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Tobacco Prevention Program: Initiative 901
Brief FAQ about Washington state's Initiative 901, which "amends the 1985 Clean Indoor Air Act and now requires that ALL work places be 100%smoke free."Discusses details of the ban, effective December 2005 (passed on the November 2005 ballot), which also restricts smoking "25 feet from all doorways, windows and air intakes"of most indoor enclosed public places. From Public Health, Seattle &King County. Why Don't Painkillers Work For People With Fibromyalgia?
New research shows that people with fibromyalgia were found to have reduced binding ability of a type of receptor in the brain that is the target of opioid painkiller drugs such as morphine. Suffering Under a Great Injustice: Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japane
In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there. This site provides side-by-side digital scans of both Adams' 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, collection highlights, Adams' book "Born Free and Equal,"a selected bibliography, and a chronology of Adams' life. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Repeat Steroids To Premature Infants Linked To Cerebral Palsy, Study S
Repeated courses of a drug that is used to improve the survival of unborn premature babies also may increase the risk of cerebral palsy in those children, according to results from a multi-center study. The drug -- a corticosteroid called betamethasone -- is given to women at risk of premature delivery to hasten the development of their baby's lungs. ReadThisToMe.org
Site for this "free reading service for blind and low-vision people, powered by volunteers and Internet collaboration. ... [It] allows blind and low-vision people (clients) to have printed documents read to them over the phone. All a person needs is a phone line and a fax machine (no computer is required)."Includes a FAQ and details about volunteering. Scientists Use Transcription Factors To Increase Insulin Production In
A group of Japanese scientists has used gene therapy to deliver three insulin transcription factors, MafA, PDX-1, and NeuroD, to the livers of diabetic mice. As a result, the mice experienced an increase in insulin gene expression and insulin production, raising the possibility that this could eventually be used to treat diabetes. Doing Nature One Better: Expanding The Genetic Code In Living Mammalia
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a novel strategy to expand the natural repertoire of 20 amino acids in mammalian cells, including neurons, and successfully inserted tailor-made amino acids into proteins in these cells. In a powerful demonstration of the method's versatility, they then used unnatural amino acids to determine the operating mechanism of the "molecular gates"that regulate the movement of potassium ions in and out of nerve cells. Ferry-linked Water Monitoring System Becomes New Model For United Stat
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University marine scientists who began monitoring surface water quality in the Neuse River in 2000 say their expanded effort has become a model for continuous ferry-based water assays throughout the nation.Help and support from the N.C. Department of Transportation's Division of Ferries and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) deserves much of the credit, the researchers say. [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... 'Metal-Decorated' Nanotubes Hold Promise For Fuel Cells
New quantum calculations and computer models show that carbon nanotubes "decorated"with titanium or other transition metals can latch on to hydrogen molecules in numbers more than adequate for efficient hydrogen storage, a capability key to long-term efforts to develop fuel cells, an affordable non-polluting alternative to gasoline.
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