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4,000 Ukrainian cows power country's first biogas plant

Posted on Jul 16 @ 02:06 am

Their dung is being used to produce energy at the country's first biogas cogeneration plant.

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WFH: Acupuncture Eases Pain in Hemophilia Patients (CME/CE)

Posted on Jul 15 @ 01:13 am

Sticking needles into patients with a blood-clotting disease may seem counterintuitive, but researchers here said that acupuncture appears to alleviate some joint pain commonly experienced by people living with hemophilia.

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Novel Weight-Loss Pill Helps Shed Pounds (CME/CE, with video)

Posted on Jul 15 @ 01:13 am

There was no increase in the rates of serious adverse events or cardiac valvulopathy with lorcaserin versus placebo.

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Cheney Gets LVAD

Posted on Jul 15 @ 01:10 am

Cheney has had at least five heart attacks, beginning in 1978 when he was 37 years old. Among the procedures he has undergone since then are a four-vessel coronary bypass graft, two angioplasties, and placement of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.

Article Date: Jul 15 @ 01:10 am | Read Full Article

What do solar planes have in common with buses?

Posted on Jul 15 @ 01:08 am

You wait ages for one and then two turn up at once

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Google Earth zooms in on dangerous climate change

Posted on Jul 15 @ 01:06 am

The map has been developed using peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other leading impact scientists, and is based on Google Earth technology to illustrate what would happen should the global average temperature rise by 4°C above the pre-industrial climate average.

Article Date: Jul 15 @ 01:06 am | Read Full Article

Raw, sprouted nuts from LivingNutz taste like heaven while supporting good nutrition

Posted on Jul 15 @ 01:02 am

For example, their "Bodacious Banana Bread Walnutz" product (which is outrageously delicious) has the following five ingredients: Walnutz, Bananas, Agave, Cinnamon, Celtic Sea Salt. And that's it!

Article Date: Jul 15 @ 01:02 am | Read Full Article

Higher Prices Slash Sales of Sugary Soda (CME/CE, with audio)

Posted on Jul 15 @ 12:59 am

When a price increase of $0.45 was implemented in the cafeteria at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass., for regular sodas, sales of the drinks dropped by 26%...

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Method Matters in Risk After Suicide Attempt (CME/CE)

Posted on Jul 15 @ 12:56 am

Hanging, strangulation, or suffocation in a first attempt indicated the highest risk of later suicide completion...

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Spain overtakes US with world's biggest solar power station

Posted on Jul 15 @ 12:44 am

The new La Florida plant means that Spain’s solar power production is now equivalent to that of a nuclear power station, taking the country’s solar output to 432MW, compared with 422MW in the US.

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Sunbathing boosts men's testosterone (thanks to vitamin D)

Posted on Jul 15 @ 12:43 am

By increasing circulating levels of vitamin D, sunbathing may help increase men's testosterone levels and thereby their sex drive, according to a study conducted by researchers...

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Resveratrol may prevent eye disease, blindness

Posted on Jul 15 @ 12:42 am

This discovery means resveratrol could preserve vision in three major blinding eye diseases: age-related macular degeneration (the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 50); diabetic retinopathy, which causes vision loss in about 20 percent of people with diabetes; and retinopathy of prematurity...

Article Date: Jul 15 @ 12:42 am | Read Full Article

Old males rule the roost even as sex drive fades

Posted on Jul 15 @ 12:38 am

Old roosters can still dominate the sexual pecking order even when their ability to fertilise eggs drastically declines, new research has shown.

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New research on rapidly-disappearing ancient plant offers hope for species recovery

Posted on Jul 13 @ 12:25 pm

Cycads, "living fossil" descendents of the first plants that colonized land and reproduced with seeds, are rapidly going extinct because of invasive pests and habitat loss, especially those species endemic to islands.

Article Date: Jul 13 @ 12:25 pm | Read Full Article

Vitamin D Deficiency May Be Linked to Cognitive Decline (CME/CE)

Posted on Jul 13 @ 12:24 pm

Low levels of vitamin D appear to be associated with an increased risk of cognitive decline among older people, according to researchers.

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Self-Hypnosis Shows Promise for Tourette Patients (CME/CE)

Posted on Jul 13 @ 12:23 pm

About 80% of patients with Tourette syndrome had improved tic control after 10 weeks of video-assisted training in self-hypnosis, results of a small clinical trial showed.

