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Exercise May Not Be Good Enough To Reduce Mild Hypertension In Older P
Moderate levels of exercise may not be enough to control mild hypertension in men and women over age 55, the age group most at risk of later developing potentially fatal heart failure, a new four-year study reports. The findings by researchers at Johns Hopkins, to be published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine online April 11, call into question the effectiveness of national guidelines on exercise for lowering blood pressure in older people. [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. Marker That Identifies Energy-producing Centers In Nerve Cells Can Hel
A protein that causes coral to glow is helping researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine to light up brain cells that are critical for the proper functioning of the central nervous system. This fluorescent marker protein may shed light on brain cell defects believed to play a role in various neurological diseases. Apple Says Your Money's No Good Here -- But We'll Take a Gift Card, Ma
As we reported Friday, Apple is trying to head off black market iPhone resellers by refusing to accept cash or check payments for iPhone sales. Stores will accept Apple gift cards as partial payment, we found, although policies seem to vary from store to store. Scientists Report A New Method To Speed Bird Flu Vaccine Production
In the event of an influenza pandemic, the world's vaccine manufacturers will be in a race against time to forestall calamity. But a new technique may make life-saving inoculations more readily available by more efficiently producing the disarmed viruses that are the seed stock for making flu vaccine. Boys, Too, Suffer Long-term Consequences Of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Children of both genders are frequently victims of sexual abuse, and the long-term consequences are nearly identical in men and women, according to a broad-based new report in the June 2005 issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Pork, the Other Alt Fuel
Australians aren't sheepish about biodiesel -- one company there is making fuel out of animal fat taken from pigs, sheep and cows. In Autopia. Synthetic Protein Eases Arthritis Symptoms In Mice
A lab-made version of a human protein alleviates symptoms of both acute and chronic arthritis in mice and could be the basis for a new arthritis drug for people, report scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The protein prevents the assembly of a cell surface receptor, thus blocking transmission of chemical signals that lead to arthritis symptoms. Type 2 Diabetes: What Determines Susceptibility?
Mice lacking a certain cell surface protein in their fat tissue are protected from obesity and glucose intolerance induced by a high-fat diet according to a new article. A second article considers inherited and acquired genetic differences that confer susceptibility to type 2 diabetes. Here to There Dept.:Stitches
2005 article on the Yarn Bus, "a fifteen-passenger van topped with three enormous balls of yarn and a pair of knitting needles the size of 9-irons,"that shuttles passengers (free of charge) to and from Manhattan to the Flying Fingers yarn store in Irvington (Westchester County), New York. From the New Yorker magazine. Note: no photograph provided.
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