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Genetic Disease Causes hearing loss

Patients with the genetic disorder von Hippel-Lindau disease may sud...g loss because of a tumor-associated hemorrhage in the inner ear , according to a study in the July 4 issue of JAMA. Endolymphatic sac tumors (ELSTs; tum...

Australian Research Reveals AIDS, Cancer Link

...transplant patients are at a much higher risk than the general population of developing a range of cancer...ent types of cancer and could be a breakthrough in the understanding of the causes of the malignancies. Lead researcher at Sydney's University of New Sou...

Snack Foods Fortified With Fiber

...archer is experimenting with ways to add fiber to the foods we love without changing what we like about ...an be used to make fiber-enriched flour taste like the kind used in most cookies and tortillas so that manufacturers can make a more healthful snacking alt...

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

Indian doctors continue to bear the brunt of police inquiries as focus shifted to Australia. Investigators trying to unravel the hands behind the foiled terror attacks in UK raided two hospitals in Western Australia and also quiz...

Autophagy may Lead to Heart Disease

... their own proteins to provide needed resources to the body in times of stress , may paradoxically cause ...ticipates in disease pathogenesis is unknown, said the studys senior author, Dr. Joseph Hill, chief of cardiology, reporting in the July issue of the Jour...

New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking

...who took a craving-curbing drug whenever they felt the desire to imbibe reported fewer heavy drinking day... drinkers in Finland, who took either a placebo or the drug nalmefene on an as needed basis. It has a robust and sustained effect in reducing harmful heav...

Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars

...ooming southern city of Shenzhen, just across from the border from Hong Kong, now has more than one milli...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 quote...

Fibrinogen may Inhibit Spinal Cord Regeneration

...nd in circulating blood, has been found to inhibit the growth of central nervous system neuronal cells , a process that is necessary for the regeneration of the spinal cord after traumatic injury. The findings by researchers at the Univers...

Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now

...; a type of inflammatory bowel disease − in the same matter-of-fact way she describes preparing for an advanced placement exam, working on the school newspaper, starting an organ donor awareness club for teens and being a peer counselor for ot...

An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

... federal tax incentives for new alternative fuels, the issue of coal's place in supplying America's energ...rtance in recent months. A research institute at the University of Kentucky, though, has been exploring ways to increase the efficiency of converting coa...

Boyfriend Bites Off Lip and Ear of 3-year-old Daughter of His Girlfriend

...arre things that can happen in that melting pot of the world, the capitalist paradise . A 3-year-old girl is attacked savagely by her mothers boyfriend, for months....

A Mechanical Prosthetic Close to the Real Thing

Back to the future, almost literally. Dan Didrick of Naples, F... , it is estimated. Didricks X-finger is back to the future because it has no batteries, electronics, servos or actuators. Instead, each digit incorporat...

Nicole Richie is Pregnant and Ready to Get Married

...The "Simple Life" star, is reported to have shared the joyful news with her mother, Brenda, and her close...is neither confirming nor denying her pregnancy to the media. Apart from her impending motherhood, Richie appears quite excited about a rumour that Madde...

Flu Outbreak Among Children Feared in Western Australia

..., are bracing themselves for a severe flu that has the potential to kill young children within a day . ...ree Perth children, all aged under five, died from the fatal strain in the past 72 hours. Staff at The Gold Coast Hospital admitted its Emergency Departm...

Chickens also Use Earth's Magnetic Field to Sense Direction

... fowl, like many other animals and birds, also use the Earth's magnetic field to sense direction . As part of their experiment, the team of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wiltschko and Roswitha Wiltschko placed newly hatched chicks in an artifi...

New Blood Vessels can Be Created from Bone Marrow Stem Cells: Study

...om bone marrow adult stem cells . Researchers at the University at Buffalo Department of Chemical and Biological ngineering say that the bone marrow is an excellent source of adult stem cells, containing smooth muscle and endothelial cel...

Mira Nair Launches AIDS Awareness Project

...AIDS awareness project called 'Jaago' to highlight the spread of the disease and its danger to society . The project, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Fou...

DNA Sample Suggests Greenland was Much Warmer During Last Ice Age

Ancient DNA samples recovered from the bottom of a two-kilometre thick ice sheet in Greenland has shown that the island was much warmer at some point during the last Ice Age than previously believed . The DNA ca...

The Hospital Superbugs

...ons in preparation for a counter-offensive against the most deadly of hospital superbugs . It infiltrat... A research group led by Professor Nigel Minton in the Centre for Healthcare Associated Infections (CHAI), with Dr Peter Mullany at University College, Lon...

Prescription Costs More for Older Men Than Women

...alians, conducted by Henley Management College and the University of Milan has concluded that the prescription costs for men over the age of 65 is significantly higher than it is for women. The ...

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