Wake up in an ungodly hour of the night to find yourself gasping for breath. Or it could be your abdominal pain is unbearable. Or that your blood pressure shoots up to an unprecedented level? Without health insurance, whose monthly premiums are skyrocketing high and seemed unaffordable to those who only earn a measely monthly income, […]
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Lung diseases kill 400,000 American yearly
Lung-related diseases kill as much as 400,000 Americans each year, the American Lung Association reported. And more than 35 million Americans ar suffering from chronic lung diseases. Among the many types of lung diseases include asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, lung cancer, respiratory failure, edema, embolism, hypertension, fibrosis, sarcoidosis, mesothelioma and asbestosis. The […]
New pill to boost female sex drive
After an Australian company Acrux developed a special spray containing male sex hormone testosterone, scientists have again discovered a pill that could enhance females’ libido. BBC reported that hormone-releasing pill was tested to female monkeys who showed more mating behavior and ate less. “When it was given to monkeys, they displayed mating behavior such […]
Cook Inlet Beluga Needs Your Help
The Cook Inlet is a place in Anchorage Alaska. That’s not what this story is about. There are some beluga whales in that inlet that are on its way to becoming endangered. And you could help get the Cook Inlet beluga on the endangered species list by writing a letter to the Bush Administration supporting […]
World’s Largest Seed Collection Receives a Multimillion Dollar Grant from Gates
A series of multi-million dollar grants have made it possible for few dozen of the world’s major food crops, almost always propagated clonally, to be stored as seed in Norway’s famous Svalbard (also called the “Doomsday Vault” in popular media) facility. Originally opened in 2006, Svalbard is just one of many germplasm repositories of valuable […]
TB wake-up call for Africa
The recent emergence of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in South Africa is not only the result of poor treatment adherence by TB patients. It stems from years of neglect endured by TB programmes throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The current scale of the region’s drug resistance challenge is poorly understood, and African TB programmes are […]