By Agence France-Presse Thursday, September 27, 2012 15:29 EDT Topics: housework ♦ The divorce ♦ Thomas Hansen Couples who share housework duties run a higher risk of divorce than couples where the woman does most of the chores, a Norwegian… Read More ›
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US rapidly increased electronic surveillance
Published: 27 September, 2012, 21:51 The US Justice Department has wiretapped the phones of more Americans in the last two years than the entire decade before it, and federal surveillance targeting the Internet usage of US civilians has surged wildly,… Read More ›
How toxic environmental chemical DBT affects the immune system: Dibutyltin (DBT)
2008 study posted for filing Contact: Debra Kain ddkain@ucsd.edu 619-543-6163 University of California – San Diego An international team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the University of Basel in Switzerland have issued… Read More ›
Splenda may damage gut bacteria, boost weight gain: study
2008 study posted for filing By Stephen Daniells 25-Sep-2008 – Consumption of the sweetener Splenda at doses within the US FDA’s Acceptable Daily Intake may suppress beneficial bacteria in the gut, and cause weight gain, says a new… Read More ›
Do cell phones increase brain cancer risk? “long-term cell phone use is “more dangerous to health than smoking cigarettes.” “
2008 study posted for filing Contact: Maureen Hunter m.hunter@elsevier.com 215-239-3671 Elsevier Editorial in Surgical Neurology urges scientists to clarify possible risks Philadelphia, 20 October 2008 – Major research initiatives are needed immediately to assess the possibility that using cellular phones… Read More ›
10 Things the Food Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
2008 study posted for filing By Adam Voiland Adam Voiland Two nutrition experts argue that you can’t take marketing campaigns at face value With America’s obesity problem among kids reaching crisis proportions, even junk food makers… Read More ›
High Fructose Sets Table For Weight Gain Without Warning: Leptin Resistance
2008 study posted for filing Common sweetener found in many foods leads to leptin resistance and exacerbates obesity when paired with high-calorie, high-fat diet BETHESDA, Md. (Oct. 16, 2008) – Eating too much fructose can induce leptin resistance,… Read More ›
42nd Health Research Report 28 OCT 2008 – Reconstruction
Editors top five: 1. Biotech experts urge industry to work with researchers or risk federal action 2. Splenda may damage gut bacteria, boost weight gain: study 3. What the election means to the nutrition industry? 4. OSTEOPOROSIS DRUGS INCREASE RISK… Read More ›
Rutgers College of Nursing Professor’s Research Links Increased Hospital Infections to Nurse Burnout
By Ferlanda Fox Nixon September 27, 2012 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year nearly 100,000 hospitalized patients die from infections acquired while undergoing treatment for other conditions. While many factors may contribute to the… Read More ›
Popular HIV drug commonly prescribed anti-retroviral drug efavirenz attacks brain cells
Contact: Stephanie Desmon sdesmon1@jhmi.edu 410-955-8665 Johns Hopkins Medicine Popular HIV drug may cause memory declines Johns Hopkins study suggests the commonly prescribed anti-retroviral drug efavirenz attacks brain cells The way the body metabolizes a commonly prescribed anti-retroviral drug that is… Read More ›
Video shows TSA agents shouting ‘freeze’ to passengers in departure lounge
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:08:35 EST, 27 September 2012| UPDATED:09:19 EST, 27 September 2012 A new video reveals a strange TSA security tactic: demanding that travelers ‘freeze’ in place, even though they have already been through airport security. A passenger… Read More ›
China official says spat with Japan derails free trade talks
Posted 2012/09/27 at 11:46 am EDT BEIJING, Sep. 27, 2012 (Reuters) — A festering territorial dispute between China and Japan has derailed talks for a free trade zone involving the two countries and South Korea, an adviser to China’s central… Read More ›
Donor network ‘pressured medics to declare patients dead so organs can be harvested’
‘This kid is dead, you got that?’ Donor network ‘pressured medics to declare patients dead so organs can be harvested’ The New York Organ Donor Network accused of bullying doctors into declaring patients brain dead when they are still alive… Read More ›
China blasts Japan PM’s hardline stance on islands: Called Japan ” self-deceiving “
