Science and technology are often hard sells for students. But according to a research scientist at the University of Oklahoma, hip-hop might be the missing link for making science both relevant and engaging for students.
Tell Me More guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with Danielle Lee, a…
Rapping Biology? Why Science And Hip-Hop Works
Questions have been raised about the advice given to patients with a cold and sore throat, in research published in the British Medical Journal. A study carried out by the University of Southampton showed that compared with paracetamol, ibuprofen or a combination of both ibuprofen and…
Source:Ibuprofen no good in treating colds or sore throats
CAMDEN, NJ—A Bergen County, New Jersey man claiming to run New Jersey-based hedge funds using a secret computer program to invest in foreign currency was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for his role in defrauding victims of more than $3.5 million, United States Attorney Paul J Fishman…
Bergen County Man Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison for His Role in $3.5 Million Foreign Currency Investment Ponzi Scheme
For long, brain development and maturation has been thought to be a one-way process, in which plasticity diminishes with age. The possibility that the adult brain can revert to a younger state and regain plasticity has not been considered, often. In a paper appearing on November 4 in the online…
Source:Antidepressant drug induces a juvenile-like state in neurons of the prefrontal cortex
WILMINGTON, DE—Charles M Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Stephanie Patterson, age 41, of Royersford, Pennsylvania, pled guilty today to violations of 18 USC § 286 (false claims conspiracy), 18 USC § 1341 (mail fraud), and 42 United StatesC….
Pennsylvania Woman Pleads Guilty in $1.8 Million Tax Fraud Conspiracy
In 3-year follow-up after bariatric surgery, substantial weight loss was observed among individuals who were severely obese, with most of the change occurring during the first year; however, there was variability in the amount of weight loss, as well as in diabetes, blood pressure, and lipid…
Source:Substantial weight loss for severely obese individuals three years after bariatric surgery
Since then, the United States government has spent over $100 billion on research. For a look at the course of the war on cancer, watch the video above. And here, a veteran medical reporter who wrote a 2009 series about cancer, Forty Years’ War, reflects on the progress of recent years. …
Source:Retro Report: Hopeful Glimmers in Long War on Cancer
My friend Julie van Amerongen, whom I met through our association with Conscious Capitalism, asked me to participate in her intriguing study of practices. I’m glad she did, for it got me to reflect on what practices I’ve discovered over the years that help me. One of them is rising…
Source:Early to Rise: My father and Ben Franklin Were Right
Hong Kong (HKSAR) – A strong delegation of close to 100 members from Hong Kong has enchanted the audiences at the 7th World Harmonica Festival (WHF) from October 30 to November 3 (Trossingen time) in the Black Forest town of Trossingen in southern Germany. With its long and vivid…
Hong Kong sets the tone at World Harmonica Festival
We’ve heard of Greek yogurt, but this is ridiculous. The photo below, posted to Reddit by user DubSak, allegedly shows the contents of a sorority house fridge. Apparently, college girls like yogurt in freakish quantities. It’s not all the tangy stuff known as Greek yogurt, but…
Source:Sorority Girls Really Like Yogurt, Apparently (PHOTO)
Texting — or textese, as some call it — is a wonderful shorthand method for communicating with others, especially your partner or special someone. What better way to let them know you’re thinking of them, that you love them, that they are the highlight of your day?
Which is a great thing…
Why You Shouldn’t Text Your Argument
Nasrudin was a mythical figure, a teacher from the Sufi tradition, who supposedly lived in what we now call the Middle East. One day one of his students walks into a room where Nasruddin was reaching into a bag of hot chili peppers and eating them one at a time. There were tears streaming down…
When He (or She) Just Doesn’t Want to Talk About It
Since then, the United States government has spent over $100 billion on research. For a look at the course of the war on cancer, watch the video above. And here, a veteran medical reporter who wrote a 2009 series about cancer, Forty Years’ War, reflects on the progress of recent years. …
Retro Report: Hopeful Glimmers in Long War on Cancer
My friend Julie van Amerongen, whom I met through our association with Conscious Capitalism, asked me to participate in her intriguing study of practices. I’m glad she did, for it got me to reflect on what practices I’ve discovered over the years that help me. One of them is rising…
Early to Rise: My father and Ben Franklin Were Right
We’ve heard of Greek yogurt, but this is ridiculous. The photo below, posted to Reddit by user DubSak, allegedly shows the contents of a sorority house fridge.
Apparently, college girls like yogurt in freakish quantities. It’s not all the tangy stuff known as Greek yogurt, but…
Sorority Girls Really Like Yogurt, Apparently (PHOTO)
A few months ago, my son was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor. I’m not going to go into the details of where it is, what it is, or how rare it is, because it doesn’t lessen the pain of watching your child go through something like this. I will tell you however, that he is doing great…
My Child Has a Tumor: What NOT to Say to Me
The following statement might surprise you, but I’ve found it to be true again and again: The more troubled or distressed people feel about something, the less serious the problem turns out to be.
