2010 study posted for filing Contact: Jessica Jonap Jessica@JonapPR.com 305-864-5521 Kaplan Publishing Book investigates leading scientific hypotheses to explain mysterious increase NEW YORK–The incidence of type 1 diabetes is now twice as high among children as it was in the… Read More ›
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74th Health Research Report 19 JAN 2010 – Reconstruction
In this Issue: 1. AP IMPACT: Toxic metal in kids’ jewelry from China 2. Incidence of type 1 diabetes doubles in 20 years, continues rising at 3 percent per year — but why? 3. STUDY REVEALS HOW ONE FORM… Read More ›
Iraq sticks to Russia arms contracts: dismissed reports that his country has cancelled all $4.2bln dollars worth of its arms contracts with Russia
Nov 10, 2012 21:28 Moscow Time © Flickr.com/The U.S. Army/cc-by Iraqi Defence Minister Saadun al-Dulaimi has dismissed reports that his country has cancelled all $4.2bln dollars worth of its arms contracts with Russia, signed in Moscow in October during a… Read More ›
FBI probe of Petraeus triggered by e-mail threats from biographer to another woman
By Sari Horwitz and Greg Miller, Updated: Saturday, November 10, 2:05 PM The collapse of the impressive career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening e-mails to… Read More ›
Compound in grapes, red wine could be key to fighting prostate cancer
Contact: Christian Basi BasiC@missouri.edu 573-882-4430 University of Missouri-Columbia MU researcher finds that prostate tumor cells are more susceptible to treatment after being exposed to resveratrol, a compound found in grape skins and red wine :Nicholl has discovered that a compound… Read More ›
Court to consider whether soldiers have ‘right to life’
Britain’s highest court is to debate whether soldiers in battle are entitled to the right to life under human rights legislation. Private Phillip Hewett died with 2 other soldiers when their armoured Land-Rover vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb…. Read More ›
Petraeus’ Mistress Allegedly tried to access classified information
Petraeus’ Mistress Allegedly Tried To Hack Into His Email, FBI Investigating General Petraeus and Broadwell Yesterday, four-star general David Petraeus resigned from his position as director of the CIA, citing a serious indiscretion, “After being married for over 37 years,… Read More ›
Actor Gerard Depardieu joins French tax exiles in Belgium
President Hollande blamed for driving out a ‘national treasure’ with planned 75 per cent top tax rate LAST UPDATED AT 16:06 ON Fri 9 Nov 2012 FRENCH President Francois Hollande is under fire after reports that his policy … Read More ›
Japanese athletes won’t perform in China: Chinese authorities refused to register them
Nov 10, 2012 20:18 Moscow Time © Flickr.com/xioubin low/cc-by-sa 3.0 China has announced that Japanese runners will not take part in the traditional annual marathon in Beijing this year. About 30,000 Japanese runners have already asked via the Web for… Read More ›
Why David Petraeus’s Gmail account is a national security issue: “enormous value to foreign hackers”
Posted by Max Fisher on November 10, 2012 at 11:14 am CIA Director David Petraeus speaks during a high-level meeting in the White House Situation Room. (Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images) The beginning of the end came for… Read More ›
China cancels out on tourism talks
Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 Kyodo An annual ministerial meeting on tourism between Japan, China and South Korea scheduled for late November has been postponed indefinitely amid the Senkaku territorial dispute, officials said. Japan was to host this year’s version… Read More ›
Florida Secretary of State: long lines show ‘people liked the voting hours’
By Samantha Kimmey Friday, November 9, 2012 19:55 EST Despite early voting lines reportedly up to six hours long, Florida’s Republican Secretary of State would not apologize for shortening the state’s early voting period from 14 to eight days, reported… Read More ›
Petraeus quits just DAYS before he was due to testify at Benghazi hearings as FBI probes ‘massive national security threat’
