Earwax: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Aug. 29, 2008 -- The body is a miraculous mechanism. Consider the once-lowlyearwax. People used to try to remove it. Now, we now know that earwax has a jobto do. Think of it kind of ...
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Aug. 29, 2008 -- The body is a miraculous mechanism. Consider the once-lowlyearwax. People used to try to remove it. Now, we now know that earwax has a jobto do. Think of it kind of ...
Dalai Lama’s Exhaustion: FAQ
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Dalai Lama's Exhaustion: FAQAre You Exhausted Too, or Just Tired?By Miranda HittiWebMD Health NewsReviewed By Michael W. Smith, MDAug. 28, 2008 — The Dalai Lama is in hospital in Mumbai, India with "abdominal discomfort ... and there is nocause for concern,"燫euters reports, quoting a hospital spokesman who called ...
Schools Selling Junk Food to Teens
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Schools Selling Junk Food to TeensMore Than 1 in 3 High Schools Push Junk FoodBy Daniel J. DeNoonWebMD Health NewsReviewed By Louise Chang, MDAug. 28, 2008 — Where do teens get junk food? In more than a third of U.S. high schools, the CDC reports. ...
Boy has shoulder made from elbow
Saturday, August 30th, 2008A teenage cancer patient has undergone successful surgery to rebuild his shoulder using his elbow.Tom Lemm, 15, from Pontefract, had his left arm amputated by surgeons at Leeds General Hospital because of a tumour at the top of the limb.Doctors used tissue and muscle from his unaffected elbow to create ...
ImClone updates data from lung cancer trial
Saturday, August 30th, 2008BOSTON (Reuters) - ImClone Systems Inc said> In the 676-patient trial, known as BMS-099, patients taking Erbitux in combination with the therapies taxane and carboplatin had average overall survival of 9.7 months, compared with 8.4 months for patients taking chemotherapy alone. ...
Flu shot does not cut risk of death in elderly
Saturday, August 30th, 2008NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While influenza vaccination does provide protection against catching the flu, it does not have a major impact> In prior studies, an impressive 50 percent reduction in death from any cause had been noted in elderly people who got ...
Trans fats linked to pre-cancerous colon growths
Saturday, August 30th, 2008NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A high intake of trans fats could increase colon cancer risk, according to new research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. People who ate the most trans fatty acids were more likely to have pre-cancerous growths or ...
Weight-loss surgery won’t “cure” sleep apnea
Saturday, August 30th, 2008By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In people who are obese, weight-loss surgery will likely lead to an improvement in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) but it won't eliminate the nighttime breathing disorder. Many patients will have residual OSA> ...
Benefit of pelvic exercises on urine leaks wanes
Saturday, August 30th, 2008NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In pregnant women, pelvic floor muscle training for bladder-control problems, though beneficial initially, is ineffective over the long term, research shows. Stress-related urinary incontinence "is a risk factor for long-term leakage but not necessarily enough to require surgery," ...
Michael Jackson turns 50, shadow of a superstar
Saturday, August 30th, 2008By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Michael Jackson turned 50> Unlike Madonna's 50th birthday bash and launch of another world tour earlier this month, the singer who wishes he was Peter Pan appears to have no special celebrations ...
Breakthrough could help combat superbugs
Saturday, August 30th, 2008In a paper published today in the premier journal Science, the researchers describe for the first time the mechanism of a bacterial pressure-release valve or channel - which helps safeguard bacteria.The findings of the two teams from the University of Aberdeen, led by Professor Ian Booth, and the University of ...
Scientists create DNA tubes with programmable sizes for nanoscale manufacturing
Saturday, August 30th, 2008The molecular tubes are composed of wound-up strands of DNA. DNA has been considered an ideal construction material for self-assembling molecular structures and devices because two complementary DNA strands can automatically recognize and bind with each other. DNA has been used to form rigid building blocks, known as tiles, and ...
No more big stink: scent lures mosquitoes, but humans can’t smell it
Saturday, August 30th, 2008The synthetic mixture, containing compounds trimethylamine and nonanal in low doses, is just as enticing to Culex mosquitoes as the current attractants, Leal said, but this one is odorless to humans.The research, published in the current edition of the Public Library of Science Journal or PLOS One, could play a ...
Americans show little tolerance for mental illness despite growing belief in genetic cause
Saturday, August 30th, 2008The study published online in the journal Social Science and Medicine uses a 2007 replication of the 1996 General Social Survey Mental Health Module to explore trends in public beliefs about mental illness in America, focusing in particular on public support for genetic arguments. Prior medical-sociology studies reveal that ...
