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Lab Tests Throw Up New Path for Parkinson's

...The disease affects at least one percent of people over the age of 65. Dopamine, which helps direct movement, is provided in a part of the brain called the substantia nigra. Attempts to treat Parkinson's have focussed mainly on a pharmaceutical substitute for dopamine or on restoring or protecting dop...

Dietary Counseling Leads to Weight Loss

...strictions tended to produce greater weight losses over time. Approximately half the weight loss remaine...arly two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight (BMI over 25), and approximately half of overweight adults are obese (BMI over 30). Overweight and obesity ...

New York, the City That Roars 24/7, is Forced to Quiet Down

...rk City. And we had not changed our noise code for over 30 years," Ailen Bronzaft, a researcher on the effects of noise on humans who helped the city develop the new code, told AFP. Bronzaft has advised four mayors including Michael Bloomberg, who pushed for the new regulations approved by the city coun...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...e end of the 1970s, warming had tipped the balance over cooling in the battle for expert opinion as to whi... the global warming puzzle. But scientists fretted over the many remaining blanks and debated fiercely over what the picture actually meant. Although some...

Skin Cancer can Be Triggered by P53 Mutation

...h is the most common type of human malignancy with over 1 million new cases in the USA each year. Mutations in the p53 tumor suppressor gene have been implicated in tumor formation: some give rise to a loss-of-function whereas the majority of mutations result in a gain-of-function. In the first of the...

Pre-packed Sandwiches Saltier Than Crisps

...ie Bolt. 'Choosing a high-salt version may take us over the daily limit of salt and could affect our long-... a packet of crisps or biscuits then it could push over the required limit. CASH claims that if the nation reduced its average salt intake to the recomme...

Women's Empowerment Key to Curbing AIDS: UN

...e 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, I am a firm believer that catastroph...

Scientists Discover Key to Manipulating Fat

...esity. Investigators say these findings may also, over the long-term, lead to better control of metabolic syndrome, which is a collection of risk factors that increase a patient's chances of developing heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. In the paper, the Georgetown researchers describe a mechanism th...

SKorean Online Dogmeat Retailer Closes Site Amid Uproar

...or Boshintang, is a Korean delicacy usually served over the summer season....

More Indian Doctors Questioned in Australia as UK Terror Plot Inquiry Widens

...said. Seven people have been arrested in Britain over the attacks, all of them doctors or with medical links. Mr Ruddock said the AFP and WA police had been working in close cooperation and were liaising closely with other Australian authorities and the UK. "It should be emphasised that a presumptio...

Nicole Richie is Pregnant and Ready to Get Married

Nicole Richie is over 12 weeks pregnant with rocker boyfriend Joel Madden's baby, reports have confirmed . The "Simple Life" star, is reported to have shared the joyful news with her mother, Brenda, and her close pals, including Mischa Barton. However, she is neither c...

Flu Outbreak Among Children Feared in Western Australia

...umonia," he said. "We'll be able to confirm that over the next few days." The third child did not receive hospital treatment. It is not known if there are more children suffering from the virus in Perth or if it had moved across to the eastern states....

The Hospital Superbugs

...ny at University College, London have been awarded over 1.6m pounds for one of the country's largest studi..., Director of CHAI said: We intend to apply for 5m over the next five years to increase the critical mass of researchers drawn from nine schools at The Univ...

Prescription Costs More for Older Men Than Women

Independent research, involving over 3 million Italians, conducted by Henley Management... has concluded that the prescription costs for men over the age of 65 is significantly higher than it is for women. The primary objective of this study ...

A New Therapy to Protect Cancer Patients Against Infertility

... way could reduce the side effects of chemotherapy over a long period, said Dr. Stern. Other studies have tried to analyse whether similar treatments work, but the medications used have been long-acting and therefore cause shutdown for the whole time the patient is in chemo. This means that patients get...

Contraceptive Spray Shows Positive Clinical Trial Result

...order to confirm these predictions. Our strategy over the last 12 months has been to rapidly demonstrate the broad applicability of the Acrux spray technology across a range of contraceptive products, including combination formulations. We have made material progress in this area, which has further stre...

Watch 'Live Earth' Concerts Simultaneously on the Net

...comfort of your own home," she added. A crew of over 100 people would work to have on-demand video edited into editorial packages by Sunday. "We are offering a tremendous amount of supporting content. Users will be able to watch all their favourite performances, but we've also made it easier to lear...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...e to have two seats. There are many obstacles to over come before hydrogen can be used as fuel. While hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, it rarely exists in its pure form in the environment, preferring instead to bond with other elements such as oxygen to form water and carbon to for...

Organically Grown Food More Healthier

...f flavonoids found in regular tomatoes were due to over fertilization. Flavonoids are produced as a def...tly not enough evidence to recommend organic foods over conventionally produced foods." Gerry Hayman, the technical expert of the British Tomatoes Grower...

Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected

...d an analysis of 37,000 cervical smear tests taken over a 4.5-year period from 2002. It found that 84.3 per cent of smears taken from women between 25 and 40 years of age produced a normal result. Significantly, the report concluded that women from poorer social and economic backgrounds were more lik...

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