Gen David Petraeus, who held CIA director post for only 14 months, dramatically announced resignation Friday Had been scheduled to testify next week in closed-door hearing about September 11 attack of U.S. Consulate in Libya Will no longer testify as… Read More ›
U.K. probing money-laundering claims even as New Delhi remains ‘indifferent’
Hasan Suroor “We received the data and we are studying it,” says HMRC Even as the Indian government faced criticism for not taking action over claims of black money allegedly held by Indians in HSBC’s branch in Geneva, the British… Read More ›
HSBC investigation: Drug dealers, gun runners and Britain’s biggest bank
Britain’s biggest bank is at the centre of a major HM Revenue and Customs investigation after it opened offshore accounts in Jersey for serious criminals living in this country, The Telegraph can disclose. The disclosures raise serious questions about HSBC’s… Read More ›
FEMA centers in New York closed due to… bad weather
Published: 09 November, 2012, 21:19 Instead of staying open to help displaced victims of the hurricane during the nor’easter that blanketed New York City in snow, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was “closed due to weather” as the storm approached…. Read More ›
Foreign air power is crucial to Mali battle plan: sources
By Tiemoko DialloPosted 2012/11/09 at 7:10 am EST BAMAKO, Nov. 9, 2012 (Reuters) — Malian troops backed by foreign air power will lead the assault to recapture Timbuktu and other northern cities from al Qaeda-linked militants, under a battle plan… Read More ›
Egypt: thousands protest in Tahrir Sq to call for Sharia law
Salafis want it to be basis of Constitution 09 November, 16:24 (ANSAmed) – CAIRO – Thousands of protesters gathered Friday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square calling for the introduction of Sharia law in Egypt. Groups of Salafis asked for it to… Read More ›
Google’s China service disrupted without explanation
By Agence France-Presse Friday, November 9, 2012 16:14 EST Google on Friday reported unexplained disruptions to its service in China. “We’ve checked and there is nothing wrong on our end,” a Google spokeswoman told AFP. An online tool that tracks… Read More ›
Lockheed CEO-in-Waiting Forced Out Over ‘Relationship’
Nov. 9, 2012 – 05:24PM | By DEFENSE NEWS Chris Kubasik had been slated to take over as CEO of Lockheed Martin. (Thomas Brown / Staff Lockheed Martin’s board of directors ousted CEO-in-waiting Christopher Kubasik on Nov. 9 following an… Read More ›
Petraeus Resigns Over Affair With Biographer
By Fred Kaplan Posted Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at 5:26 PM ET David Petraeus testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Jan. 31 Photo by Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images. The woman with whom Gen. David Petraeus was having an affair is… Read More ›
Critics question Petraeus’ timing : No longer has to testify at the Benghazi hearing
Critics question Petraeus’ timing By: Katie Glueck November 9, 2012 05:45 PM EST Gen. David Petraeus’s resignation from the CIA on Friday sparked skepticism among media pundits and journalists that the Obama administration had stalled the bombshell until after the… Read More ›
Link Found Between Child Prodigies and Autism
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study of eight child prodigies suggests a possible link between these children’s special skills and autism. Of the eight prodigies studied, three had a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders. As a group, the prodigies also… Read More ›
Central and Southern Living Might Turn You Vegetarian: You may become Allergic to meat
RELEASE UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL NOVEMBER 9, 2012 Central and Southern Living Might Turn You Vegetarian Lone star tick causes alpha-gal meat sensitivity, 32 percent higher in regional population ANAHEIM, CA. (November 9, 2012) – Meat lovers living in the central… Read More ›
Going with Your Gut: Decisions based on instinct have surprisingly positive outcomes
