A new, minimally-invasive procedure has successfully minimized the appetites of pigs, and could pave the way to effectively treating obesity. "An Indian American medical scientist has successfully suppressed levels of 'hunger hormone' ghrelin in pigs, which could pave...
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Women expect doctors to educate, but awareness gaps are significant.
A new awareness study found that virtually all women expect their OB/GYN to inform them about minimally invasive treatments for common pelvic...
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"The clipboard toting, clock-watching, quota-setting productivity expert, peering nosily over your shoulder at work, has been out of fashion in business schools for decades.Now he's back, in electronic form -- in the home office.In a budding trend some employment experts say...
This is what the First Nations of Clayoquot Sound are facing, high unemployment, poor housing conditions and little hope. With logging and mining about to begin, resource extraction is looked to as the ways...
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A man in Briatian has died after inhaling lethal spores which grew on rotting compost in his garden. "The 47-year-old Briton fell ill less than 24 hours after being engulfed by "clouds of dust" while working with rotting tree and plant mulch.At first medics thought the...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorBefore you head to your "Dale Gribble" (King of the Hill) style underground bunker and don a flak jacket while you peer suspiciously at your next door...
This is all over the news in the US today:"CHICAGO - More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.Deaths tied to...
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Alright citizen scientists - you made the wind stir for North American Common Birds. Now its up to you to make a splash in the jellyfish world, and report any sightings of the Australian spotted jellyfish,...
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Californian farmers are squirming over a tiny moth known as the "light brown everything moth", due to its muddy coloring and insatiable appetite for just about any agricultural product. The Aussie moth is thought...
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They're not giant spiders, though, so that's some silver lining. "A Natural History Museum expert has warned that global warming is giving invasive poisonous spiders the chance to thrive in Britain.
The false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis, was first recorded in the UK in...
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"Sure, it only takes a minute..." "Oh, if they can catch a bad guy with it then I guess it's OK..."No. It is not OK. It is invasive, pointless, and yet another milestone in terrornoia and bureaucrat-controlled security, where an airport is willing to even consider...
"Laparoscopic surgery, in which instruments and cameras are inserted into patients via small incisions, has played a key role in the development of minimally invasive surgery. But the technique involves a distinct set of skills, including reconstructing a three-dimensional...
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"Medicine at the top of the world
Jan 4th 2007
From The Economist print edition
An expedition to Everest may improve the chances of people in intensive care
LYING in an intensive-care ward is a world away from...
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December 10,2006 - Paul
Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | September 6 2006 - Invasive surveillance and advertising obliterates
even Minority Report style technology.Private industry and eventually government
is planning to use microphones...
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" FREMONT, Calif. - Biologists have discovered giant invasive oysters that could threaten efforts to restore native oyster species in San Francisco Bay. Government staffers and volunteers removed 256 of the exotic mollusks last week after searching the mudflats between the...
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