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Infrared technology could light the way to improving hearing devices and heart conditions

Infrared technology could light the way to improving hearing devices and heart conditions

Posted Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:20:00 GMT by Nikki Bruce

A new project reveals how infrared light can stimulate cells in the inner-ear and the heart muscle. A recent discovery may pave the way for new infrared technology which will assist with cochlear implants used for deafness and hopefully will generate a range of new devices which can be used to treat disorders such as Parkinson's disease and other visual and balance related conditions.

Infrared technology could light the way to improving hearing devices and heart conditions

Walnuts Contain Most Healthy Antioxidants

Walnuts Contain Most Healthy Antioxidants

Posted Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:08:00 GMT by Tamara Croes

A new study presented yesterday at the 241st meeting of the American Chemical Society shows that walnuts have more and healthier antioxidants than other nuts. J. Vinson, Ph.D. of the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, who carried out the study, says that they compared walnuts with pistachios, almonds, macadamias, cashews, pecans, peanuts, Brazil nuts and hazelnuts, and walnuts contain twice as much antioxidants as any of the other nuts.

Walnuts Contain Most Healthy Antioxidants

New EPA US-Mexico Border Environmental Health Report Details Successes

New EPA US-Mexico Border Environmental Health Report Details Successes

Posted Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:21:00 GMT by Kirsten E. Silven

The EPA has released a report detailing a variety of initiatives that aim to improve the environment and improve public health along the US-Mexico border by 2012. The bi-national initiative, dubbed ''The Border 2012 Program, it has been successful in promoting clean air and drinking water by reducing exposure to toxic waste and updating measures that are in place for disaster preparedness along the border between the US and Mexico.

New EPA US-Mexico Border Environmental Health Report Details Successes

The Value of Open Spaces to Disadvantaged Poor Communities

The Value of Open Spaces to Disadvantaged Poor Communities

Posted Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:31:00 GMT by Michelle Simon

It is without a doubt that nature offers us survival resources which we as humans have abused, misused and taken for granted. As access to natural resources become economically defined in an unfair society, access to survival resources such as water and food is an issue of affordability and economic status, thus consigning the poor to a life of dire straits.

The Value of Open Spaces to Disadvantaged Poor Communities

Brain's plasticity gives new hope for Alzheimer's fight

Brain's plasticity gives new hope for Alzheimer's fight

Posted Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:34:00 GMT by Colin Ricketts

Our brain's are able to change as we undergo new experiences and a Canadian researcher has found that simple training programs can help elderly people reassign areas of their brains as Alzheimer's affects them.

Brain's plasticity gives new hope for Alzheimer's fight

Eat well now, benefit for life, say scientists

Eat well now, benefit for life, say scientists

Posted Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:23:00 GMT by Colin Ricketts

A new study has found that a high-fibre diet in youth has a life-long beneficial effect on reducing the risk of heart disease. Scientists found that eating a high fibre diet when young and middle-aged can help protect from heart disease in later life. While eating well in old age may be acting too late to have beneficial effects the study found that those between 20 and 59-years-of-age with the highest fibre intake lowered their risk of cardiovascular for life.

Eat well now, benefit for life, say scientists

Simple measures could drastically cut child diarrhea deaths

Simple measures could drastically cut child diarrhea deaths

Posted Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:57:01 GMT by Martin Leggett

1.4 million child deaths could be saved each year, just by universally applying proven health measures and low-cost diarrhea treatments - for a cost of less $5 per head. So says a new study into how scaling-up of individual programs could affect diarrhea death rates amongst children under 5, in 68 of the poorest countries.

Simple measures could drastically cut child diarrhea deaths

Further concern about radioactive contamination in Japan

Further concern about radioactive contamination in Japan

Posted Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:14:00 GMT by Michael Evans

Radioactive material continues to flow from the stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima Daiichi to contaminate food and water supplies. The radioactice cloud continues to spread. Parents have been told that Tokyo tap water is no longer safe for babies to drink after it was discovered that iodine levels are more than twice the recommended limit.

Further concern about radioactive contamination in Japan

Solange's track for clean water

Solange's track for clean water

Posted Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:22:00 GMT by Andy Tillett

Solange Knowles is releasing a tack, 'Kenya' to raise money for clean water across Africa. The singer, sister of Beyonce Knowles, teamed up with musicians Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear and Twin Shadow on the song - part of the 'Donate To Download' initiative - and has been bombarding her celebrity friends with emails urging them to get it.

