Waterpipe smoking on college campuses may contribute to growing public health problem May 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
More and more U.S. college students are smoking tobacco using waterpipes – or hookahs – and it’s becoming a growing public health issue, according to a new study led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher. | |
Study suggests caution on a new anti-obesity drug in children May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A new class of anti-obesity drugs that suppresses appetite by blocking cannabinoid receptors in the brain could also suppress the adaptive rewiring of the brain necessary for neural development in children, studies with mice ... | |
Scientists find connection between mental fitness and multi-lingualism May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Children who speak a second or third language may have an unexpected advantage later in life, a new Tel Aviv University study has found. Knowing and speaking many languages may protect the brain against the effects of aging. | |
St. Jude finds 'dancing' hair cells are key to humans' acute hearing May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have found that an electrically powered amplification mechanism in the cochlea of the ear is critical to the acute hearing of humans and other mammals. The findings will ... | |
Immune system pathway identified to fight allergens, asthma May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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For the first time, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified genetic components of dendritic cells that are key to asthma and allergy-related immune response malfunction. Targeting ... | |
Virus mimics human protein to hijack cell division machinery May 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Viruses are masters of deception, duping their host's cells into helping them grow and spread. A new study has found that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can mimic a common regulatory protein to hijack normal cell growth machinery, ... | |
 Justice in the brain: Equity and efficiency are encoded differently May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Which is better, giving more food to a few hungry people or letting some food go to waste so that everyone gets a share? A study appearing this week in Science finds that most people choose the latter, ... | |
Suspected cause of type 1 diabetes caught 'red-handed' for the first time May 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis working with diabetic mice have examined in unprecedented detail the immune cells long thought to be responsible for type 1 diabetes. | |
Sweeping analysis of research reinforces media influence on women’s body image May 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
As France's parliament considers a landmark bill that would outlaw media images glamorizing the extremely thin, psychology researchers are reporting some of the most definitive findings yet on how these images affect women. | |
Train quarantined in Canada after passenger dies (Update) May 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Doctors in hazardous materials suits swarmed a passenger train in Canada's outback on Friday to contain a possible outbreak after one person died and several fell ill, officials said. But the emergency was soon deflated after ... | |
Businesspeople Who Are Too Sure Of Their Abilities Are Less Savvy Entrepreneurs: New Study 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Apprentice-style entrepreneurs who have an inflated sense of their own abilities may jump into new business ventures with insufficient regard for the competition and the size of the market, new research has found. | |
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