The reason for this, assuming that I’m correct, is that “problematic”…
A ‘Serious’ Problem
Today I was at a meeting where everyone checked their phones and emailed throughout. Grrr. I had lunch with a friend who talked to someone else on the phone when it rang in the midst of our conversation. Grrr. A recent movie premiere (Her) shows a man who falls in love with his cell…
Silence and the Soul
November 4, 2013 6:51 AM
Daily health headlines: HPV vaccine usually given in three doses but new study found protection from one, study shows obese young girls may face early puberty, plus more of today’s top stories
Video: Obesity may trigger early puberty in girls
November 4, 2013 8:38 AM
A new study funded by the National Cancer Institute says just one dose of the HPV vaccine may be as effective as the standard three-dose regimen in stopping infections that can lead to cervical cancer. CBS News contributor Dr. David Agus, who heads the Westside Cancer…
Video: HPV vaccine: One dose just as effective as three, report says
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Authors of article on dangers, considerations for driving
WHO: Orthopaedic surgeons Geoffrey S. Marecek, MD, and Michael F. Schafer, MD, co-authors of a new literature review outlining the…
Is it safe to drive with my arm in a cast?
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A 36 second video that runs from Nov. 1 to Nov. 4 shows Tropical Depression 18E strengthen into Tropical Storm Sonia and make landfall on Nov. 4.
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NASA video shows birth and death of Tropical Storm Sonia
Using a test called DNA barcoding, a kind of genetic fingerprinting that has also been used to help uncover labeling fraud in the commercial seafood industry, Canadian researchers tested 44 bottles of popular supplements sold by 12 companies. They found that many were not what they claimed to…
Source:Herbal Supplements Are Often Not What They Seem
By Tiffany McHugh for YourTango.com. Post originally published on YourTango.com It turns out that in the age-old battle of the sexes, men seem to be having a more difficult time coping with the dissolution of a marriage. According to a recent study from the Journal of Men’s Health,…
Source:3 Reasons Divorce Is Harder On Men Than Women
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Karen Kreegerkaren.kreeger@uphs.upenn.edu 215-349-5658University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine IMAGE: This image shows a histologic section of intestinal tissue isolated from healthy mice stained to visualize intestinal epithelial cells (EpCAM,…
Source:Penn researchers identify molecular link between gut microbes and intestinal health
By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte wants to press “pause” on rolling out the U.S. healthcare reform law as anxiety grows about troubles with the federal website for buying insurance and possibly low numbers of people signing up for…
Source:Republican Ayotte seeks ‘time out’ on Obamacare as anxieties grow
By Jeffrey Hodgson TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Sunday urged his police chief to release a video that media reports say show him smoking what appears to be crack cocaine and issued an apology for unspecified “mistakes” in his past. But Ford, who has…
Source:Toronto mayor urges police to release video, apologizes for ‘mistakes’
At this time of year, people are fond of telling scary tales – generally involving ghosts, ghouls, and other frightening creatures. Neuroscientists have their own horror stories, however – more niche, perhaps, but no less terrifying. Picture the scene: a group of PhD students are gathered…
Source:Tales of Neuro-Terror
I love movies. Love to sit and watch them at home. Love to have movie nights with my friends. Love going to see them at the theater. On that last one, I think we can all agree on one thing: movie theaters are money pits. Essentially you just walk up to their front door and start throwing all…
Source:Going to the Movies: The Story of a Money Pit (Part 1)
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Many of the ills of the modern world — starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease — are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts. The…
Source:Climate Change Report Predicts Warming Will Only Make Human Ills Worse
By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C., Nov 3 (Reuters) – The size of wild shrimp hauls off the southern Atlantic coast have plunged in recent months as a parasite has made it harder for the creatures to breathe, according to state wildlife officials in Georgia and South…
Source:Shrimp Parasite Causing Mass Die-Off In Georgia, South Carolina As Black Gill Disease Spreads
Well, we made it through Pinktober, and past the parades of pink ribbon crap, and people bragging about how they’re “helping” the cause. But what really happened during the month of October to actually help breast cancer? Was it enough? Did someone find a cure? Did someone find…
Source:Cancer Messed With the Wrong B*tch: Awareness Is the New Ignorance
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Rachel Steinhardtrsteinhardt@licr.org 212-450-1582Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research New technique will accelerate personalized medicine November 3, 2013, New York, NY and San Diego, Calif. A new technique successfully takes on a longstanding challenge in DNA…
Source:Is DNA from mom or dad?
