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Studies Examine Coffee Drinking And Risk Of Liver And Colorectal Cance
Two new studies in the February 16 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute examine the effects of coffee consumption on the incidence of liver and colorectal cancers. One study found that drinking coffee daily is associated with a decreased risk of liver cancer, while the other found no association between drinking coffee or tea and the risk of colorectal cancer. [Ironic] LONDON: A jailed cocaine dealer is working as Santa Claus on
John Tams, who dons beard, boots and red suit to work in a cafe's Christmas grotto, said he wanted to give something back to the community... Attack of the Bots
Autonomous programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud and espionage pose the latest threat to the net. Here's how one company fought the new internet mafia -- and lost. By Scott Berinato from Wired magazine. Rusty nanoparticles and arsenic poisoning
A subject that I have returned to on several occasions is arsenic-contaminated drinking water. This insidious environmental disaster was first brought to light by Dipankar Chakraborti of the University of Jadavpur whom I interviewed for The Guardian in 1995. However, the problem has not gone away. Various research teams have looked at various solutions to [...] Artificial Jellyfish, Explosives Sensor Among Projects Being Developed
Artificial jellyfish, explosives sensors and seabed batteries are among the diverse research projects under way just nine months after the creation of a Center of Excellence in Undersea Technology. When researchers began to investigate how to create a covert network of widely-distributed underwater sensors, they imagined attaching the sensors to artificial jellyfish that could maintain their place in the water while passing information from one sensor to the next. PLoS ONE
With the new year, a new type of journal. And, yet another product using the word “one”.Until now, online scientific journals were really just e-versions of the printed copy. Of course, we had advance publication online and ToC alerts etc, but now Public Library of Science will publish a general science journal to rival Science [...] University of Kentucky Is First To Administer New Anti-clotting Therap
Volunteers at the University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute were the first ever to receive a new anti-clotting therapy. The drug and its antidote are being developed for their effectiveness in preventing blood clots while at the same time providing physicians the ability to rapidly reverse the effects of the blood thinner to help safeguard patients against uncontrolled bleeding. More than 12 million patients are prescribed so-called "blood thinners"each year. Drugs Used To Fight Cancer-related Bone Problems Boost Odds Of Jaw- Or
Treatment with intravenous bisphosphonates -- drugs used to reduce harm done to bones by cancer or cancer therapy -- increases the risk of jaw or facial bone disease or infection, according to a large-scale comparative study. Researchers also determined that patients who had taken higher doses of the drugs over time were more likely to have experienced jaw and facial bone disease. Tasers Used By Law Enforcement Are Safe, Review Suggests
A nationwide study examining the safety of Tasers used by law enforcement agencies suggests the devices are safe, causing a low occurrence of serious injuries. In a review of nearly 1,000 cases, 99.7 per cent of those subjected to a Taser had mild injuries, such as scrapes and bruises, or none at all. [Ironic] Professional beggars prowling about the streets of Moroccan c
The government plans to crack down on the scam used by faux beggars in growing numbers for a kind of "emotional blackmail", a cabinet minister was quoted as saying...
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