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Message To The Elderly: It's Never Too Late To Prevent Illness
A new study has an important message for the elderly: It's not too late to improve your health through diet and exercise, even if you've had an unhealthy lifestyle in the past! The report surveyed scientific literature and found that adults, 65 and older, can have significant health improvements with simple and realistic lifestyle changes. It found that risk can be reduced for many diseases--including obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. Sony Ditches ATRAC, Connect Music Store
Sony's decision to drop its ATRAC file format and shutter the Connect music store signals a radical departure for the electronics giant, which has tried for 15 years to market its proprietary file format as a viable competitor to MP3 and other digital music formats. Short-term Survival Rates Better For U.S. vs. Canadian Heart Failure P
Investigators at Yale School of Medicine and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, Canada, report that elderly heart failure patients hospitalized in the United States have better short-term survival than those in Canada, but lose that advantage over time. Australian Hackers Get IPhone Working on Telstra; Analyst Says Softwar
In iPhone news today, Australian hackers succeed in getting an iPhone to work on the Telstra network. Separately, a financial analyst predicts that Apple will soon issue a software update for the iPhone. [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. Fighting Diseases Of Aging By Wasting Energy, Rather Than Dieting -- W
By making the skeletal muscles of mice use energy less efficiently, researchers report that they have delayed the animals'deaths and their development of age-related diseases, including vascular disease, obesity, and one form of cancer. Those health benefits, driven by an increased metabolic rate, appear to come without any direct influence on the aging process itself, according to the researchers. NASA's Shuttle Endeavour Begins Mission To The Space Station
The Space Shuttle Endeavour roared into a summer Florida sky on time today at 5:36 p.m. CDT, carrying to the International Space Station a crew of seven, among them teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan. Breast-feeding Still Best Despite Environmental Chemicals In Human Mil
The presence of environmental chemicals in human milk does not necessarily indicate health risks for infants, according to researchers. Understanding America After 9/11: A Public Radio Collaboration
Text and audio transcripts of radio programs related to the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, broadcast on public radio stations nationwide September 3 through September 10, 2002. A collaboration "comprised of the collective work of public radio stations, producers and networks around the world." Turn Off TV To Teach Toddlers New Words
Toddlers learn their first words better from people than from Teletubbies, according to new research. Children younger than 22 months may be entertained, but they do not learn words from the television program.
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