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Kids Eat More Fruits, Vegetables When Schools Offer Salad Bar
A new study has found that elementary schools can significantly increase the frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption among low-income students by providing a lunch salad bar. Scientists Advocate Delaying Medication For Early Epilepsy
Scientists investigating epilepsy at the University of Liverpool have found no significant long-term benefit in administering immediate treatment to those with early epilepsy and infrequent seizures. Songbirds Offer Clues To Highly Practiced Motor Skills In Humans
The melodious sound of a songbird may appear effortless, but his elocutions are actually the result of rigorous training undergone in youth and maintained throughout adulthood. His tune has virtually "crystallized"by maturity. The same control is seen in the motor performance of top athletes and musicians. Yet, subtle variations in highly practiced skills persist in both songbirds and humans. Now, scientists think they know why. Teaching An Old Drug New Tricks: Fighting Iron Disorders With Drug Aga
Researchers from the Innsbruck Medical University, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) now made a surprising discovery that may lead to new therapeutic approaches to treating such disorders. In this week's online issue of the journal Nature Medicine they report that a compound that was frequently used to treat high blood pressure can reverse iron overload in mouse models and has the potential to treat similar conditions in humans. Failing the Gender Test
It takes a team of medical examiners to cry foul on a silver medal. The problem? No one can be sure if the person who won the prize is a man or a woman. In Bodyhack.  Hardware Entrepreneurs Find Making Gadgets Isn't Easy
Though scrappy entrepreneurs are getting into the consumer electronics business, creating a successful product is difficult. Wired.com speaks with gadget makers to find out what works and what doesn't.
 Discovery May Pave The Way For A New Class Of Diabetes Drugs
Scientists have determined the structure of a protein found in cells that shows potential as a target for the development of new drugs to treat diabetes. They described the structure of a protein?MitoNEET?that was previously identified as a site where diabetes drugs could operate. The discovery of the protein?s three-dimensional structure makes it possible to design small molecules that interact with it and modify its function. Contamination From Depleted Uranium Found In Urine 20 Years Later
Inhaled depleted uranium oxide aerosols are recognized as a distinct human health hazard and depleted uranium has been suggested to be responsible in part for illness in both military and civilian populations that may have been exposed. Swimming 'To The Left' Gets Bacteria Upstream, And May Promote Infecti
Yale engineers who study both flow hydrodynamics and how bacteria propel themselves report that one reason for the high incidence of infections associated with catheters in hospital patients may be that some pathogenic bacteria swim "to the left,"in a study published in Physical Review Letters. Alchemical Reactions
The latest issues of my ChemWeb Alchemist and Reactive Reports columns are both available online.Headline stories this month ask important questions, such as: Why does cannabis get you “high”? What is it about the psychoactive component in marijuana, THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, that exerts its special effects? Researchers hoping to use THC as a therapeutic agent [...]
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