Solange's track for clean water

Concern about radiation levels in Japanese food

Concern about radiation levels in Japanese food

Posted Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:43:00 GMT by Michael Evans

There is mounting concern about levels of radioactive materials that have been released into the Earth's atmosphere folloing the Fukushima nuclear emergency. The situation is confused, with Japanese people not knowing who they can trust.

Concern about radiation levels in Japanese food

Japanese radiation fears may be greatly exaggerated

Japanese radiation fears may be greatly exaggerated

Posted Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:19:00 GMT by Michael Evans

Apart from the 300 brave workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant, Japanese people are being told that there is little risk to them from radiation, but many Japanese do not fully trust what they are being told. Intense radiation exposure can be very nasty. High doses can penetrate the body like an X-ray and can attack very quickly.

Japanese radiation fears may be greatly exaggerated

World Water Day 2011: African cities see increase in 'water poor'

World Water Day 2011: African cities see increase in 'water poor'

Posted Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:33:00 GMT by Martin Leggett

Some of the most water-deprived populations are to be found in Africa's growing cities, according to a new UN report published the day before World Water Day 2011. As cities on the continent grow, a new route forward is mapped to help the growing numbers of 'water poor', taking an ecological approach to solving clean water and sanitation issues.

World Water Day 2011: African cities see increase in 'water poor'

Doctors could be held responsible for patients driving with cognitive impairments

Doctors could be held responsible for patients driving with cognitive impairments

Posted Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:49:00 GMT by Nikki Bruce

New research suggests that doctors evaluate their patients suffering from liver disease, for cognitive impairments to improve road safety. A number of state laws are lacking in driving safety measures with regards to those people who drive with cognitive impairment; in fact only six of the 50 states contacted had laws which required drivers with medical impairments to report their conditions.

Doctors could be held responsible for patients driving with cognitive impairments

A new, more effective vaccine to combat TB could soon be created

A new, more effective vaccine to combat TB could soon be created

Posted Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:44:00 GMT by Nikki Bruce

The discovery of a new protein could be the key to a new generation of TB vaccine. Although most of the world's population has been immunised against TB through the use of the BGC vaccine, it is estimated that at least 9 million new cases worldwide are reported each year, killing up to 4,700 people per day. This has sparked calls for a new vaccine to be created so that deaths caused by TB can be effectively prevented.

A new, more effective vaccine to combat TB could soon be created

EPA/DOE Radiation Monitors Show No Radiation Levels of Concern Have Reached U.S.

EPA/DOE Radiation Monitors Show No Radiation Levels of Concern Have Reached U.S.

Posted Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:32:00 GMT by Kirsten E. Silven

Current EPA/DOE monitoring equipment is showing trace amounts of radiation that poses no threat to public health at the current levels. The EPA's RadNet system and the DOE's radiation detection equipment is located throughout the country and designed to notify scientists in close to real time of any elevated levels of radiation.

EPA/DOE Radiation Monitors Show No Radiation Levels of Concern Have Reached U.S.

Electron Bolt Lightning Science

Electron Bolt Lightning Science

Posted Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:55:00 GMT by Michelle Simon

South Africa: Lightning-thunderstorms have become a horror factor in South Africa with many rural villages, urban squatter settlements and those without shelter (homeless, street-kids) exposed to the natural elements.

Electron Bolt Lightning Science

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Optimistic people wired differently

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Posted Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:12:00 GMT by Gracie Valena

WFP declares Somalia famine catastrophic, seeks funds for effective intervention

Posted Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:39:00 GMT by Peter Kahare

Brain's plasticity gives new hope for Alzheimer's fight

Posted Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:34:00 GMT by Colin Ricketts

Spider venom-derived neurotoxin may assist research into heart, other diseases

Posted Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:23:01 GMT by Tamara Croes

A new, more effective vaccine to combat TB could soon be created

Posted Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:44:00 GMT by Nikki Bruce

Mount Everest - A Living Laboratory

Posted Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:39:01 GMT by Michael Evans

New EPA US-Mexico Border Environmental Health Report Details Successes

Posted Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:21:00 GMT by Kirsten E. Silven

Antibody therapy to treat Hendra virus in humans

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German E coli strain is a virulent blend of 2 other bugs

Posted Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:51:00 GMT by Martin Leggett