On Thursday, China hit back at the Japanese prime minister for his statement that Tokyo would not compromise in the ongoing territorial dispute over islands in the East China Sea. PM Yoshihiko Noda said the previous day that the islands… Read More ›
Spanish Ire, Symbolized by a Carrot: Central Government is Losing Control
September 26, 2012 By RAPHAEL MINDER MADRID — As Spanish domestic politics threaten to spin beyond the control of the central government, they are also making it harder for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to meet Spain’s financial obligations to the… Read More ›
Cleansing the Internet of Terrorism: Leaked EU Proposal Would Erode Civil Liberties: Including Banning some Languages
September 26, 2012 | By Jillian C. York and Katitza Rodriguez A new project aimed at “countering illegal use of the Internet” is making headlines this week. The project, dubbed CleanIT, is funded by the European Commission (EC) to the… Read More ›
Antipsychotic Drugmakers Target Marketing Dollars at D.C. Medicaid Psychiatrists, Study Indicates: Prescribing Antipsychotics to non psychotic Children
ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) — The D.C. Department of Health (DOH) has released a study by George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services (SPHHS) indicating the high levels of marketing by antipsychotic drug manufacturers to Medicaid psychiatrists… Read More ›
Man who caught Gadhafi abducted and killed
Wednesday, 26 September 2012 Tension gripped Misrata Tuesday after the death of a rebel from the western city who was credited with capturing late Libyan leader Moamer Gadhafi, but who was later abducted and tortured in a rival town. Omran… Read More ›
Rent-to-own computers secretly recorded users having sex: FTC
By Eric W. Dolan Wednesday, September 26, 2012 19:53 EDT Topics: Aspen Way Enterprises Inc. ♦ Designerware ♦ Rental Purchase Several rent-to-own computer companies illegal used software on their computers to secretly record their customers having sex, according to the… Read More ›
Mass. chemist’s colleagues had questioned her work: 60,000 drug samples submitted in the cases of about 34,000 defendants are now in question
AP foreign, Wednesday September 26 2012 BRIDGET MURPHY Associated Press= BOSTON (AP) — A chemist at the center of a drug lab testing scandal admitted she faked results for two to three years, forged signatures and skipped proper procedures, a… Read More ›
Riot police dodge fire bombs and tear gas hurled at protesters as demonstration in Athens against cuts descends into violence: 500,000 Protest
Officers were set alight by exploding bombs as a protest descended into carnage near country’s parliament About 500,000 people joined the anti-government rally to demonstrate against new austerity measures in Greece Police were seen fighting with protesters in what is… Read More ›
U.S. Army General who ‘had forced sex and inappropriate relationships with female soldiers’ in Afghanistan flown home in disgrace
Jeffrey Sinclair returned to Fort Bragg after being posted with Airborne Division in 2010 Sinclair has been in the Army for 27 years and served in first Gulf War Charges include possessing pornography and alcohol while deployed By Daily Mail… Read More ›
Where is everybody?
Picture of the DaySep. 27, 2012 – 06:52AM JST Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday. Noda spoke about Japan’s territorial disputes with China and South Korea and… Read More ›
Japan won’t compromise with China on claim to islands, Noda says
Japan will never budge on its “sacred” ownership claim to islands in the East China Sea also claimed by China, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said, doing little to ease tensions with Asia’s top economic power. While Japan isn’t seeking a… Read More ›
The great hospital robbery: Defibrillators, baby heart monitors, even beds – thieves are walking out of NHS wards with vital equipment
By John Naish PUBLISHED:20:32 EST, 24 September 2012| UPDATED:02:20 EST, 25 September 2012 You may think that even the lowest, most callous criminal would draw the line at stealing life-saving medical equipment such as baby heart monitors and emergency… Read More ›
ANA reports 40,000 cancelations on its China routes
All Nippon Airways says 40,000 seat reservations have been cancelled for its regular flights linking Japan and China, amid souring bilateral relations. ANA president Shin-ichiro Ito on Wednesday revealed the cancellations of the bookings for flights on 17 routes, from… Read More ›
Anti-cuts protests erupt on streets of Athens and Madrid: ” 70,000 people marched to the Greek parliament chanting “EU, IMF Out!”
