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Stray Kerala Dogs Face Keyhole Surgery to Control Birth Rate

...ry period, the dogs are released at the place from where they were caught. Dogs are kept in cells for a day before surgery and three days after surgery. The Kochi unit of the Society for Prevention of Cruelties to Animals (SPCA) is spreading this message among the masses even a year after its formal lau...

FDA Extends GRAS Approval Listex to All Food Products

...ural bacteriophages prove to be a unique solution, where increased safety does not come at the expense of product characteristics. US food processors can now benefit from LISTEX(TM), like their European counterparts." According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Listeriosis, the disease caused by Li...

Chilean Lake Disappears, Thanks to Global Warming

...arby glaciers raised the lake's level to the point where the increased water pressure caused part of a glac...can see a large hole or gap, and we believe that's where the water flowed through,' Mr Rivera said in a navy communique. 'This confirms that glaciers in th...

Medicaid Data Analysis

...use treatment. The authors set out to understand where integrated psychiatric and substance abuse services may need to be provided for Medicaid beneficiaries. They examined the location of services used by persons with mental and substance use disorders from 1999 Medicaid data obtained from the Centers f...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

... survival. National University Hospital (NUH) is where patients may get to test these cutting edge research techniques, at no cost. Says Dr Yong Wei Peng, Principal Investigator, Consultant, Cancer Institute at NUH, "We hope to bring in new drugs for patients [for whom] standard treatment has been exh...

Harnessing Immune System Power Heralds Next Era of Cancer Treatment

...ified 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 convincing the immune system that they are normal, like a wolf in sheep's clothing," said Bramson. "Our strategies are designed to teach the immu...

Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

...es generally fall into two categories: cell-based, where vaccines are created using cells from the patients...at facilitate immune activation; and vector-based, where an engineered virus, or vector, is used to introduce cancer proteins and other molecules to stimulat...

In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash

... in distress . It all takes place in cyberspace, where earning credits for online gamers who are too busy...t they earn around 1,600 yuan a month -- in a city where per capita monthly disposable income was less than 1,000 yuan in 2006. However, the government has...

Patients Find Healthy Vein in Old Austrian Mine

...on-prone areas, notably parts of the United States where the US Environmental Protection Agency website says it is "the leading cause of lung cancer among non-smokers ... (and) the second leading cause of lung cancer in America and claims about 20,000 lives annually." But Bad Gastein organisers say patie...

A Drug That Helps Cut Alcohol Craving

...wadays recognized as a chronic, recurring disorder where relapses almost inevitably occur during and after the treatment, he said. He insisted that focusing on harm reduction in the short term is often much more feasible than complete abstinence....

Anchoring Lives Aboard Warship: Nimitz

...t. A Sample: Remember to wash your hands! Any area where people live in close proximity can be colony for bacteria. Crew members' immune systems can be weakened due to change in diet, heat, and stress. If this occurs, a "normal infection" can get out of control and require antibiotics. If you see a red bum...

Macrobiotic Diet Made Courtney Love Gain 50 Pounds, Not Lose!

... Frances has her carbs in one drawer. I don't know where it is. I drink shakes and exercise my [butt] off. Isopure, no carbs two shakes and one meal: fish. Fish and broccoli really does work!" she said....

Common Environmental Chemicals Hamper Ovary Development in Foetus

...ancy, and found that the ovaries from the foetuses where the mother was grazing the sewage sludge fields contained fewer eggs and also a number of protein abnormalities. These differences could have implications for problems such as cancer in later life," Fowler said. The findings of the study were prese...

For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week

...home. Save the Children also looked at Ethiopia, where families need the equivalent of 677 pounds a week to feed themselves; Tanzania where it's 593 pounds and Burma where people need 584 pounds. Researchers found that in Bangladesh, almo...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

...nd the green tide is now rising in Washington too, where Nunez's Democratic colleagues gained control of Congress in November. The speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has pulled together a raft of different measures, being considered by 11 different congressional committees, under the ...

Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted

...ain, particularly for fish caught in Lake Ontario, where there has been a marked rise in the number of advisories recommending reduced fish consumption. Contamination levels are also worrisome in Lake Huron and many areas with unsafe-to-eat fish remain in Lake Erie and even Lake Superior, the least pollute...

Will Seven Be the Lucky Number for Las Vegas Newlyweds?

...d weddings for decades and at large glitzy resorts where nearby gamblers are sweating and shouting as they watch the dice tumble, thousands will tie the knot. "This is the busiest I've been in my 49 years in this business. This is our magical, maniacal, historical moment of love," said Charlotte Richards...

New Oncogene for Brain Cancer

...rain. The viral particles infect only glial cells, where the genes are expressed. This system allows the researchers to observe whether a gene identified in a correlation study plays an active role in tumorigenesis. It also permits the delivery and study of combinations of genes. They found that a comb...

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

...tougher new noise code took effect this week . But where there are 8,000,000 New Yorkers, can decibels really drop? The city's Department of Environmental Protection has a phone line, 311, for quality-of-life complaints. And the top source of environmental disturbance, callers say, is distracting, anno...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

...brain produce particular types of neurons based on where the stem cells are located in the embryo, studies ... young neurons that migrate to the olfactory bulb, where they mature into several distinct types of interneurons, neurons that are essential for the sense of...

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