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Food Documentary Debate Misses Mainstream Farmers

Food Inc., a documentary film about the modern agricultural industry, is a hit with big-city movie reviewers, small organic farmers and vegetarians. The movie argues that large-scale agriculture produces inexpensive meat and vegetables, but imposes high costs on the environment and Americans’ health. But ordinary farmers — the people who grow the lion’s share of what America eats — have largely been left out of the mainstream media debate over Food Inc. Frank Morris, of member station KCUR in Kansas City, drove out to hear what farmers are saying. Read more…

July 4th, 2009

Exercise Tips to Keep Boomers on Their Feet

SATURDAY, July 4 — While baby boomers are not as young as they used to be, exercise is just as important as ever, but certain precautions are in order to stay injury-free.”As boomers age, they should take extra steps to protect themselves from…


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July 4th, 2009

Living Healthily on Less

SATURDAY, July 4 — Most people are cutting back in these tough economic times, trying to save more and make do with less. But can you cut back when it comes to your health?As it turns out, experts say you can — if you’re smart about it. There are…


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July 4th, 2009

Why BMI Is A Bunch Of Malarkey

Weekend Edition’s “math guy” Keith Devlin explains to Host Scott Simon why he thinks the Body Mass Index — a formula used to assess people’s obesity — is a bunch of malarkey. Read more…

July 4th, 2009

Rampant Helper Syndrome Methane-producing Molecule Can Also Repair DNA

Catalysts assist in chemical reactions without undergoing any alteration of their own. In the cells of living organisms, proteins perform this important function. They carry out the metabolism fundamental to all living processes. Proteins are instrumental in cellular respiration, they for instance reduce oxygen to water and oxidize food into carbon dioxide. Read more…

July 4th, 2009

Acetaminophen Concerns Prompt FDA Recommendation

A panel of experts from the Food and Drug Administration has recommended lowering levels of acetaminophen in prescription and over-the-counter drugs because of concerns about liver damage. Host Scott Simon talks to NPR’s Joanne Silberner about the proposed changes. Read more…

July 4th, 2009

Childhood Arthritis: Common But Preventable Consequence Of Lyme Disease

When left untreated, children infected with Lyme disease can experience many severe complications as a result including arthritis, problems with the heart or central nervous system. Lyme disease in children is often overlooked in its earliest stages, leading to these complications later on, according to Emma Jane MacDermott, M.D. Read more…

July 4th, 2009

ONGLYZA™ (Saxagliptin) Receives Positive Opinion In Europe For The Treatment Of Type 2 Diabetes

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) announced that their marketing authorization application for ONGLYZA™ (saxagliptin) received a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in adults as add-on therapy with metformin, a thiazolidinedione or a sulphonylurea. Read more…

July 4th, 2009

“Jumping Gene” Diminishes The Effect Of A New Type 2 Diabetes Risk Gene

Research led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) has identified a new gene associated with diabetes, together with a mechanism that makes obese mice less susceptible to diabetes. A genomic fragment that occurs naturally in some mouse strains diminishes the activity of the risk gene Zfp69. Read more…

July 4th, 2009

Why Some People Stayed Behind When Hurricane Katrina Struck

Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster in U.S. history, claiming the lives of more than 1,800 victims and causing well over $100 billion in damage along the Gulf Coast. The 2005 storm breached every levee in New Orleans, flooding almost the entire city as well as the neighboring parishes. Yet a surprising number of people stayed behind and rode out the storm. Read more…

July 4th, 2009

Homeopathy At Risk Of Being Lost In Translation

Homeopathy risks being subsumed by modern medicine, argues a historian of science. Not only does this means that homeopathy’s heroes have become mere footnotes in history, but it could limit homeopathy’s potential to contribute to the treatment of today’s pressing medical problems, she says. Read more…

July 4th, 2009

Bausch & Lomb Vision Care Strengthens Its Commitment To ReNu® Brand And The Eye Care Community

Bausch & Lomb Vision Care announces a renewed focus on its ReNu® brand of lens care solutions through a U.S. consumer need-based rebranding effort that introduces eye care practitioners and consumers to ReNu® Fresh Lens Comfort™ and ReNu® Sensitive Eyes®. Additionally, the company has recently established a dedicated U.S. Read more…

July 4th, 2009

Working Towards An Optical Integrated Circuit

ETH Zurich researchers have successfully created an optical transistor from a single molecule. This has brought them one step closer to an optical computer. Internet connections and computers need to be ever faster and more powerful nowadays. However, conventional central processing units (CPUs) limit the performance of computers, for example because they produce an enormous amount of heat. Read more…

July 4th, 2009

Double Success For Instituto Gulbenkian De Ciencia Scientists Working On Chromosome Segregation

Lars Jansen’s work on the formation of the centromere, a key cellular structure in powering and controlling chromosome segregation and accurate cell division, has just earned him a paper in Nature Cell Biology and a prestigious EMBO installation grant, of 50,000 euro per year, for a maximum of five years. Read more…

July 4th, 2009

33,902 Swine Flu A(H1N1) Cases Including 170 Deaths In USA

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) informed in its weekly update on Friday evening, 3rd July, 2009, that the total number of confirmed human cases of swine flu A(H1N1) infection stands at 33,902, including 170 deaths. In a Swine Flu conference held today in Cancun, Mexico, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the virus’ spread is now “unstoppable”. Read more…

July 4th, 2009
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