Wordlist for Allergies to Help Cross-border Travellers
...website where they can download a wordlist of more than 200 ingredients , from nuts and shellfish to soya and gluten, that have been translated into 30 languages. The list, available on (http: www.food-info.net/allergy.htm), can be shown in restaurants when ordering a meal and to compare ingredients on ...New Clues About Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis affects African Americans than Caucasians ,this is due to differences in their i...f African Americans with MS were 29 percent higher than levels found in affected Caucasians. The findings show that ethnic differences in MS extend to the...Pre-packed Sandwiches Saltier Than Crisps
...even bags of crisps. Many a times it has more salt than an adults daily dose requirement . The survey was conducted by the Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH), an alliance of doctors and scientists that lobbies the food industry to use less salt. They surveyed 140 readymade sandwiches made for BBC...EpiCept Accelerates Development of Phase I Clinical Study for Cancer
... number of different cancer types more effectively than the other VDAs tested and was synergistic when used in combination with anticancer agents, such as Cisplatin. The combination of EPC2407 with other anticancer agents in a Phase 1b trial is planned to follow the current monotherapy trial. EPC2407 is o...Women's Empowerment Key to Curbing AIDS: UN
...ase since December 2003. But this was still less than a quarter of the estimated 4.6 million people in need of the drugs....Scientists Discover Key to Manipulating Fat
...ople who are chronically stressed gain more weight than they should based on the calories they consume. This pathway involves two players -- a neurotransmitter (NPY) and the receptor (Y2R) it activates in the fat tissue: endothelial cells lining blood vessels and fat cells themselves. In order to add fa...US Baby Dies of Salmonella from Pet Turtle
...law bans the sale of turtles with a carapace fewer than 10 centimeters (four inches) long. "Small turtles have posed a particular danger to young children because these turtles might not be perceived as health hazards and can be handled like toys," the CDC said. "Salmonella infections in children can ...New Spinal Cord Stimulation System Launched
...ogy and support infrastructure needed to gain more than 25 percent share of the pain management market," s...ximately 75 percent smaller and 85 percent lighter than competing chargers, making it convenient and discreet. The charger also features continuous temperat......in the journal Nature. In a genetic study of more than 2,000 children, scientists from the University of ...very 600 nucleotides, and scientists examined more than 317,000 of these mutations, known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms, to find those specific to chil...Protestors Strip, Don Horns Against Spain's Running of the Bulls
...Treatment of Animals), which said people from more than 30 countries took part. Thousands of tourists are expected to attend the week-long festival of the bulls, which starts on Friday. The running of the bulls was immortalised in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises"....New Drugs Show Promise in Fighting Drug-Resistant HIV
...clinical trial, which involved 18 nations and more than 30 centers in the United States, is the first tria...h TMC114 achieved superior virological suppression than those who received TMC114 alone. The results from the phase III clinical trial will be submitted to ...Australian Research Reveals AIDS, Cancer Link
... and transplant patients are at a much higher risk than the general population of developing a range of ca...alia, the US, Europe and Canada and involving more than 444,000 people with HIV/AIDS and some 32,000 organ recipients. It found that of the 28 cancers stu...Autophagy may Lead to Heart Disease
...f autophagy fared worse in terms of cardiac stress than the mice with a muted response, Dr. Hill said. Severe stress leads to increased autophagic activity in heart muscle, and our findings are consistent with the notion that this response actually harms the heart. Researchers reported that pressure ove...New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking
...ibe reported fewer heavy drinking days each month than drinkers who took a look-alike placebo pill, but b...tion in the short term is often much more feasible than complete abstinence, he added. Karhuvaara is a physician and health researcher who was once an emp...Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars
...cross from the border from Hong Kong, now has more than one million cars, with 90,000 new cars registered already this year, the English-language China Daily reported. "Stop buying cars," Xu Zongheng, the city's mayor was quoted as saying, adding that people were buying vehicles "too quickly." "Proble...Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now
... acknowledging that its easier dealing with it now than when she and her family learned the diagnosis five...er colleagues at Cedars-Sinai currently treat more than 400 children from 2 to 21 years of age with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Crohns disease and ul...An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid
... carbon dioxide. You dont want to produce any more than you have to," Andrews says. Andrews says UK researchers are considering ways to capture carbon dioxide for injection into oil wells to increase pressure and reduce the costs of pumping petroleum from existing American reserves. Such methods of carb...DNA Sample Suggests Greenland was Much Warmer During Last Ice Age
... much warmer at some point during the last Ice Age than previously believed . The DNA came from the tree...at this part of the world was significantly warmer than most people thought,' said Martin Sharp, a glaciologist at the University of Alberta and a co-author...Prescription Costs More for Older Men Than Women
...or men over the age of 65 is significantly higher than it is for women. The primary objective of this ...scribing costs for males were significantly higher than females. On average, costs for a 75-year-old man would be 12 times the costs for a 25-34 year-old ......ple pregnancy, or prefer to accept the risk rather than take the chance of not getting pregnant. Research quite unrelated to infertility for example, in gambling or playing the lottery - had shown that decision-making could be influenced by particular mood states and by the individual tendencies of som...