Big Tobacco Spends Record $12 Million to Deceive Oregon Voters

Spending against cigarette tax initiative more than doubles record for Oregon ballot measures Statement of William V. Corr Executive Director, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Showing again that they will do whatever it takes to protect their pro...

Its all in the mind and the eyes: senses deceive sometimes!

With advancements in research taking giant leaps each day it is nice to find an interesting way to look at things being investigated//. A new study now points out that we feel relatively, the feelings and perceptions change with the frame of mind we have at that pint of time. An article inv...

Tobacco Legislation a Monumental Achievement, Says APHA

...ucts, our nation has finally turned the corner. "After decades of allowing tobacco companies to market their deadly products to our children and deceive consumers about the harm their products cause, our nation has finally chosen to place public health above profit. With about 443,000 deaths each year ...

Do Fad Diets Really Work?

... registered dietitian Kris Clark, Ph.D., R.D., F.A.C.S.M., Director of Sports Nutrition, The Pennsylvania State University . "Diet myths mislead and deceive women to believe a particular ingredient or diet plan will help them lose weight, when most of these are in fact incorrect and some can even be unheal...

U.S. House Takes Giant Step Toward Historic Regulation of Tobacco Products

...y other product we consume, from food to drugs to cosmetics. This allows tobacco companies to market their deadly and addictive products to children, deceive consumers about the harm their products cause, make changes to their products without disclosing them (such as manipulating nicotine levels in cigaret...

Former National Century Financial Enterprises CEO Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison, Co-owner Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Conspiracy, Fraud and Money Laundering

...rises (NCFE) executives were sentenced today for their roles in a scheme to deceive investors about the financial health of NCFE, Acting Assistant Attorney Gen...ecutives engaged in a scheme from 1995 until the collapse of the company to deceive investors and rating agencies about the financial health of NCFE and how in...

Faith Leaders Call on Iowa Members of Congress to Support Legislation to Protect Kids from Tobacco

...nregulated to protect consumers' health. This continuing lack of regulation allows the tobacco companies to market their deadly products to children, deceive consumers about the harm their products cause and resist even the most minimal steps to make their products less harmful. Last week, the House En...

Virginia Faith Leaders Call on Senators Webb & Warner to Support Legislation to Protect Kids from Tobacco

...nregulated to protect consumers' health. This continuing lack of regulation allows the tobacco companies to market their deadly products to children, deceive consumers about the harm their products cause and resist even the most minimal steps to make their products less harmful. The legislation is bein...

House Committee Vote Sets Congress on Course for Historic Regulation of Tobacco Products

...lly unregulated to protect public health. This lack of regulation allows tobacco companies to market their deadly and addictive products to children, deceive consumers about the harm their products cause, make changes to their products without disclosing them (such as manipulating nicotine levels in cigaret...

Congress Can Deliver Historic Victory for Children and America's Health By Granting FDA Authority Over Tobacco Products

...smetics and even dog food. The tobacco companies take advantage of this lack of regulation to market their deadly and addictive products to children, deceive consumers about the harm their products cause, make changes to their products without disclosing them (such as secretly increasing nicotine levels in ...

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Male fish deceive rivals about their top mate choice

When competitors are around, male Atlantic mollies try to hide their top mate choice, reveals a new study published online on July 31st in Current Biology , a Cell Press journal. They feign disinterest in females after onlookers enter the scene. What's more, after encountering a rival, the tr...

Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators

... In a deadly game of heads or tails venomous sea snakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans deceive their predators into believing they have two heads, claims research published today in Marine Ecology . The discovery, made by Dr Arne Redsted Ra...

Smell-wars between butterflies and ants

...rds. Less well known, but at least as spectacular, are the large blue butterflies of the genus Maculinea, whose larvae are adopted by ant colonies and deceive the ants into feeding them while letting their own brood starve. Jutland, and the island Ls in particular, are among the last European strongholds of ...

Living fossils have hot sex

...ere and looking pretty and sending out some odors to attract pollinators, but these cycads have a specific sexual behavior tuned to repel, attract and deceive the thrips [small flying insects] that pollinate them, says Irene Terry, research associate professor of biology at the University of Utah and princip...

Man's best friend lends insight into human evolution

...lize social cues like eye gaze and face orientation to monitor others' behavior or infer motives of other subordinate or dominant individuals, or even deceive them, when competing for food. But it turns out that chimps are not very good at drawing inferences about others' mental states in cooperative situati...

What the eye doesn't see

... took longer to be seen, and it therefore took longer for the mealworms to be eaten." This research provides the first evidence that patterns which deceive humans operate in a similar way to those in non-human predators such as birds. ...

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Neuralstem Sues StemCells, Inc. Over New Patent

...patent and that the patent is also invalid." "We are confident that their intentional withholding of highly material information and their intent to deceive the Patent Office, will result in this patent being unenforceable," concluded Garr. About Neuralstem Neuralstem's patented technology enables, for...