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Yawning Actually Helps You Keep Awake

...awn, making it operate more efficiently. So rather than promoting sleep, yawning may help keep us awake. ...efficiently. According to our hypothesis, rather than promoting sleep, yawning should antagonise sleep. We think contagious yawning is triggered by empath...

Boeing Unveils 'green' Dreamliner Passenger Jet

...ed in the Dreamliner are also stronger and lighter than traditional materials, allowing the plane greater ...l use 20 percent less fuel for comparable missions than today's similarly sized airplane." Lower fuel-costs could in theory lead to cheaper long-haul trav...

FDA Extends GRAS Approval Listex to All Food Products

...n fresh and processed meat and meat products, more than 100 million viable phages per gram are often prese...rs, who are insisting on 'green' solutions, rather than chemicals. Natural bacteriophages prove to be a unique solution, where increased safety does not com...

Men, Not Women, Spend a Longer Time on the Phone!

...as revealed that men spend more time on the phone than their female counterparts. The study has found that men not only spend more time on house phones, but also on the their mobiles. It has been estimated that men are hooked to their phones for 32 minutes today, as compared to 22 minutes in 2002. H...

Too Much of Videogames Hampers Study Time in Children

... males, and they spent more time playing the games than their female counterparts. Boys spent an average of 58 minutes per day during the week and one hour 37 minutes on weekends playing videogames, compared with girls who played for 44 minutes per day during the week and one hour and one minute on the ...

Aguilera's Dad Confirms Her Pregnancy Rumours

...planning this for a while, so her health is better than it's ever been," the source said. The source revealed that the 'Back To Basics' singer hopes to follow the footsteps of successful women who have managed their careers and kids well. "Christina's seen women with great careers, like Gwen Stefani, ...

Medicaid Data Analysis

...ercent more prevalent among Medicaid beneficiaries than in the general population. Medicaid funds half of ... patients with co-occurring disorders were younger than age 45. Racial and ethnic minorities made up a substantial proportion of the population, ranging fro...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

... above 40 years old, and is more common in Chinese than Malay or Indian. There is no scientific conclusion of the actual cause of gastric cancer, people with family history of gastric cancer, high consumption of smoked and salted food, lack of Vitamin C, and existence of a bacterium called Helicobactor...

Former US Vice President Al Gores Son Continues to Be Dogged by Drug Abuse Problem.

... Ana on four charges, including possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and possession of the drugs without a prescription. Nearly 12 hours later he was released from the jail. The 24-year-old Gore has a history of arrests on suspicion of possession of marijuana, drunk driving and speeding. One ...

Chemical Injections for Fat Removal

...ople who are chronically stressed gain more weight than they should based on the calories they consume. ...he researchers found these mice put on more weight than expected given the calories they were consuming. They gained twice as much fat as would be expecte...

Combination of Bronchoscopic Techniques is Very Effective for Lung Lesions

...l lung lesions has been shown to be more effective than either procedure alone and does not compromise patients safety. Multimodality diagnosis with the joint use of EBUS with ENB has pushed the diagnostic yield of flexible bronchoscopic procedures closer to the sensitivity obtainable through either tr...

Stem Cells from Human Fat Tissue to Hunt for and Kill Cancerous Tumours

... As part of the study to find a less toxic method than chemotherapy to treat colon cancer, researchers extracted the mesenchymal stem cells from human fat tissue, and after expanding their number in the lab, used a retrovirus vector to insert the gene cytosine deaminase into the cell. The gene can con...

Dark Chocolate Possible Medicine for Blood Pressure

...ong smokers, and it has more antioxidants per gram than red wine, green tea or berries. A new study publi...ch food for quite some years, found eating no more than 30 calories a day of dark chocolate was associated with a lowering of blood pressure in healthy subj...

Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

...ne in terms of the response of the patient, rather than the response of the tumor. While the Response Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) experimental standards works well in evaluating therapies that are toxic to tumors, such as radiation or chemotherapy, they are less capable of measuring the more subtl...

In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash

...i to collect virtual currency and assets from more than 1,000 Chinese suppliers and sell them to American ... one to 70, the highest, costs 450 dollars -- more than an average worker in Beijing can earn in a month. With an estimated online gaming population of mo...

Gene Variation Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer

...nces in genes related to inflammation between more than 1,500 lung cancer patients and 1,700 controls at M... D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. More than 80 percent of the cancer patients in the study were current or former smokers. Among the 59 varia...

Nutrition Education Has Proved to Be Futile

...hours on nutrition education had no greater impact than those who didn't. And parent behavior didn't chang...nhealthy food is cheaper and more easily available than healthy food. Parents are often working, leaving children unsupervised to get their own snacks. Low-...

Patients Find Healthy Vein in Old Austrian Mine

... Gastein used to be a gold mine, and produced more than 800 kilos (1,760 pounds) of the precious metal eac...et no cure for rheumatism," said Rieser, but "more than 90 percent of patients feel better after treatment." The vital component, he explained, is a stimu...

Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

...diagnosed with epilepsy are five times more likely than their peers to commit suicide in the six months fo...tics are three times more likely to commit suicide than people who don't have the disorder. Researchers at Aarhus University Hospital studied more than 21,...

Variation in Genes Related to Inflammation Increase Lung Cancer Risk

...nces in genes related to inflammation between more than 1,500 lung cancer patients and 1,700 controls to e... between inflammation and lung cancer risk. More than 80 percent of the cancer patients in the study were current or former smokers. Researchers found t...

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