As 17 year old Daniel Walker was completing his final lap of jogging in his high school gym class on January 19th, he collapsed with a heart attack.Daniel was unaware that he had a rare congenital heart disease that had left his coronary artery pinched, giving him only 10 percent of normal heart capacity and his heart quite simply gave out on him.Following days of fighting to keep Daniel alive by using a bypass machine to keep his blood pumping through the body in the hope of a heart tran...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D) would sign a bill (HB 184) meant to repeal a state law (HB 763) that requires physicians in the state to notify by certified letter a parent or guardian of a minor who is see...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Officials in Rwanda within the coming months plan to unveil a campaign promoting contraception and family planning to control the country's population growth and stabilize its economy, the New York Times reports. The country's population, which is made up of subsist...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
A new technique that uses ozone to preserve grapes could help prevent allergies and boost healthy compounds at the same time, reports Jennifer Rohn in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the Society of Chemical Industry. The same technique could be used in the wine-making process to produce healthier wines without the added sulphites that can cause asthma and other conditions in some people. ...Monday, 12-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Scientists across the United States are baffled by a strange illness which appears to kill honeybees by the thousands.The mystery illness is affecting bee colonies across the country with reports of it's impact from 22 states and some commercial beekeepers have lost more than 50 percent of their bees.The illness called "Colony Collapse Disorder" could create problems for others too as fruit growers and other farmers rely on bees to pollinate their crops.Researchers from the Agricul...Monday, 12-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
We may not be as fit as the people of ancient Athens, despite all that modern diet and training can provide, according to research by University of Leeds exercise physiologist, Dr Harry Rossiter.Dr Rossiter measured the metabolic rates of modern athletes rowing a reconstruction of an Athenian trireme, a 37m long warship powered by 170 rowers seated in three tiers. Using portable metabolic analysers, he measured the energy consumption of a sample...Sunday, 11-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
852 million people worldwide are suffering from hunger or malnutrition, 18 million more than in 1995-1997 (FAO, 2004). While the number has fallen in India and China, it is continuing to grow in Africa, particularly in dryland zones. What lies behind this persistent famine in the region? This is the question being asked by the AIDA (Agricultural Innovation in Dryland Africa) international project, funded by the European Union and coordinated by CIRAD...Tuesday, 6-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Every year, the Food and Drug Administration issues dozens of food-related recalls, withdrawals and advisories. But few receive the attention that the advisory regarding E.coli-contaminated spinach received in September 2006. The broad scale of the resulting recall and related media attention provided a unique opportunity for researchers at the Rutgers Food Policy Institute (FPI) to study the U.S. food recall system. The results o...Tuesday, 6-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
A nonprofit consumer watchdog group the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is taking soft drinks giants Coca-Cola and Nestle to court for making fraudulent claims about a new drink.The marketing and labeling for the new drink Enviga, an artificially sweetened green tea soft drink, is touting the drink as a "calorie burner" and a weight-loss aid.According to the hype by the manufacturers Enviga has "negative calories" and ca...Monday, 5-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
According to a new report millions of people in Britain are so stressed out that they are turning to alcohol to ease the pressure.The report by the charity group the Samaritans says as many as five million people in the country are completely stressed out and a third of the work force is so stressed out by their job that their sleep is affected and many resort to drink as a means of relaxing. Half a million people said work-related stress was making them physically ill and one in five sai...Thursday, 1-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]