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Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

...nor of California , is sought to be made out to be the environmental icon of the Centre Right. An overexcited BBC correspondent describes a new legislation AB 32 as Arnold Schwarzen...

American Bests Japanese Hot Dog Eating Champion, Sets Record

A world record-breaking eater ended the six-year reign of a Japanese champion Wednesday, g...ling a whopping 66 weiners in a mere 12 minutes in the annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating contest. American Joey Chestnut ended Japan's Takeru 'Tsuna...

Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted

...up of five large lakes in North America on or near the Canada-United States border. They are the largest group of fresh water lakes on Earth. A report released by Environmental Defense shows th...

Cat Exposure Increases Bronchial Responsiveness

...d finding, said Susan Chinn, D.Sc., lead author of the study. We presupposed that we would find increased...hat they are not allergic to cats. Dr. Chinn, of the Imperial College in London, and 12 other researchers reported their findings in the first issue for ...

Lab Tests Throw Up New Path for Parkinson's

...ain cells whose death causes Parkinson's disease , the tragic degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. The new molecule, called conserved dopamine neurotrophic factor (CDNF), pr...

Dietary Counseling Leads to Weight Loss

...ater weight losses over time. Approximately half the weight loss remained at three years, but almost none of the weight loss remained at five years. Obesity-related problems are among the most serious health probl...

Will Seven Be the Lucky Number for Las Vegas Newlyweds?

In Las Vegas you roll the dice and hope they come up seven: on Saturday thou...e will descend on this desert city to gamble that the lucky number holds the key to marital bliss. In the wedding capital of the world, couples are lini...

New Oncogene for Brain Cancer

An overexpressed gene found at the scene of a variety of tumors is implicated in the development of two types of malignant brain cancer in a paper by researchers at The University of T...

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

...e line, 311, for quality-of-life complaints. And the top source of environmental disturbance, callers s...ng -- noise. "Honking horns, construction noise, the alarms, the airplanes, the subway, traffic: noise is a big problem for New York City. And we had not...

Influenza Virus Samples of 1918

The effort to find preserved samples of the 1918 influenza virus has been a pursuit of both hi...dical importance . The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most devastating single disease outbreak in modern history, and examining the virus that caused it m...

Use of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Canada Lags Behind U.S

..., but it is still significantly less than that in the United States. Dr. David Birnie and colleagues from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute report that, between 1995 and 2003, the use of implantable card...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

...vered that adult neural stem cells, which exist in the brain throughout life, are not a single, homogeneo...ng rise to specific types of neurons. The finding, the team says, significantly shifts the perspective on how these cells could be used to develop cell-bas...

Aboriginal People Less Likely to Use Methadone Therapy

... non-Aboriginal people to use methadone throughout the follow-up period. Previous studies have shown el... heroin. Methadone therapy is recognized as one of the most effective options for treating heroin addiction....

France Steps Up Vigilance After Bird Flu Outbreak

...nce on Thursday after tests on three dead swans in the northeast confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which can be fatal to humans. "France is not threatened by a bird flu pa...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...gnorance, thanks mainly to sceptics who challenged the sometimes-sketchy evidence and fossil-fuel lobbyis...y number of individuals -- "climate scientists and the granola-and-sandals brigade," says US historian Spencer Weart -- took notice of the idea that unbrid...

Low Income Family Adolescents Suffer Migraine

Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva Uni...ealthier households. The findings, published in the July 3rd issue of Neurology, suggest that factors associated with low socioeconomic statusstress, po...

Wordlist for Allergies to Help Cross-border Travellers

...are ingredients on food labels and packagings, say the compilers, from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Most European languages are covered, along with Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, B...

New Clues About Multiple Sclerosis

...immune systems, according to a study published in the July 3, 2007, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. For the study, researchers compared levels o...

Skin Cancer can Be Triggered by P53 Mutation

...ators of SCC development, providing insights into the development of this potentially lethal disease. ...CC) is a form of nonmelanoma skin cancer, which is the most common type of human malignancy with over 1 million new cases in the USA each year. Mutations...

Pre-packed Sandwiches Saltier Than Crisps

...ly 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 and found that ...

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