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Veronica McGuirevmcguir@mcmaster.ca 90-552-591-402-2169McMaster University How and why metformin needs to interact with insulin to be effective Hamilton, Nov. 3, 2013 About 120 million people around the world with Type 2 diabetes and two million in Canada take…
Source:McMaster scientists unlock secrets of diabetes drug
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Rachel TanRachel.Tan.C.H@nccs.com.sg 659-754-0842SingHealth SINGAPORE – A team of scientists from the National Cancer Centre Singapore, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Fundeni Clinical Institute (Romania) and Koen Kaen University (Thailand), have…
Source:Singapore scientists expose molecular secrets of bile duct cancers from different countries
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Caron Lettpressoffice@york.ac.uk 44-190-432-2029University of York An international team of researchers has used pioneering electron microscopy techniques to discover an important mechanism behind the reaction of metallic nanoparticles with the environment….
Source:York researchers discover important mechanism behind nanoparticle reactivity
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Johanna Wildejohanna.wilde@chalmers.seChalmers University of Technology IMAGE: This is a drawing representing structure of properly functioning protein (left) which is optically invisible to high power laser light, and toxic amyloid (right)…
Source:Lasers might be the cure for brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Sarah McDonnells_mcd@mit.edu 617-253-8923Massachusetts Institute of Technology CAMBRIDGE, MA — Nitric oxide (NO) is one of the most important signaling molecules in living cells, carrying messages within the brain and coordinating immune system functions. In…
Source:Nanotube-based sensors can be implanted under the skin for a year
Singapore-led scientific team discovers critical genes in bile duct cancers from different parts of the world. New molecular insights point to potentially different treatment regimens for the same cancer type depending on underlying genetic alterations.
Source: Researchers expose molecular secrets of bile duct cancers from different countries
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a type of mutation that develops after breast cancer patients take anti-estrogen therapies. The mutations explain one reason why patients often become resistant to…
Source: Mutations linked to breast cancer treatment resistance
About 120 million people around the world with Type 2 diabetes – and two million in Canada – take the drug metformin to control their disease.
Source: Team unlocks secrets of diabetes drug: How and why metformin needs to interact with insulin to be effective
A new technique successfully takes on a longstanding challenge in DNA sequencing – determining whether a particular genetic sequence comes from an individual’s mother or father. The method, described in a Ludwig Cancer Research study in Nature…
Source: Is DNA from mom or dad? New technique will accelerate personalized medicine
It’s well established that humans maintain a symbiotic relationship with the trillions of beneficial microbes that colonize their bodies. These organisms, collectively called the microbiota, help digest food, maintain the immune system, fend off…
Source: Study finds molecular link between gut microbes and intestinal health
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Many of the ills of the modern world — starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease — are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts.
The…
Climate Change Report Predicts Warming Will Only Make Human Ills Worse
By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C., Nov 3 (Reuters) – The size of wild shrimp hauls off the southern Atlantic coast have plunged in recent months as a parasite has made it harder for the creatures to breathe, according to state wildlife officials in Georgia and South…
Shrimp Parasite Causing Mass Die-Off In Georgia, South Carolina As Black Gill Disease Spreads
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New technique will accelerate personalized medicine
November 3, 2013, New York, NY and San Diego, Calif. A new technique successfully takes on a longstanding challenge in DNA…
Is DNA from mom or dad?
Well, we made it through Pinktober, and past the parades of pink ribbon crap, and people bragging about how they’re “helping” the cause. But what really happened during the month of October to actually help breast cancer? Was it enough? Did someone find a cure? Did someone find…
Cancer Messed With the Wrong B*tch: Awareness Is the New Ignorance
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SINGAPORE – A team of scientists from the National Cancer Centre Singapore, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Fundeni Clinical Institute (Romania) and Koen Kaen University (Thailand), have…
Singapore scientists expose molecular secrets of bile duct cancers from different countries
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How and why metformin needs to interact with insulin to be effective
Hamilton, Nov. 3, 2013 About 120 million people around the world with Type 2 diabetes and two million in Canada take…
McMaster scientists unlock secrets of diabetes drug
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An international team of researchers has used pioneering electron microscopy techniques to discover an important mechanism behind the reaction of metallic nanoparticles with the environment….
York researchers discover important mechanism behind nanoparticle reactivity
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This is a drawing representing structure of properly functioning protein (left) which is optically invisible to high power laser light, and toxic amyloid (right)…
Lasers might be the cure for brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
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CAMBRIDGE, MA — Nitric oxide (NO) is one of the most important signaling molecules in living cells, carrying messages within the brain and coordinating immune system functions. In…
Nanotube-based sensors can be implanted under the skin for a year
