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Meditation associated with structural changes in brain

...ocuses on "mindfulness," a specific, nonjudgmental awareness of sensations, feelings and state of mind. They averaged nine years of mediation experience and practiced about six hours per week. For comparison, 15 people with no experience of meditation or yoga were enrolled as controls. Using standard MRI to...

UK sperm donor crisis

...harply after 2000, almost certainly due to growing awareness that changes in the law would be removing the right to anonymity. The fall in applications, leading to a significant decline in the numbers recruited, has prompted researchers from the Newcastle Fertility Centre at LIFE to call for urgent action to ...

HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate

...mic status, social and political alienation, lower awareness of HIV/AIDS and, for some, the need to turn to substance use and sex work to fill the perceived void ?all contributing factors that can lead to increased vulnerability to HIV infection. Although homosexual/bisexual men continue to be the groups mo...

World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says

...l implications of anti-aging technologies, with an awareness of the potential costs and challenges in addition to the benefits. "What we've tended to do historically with medical advances is to take the reasonable position that we should implement everything that comes along," Tuljapurkar said. "However, we a...

Bringing the zoos to the zebras

...n the same project in 2002. By expanding the their awareness of conservation issues in the wild and enabling th...ration with zoo personnel in the effort to improve awareness and management of life on Earth." As part of WildCare Institute's involvement in Samburu, zoo educa...

First SCID gene chip to be introduced at Academy meeting on immunodeficiencies

...f people in the U.S. and around the world. Public awareness of the disorder increased with the release of the film "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" starring John Travolta as a child stricken with Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID) who lived in a plastic enclosure until his death. Exciting New Breakt...

Flu not the only germ threat this time of year

...aid. "We don't even have that for RSV. The lack of awareness is a big problem. It costs a great deal of money to develop a vaccine, but there's not much of a demand for a vaccine against an illness that a lot of people haven't even heard of. "A lot of cases that people think are from flu aren't really the flu...

Report finds cruise industry is protecting the precious places it visits

...ation among a broad range of stakeholders to raise awareness and develop cooperative programs, tours and initiatives; contribute to sustainability through local training and capacity building; and help organize local communities to capture revenue from increased tourism, through local handicrafts, community-ow...

Exotic crab poised for widespread UK invasion

...ly stage. Low cost options could include a public awareness campaign where anglers and other users of rivers and the coastline are encouraged to report sightings of crabs. Measures which are currently used to monitor fish in our rivers, such as the electrical fish counters, could also be adapted to include m...

One in 14 men having a heart attack drive themselves to hospital

...ptember 2005, also identified the need for greater awareness by healthcare staff of the risks women face. It reported that it took 54 minutes longer for women to be admitted to coronary care units than men. Women also waited longer to be assessed and treated with aspirin and to receive reperfusion therapy, wh...

Illegal trade is propelling rare turtle toward extinction, new report

...ll in high demand. "We hope that by increasing awareness and enforcement capacity of these agencies, poachers will find it increasingly difficult to smuggle out any of the turtles that remain on Roti Island," said Chris Shepherd from TRAFFIC Southeast Asia and the co-author of the report. In 2000, the IUC...

Study may help slay 'Yellow Monster'

...se," she said, noting that the work has raised her awareness about mine safety, tribal issues and reclamation efforts. "When we first heard of the yellow monster, it was scary and not much was understood until the research began and it was passed on to the people through booklets and talks at the chapter hous...

Widespread elephant slaughter discovered in Chad

...ds in late September. They hope to raise funds and awareness to control poaching in coming years with aerial patrols as well as to significantly increase ground security and information gathering. ...

Virtual realities against pain

...sual field (due to the video helmet) and a loss of awareness of the activities of the medical practitioner, as well as a loss of control, leading to an increase in anxiety and pain; other patients see it as positive that they cannot see and perceive what the medical practitioner is doing. We can conclude th...

Fish virus in Northeast spreading to other fish species

...s on the lakes in summer, as well as the increased awareness since reports of mortalities earlier in the season. Also, recent storms and heavy winds may have washed up more fish from deeper waters. Groocock added that while more species of fish are dying, absolute numbers of fish mortalities do not appear to b...

Beekeepers work hard for the honey, despite changing tupelo forest

...nows how hard it is to produce honey. We want more awareness of the social context of beekeeping and how environmental change and sociopolitical and economic factors play out to influence the use and access to tupelo forest." Some beekeepers say that every year they seem to be getting less honey for their ef...

Lost in thought: Brain research

...els of the mind reject this notion, proposing that awareness is dependent on the mediation of areas involved in...ction as a critical element that allows perceptual awareness of the outside world. Rather, the self-related areas of the prefrontal cortex appear to be engaged s...

A cleaner, greener rice industry

...s. The launch of AEY 2006 aims to raise people's awareness of the region's rich biodiversity, and strengthen ...hree years with the aim of promoting environmental awareness at all levels of society, highlighting ASEAN's environmental achievements, and strengthening partner...

Renewed dolphin slaughter prompts new campaign

...hed a campaign to end the practices through public awareness and by appealing to the government of Japan to put...mmediate goals of the campaign are to raise public awareness of the dolphin drive hunts , to boost measurable support through the group's website petition ( www....

Climate experts search for answers in the oceans

...ect Manager. "ESA is making a difference to public awareness of climate change by helping us to better understand the sea surface temperature story." Phytoplankton, microscopic marine plants that drift on or near the surface of the sea, absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and convert ...

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