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Locker room talk: How male athletes portray female athletic trainers

Posted on Jul 13 @ 12:22 pm

A study from North Carolina State University examining male football players' perceptions of female athletic trainers -- and their comfort level in being treated by females -- shows that the quarterback would most likely prefer a male, unless the dislocated shoulder made him depressed.

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Restaurant sushi tuna loaded with mercury

Posted on Jul 13 @ 02:43 am

A new study on sushi has found that higher-end, restaurant-grade tuna sushi often has higher mercury levels than the cheaper tuna sushi found at local supermarkets.

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Vitamin D promotes memory and cognitive function in seniors

Posted on Jul 13 @ 02:42 am

Now it appears a deficiency of this crucial nutrient could also play a role in robbing the brain of the ability to process information correctly and clearly.

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Pharmacists give themselves cancer from dispensing toxic chemotherapy chemicals

Posted on Jul 13 @ 02:40 am

People who live in glass houses should never throw stones, they say. And you might similarly say that pharmacists who deal in poison shouldn't be surprised to one day discover they are killing themselves with it.

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Plant 'breathing' mechanism discovered

Posted on Jul 12 @ 10:09 pm

...has now overturned the conventional belief about how these important structures called stomata regulate water vapor loss from the leaf-a process called transpiration. They found that radiation is the driving force of physical processes deep within the leaf.

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Teenage girls live on junk food

Posted on Jul 12 @ 10:08 pm

Teenagers' unhealthy habits do not stop at junk food. Twenty-nine percent of teenage girls reported smoking cigarrettes, as did 16 percent of teenage boys. When it came to alcohol, the disparity was even more striking: 11 percent of girls between the ages of 13 and 15 were drinking alcohol weekly, compared with only 1 percent of boys of the same age.

Article Date: Jul 12 @ 10:08 pm | Read Full Article

Widespread male infertility sweeping the globe

Posted on Jul 12 @ 10:07 pm

According to reports, nearly 20 percent of men between the ages of 18 and 25 have sperm counts that are abnormally low. To put this in perspective, consider the fact that in the 1940s, men had an average of about 100 million sperm cells per millimeter of semen (m/ml). Today, the average is around 60m/ml.

Article Date: Jul 12 @ 10:07 pm | Read Full Article

Spicy peppers may cause your body to burn more calories

Posted on Jul 12 @ 10:04 pm

Scientists believe that the reason why capsaicin burns calories is because the compound uses energy to raise a person's body temperature, which provides a similar effect as the one obtained by engaging in traditional exercise routines.

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The government war on raw milk is an attack against food freedom

Posted on Jul 12 @ 10:03 pm

During all these centuries, fresh cow's milk was considered a nourishing, even lifesaving beverage that provided people with hard-to-find proteins and fats in times when calories were hard to come by.

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"Bad Romance" Look May Lead to Bad Vision

Posted on Jul 09 @ 02:31 am

"Any type of contact lens is a medical device that requires a prescription, proper fitting by an eye care professional and a commitment to proper care by the consumer," the Academy said in the statement.

Article Date: Jul 09 @ 02:31 am | Read Full Article

'Magical thinking' about islands an illusion? Biologist refutes conventional thinking on evolution

Posted on Jul 09 @ 02:29 am

"There is a tendency to believe that big animals become very small on islands, and small animals become very big, due to limited resources or lack of competition. I've shown that this is just not true, at least not as a general rule. Evolution operates on islands no differently than anywhere else."

Article Date: Jul 09 @ 02:29 am | Read Full Article

Dr James Martin reveals ways to slow aging, joins NaturalNews Talk Hour

Posted on Jul 09 @ 02:27 am

Can YOU reverse the aging process? According to our next guest - the answer is yes! Watch our latest video to discover how to greatly improve your health, and even help slow the aging process.

Article Date: Jul 09 @ 02:27 am | Read Full Article

Wildcrafted Acai berries from Brazil pack a nutritional punch

Posted on Jul 09 @ 02:20 am

...Some of those claims have gotten out of hand, like "Lose 10 pounds in 10 days with Acai!" Acai isn't some sort of weight loss miracle, but it is an antioxidant-rich "super berry" from the rainforest jungles of South America...

Article Date: Jul 09 @ 02:20 am | Read Full Article

Abandoned oil wells make Gulf of Mexico 'environmental minefield'

Posted on Jul 09 @ 02:13 am

There are more than 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico, according to AP, of which 600 belonged to BP.

Article Date: Jul 09 @ 02:13 am | Read Full Article

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