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Life Styles

Artificial Bee Eye

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:22 am

According to the article, bees have remarkable navigation capabilities based on their vision. Investigators from Germany built the artificial bee eye, which consists of a lightweight mirror-lens combination attached to a USB video camera.

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Health

Chart reveals insanity of new health care bill

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:17 am

And the changes are so drastic that all of them couldn't even be fit onto a single chart.

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Health

Human Salmonellosis Traced to Pet Food (CME/CE)

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:14 am

After the first outbreak, the manufacturer recalled more than 23,000 tons of dry dog and cat food. After additional outbreak-linked illnesses were identified in 2008, the company recalled 105 brands of dry pet food and permanently closed the plant that produced the contaminated products.

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Energy

Hawaiian ocean water could be used to produce renewable energy

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:10 am

They say ocean-based renewable energy plants may one day be able to use both warm and cold ocean water in the area to power heat engines, ultimately generating a steady stream of renewable energy.

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Health

Recharging Hearts Wirelessly

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:09 am

When the heart stops, 10 minutes separates life and death. For about 300,000 people in the United States every year, help doesn't come fast enough. Implantable defibrillators have been the “insurance policy” for sudden cardiac death...

Article Date: Aug 10 @ 01:09 am | Read Full Article

Health

One Step Closer to Tissue Regeneration

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:06 am

Growing a new arm or leg sounds like science fiction, but scientists may be one step closer to regenerating tissue like salamanders or a newts do.

Article Date: Aug 10 @ 01:06 am | Read Full Article

Life Styles

Healing Prayer or Proximity?

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:04 am

A new study shows praying for another person's health can benefit that person, especially if the person praying is close to the ill.

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Health

Building New Heart Cells

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:02 am

"Now, we've found a way to change fibroblasts -- which make up 50 percent of all heart cells -- into new cardiomyocytes."

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Transportation

Tesla keeps burning cash as credit programme reaches review stage

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:01 am

Electric car company Tesla reported deepening losses for its second-quarter results this week, despite higher revenue and growing margins.

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Health

How to Reverse Cancer Naturally on the next NaturalNews Talk Hour

Posted on Aug 10 @ 12:59 am

"American Heroes - Cancer Experts Speak Out" - a 5-week series of shows that reveals the untold truth about cancer, the cancer industry, and highly-successful (natural) cancer treatment options.

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Health

Junk food-addicted rats chose to starve themselves rather than eat healthy food

Posted on Aug 10 @ 12:57 am

The researchers hypothesized that the rats were eating compulsively because, like drug addicts, they had become desensitized to smaller amounts and needed more and more for the same rush of pleasure.

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Life Styles

Humans imitate aspects of speech we see

Posted on Aug 05 @ 01:26 pm

Humans are incessant imitators. We unintentionally imitate subtle aspects of each other's mannerisms, postures and facial expressions. We also imitate each other's speech patterns, including inflections, talking speed and speaking style.

Article Date: Aug 05 @ 01:26 pm | Read Full Article

Health

Your state of mind affects your ability to heal

Posted on Aug 05 @ 01:23 pm

A new study published in the journal Diabetologia has found that one's mental state of mind affects his or her ability to heal from an illness.

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Health

Lunch meat may cause bladder cancer

Posted on Aug 05 @ 01:22 pm

A recent study published in the journal Cancer links nitrate-containing cold cut meats to bladder cancer.

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Health

Drew Carey loses 80 pounds and cures his own diabetes

Posted on Aug 05 @ 01:16 pm

After losing nearly 80 pounds in about six months, Carey also cured himself of his type-2 diabetes.

Article Date: Aug 05 @ 01:16 pm | Read Full Article

Health

Repairing Hearts without Surgery

Posted on Aug 05 @ 01:14 pm

On average, open heart surgery takes four to six hours, with a six to eight week recovery. Matthys's trans-catheter valve surgery took two hours, and he was back at work in less than a week. Still there are risks including, artery blockage, valve infection and stroke.

Article Date: Aug 05 @ 01:14 pm | Read Full Article

Health

Harvard Medical School rolls out new rules to stop its faculty from accepting bribes from Big Pharma

Posted on Aug 03 @ 12:07 am

It is common practice for medical professionals to accept gifts, free travel, meals and other forms of indirect compensation from drug companies and medical device manufacturers for giving speeches that endorse their products. But Harvard Medical School has now made a new rule that prohibits its 11,000 faculty members from engaging in this activity.

