have to switch off the TV, get off the sofa and go for a walk...

Targeted Food Tax to Improve Health

... as the Caerphilly Prospective Study. Two or more out of high blood glucose, insulin, blood fats, body fat, and blood pressure defined the presence of the metabolic syndrome in the men studied. The mens health was tracked over 20 years, during which time data from food questionnaires and weekly food di...

Tobacco Industry Promotes Antismoking Campaigns

...igator labeled big tobacco with a smirk saying Two out of threes not bad. However, these messages arent always getting out there because of the money spent by the tobacco industry to eliminate them, said Ibrahim, an assista...

Survey Shows Emergency Services Of British Hospitals Doing A Good Job

... because nursing staff have sorted the whole thing out and the patient pathway is slick, while others have not done that." The audit also shows the growing use of angioplasty, where a small balloon at the tip of a catheter tube is inserted via an artery and guided to the blocked heart artery. It leaves...

Golf Courses Could Serve as Wildlife Sanctuaries If Managed Properly

...nds and can grow larger and more powerful, nudging out other species. By drying golf course ponds in the early fall, the tadpoles can be eliminated," he said. The study is scheduled for publication later this year in the journal Conservation Biology....

Normal People can Only Remember Four Things at a Time

...the clarity of those items was not perfect, points out Professor Awh. It was also found that some people had much clearer memories than others. "While it seems reasonable that people who think about more things at once might also have clearer memories than average, we found that this assumption was...

Senior Church Leaders in Lesotho Pledge to Fight AIDS

... first time that the ecumenical society has spoken out with one powerful voice, and we are strategically placed to reach people from all walks of life and be catalysts for positive and lasting action" said Reverend Daniel Rantle from the Methodist Church of Africa. Lesotho has one of the highest HIV pr...

Organ Donors Solicited During UKs National Transplant Week

...onsultants at St James's Hospital in Leeds carried out the pioneering operation during which Lomass son David, 20, donated 60 per cent of his healthy liver to his father.The surgeons believe the technique will offer new hope to the 300 or so people on the liver transplant waiting list at any one time. ...

Dengue Deaths in Cambodia This Year Exceed 2006 Toll

...have been recorded for the first half of this year out of 14,986 cases, said Ngan Chantha, director of the health ministry's dengue program. Last year 152 deaths were reported. "The disease is continuing to spread, but it is a little bit better than before," he told AFP, adding that Siem Reap province,...

Food Fortification With Folic Acid Does The Trick

...c acid . The extensive study which was carried out by Philippe De Wals and team from Laval University in Quebec found that the rate of major defects in newborns like spinal bifida and anencephaly fell from 0.158 percent before folic acid fortification became mandatory in 1998, to 0.086 percent afterw...

Gays Who Dabble With Death

...terviewed a 20-year-old who was glad when he found out he was infected. It would bring a closer bond with his partner and take away any apprehensions he might have about group sex with HIV-positive men. The Melbourne court heard evidence of "conversion parties" where men were wittingly or unwittingly in...

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

...t Centre for Science and the Environment which put out a study on the river in April. A national river cleaning programme also spent 175 million on the river, more than a third of that in Delhi. But the city grew -- from 1991 to 2001 its population expanded by 47 percent -- and now a third of Delhi's...

Canada Daycare Looks After Elderly Parents While Children Work

...ght we would. We mostly had people calling to find out how they would use it, if they needed to."...

Bak Protein Sets Stressed Cells on Suicide Path

...heir pro-death contents into the cell. "We found out Bak has a distinct function in regulation of the mitochondrial morphology," says Dr. Zheng Dong, cell biologist at the Medical College of Georgia and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Augusta and corresponding author on a paper published this...

Wear Headgear While Playing Soccer

...tead of the lab, this innovative study was carried out just after the 2006 soccer season and included 268 adolescents, aged 12 to 17 years, from the Oakville Soccer Club. Although only 52 of them wore headgear during this period, the results are significant: the risk of concussion was 2.65 times higher f...

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