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Sensible Diet, Exercise and Weight Control Increases Longevity

...to reconcile with decades of clinical practice and scientific investigation to treat diabetes, he said. In fact, based on our work on one of the insulin receptor substrates, Irs2, in liver and pancreatic beta cells, we thought more Irs2 would be good for you. It reduces the amount of insulin needed in the b...

Gaps In Food Safety Systems Must Be Plugged :UN

...gency preparedness and response. They also provide scientific advice on many food safety issues such as food additives, chemical and microbiological contaminants, and agro-chemical residues....

New Analysis Puts Cot Death Under Scrutiny Once Again

...add, but it is truer to reality, more conducive to scientific inquiry, and safer for children than a dogmatic stance at either pole. We would encourage professionals to keep an open mind in assessing unexplained infant deaths, to be aware of the difficulties in diagnosis, and to try to keep a balance between...

Indian Government Asks the Supreme Court to Keep Off Environmental Issues

...ay espouse social causes without any background of scientific issues that may have given rise to that issue, have tried to influence hearings in the cases through submissions on aspects which are in the domain of forestry science." Such a situation may not only lead to errors of judgment but also result in ac...

World Epilepsy Week - 2007

... medical professionals involved in the medical and scientific issues of epilepsy. Global campaigns against ep...impressionable period of their lives. However, the scientific community has made tremendous strides in diagnosing, understanding and treating epilepsy from the la...

Dating, Drugs and Sex Make Teens Feel Older Than They are

Parents have always suspected it, and now a scientific study has backed them up by showing that dating, sexual activity and drugs do make teens feel older than they really are. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, along with researchers at the University of Victoria, carried out...

Weizmann Researchers Developed Control Switch for Protein Activity

...netically engineered proteins (called a library in scientific language) with the amino acid segment inserted in different places. In the second stage, the engineered proteins are screened to identify the ones that respond to the drug in a desired manner. The researchers have discovered that in some of the eng...

New Device Developed to Eliminate Superbugs Within Minutes

...vid Macdonald, co-inventor of the device and chief scientific officer of Inov8 Science, which developed it. Macdonald and co-inventor Derek Elwood identified the so-called open-air factor phenomenon more than 15 years ago through experiments at the UK government's chemical and biological defence labs at Porto...

Bush Again Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

...tity of human life. Risking new criticism from the scientific community, Bush rejected moves by US lawmakers to ...evout Christian, said that using human embryos for scientific research -- which often involves their destruction -- conflicts with his religious beliefs and he ur...

Buckyball Has the Ability to Fight Against Allergy: Research

...eness and steadiness, researchers from a number of scientific fields have been investigating the tiny, hollow carbon cages to serve a variety of functions. In this study, researchers modified the buckyballs so that they were attuned to water. "This discovery is exciting because it points to the possibility ...

Male Circumcision Overstated as Deterrent to Global AIDS Pandemic

...ublished in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal PLoS ONE....

Risk of SIDS Reduced by the Use of Baby Dummies: Research

...ral and family tradition and custom rather than on scientific evidence," FSID?s scientific advisor Professor George Haycock said. The study conducted by the American academy had found that...

Modified Drug Therapy for Alzheimers Disease

...rtments of chemistry and medicinal chemistry, is a scientific co-founder of the company with Jordan Tang, the J.G. Puterbaugh Chair in Medical Research at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. The collaborative work of Ghosh and Tang led to the development of a treatment that could intercept and disable t...

Gene Therapy for Parkinsons Disease

According to the first scientific review of a dozen patients who have received the treatment over the last three years ,a novel gene therapy technique is safe and may be effective at staving off worsening symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The patients, half of whom live on Long Isla...

New Technique to Measure Xanthone in Mangosteen

Researchers established a credible scientific method for testing and measuring xanthones. Prelim...r of the mangosteen supplement category is leading scientific exploration of the whole mangosteen fruit (Garcinia mangostana) through a tiered approach based on s...

Singaporean Student to Present Stem Cell Research Paper at Conferences in US, UK

...l conferences. I wish Nicholas all the best in his scientific endeavour."...

More Fat Leads to Less Coronary Artery Calcification

...pose of our study was to discover and describe the scientific basis for any possible protective role of omega-3 fatty acids against retinopathy, said Lois E. H. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator of the study and associate professor of ophthalmology at Childrens Hospital Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Med...

Taking Animals Out of Laboratory Research

Pioneering work to reduce the use of animals in scientific research and ultimately remove them from laboratories altogether has received a major boost at The University of Nottingham. A laboratory devoted to finding effective alternatives to animal testing has been expanded and completely remodelled in ...

The International Diabetes Federation Launches US$ 10 Million Grant to Improve Diabetes Care

...and its complications." "In many cases we have the scientific knowledge and proven therapies, however we need to adapt this knowledge to meet the needs of our communities. BRIDGES is the perfect vehicle to do this and I would encourage all health professionals and researchers to join us and to channel their e...

Meditation Increases Attention - A Brain Scan Report

...rmal practice." For 15 years, Davidson has had a scientific relationship with the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader...ed from these practices," he says. Davidson says scientific studies of meditation are proving traditional beliefs about the mental benefits of meditation. Yet a...

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