Thursday, November 8, 2012 Decisions based on instinct have surprisingly positive outcomes, TAU researcher finds Decision-making is an inevitable part of the human experience, and one of the most mysterious. For centuries, scientists have studied how we go about the… Read More ›
Carbon dioxide – our salvation from a future ice age: ” We are probably entering a new ice age right now. However, we’re not noticing it due to the effects of carbon dioxide”
Contact: Lars Franzén lars@gvc.gu.se 46-031-786-195-846 University of Gothenburg Carbon dioxide – our salvation from a future ice age? Mankind’s emissions of fossil carbon and the resulting increase in temperature could prove to be our salvation from the next ice age…. Read More ›
CIA Dir. Gen. Petraeus resigns: extra-marital affair as the reason
File: Bill Clark, CQ Roll Call. IAMGE: CIA Director David Petraeus testifies during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on ”World Wide Threats.” 1 hr ago By MSN News and other wires He submitted his resignation and cited an extra-marital affair… Read More ›
Gargle with sugar water to boost self control
Sugar boosts self-control, UGA study says Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 Writer: April Reese Sorrow, 706 / 542-7991, aprilr@uga.edu Athens, Ga. – To boost self-control, gargle sugar water. According to a study co-authored by University of Georgia professor of psychology Leonard… Read More ›
Activating the ‘mind’s eye’ — sounds, instead of eyesight can be alternative vision ( can actually “see” and describe objects and even identify letters and words )
Contact: Jerry Barach jerryb@savion.huji.ac.il 972-258-82904 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Nov. 7, 2012 — Common wisdom has it that if the visual cortex in the brain is deprived of visual information in early infanthood, it may never develop properly… Read More ›
Caffeine improves recognition of positive words
Contact: Jyoti Madhusoodanan jmadhusoodanan@plos.org 415-568-4545 x187 Public Library of Science 2-3 cups of coffee improve brain processing of positive, but not negative or neutral words Caffeine perks up most coffee-lovers, but a new study shows a small dose of caffeine… Read More ›
New study finds that 75 percent of patients taking popular blood-thinners are getting wrong dose
Contact: Jess C. Gomez jess.gomez@imail.org 801-718-8495 Intermountain Medical Center Millions at risk for serious problems like uncontrolled bleeding or developing blood clots SALT LAKE CITY – Cardiology researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute have found that approximately 75… Read More ›
New DNA vaccine technology poised to deliver safe and cost-effective disease protection
Contact: Richard Harth richard.harth@asu.edu Arizona State University New and increasingly sophisticated vaccines are taking aim at a broad range of disease-causing pathogens, targeting them with greater effectiveness at lower cost and with improved measures to ensure safety. To advance… Read More ›
Weizmann Institute scientists observe as humans learn to sense like a rat, with ”whiskers”
Rats use a sense that humans don’t: whisking. They move their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times a second to locate objects in their environment. Could humans acquire this sense? And if they can, what could understanding the… Read More ›
Daily doses of a new probiotic reduces ‘bad’ and total cholesterol: Lactobacillus reuteri
Abstract 11348 – Embargoed until 8 a.m. PT /11 a.m. ET November 05, 2012 This news release is featured in a news conference at 8 a.m. PT on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. Study Highlights: A new probiotic lowered LDL “bad”… Read More ›
Genetically engineered tomatoes decrease plaque build-up in mice
Abstract 11083 – Embargoed until 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET November 05, 2012 This news release is featured in a news conference at 8 a.m. PT on Monday, Nov. 5. Study Highlights: For the first time, researchers have… Read More ›
British officials will continue to provide up to £30 million worth of expert advice to India every year, even after aid to the country is cut.
