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Mexico enacts rules against 'miracle cure' ads

(AP) -- Mexico enacted tough new rules Thursday to ban advertising of "miracle cures" for weight loss, sagging body parts and more serious illnesses like prostate ailments, chronic fatigue and even cancer.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New clues to human deafness found in mice

Providing clues to deafness, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a gene that is required for proper development of the mouse inner ear.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bacteria responsible for common infections may protect themselves by stealing immune molecules

Bacteria responsible for middle ear infections, pink eye and sinusitis protect themselves from further immune attack by transporting molecules meant to destroy them away from their inner membrane target, according to a study ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bats show ability to change their ear shapes, making their hearing more flexible

In about 100 milliseconds, horseshoe bats can alter his ear shape significantly in ways that would suit different acoustic sensing tasks. A blink of the eye takes two to three times longer.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Ohio researchers moving ahead with work to grow new ears

Kyle Figuray eyed the reflection of his ear with intense fascination.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists discover molecular defect involved in hearing loss

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have elucidated the action of a protein, harmonin, which is involved in the mechanics of hearing. This finding sheds new light on the workings of mechanotransduction, the process ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0