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Dark chocolate: Half a bar per week to keep at bay the risk of heart attack

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (47) | comments 0

Maybe gourmands are not jumping for joy. Probably they would have preferred bigger amounts to sup-port their passion. Though the news is still good for them: 6.7 grams of chocolate per day represent the ideal amount for a ...





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Researchers Study Whether Psychosocial Interventions Ease Psoriasis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has awarded University of Rochester Medical Center researchers $2.5 million to investigate the impact of psychological interventions on attacks ...


Iowa State engineers develop 3-D software to give doctors, students a view inside the body

Iowa State engineers develop 3-D software to give doctors, students a view inside the body

Technology / Software

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James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart.


Gov't says brown pelicans are endangered no longer (AP)

Gov't says brown pelicans are endangered no longer

Biology / Ecology

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(AP) -- Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction.


Understanding mechanical properties of silicon nanowires paves way for nanodevices

Understanding mechanical properties of silicon nanowires paves way for nanodevices

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Silicon nanowires are attracting significant attention from the electronics industry due to the drive for ever-smaller electronic devices, from cell phones to computers. The operation of these future devices, ...


Researchers 'notch' a victory toward new kind of cancer drug

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Scientists have devised an innovative way to disarm a key protein considered to be "undruggable," meaning that all previous efforts to develop a drug against it have failed. Their discovery, published in the November 12 issue ...


Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein

Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize ...


UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children

Medicine & Health / Health

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(AP) -- Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because they don't get enough to eat, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem ...


Researchers mobilizing global resources to test new treatments for severe H1N1 infection

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An important, ground-breaking initiative is unfolding in the global critical care community in response to the H1N1 pandemic.


Amphibians as environmental omen disputed

Biology / Ecology

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Amphibians, for years considered a leading indicator of environmental degradation, are not uniquely susceptible to pollution, according to a meta-analysis to be published in Ecology Letters.


Teens less likely to wash hands when cooking, more likely to cross-contaminate raw food than adults

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A Kansas State University study has shown that when preparing frozen foods, adolescents are less likely than adults to wash their hands and are more susceptible to cross-contaminating raw foods while cooking.



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