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Yawning Actually Helps You Keep Awake

...nt months observing 44 students, investigating why they yawned and what was the outcome of yawning. They found that the physical mechanism of yawning cooled the brain, and made it function more efficiently. According to our hypothesis, rather than promoting sleep, yawning should antagonise sleep. We ...

Boeing Unveils 'green' Dreamliner Passenger Jet

... their performance objectives, but if it does what they say, it's revolutionary, both in terms of the plan...t the different strategies of Boeing and Airbus as they seek to achieve the same objective -- cheaper air travel. In response to Boeing's Dreamliner, Airbus...

FDA Extends GRAS Approval Listex to All Food Products

...y are extremely specific in regard to the bacteria they recognize. The LISTEX(TM) bacteriophages target only Listeria bacteria (leaving desirable bacteria in place), and are easy to apply in production processes. In October 2006 the FDA had already proclaimed GRAS for LISTEX(TM) against Listeria in chee...

Too Much of Videogames Hampers Study Time in Children

...id spend less time reading and doing homework. But they didn't spend less time interacting with their parents or their friends, nor did they spend less time in sports or active leisure activities," NewScientist.com quoted Hope Cummings, one ...

Chilean Lake Disappears, Thanks to Global Warming

...r flying over the lake on Tuesday, scientists said they were able to draw preliminary conclusions that point to climate change as the leading culprit for the lake's disappearance. They suggested the melting of nearby glaciers raised the lake's level to the point where the increased water pressure caused...

Medicaid Data Analysis

...tance abuse services may be missing their mark if they are limited to community settings, such as communi... We need to provide treatment to people wherever they appear in the treatment system instead of increasing treatment in one settingsuch as the community-b...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

...ommittee, "Gastric cancer is a major killer and if they are able to bring together different expertise, it... at cancer-causing genes. With enough information, they could develop personalised treatment plans for different patients with different genes, thereby incr...

Chemical Injections for Fat Removal

...r, the Georgetown researchers describe a mechanism they found by which stress activates weight gain in mice, and they say this pathway − which they were able to manipulate − may explain why people who are c...

Harnessing Immune System Power Heralds Next Era of Cancer Treatment

...roughout the body and attack cancerous tissues, if they are properly trained. Led by McMaster Universi...in the laboratory, and infused into patients where they will trigger other immune cells to seek out and destroy cancer. "Tumours avoid immune attack by co...

Smashing Times for Stressed Spaniards

...he eight had to undertake a series of tests before they made the final cut, the initial 1,000 first whittled down to 12 finalists. First, they had their pulse taken then it was on to a questionnaire to determine their anxiety level. By test ...

Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

...ors to shrink. According to the researchers, since they didnt achieve their primary endpoints, these vacci...oxic to tumors, such as radiation or chemotherapy, they are less capable of measuring the more subtle systemic effects of immune response, Schlom said. Wh...

In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash

...c potions, he often sells them to other players so they can take a shortcut to virtually enhanced reputati...dities to survive in the online fantasy world, but they want them anyway for bragging rights. "It's about vanity, just to show off," Zhao said. The vani...

Nutrition Education Has Proved to Be Futile

...ion education. "It's true, it didn't change what they actually eat. But the program really made a difference in how kids were feeling about fruits and vegetables. They really had a more positive attitude toward fruits and vegetables," said Dr. Mike Prelip, a UCLA researcher who headed the evaluation te...

Patients Find Healthy Vein in Old Austrian Mine

...lp what ails them. After a bumpy 20-minute ride, they arrive in one of four stations at the "Heilstollen...tropics" while never leaving Europe. Once there, they undress, lie down on camping beds and take a cure that has drawn millions of people worldwide to the...

Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

...g epilepsy patients without psychiatric disease,'' they said. Epilepsy occurs when clusters of nerve cells in the brain signal abnormally, causing strange sensations, behavior, convulsions, muscle spasms and seizures. About 50 million people worldwide suffer from the condition, with roughly 75 new cases ...

Survey Finds Wide HIV Ignorance in the UK

...18 to 24 in the UK are so ignorant about HIV, that they believe that the virus has a cure, according to a ...hat condoms actually initiate the growth of HIV as they have holes that let HIV in. More than one in ten young people believed that kissing spreads the gr...

Smokeless Tobacco Promotion

...at if tobacco companies are allowed to market snus they will undoubtedly use the opportunity to promote tobacco as well. Snus enthusiasts in the public health community, say Chapman and Freedman, focus on snus potential to take people away from smoking. However transnational tobacco companies are alread...

A Drug That Helps Cut Alcohol Craving

...bserved that people who received the drug whenever they felt the desire to imbibe reported fewer heavy dri...of the reduction in drinking may have been because they didnt feel so good, rather than because the drug just took away an urge to drink, alcohol researcher...

Reduction in Antidepressant Leads to Suicidal Risks

... practice, whether this is desirable is uncertain, they conclude. There is an urgent need for better data on the efficacy and safety of antidepressants to guide pediatric practice....

Anti-depressants Do Not Increase the Overall Risk of Most Birth Defects

...ase in the risk of certain rare birth defects but they are different birth defects. The studies show ho...toring the effects of these medications as soon as they reach consumers, and keep monitoring for as long as it takes to get good data on risks to mothers an...

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