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NOAA Scientists Work To Improve Severe Weather Forecasts
Thunderstorms with lightning, hail, strong winds and tornadoes can be devastating, resulting in hundreds of deaths and millions of dollars in damage each year. Researchers and forecasters with NOAA in Norman, Okla., are working together to improve the tools forecasters use to predict such storms, ultimately providing the public more time to prepare for severe thunderstorm events and more specific information about what type of severe weather to expect. Antioxidants: Preventing Diseases, Naturally
When it comes to boosting antioxidant intake, recent research indicates there's little benefit from taking diet supplements. A better way, according to a report in the September issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter, is eating a diet rich in antioxidant-containing foods. Antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, carotene, lycopene, lutein and many other substances may play a role in helping to prevent diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and macular degeneration. The Games People Shouldn't Play
Can't be bothered to look up from Bejeweled and grind out a TPS report? Perhaps it's time to find another job. Mr. Know-It-All takes the moral helm in today's tech workplace. By Clive Thompson from Wired magazine. Cassini Finds An Atmosphere On Saturn's Moon Enceladus
The Cassini spacecraft's two close flybys of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus have revealed that the moon has a significant atmosphere. Scientists, using Cassini's magnetometer instrument for their studies, say the source may be volcanism, geysers, or gases escaping from the surface or the interior. Alcoholism And Bad Neighborhoods: A Two-way Street
A bad neighborhood is known to contribute to the development and maintenance of an individual's alcohol use and alcohol-related problems. A first-of-its kind study shows that alcohol problems may also lead an individual to live in a bad neighborhood. Analysis indicates that alcoholism has long-term negative effects on place of residence, and vice versa. First, the more alcohol problems a man has, the more likely he is going to remain in -- or migrate into -- a disadvantaged neighborhood. Second, recovery from alcoholism is both protective against a downward social drift and favorable to improved social conditions. In addition, living in worse neighborhoods appears to have an adverse effect on alcoholic symptomatology over time. Higher Maternal Sugar Levels Increases Risk Of Childhood Obesity
Treating gestational diabetes can break the link to childhood obesity. The largest study of its kind, this research shows that childhood obesity risk rises with a pregnant woman's blood sugar level and untreated gestational diabetes doubles a child's risk of obesity. Authors looked at 20,000 mothers and children, and found treating gestational diabetes lowers the child's risk of obesity to same level of a mother with normal blood sugar levels. Urologists Study Fluorescent Dye, Blue Light To Detect Bladder Tumors
One of the challenges urologic surgeons face when treating early bladder cancers is that they can't see tiny tumors during procedures to remove larger tumors. Missing the tiny tumors increases the chances that the cancer could recur, sometimes as early as three months after treatment. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Method Shows Promise For Early Detection Of Pancreatic Cancer
Optical technology developed by a biomedical engineer shown to be effective in the early detection of colon cancer now appears promising for detecting pancreatic cancer. Scientists found they could detect both early- and advanced-stage pancreatic cancer without touching or imaging the pancreas. The new technology could lead to the first screening method for pancreatic cancer in asymptomatic patients. Surgical Objects Accidentally Left Inside About 1,500 Patients In US E
Every year, in the United States about 1,500 people have surgical objects accidentally left inside them after surgery, according to medical studies. About two-thirds of the surgical objects left behind are sponges, which can lead to pain, infection, bowel obstructions, problems in healing, longer hospital stays, additional surgeries and in rare cases, death.
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