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Eco-architecture Takes Root in Thailand, but Growth is Slow

...architecture, he is ahead of his time in Thailand, where despite abundant sunshine and a construction boom, talk of solar power and energy-efficient building design is largely rhetoric rather then reality. But a few "green" projects are taking root. When Soontorn built his first eco-home 15 years ago, ...

Parental Match-making Blossoms in a Beijing Park

... is a unique form of match-making in modern China, where desperate fathers and mothers struggle to find com... say, 'I have found this man'. I will not tell her where I found him."...

Armani to Launch First Spa in Tokyo

...are line, the company said . "I dream of a place where the body and the being are revitalised together in a nurturing and liberating experience," Giorgio Armani wrote in a statement. Japan is dotted by natural hot springs, making bathing a popular form of relaxation....

Dotted All Over? - Count Yourself Lucky

... cells divide, the telomeres shorten until a point where the chromosomes become unstable. The cell may then stop dividing or die. The scientists compared the twins and found that participants with high numbers of moles - more than 100 - had longer telomeres than those with fewer than 25 moles.The diff...

Indian Luxury Hotel Boss Calls for Major City Clean-up

...eroi Udaivilas is a lakeside palace in the desert, where standard rooms cost more than 300 dollars a night. It boasts private swimming pools, luxury spas and high-end dining. Oberoi said sustained economic growth in India above nine percent and a massive inflow of foreign investment has nevertheless allo...

Screening for Behavioral Health

...d other major illnesses, says Horgan. Detection is where treatment really starts....

Stem Cells Research in Parkinsons Disease

...ciplinary research since 1914. Its online edition, where Dr. Sanbergs commentary appears this week, receives nearly 6 million e-visitor hits per month. Content includes research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biologi...

Scientists Identified Obesity Control Switch

...Brown fat is present in mice and in human infants, where it keeps them warm by dissipating food energy as heat, instead of storing it as white fat," said Spiegelman, senior author of the paper. "Human adults don't have much brown fat, but there is some, and from a therapeutic perspective the question is wh...

Scientists Identify "master Switch" for Brown Fat in Mice

...Brown fat is present in mice and in human infants, where it keeps them warm by dissipating food energy as heat, instead of storing it as white fat," said Dr. Spiegelman, senior author of the paper published in the journal Cell Metabolism. "Human adults don't have much brown fat, but there is some, and fr...

Viagra Improves Heart Function, Finds Study

... as it does in the case of pulmonary hypertension, where lung arteries constrict and put a strain on the right ventricle of the heart. Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors allow the arteries to relax so that blood can flow more easily. The researchers studied human hearts and showed that phosphodiester...

High Blood Pressure Linked to Decreased Pain Perception in Heart Patients

...ose possible myocardial ischemia (MI), a condition where oxygenated blood is prevented from reaching the heart because an artery has become blocked or constricted. Generally, exercise should produce pain in these situations, but some patients experience "silence" cases of MI in which no pain is felt, ac...

Cell Toxin Inhibits Survival Protein in Cancer Cells

...in some interesting ways. It creates a situation where the cell becomes dependent upon the protein, he said. Cancers can become addicted to certain proteins, so just by over expressing the protein the cell changes so that it cant live without that protein. The next step in this research is to use the a...

Physios Find It Difficult to Find Job in NHS

...a complete scandal that we have now got a position where it looks as if a sizeable number of the 2007 graduates won't be able to get in." A spokesman for the Department of Health admitted that there had been a shortfall of jobs. HE said Physiotherapists have an increasingly important role in providing c...

New Lifeline Express Train Inaugurated

...000 persons in remote and rural interiors of India where medical facilities are almost non-existent. The Minister said that Lifeline Express, with its successful mission to provide medical facilities to the poor people of far-flung areas, has now been included in the school syllabus of the Central Board ...

Survey Shows Emergency Services Of British Hospitals Doing A Good Job

...e audit also shows the growing use of angioplasty, where a small balloon at the tip of a catheter tube is inserted via an artery and guided to the blocked heart artery. It leaves in place a stent - which pushes back the fatty deposits in the artery. In 2006-07, this was the main or first treatment for 3,1...

Organic Farming can Feed the World, U-M Study Shows

... is especially good news for developing countries, where its sometimes impossible to deliver food from outs...ief culprit in creating dead zoneslow oxygen areas where marine life cannot survive. Proponents of organic farming argue that conventional farming also cau...

Canadian Cancer Society Calls for Ban on Asbestos

...rted, virtually all of it to developing countries, where it is used to make cheap building materials. Asian countries such as India, Indonesia and Thailand, are the major export markets for Canadian asbestos. Despite the well-known health risks, the federal government has been a strong backer of asbestos...

Navigating Healthcare

...ed in patient seeking treatment in other countries where the costs are much cheaper. America's medical tourists save thousands of dollars by heading overseas for their health care. Medical tourism is alive and well, experts say, with health care consumers scanning the globe for the best deals in everythi...

Blunder Leaves Smoking Ban Up in Smoke in Stoke

...ntion of prosecuting people in the early days. But where people deliberately flout the ban we can take action retrospectively," he warned. But there is no stopping some rebellious smokers. Dax Robateau, owner of the Smithfield pub, has erected a "Welcome to Smoke-on-Trent" sign. "We were all ready fo...

Food Fortification With Folic Acid Does The Trick

...o most common neural tube defects. The provinces where the rates of neural tube defects were highest befo...nce was most noticeable in the Atlantic Provinces, where neural-tube defects were historically highest. "After full implementation, geographical differenc...

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