Beware cancer, insomnia and liver disease UH students are taking aim
HOUSTON, June 1, 2004 Targeting a range of diseases and disorders, three University of Houston students won awards at a recent symposium for research in liver disease, cancer and insomnia. ... ...The Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC) recently hosted its 9th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Undeserved and Cancer in Washington, D.C. The ICC promotes policies, programs, partnershi...Beware of leap year when predicting climate change, warns researcher
A word of warning to scientists studying climate change: Dont forget to factor leap year into your calculations. Otherwise, you will end up either overestimating or underestimating the pace of global warming, says Stanford researcher Raphael Sagarin.... ...Writing in the Dec. 6 issue of the journal Nature, Sagarin focuses his attention on recent climate studies documenting the early arrival of sp...Beware the frozen vegetable ice pack to ease pain
. ... Reaching for that bag of frozen vegetables to ease bruising and inflammation could end .up giving you frostbite, if left on for longer than 30 minutes. A case study reported .in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests that this type of home remedy should .be applied with caution.. The authors describe a young physical education teacher who used a bag of frozen .chips, wrapped in a...."There is nothing like sport to improve your breathing!" people often say. Yet this is one piece of advice many top athletes must wish they never listened to, as there is no longer any doubt that an alarming proportion of them experience quite the opposite effect: too much training is actually bad for their breathing.. .A broad-ranging survey conducted in Norway among 1600 top athletes by the N...Cockroaches beware! This house has been treated with catnip
. Study Finds Same Catnip Extract That Attracts Cats Also Repels German.Cockroaches . .NEW ORLEANS, La., August 23 -- Researchers have confirmed an old wives' tale:.Placing catnip around the house helps keep cockroaches away.. .Today at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's.largest scientific society, Iowa State University researchers Chris Peterson and.Joel Coats, P....A weekend hiker might reach for a pine cone from the forest floor, only to be.rewarded by a prick from its sharp spines. It is interesting to learn that.birds and other forest creatures face the same dilemma when feeding on the seeds.that these cones harbor. A new study found that pine cones, which bear the.progeny of their parent tree, have evolved highly specialized ways to ward off.predato....St. Paul, MN (October 28, 1998) -- Halloween lovers everywhere are pondering.purchases of that perfect pumpkin to carve into a grinning or ghoulish.jack-o-lantern. But, beware, new microbes are gobbling up those bright orange.pumpkins. .Researchers reported in the May 1998 issue of the journal Plant Disease that a.new disease, called "yellow vine," was attacking pumpkins and related crops in.O...