A respected Japanese scientist, who works with the World Health Organization, says 300 people have died of H5N1 bird flu in China, including seven cases caused by human-to-human transmission.

While searching for diabetes and cancer treatment, scientists from Dynamis Therapeautics, Inc., have stumbled onto what they call an amazing anti-aging cream.

The rationing of operations in east Suffolk will save £47.9m and has come about because of “pressing financial problems” in the region.

A study by researchers at University College London involving 199 healthy middle-aged men and women demonstrated that increase in bad cholesterol levels can be correlated with people who experience higher stress.

We bring to you the best of the articles across Taragana Blog Network for the fortnight ending 20th November 2005. It was tougher than we thought as we had a hard-time creating a small list. Next time we will go for weekly schedule. This is our first attempt to highlight some of the posts which [...]

Decaffeinated coffee may cause an increase in harmful LDL cholesterol by increasing a specific type of blood fat linked to the metabolic syndrome according a new study presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2005.
The Coffee and Lipoprotein Metabolism (CALM) study included 187 people, randomized to three groups. One group drank three to [...]

“It’s generally understood that females respond more strongly to acute (immediate, short-term) stress than males,” said Helmer Figueiredo, PhD, of UC’s department of psychiatry.
“Our research shows that this may also be the case in more clinically relevant chronic-stress conditions.”

“This is a breakthrough of inestimable significance, not only for science and agriculture but also for all those people who depend on rice as their primary dietary staple,” Joachim Messing, one of the scientists involved in the project, said.

“We actually found that sugar snacks, not artificially sweetened snacks, are better self-medications for the two most common types of stress–psychological and physical,” explains Yvonne Ulrich-Lai, a postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati who led the study.