5:32pm EDT By Renee Maltezou and Julien Toyer ATHENS/MADRID (Reuters) – Demonstrators have clashed with police on the streets of Athens and Madrid in an upsurge of popular anger at new austerity measures being imposed on two of the euro… Read More ›
German court rules Catholics must pay tax to remain in church
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:41 EDT Topics: catholics ♦ roman catholics ♦ the Catholic Church A top German court ruled on Wednesday that Roman Catholics must pay their church tax in order to remain a member of… Read More ›
Science warns that your voting choices may be completely irrational
By David Ferguson Wednesday, September 26, 2012 13:47 EDT Topics: Leonard Mlodinow ♦ Scientific American Are you voting for the more attractive candidate to represent your district in Congress? Are you backing Barack Obama for president because you prefer the… Read More ›
Chinese citizen arrested over U.S military exports
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, September 26, 2012 18:06 EDT Topics: carbon fiber ♦ china ♦ Ming Suan Zhang NEW YORK — A Chinese citizen has been charged in New York with illegally attempting to export highly restricted material from the… Read More ›
China White Paper Claims Ownership of Islands Under Japanese Control: Claims the U.S. decision to hand them over to Japan was a “backroom deal” and a “grave violation of China’s territorial sovereignty.”
Sep. 25, 2012 – 02:41PM By Wendell Minnick TAIPEI — The Chinese State Council Information Office has issued a white paper about the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute with Japan. The paper, released Sept. 25, is available in English on the People’s… Read More ›
No significant influenza (FLU) vaccine effectiveness could be demonstrated for any season, age or setting after adjusting for county, sex, insurance, chronic conditions recommended for influenza vaccination and timing of influenza vaccination
2008 study posted for filing Contact: Heather Hare 585-273-2840 JAMA and Archives Journals Use of the influenza vaccine was not associated with preventing hospitalizations or reducing physician visits for the flu in children age 5 and younger during two recent… Read More ›
First evidence that a common pollutant may reduce iodine levels in breast milk: perchlorate
2008 study posted for filing Environmental Science & Technology Researchers in Texas are reporting the first evidence from human studies that perchlorate, a common pollutant increasingly found in food and water, may interfere with an infant’s availability of… Read More ›
Bisphenol A linked to chemotherapy resistance
2008 study posted for filing Contact: Dama Kimmon dama.kimmon@uc.edu 513-558-4519 University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI—Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) may reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments, say University of Cincinnati (UC) scientists. The research study, led by UC’s Nira Ben-Jonathan, PhD,… Read More ›
Research shows link between bisphenol A and disease in adults: Effects Liver Enzymes
Contact: Andrew Gould media@pr-works.co.uk 44-139-268-6107 The Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry A research team from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Exeter, the University of Plymouth and the University of Iowa, have found evidence linking bisphenol A to… Read More ›
Mouse studies suggest daily dose of ginkgo may prevent brain cell damage after a stroke
2008 study posted for filing Contact: Eric Vohr evohr1@jhmi.edu 410-955-8665 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Working with genetically engineered mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that daily doses of a standardized extract from the leaves of the ginkgo tree can… Read More ›
St. John’s wort relieves symptoms of major depression: 29 trials 5,489 patients
2008 study posted for filing Contact: Jennifer Beal wbnewseurope@wiley.com 44-012-437-70633 Wiley-Blackwell New research provides support for the use of St. John’s wort extracts in treating major depression. A Cochrane Systematic Review backs up previous research that showed the plant extract… Read More ›
Disinfectants can make bacteria resistant to treatment: Makes Bacteria Stronger
2008 Study posted for filing Contact: Lucy Goodchild press@sgm.ac.uk 44-011-898-81843 Society for General Microbiology Chemicals used in the environment to kill bacteria could be making them stronger, according to a paper published in the October issue of the journal Microbiology…. Read More ›
