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U.S. Obesity Epidemic: Organ Transplant Deficits Due to Americans Too Fat to Qualify

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May 16,2012 (TSR) - Last year the number of American organ donors hit a milestone when the 100 millionth person added their name to the list. But before you boast about signing up, you might want to step onto a scale. While only a portion of Americans say they’ll will their remains to needy would-be recipients, [...]

New Study: Sleeping longer suppresses the obesity gene

A new study has found the genes that cause us to gain weight can be suppressed with nine hours sleep a night

May 2, 2012 (TSR) - Forget arduous gym sessions and endless calorie counting. There may be a much more relaxing way to slim, research suggests – grabbing some extra shut-eye. A ‘sleep diet’ could be the best solution if you have a genetic tendency to pile on the pounds, scientists claim. Sleeping for fewer than seven [...]

Fukushima: A Nuclear War Without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation

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by Michel Chossudovsky, Canadian Economist, Economic Adviser to governments of developing countries and Consultant for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), African Development Bank, International Labour Organization (ILO), World Health Organisation (WHO), et al. April 30, 2012 (TSR) - The World is at a critical crossroads. The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought to the forefront the dangers of Worldwide nuclear [...]

New Study: Fluoride Can Damage the Brain – Avoid Use in Children

NEW YORK, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — “The prolonged ingestion of fluoride may cause significant damage to health and particularly to the nervous system,” concludes a review of studies by researchers Valdez-Jimenez, et al. published in Neurologia (June 2011), reports New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF). The research team reports, “It is important to be aware [...]

Study: Nearly 6 million children in U.S. have food allergy

The study pinned down peanuts (25 percent of food-allergic children), milk (21 percent) and shellfish (17 percent) as the top three allergens.  Severe reactions were most common among children with tree nut (more than 50 percent) and fin fish (more than 40 percent) allergies. The reactions were more likely among 14- to 17-year- olds compared with 0- to 2-year-olds, and more likely in children with multiple food allergies, the study found.

About 8 percent of children, or nearly 6 million in the U.S., have a food allergy, a much higher rate than previously estimated, a new study suggests. Not only is this estimate higher than some previous research has reported, allergic reactions are often severe and that many kids have more than one allergy. Of the children with [...]

New research: WOMEN are indeed wired differently

Science now seems to back the idea that women's brains may be wired for increased anxiety, depression and mood swings. Photo: Getty Images

Are women born to be grumpy? This sounds like the sexist moan of a disgruntled husband, torn off a strip for failing to put the rubbish out. Again. Except that science now seems to back the idea that women’s brains may be wired for increased anxiety, depression and mood swings. And the problem could be [...]

The Chip is the Machine

Reading DNA: Ion Torrent’s chip, built using semiconductor technology, can read DNA sequence directly, without the optical systems used by other sequencing machines.  Credit: Ion Torrent

San Francisco, CA, USA. December 8, 2010. (TSR)- A device that reads the sequence of DNA using semiconductor technology could bring the power of sequencing to a much broader swath of the science world. The desktop machine, developed by a startup called Ion Torrent, is slated to go on sale this month and will cost $50,000, [...]

Chip-in-a-pill may be approved in 2012

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Giant Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, based in Basel, is developing a pill containing an embedded microchip, which it hopes to submit for regulatory approval in Europe within 18 months. The chip is activated by the stomach acid, and transmits information to a patch attached to the patient’s skin, which then sends it on to [...]

Cholera spreads in Haiti

The deadly Cholera outbreak in Haiti has spread to the country’s capital Port-au-Prince, with scores of cases confirmed and numerous suspected deaths reported. The waterborne disease, which thrives in unsanitary conditions, has already killed more than 580 people who had been forced to live in overcrowded camps throughout the country following a devastating January earthquake.

‘Bionic’ eye success in sight

Bionic eyes were once thought to be the creation of science fiction, but now doctors in Germany have developed a computer chip that could help restore the sight of hundreds of thousands of blind people. Retinal implants are able to partially restore the vision of people with particular forms of blindness caused by diseases such [...]


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