UK will still send £30m of ‘expertise’ to India after aid cuts Existing schemes that have already been agreed will continue until the last of them concludes in 2015, when all UK financial aid to India will cease Photo: AFP… Read More ›
Generation Hate Attacks and Creative Islamic hackers
November 9, 2012: In late October Israeli police were ordered to stop using the Internet or plugging USB memory sticks into their PCs. All this was prompted by the recent discovery of stealthy hacker software hidden in some police… Read More ›
Russia, Italy in joint naval exercises
Nov 9, 2012 18:31 Moscow Time Photo: RIA Novosti A frigate and a naval tugboat from Russia and two frigates from Italy have successfully carried out joint counter-piracy and air defence exercises in the Ionian Sea. The mock attackers were… Read More ›
Doll’s hair at Japan shrine keeps growing
Awashima Shrine in Japan is known as the shrine of “memorial dolls”. It is a place where dolls are given as offerings. The shrine is filled with countless dolls and figures of all types. According to… Read More ›
Nanotechnology condoms could provide greater protection against HIV and Herpes
By Scott Sutherland | Geekquinox – Mon, 5 Nov, 2012 Researchers coated condoms in microscopic particles of silver — which has long been known to have disinfectant …University of Manitoba medical microbiologist Dr Xiaojian Yao, who specializes in researching… Read More ›
Greece Cancels Christmas as Austerity Measure
Greece votes to cancel Christmas, along with all other paid holidays for public servants—but European financial leaders say its austerity triage might be too little, too late. by Barbie Latza Nadeau | November 8, 2012 1:57 PM EST Just… Read More ›
RT: Greece can easily slide into Civil War
Thursday, 08 November 2012 Greece risks sliding into a civil war, unless officials in Athens follow Iceland’s example and default on the country’s loans, journalist Charlie McGrath told RT. Charlie McGrath from Wide Awake News says Greece needs to admit… Read More ›
The Penn State Scandal Faces Off 2 Mysterious Government Agents With Top Secret Clearance
Michael Kelley|Nov. 7, 2012, 4:05 PM| Two men on opposite sides of one of the biggest scandals in sports history share an air of secrecy granted by their work for the FBI. Former Penn St. president Graham Spanier was arraigned… Read More ›
Photographic evidence of men abusing boys in care homes ‘deliberately destroyed’ : North Wales paedophile scandal
8 Nov 2012 23:00 A worker at a council where two investigations were carried out into abuse says victim’s photos were ordered to be destroyed. Revelations: Sian Griffiths Channel 4 Photographs of men abusing boys in the North Wales… Read More ›
Kiwi TV host in Tory paedophile storm
Last updated 08:19 09/11/2012 A former New Zealand television host has come under fire after ambushing British Prime Minister David Cameron on live TV with a list of Tory party members he suspected of being paedophiles after a quick internet… Read More ›
Batteries not required, just plug into ear cells
16:55 08 November 2012 by Will Ferguson For the first time, an electrical device has been powered by the ear alone. The team behind the technology used a natural electrochemical gradient in cells within the inner ear of a… Read More ›
Exclusive: SEC left computers vulnerable to cyber attacks – sources
By Sarah N. LynchPosted 2012/11/08 at 8:55 pm EST WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2012 (Reuters) — Staffers at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission failed to encrypt some of their computers containing highly sensitive information from stock exchanges, leaving the data… Read More ›
Japan urges China to use sea power peacefully: ” Tokyo’s own formidable armed forces are not to be underestimated “
NationalNov. 09, 2012 – 06:50AM JST( 30 ) TOKYO — Japan called on China Thursday to use its sea power peacefully, after President Hu Jintao staked a claim in Beijing for his country to become a maritime force. Tokyo said… Read More ›
Benghazi documents available to senators only today and tomorrow, when most senators are not in Washington
Benghazi documents available to senators only when they are out of town Posted By Josh RoginThursday, November 8, 2012 – 12:16 PM Share Under pressure from senators, the State Department is allowing some lawmakers to look at cables and… Read More ›
Taiwan, HK reminded to stick to One-China principle: Would be recovered by force if necessary – not to contemplate independence
Taiwan, HK reminded to stick to One-China principle Kor Kian Beng The Straits Times Publication Date : 09-11-2012 In his last major speech as Communist Party chief, Chinese President Hu Jintao yesterday issued reminders – some say warnings – to… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 