Article Date: Aug 03 @ 12:07 am | Read Full Article

Health

Johns Hopkins researcher speaks out: arrogance of doctors is killing tens of thousands of patients

Posted on Aug 03 @ 12:07 am

Tens of thousands of people are dying unnecessarily, he says, and one main reason involves the enormous arrogance of many doctors.

Article Date: Aug 03 @ 12:07 am | Read Full Article

Life Styles

Women: Before getting pregnant, check out your man's diet

Posted on Aug 03 @ 12:06 am

Men who eat a lot of processed meats, fast foods and junk foods have low sperm quality.

Article Date: Aug 03 @ 12:06 am | Read Full Article

Habitats

Deep, open ocean is vastly under-explored, study finds

Posted on Aug 03 @ 12:04 am

This area is home to uncounted animals which never experience a hard surface, including megamouth sharks, giant squid, and a myriad of smaller species of gelatinous animals and other planktonic organisms.

Article Date: Aug 03 @ 12:04 am | Read Full Article

Politics

Funding May Affect Reporting of Trial Results (CME/CE)

Posted on Aug 03 @ 12:03 am

The vast majority of published industry-funded trials (85.4%) had positive findings, compared with 50% of those funded by government and 71.9% of those funded by nonprofit or nonfederal organizations...

Article Date: Aug 03 @ 12:03 am | Read Full Article

Life Styles

Women attracted to men in red, research shows

Posted on Aug 03 @ 12:02 am

Simply wearing the color red or being bordered by the rosy hue makes a man more attractive and sexually desirable to women, according to a series of studies by researchers at the University of Rochester and other institutions. And women are unaware of this arousing effect.

Article Date: Aug 03 @ 12:02 am | Read Full Article

Habitats

Oxygen fuels the fires of time

Posted on Aug 03 @ 12:00 am

"The mystery to us is why oxygen levels appear to have more or less stabilized about 50 million years ago."

Article Date: Aug 03 @ 12:00 am | Read Full Article

Life Styles

Reducing HIV Rate Among Female Sex Workers

Posted on Aug 02 @ 11:59 pm

Researchers found that among sex workers who received once-only interventions, an estimated 33 HIV cases were prevented and 5.7 months of quality-adjusted life expectancy or QALE added, compared to sex workers who received no intervention. For sex workers who received annual interventions, there were 29 additional HIV cases prevented and 4.5 more months of QALE.

Article Date: Aug 02 @ 11:59 pm | Read Full Article

Life Styles

Even with life-threatening side effects, Adderall is frequently abused on college campuses

Posted on Aug 02 @ 11:57 pm

Even though the side effects of the popular Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drug, Adderall, are potentially deadly, many college students are now using the drug to increase energy levels and brain power in order to get good grades, according to new reports.

Article Date: Aug 02 @ 11:57 pm | Read Full Article

Health

Vitamin D more effective than vaccines at preventing flu infections

Posted on Aug 02 @ 11:56 pm

A vitamin D supplement is more effective at reducing the risk of flu infection than vaccines or antiviral drugs, according to a study conducted by researchers from Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Article Date: Aug 02 @ 11:56 pm | Read Full Article

Health

Most Older AML Patients May Want to Skip Intensive Chemo (CME/CE)

Posted on Aug 02 @ 11:55 pm

"Most would probably agree that an eight-week mortality of less than 10% to 20% to achieve a complete response rate of more than 40% and a three-year survival of more than 10% would be an acceptable benefit:risk ratio with intensive chemotherapy."

Article Date: Aug 02 @ 11:55 pm | Read Full Article

Health

Vitamin D May Boost Teens' Arterial Health (CME/CE)

Posted on Aug 02 @ 11:53 pm

Vitamin D supplements reduce the arterial stiffness associated with pervasive vitamin D deficiency among black teens, even in sunny climes, researchers found.

Article Date: Aug 02 @ 11:53 pm | Read Full Article

Politics

Women Big Winners With Health Reform Law

Posted on Aug 02 @ 11:53 pm

An estimated 30 million women will be helped by the new health reform law over the next 10 years, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund.

Article Date: Aug 02 @ 11:53 pm | Read Full Article

Health

FDA Warns of Cure-All Product Based on Bleach

Posted on Aug 02 @ 11:52 pm

According to the FDA, the mixture produces chlorine dioxide, a potent bleach used for stripping textiles and industrial water treatment.

Article Date: Aug 02 @ 11:52 pm | Read Full Article