Food Colour in Sausages, Burgers Could Trigger Cancer
... Agency on July 10, to establish the extent of the use of the dye in Britain. Many large brands have re... laws, limited amounts of Red 2G are permitted for use only in certain types of breakfast sausages and burger meat. The EFSA experts said Red 2G was conv...MIT's Green Nano-factories to Produce Eco-friendly Batteries
...rials for detecting cancer, and semiconductors for use in modern electrical devices. Viruses are normally associated with causing human diseases like AIDS, polio, and influenza, and can lead to computer system crashes and data loss, but researcher Angela Belcher is exploiting a virus's ability to do go...Brits Need to Change Lifestyle to Have a Greener Future: Report
...of the quotas will go up. But every time consumers use fossil fuels, say by filling their cars up with pe...tric, battery-operated cars would quickly overtake use of the internal combustion engine. Households would be forced to invest in ways to make their homes ...Replacement Drivers Lend a Helping Hand to the Drunk and Stranded in Korea
...ks well past midnight, wasting time that you could use to get more orders. But when his wife comes out and says two words, Wake up! and I am not making this up he comes right around. Some orders take Hur outside Seoul to places where there is no public transportation or where it has stopped running f...FDA Approve S Robotic Device to Help Stroke Patients
...chnology (M.I.T).) And the more they are able to use the arm, the more improvement they begin to see, M... means that movement therapy may help the brain to use other, nearby neurons or even neurons in the opposite brain hemisphere to complete a movement. T...Now, 'virtual' Mouse Brains Available on the Net
...n the web http: tinyurl.com/3cgj6z. Its goal is to use mouse brains as surrogates for human brains to study the connections between genes and brain structure. Investigators from all over the world are sending their models to Duke, where the 3-D images are acquired in a standardized fashion and made av...Two In One Drug For Smokers And Drinkers
...varenicline and such drugs may find more immediate use in treating diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's....Ice Bath by Sports Star Questioned
... Australian study found. This study challenges the use of ice-water immersion in athletes, the researchers write. Ice-water immersion offers no benefit for pain, swelling, isometric strength and function, and in fact may make more athletes sore the next day. In fact it was found that there was no diff...Hormone Inhibitor in Prostate Cancer Treatment
...ll men with prostate cancer that has spread, is to use chemical suppressants or surgery to inhibit testicular synthesis of male hormones. However, this treatment does not block the production of male hormones elsewhere in the body. Abiraterone, a drug that is taken orally, inhibits an enzyme called CYP......guidelines were introduced to encourage doctors to use thiazides but the level of their use remained low. This led the government to impose the new reimbursement rule, with the aim of reducing...Electronic Health Records Shows No Improvement in Quality of Outpatient Care
...ons to prescribe. Past studies have assessed the use of electronic health records in hospitals, where patients are acutely ill and quality issues can have life-threatening consequences. But relatively little research has examined the performance of electronic health records in outpatient settings, Staf...New Cancer Therapy in Clinical Trial
...going investigation in over 30 clinical trials for use against a wide range of human cancers, including melanoma, prostate, ovarian, pancreatic, lung cancers, and others. Like c-Myc, sorafenib appears to work through a mechanism that involves repression of TRAIL-induced expression of Mcl-1 and cIAP2. ...Eco-architecture Takes Root in Thailand, but Growth is Slow
...pleted by 2011 in the resort town of Pattaya, will use solar panels to power its shopping centre, while the momentum of the lifts will also produce electricity. -- Eco initiatives eventually pay for themselves -- Like Soontorn's house, the air conditioning will heat the water, and 80 percent of the w...Study Confirms No HRT Benefit for Older Women
... may only apply to older women who do not normally use HRT. In 1999, another trial (WISDOM) began to as...es for a few years, she writes. However, long term use of hormone replacement therapy to prevent chronic disease is no longer recommended as the available ...Polyclinics Could Threaten NHS Services, Warns BMA
...n concentrated at local hospitals to make the best use of expensive resources and allow for round-the-clock care. If this latest review is to succeed it must build on the best aspects of a service and not introduce damaging fragmentation or waste money on superficial initiatives that are designed to a...Screening for Behavioral Health
...buse is one important strategy that physicians can use to identify problems and get patients into treatme...hysicians to screen for mental health or substance use problems. By 2003, only thirty-four percent of health insurance products had any behavioral health s...Contamination of the Environment by Antibiotics Fed to Livestock
...ic food production, since regulations prohibit the use of synthetic fertilizers. According to the USDA, producers must manage animal materials in a manner that does not contribute to contamination of crops by residues of prohibited substances, which includes antibiotics. However, manures containing antib...Analysis of Hemoglobin Level Control in Dialysis Patients
...lly timely because of two ongoing debates over the use of ESAs to control anemia in CKD. "One is an unres...ce higher (more normal) hemoglobin levels, and the use of generous doses of ESAs, in patients with kidney disease," Dr. Will explains. (A separate debate c......ht changes in sugar composition. If we are able to use this unique sugar to excite the immune system, it may help the human body fight infection. Previously, everyone thought that these key cells of the immune system weren't picky and would eat anything that looked foreign, adds Fink, who is also an MI...... the issue covers the entire scope of milk thistle use in cancer treatment, as well as in fighting other ...ting on such subjects as: Recent advances in the use of milk thistle Clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of milk thistle. The molecular...