41st Health Research Report 14 SEP 2008 – Recontsruction
Editors Top Five: 1. St. John’s wort relieves symptoms of major depression 2. New Study on Effects of Disclosing Financial Interests on Participation in Medical Research 3. Flu vaccine not associated with reduced hospitalizations or outpatient visits among… Read More ›
Second lumpectomy for breast cancer REDUCES survival rates
2008 study posted for filing Contact: Karen Finney karen.finney@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu 916-734-9064 University of California – Davis Health System UC Davis researchers find disturbing trend in treating recurrent breast cancer (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A majority of women with breast cancer today are… Read More ›
Hong Kong tycoon offers $65 million bounty to marry off lesbian daughter
*EngineeringEvil: * Would like 2nd Confirmation of this release. By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, September 26, 2012 2:46 EDT Topics: Cecil Chao ♦ hong kong ♦ lesbian daughter A Hong Kong tycoon has offered a $65 million “marriage bounty” to any… Read More ›
Melatonin and exercise work against Alzheimer’s in mice
Contact: SINC info@agenciasinc.es 34-914-251-820 FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology Different anti-aging treatments work together and add years of life The combination of two neuroprotective therapies, voluntary physical exercise, and the daily intake of melatonin has been shown… Read More ›
Outrage as Pennsylvania high school marching band commemorates 1917 Russian Revolution at half time
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:07:56 EST, 25 September 2012| UPDATED:08:12 EST, 25 September 2012 A Pennsylvania high school marching band has caused outrage by commemorating the Russian Revolution in a halftime performance – brandishing red flags, military uniforms, hammers and… Read More ›
‘He was the da Vinci of mental manipulation’: Guru goes on trial for ‘brainwashing’ French aristocratic family out of £3.6m fortune
Thierry Tilly is accused of defrauding 11 members of theVédrines family He allegedly told them they were in mortal danger and he’d protect them Tilly denies persuading victims to part with property, savings and jewellery By Leon Watson PUBLISHED:04:24 EST,… Read More ›
Russia suspends import and use of American GM corn after study revealed cancer risk
The European Food Safety Authority orders review in to the research, conducted at a French university Russia’s decision could be followed by other nations Experts at the University of Caen conducted an experiment running for the full lives of rats… Read More ›
Chinese protester opposing government takeover of village land ‘is crushed to death by state-controlled road-flattening truck’
Protester He Zhu Hua, appears to be crushed in shocking images He opposed being moved after government tried to claim land for commercial use Reports claim government then tried to hide body and sent security to quell anger from residents… Read More ›
Korea to watch China’s drone use for territory claims: China Mobilizing Drones to go after Korea’s island of Ieodo
Lee calls top security meeting to discuss N.K., regional tension Territorial tension is brewing again between Korea and China after Beijing reportedly devised a plan to mobilize drones to monitor areas outside its jurisdiction, including Korea’s island of… Read More ›
Cell scientist pushes to clone extinct mammoth
2012-09-24 19:56 A South Korean private bioengineering laboratory led by disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said Monday it is stepping up efforts to make progress in cloning an extinct woolly mammoth. To that end, the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation… Read More ›
“Biohackers” or “DIY Biologists”, Teams have come together to create the world’s first “public BioBrick”
Amateur scientists build Lego-style synthetic BioBricks in public lab By Joel Winston 24 September 12 While some may believe that science is better left to scientists, hundreds of amateur biologists around the world have been setting-up makeshift biology labs in… Read More ›
Compelling evidence that brain parts evolve independently
Contact: Morwenna Grills Morwenna.Grills@manchester.ac.uk 44-161-275-2111 University of Manchester An Evolutionary Biologist at The University of Manchester, working with scientists in the United States, has found compelling evidence that parts of the brain can evolve independently from each other. It’s hoped… Read More ›
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