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...r careers and kids well. "Christina's seen women with great careers, like Gwen Stefani, also raise great...lled the pregnancy rumours. Aguilera is pregnant with hubby Jordan Bratman's child, and the reports came out when the couple visited New York's Maternal F...Chilean Lake Disappears, Thanks to Global Warming
...hen to the sea, said Andres Rivera, a glaciologist with Chile's Centre of Scientific Studies. Rivera flew on Monday in a navy airplane to take hundreds of photographs of the site, which is some 2,000km (1,250 miles) south of the capital, Santiago. 'On one side of the Bernardo glacier one can see a la......re community-based, a significant number of people with co-occurring disorders never appear in these setti...y services goes down, as compared to beneficiaries with just one disorder. This pattern was clear both for persons with severe and less severe mental diso...Chronic Insomnia can Lead to Anxiety Disorders and Depression
...ithout chronic insomnia in both surveys, the group with chronic insomnia had increased associations to having developed anxiety disorders and depression. "Chronic insomnia is a state marker of both anxiety disorder and depression," Neckelmann said. "From a clinical point of view, these results imply ...Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore
...sion of the actual cause of gastric cancer, people with family history of gastric cancer, high consumption...ociety says. Each year, 600 people are diagnosed with it and 400 die from it. But these numbers could soon be reduced if the Singapore Gastric Cancer Co...Former US Vice President Al Gores Son Continues to Be Dogged by Drug Abuse Problem.
...is preparing himself to electrify the entire world with a 24-hour musical spectacular, the son has a run-in with the law. He is hoping to arouse the conscience of the people on the burgeoning climate crisis, bu...Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes
...to escape the fury of dengue, generally associated with poorer tropical countries. The disease had kille...ain of dengue that causes more people to come down with the illness....Chemical Injections for Fat Removal
...astic surgery and treatment of diseases associated with human obesity. Investigators say these findings ...of stress-mediated fat gain may have nothing to do with the brain, and is actually just a physiological response of their fat tissue. And perhaps the most...Harnessing Immune System Power Heralds Next Era of Cancer Treatment
...a new Cancer Immunotherapy Program, being launched with 3.5 million dollars in funding from the Terry Fox ...f the experimental therapies can be examined along with the development of the science involved. "By bringing these leaders together, we will be able to ...Combination of Bronchoscopic Techniques is Very Effective for Lung Lesions
...romise patients safety. Multimodality diagnosis with the joint use of EBUS with ENB has pushed the diagnostic yield of flexible bronchoscopic procedures closer to the sensitivity o...Researchers Reveal Why Eyes See Things Changing Colour
...e presence of multiple classes of cone cells, each with a different spectral sensitivity, which gives people the ability to discriminate colours....Stem Cells from Human Fat Tissue to Hunt for and Kill Cancerous Tumours
...chymal stem cells, then 5-FC in nude mice, animals with an inhibited immune system, engrafted with human colon cancer. The study found that tumour growth was inhibited by up to 68.5 percent in the ...Smashing Times for Stressed Spaniards
...lan the NH Hoteles chain hatched to kill two birds with one stone: Lay the groundwork for extensive renova..." explained Eduardo Aldan, a Spanish actor charged with selecting the edgy eight for the demolition job on Madrid's central Alcala boulevard. There were a...Dark Chocolate Possible Medicine for Blood Pressure
...30 calories a day of dark chocolate was associated with a lowering of blood pressure in healthy subjects w... and reap its health benefits. Forty-four people with raised blood pressure were put into two groups. One ate six grams of dark chocolate daily, the other...Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials
...r antigens and delivered back to the patient along with additional proteins that facilitate immune activation; and vector-based, where an engineered virus, or vector, is used to introduce cancer proteins and other molecules to stimulate the immune system. Both approaches are designed to rile the patients ...In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash
... online games in his dormitory but more often goes with friends to Internet cafes, and says the only tools...ay to so-called "gold-farming factories". China, with its cheap labour and low operational costs, has become a hub of such gold farms that export the onli...Gene Variation Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer
...p explain how heavy smoking, for example, combines with a genetic predisposition to create a besieged envi...evious studies have shown that diseases associated with lung damage, such as tuberculosis and asthma, increase the risk of developing lung cancer. Likewis...Nutrition Education Has Proved to Be Futile
...t the forces that cause obesity are "hard to fight with just a program in school. "Federal nutrition progr...-income neighborhoods have fewer good supermarkets with fresh produce. Meanwhile, it's harder for children to exercise on their own. Parks often aren't sa...Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks
People diagnosed with epilepsy are five times more likely than their pee...mmit suicide. The results showed that in a patient with a history of psychiatric disease there was a 29-fold increase in risk of suicide (OR 29.2, 95% CI 16...Variation in Genes Related to Inflammation Increase Lung Cancer Risk
...n (IL) 1A and 1B were found frequently in patients with lung cancer and especially among heavy smokers. The genes strong effect on heavy smokers suggested that the inflammatory response is important in modulating the damage caused by tobacco smoke. The effect was most profound in polymorphisms in IL1...