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Got a decision to make? Get some sugar in your system: study

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

“We did the study to see if the blood glucose level not only regulates eating behavior but also decision-making. In other words, can you wait longer to get a bigger reward when your blood glucose levels are higher?

Read more on Physorg

Alert — Obesity drug carries heart risks: regulators

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

The risks of sibutramine, marketed as Meridia in Canada, outweigh its benefits, the European Medicines Agency said Thursday, after reviewing the drug’s safety.
“Doctors should no longer prescribe, and pharmacists should no longer dispense, the medicine,” the agency said in a release.

Read more on CBC

Humans May Be Biologically Able to Run 40 MPH, New Study Shows

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Human running speeds top out near 28 mph, if the record-breaking feats of Jamaican speed demon Usain Bolt prove anything. But scientists say that the biological limits of human running could theoretically reach 35 or even 40 mph.

Read more on Popsci

Using a virus to cure an infection

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

How to heal an infection that defies antibiotics? Another infection. Doctors in Eastern Europe have used lab-grown viruses to safely cure millions of wounds.

Read more on Popsci

Did gorillas teach humans the basics of fair play on the sporting field?

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Gorillas play competitive games just like humans, although they are more likely to also be good sports, say scientists.   Apes advance the concept of fair play by helping to keep games going and giving younger competitors the advantage, psychologists at the University of St Andrews claim.

Read more on the Daily Mail

Is Monsanto’s engineered maize toxic?

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

MONSANTO, the giant of genetically modified crops, has for the first time been forced to release raw data from toxicology studies it carried out on three strains of its modified maize. An external analysis of the data claims it shows that eating the maize could result in damage to the liver and kidneys, but this has been dismissed as unsupportable by a government agency and independent toxicologists.

Read more on New Scientist

Researchers find that common stomach pathogen may protect against tuberculosis

Friday, February 12th, 2010

It’s been implicated as the bacterium that causes ulcers and the majority of stomach cancers, but studies by researchers at Stanford University, UC Davis, and the University of Pittsburgh have found that Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) also may play a protective role – against the worldwide killer, tuberculosis

Read more on EScience News.

Shedding Light on Why Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Help the Heart

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

The more omega-3 that patients with coronary heart disease consumed, the slower their telomeres shrank. Telomeres are structures at the end of a chromosome that get shorter the more times a cell divides, making them a marker of biological age.

Read more on Health.com

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