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America's Walking: Pedometers
This article provides an overview of the use of a pedometer for fitness walking activities. It discusses how to calibrate a pedometer and use it to record the number of steps walked, with the goal of walking 10,000 steps or more a day for health benefits. Includes a link to more detailed information about the 10,000-step concept. From "America's Walking,"a television series and website about walking. Relatively Few US Adults Report Having A Healthy Lifestyle
Despite clear evidence of the health benefits, few US adults conform to four common healthy behaviors that together characterize a healthy lifestyle, according to the April 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Researchers Identify Where Emotional Fear Memory And Pain Become Perma
University of Toronto study has charted how and where a painful event becomes permanently etched in the brain. Copyright Claim Erases 'Here Comes Another Bubble' Parody Video From Y
A creative clip titled "Here Comes Another Bubble" gets popped due to a copyright claim from an unnamed third party. Mayo Clinic Reports Tamoxifen Benefit For Breast-cancer Patients Tied
One of the most commonly administered drugs for breast cancer, tamoxifen, may not be as effective for women who inherit a common genetic change, according to researchers at Mayo Clinic and the University of Michigan. Depletion Of One Antioxidant Linked To Parkinson's In Mice
Scientists have shown that mice suffering from a depletion of the antioxidant glutathione in dopamine-producing neurons developed nerve damage and symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) in humans. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter produced in the mid-brain which facilitates many critical functions, including motor skills. Past studies have shown that depletion of the naturally occurring antioxidant in the affected area of the brain is one of the earliest signs of PD, but this study shows that glutathione depletion may be a causal factor in the disorder. Telling Axons Where To Go ... And Grow
In a recent study, Dr. Ingolf Bach and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester and the University of Hamburg (Germany) describe a novel role for the ubiquitin/proteosome protein degradation pathway in the regulation of local actin dynamics in neurons. Breast Cancer Returns More Often In Black Women
Contrary to previous studies, African-American women with early-stage breast cancer who have surgery to remove the cancer followed by radiation therapy have a higher chance of their cancer coming back in the breast and lymph nodes 10 years after diagnosis, compared to their Caucasian counterparts, according to the largest study of its kind. Stem cells used to model infant birth defect
Researchers recently discovered that infantile hemangiomas originate from stem cells, and have used these stem cells to better understand this tumor in the laboratory. They show that steroids target hemangioma stem cells specifically, reveal their mechanism of their action and suggest other possible ways to halt and shrink hemangiomas. Killing Fields Deal Sparks Anger
April 2005 news article about how "a plan to privatise the Killing Fields memorial near Phnom Penh has caused outrage in Cambodia. Thousands of people died at the Choeung Ek site during the Khmer Rouge rule in the late 1970s."Includes links to related stories, such as "Pol Pot: The Life of a Tyrant,"and "Khmer Rouge Genocide Admission."From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
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