Citrus shows promise for certain childhood cancer
... drugs that are toxic, limonoids apparently do not hurt a person. That's the beautiful potential." Patil calls citrus fruit "a vast reservoir of anti-carcinogens." As a plant physiologist, he has succeeded in isolating and purifying a number of limonoids from citrus so that the biochemists could...Vitamin E loss through smoking increases health risks
... that moderate supplementation with vitamin E will hurt you, and that simply is not true," Traber said. "What's increasingly clear is that many people have health habits, such as smoking or poor diet, which can leave them with inadequate levels of vitamin E. And vitamin E has clear value in helping to pre...Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs
...etter economic benefit. Alaska fishermen have been hurt by competition from farmed fish so that much of the fleet is no longer economically viable, Hilborn says. Last year only 1,200 of the 2,000 licensed boats even bothered to fish and the value of a license to fish there has dropped from a high of $250,...New research presents reserve selection using nonlinear species distribution models
...ites. In other words, groups of populations may be hurt by habitat loss or degradation from between individual populations....Alzheimer's disease linked to inflammation
... inactivity. "We go around saying, 'Well, it can't hurt to do crosswordpuzzles.' There is a way it can hurt," she said. "The way it can hurtis if we start blaming the people who are demented for not exercisingtheir brains enough, or overselling activities that could make adifference where it's really unsu...Environment more than genes determines child's social aggressiveness
...overtly ignore another little girl understands the hurt this type of aggression called social aggression can inflict upon others. Now a study published in the July/August issue of the journal Child Development finds that this form of aggression, usually an outgrowth of physical aggression, is related mo......estructive energy into harmless heat before it can hurt the retina." An estimated 1.75 million Americans have decreased vision from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), with about 200,000 new cases each year. The incidence of AMD is expected to double within the next 25 years as the number of older per...Young athletes ignore skin cancer risk
...athletes said they didn't use sunscreen because it hurt their eyes, commonly thought to be the reason they ignore it. The American Academy of Dermatology Web site recommends avoiding sun exposure from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., "exactly the times when most teams are out practicing, be they soccer players, long-di...A national plan for the R&D needed to protect U.S. critical infrastructure is released
...e hard at work developing new ways to threaten and hurt us. In the area of New and Emerging Threats (which could be anything from new explosives that release no tracer chemicals, new toxins so unusual that we have no data as yet on them, or new software viruses that arrive in pieces and self assemble l...Tobacco industry weakened pesticide regulations, UCSF study shows
...ll provide, literally, no information, so it won't hurt us to do it." A coalition of phosphine users, including tobacco companies, hired Sciences International, a private company headed by Elizabeth Anderson, a former EPA director, to prepare a report challenging the EPA's plan to impose stricter exposure...New approach to ensure challenges to data access and management don't slow scientific progress
...lish articles. The panel notes that these charges hurt both scientists in developing countries and those in wealthier nations as well who would benefit from better information exchange and collaboration. Other data-related challenges identified by the panel include the need for developing common criteri...Ozone levels may raise risk of underweight births
...ealthy people; and in lower concentrations, it can hurt those with heart disease and can affect the nervou...ry oxygen where it is needed in the body; that may hurt the delivery of oxygen to a fetus. However, more research is needed to understand the roles of ozone...Gladstone researchers identify new drug target for Alzheimer's disease
...the immune cells of the brain. They can protect or hurt neurons, depending on which of their powerful defense or attack pathways are activated. The investigators found that amyloid beta triggers a pathway in microglia that makes them attack neurons with poisonous chemicals. A key mediator in this pathway ...Study: Competition for sex is a 'jungle out there'
...reas -- and there are lots right now is going to hurt the situation even more than we think and perhaps drive certain species to extinction."...Eating less fat may lower breast-cancer risk, have little impact on colon-cancer, heart-disease risk
...d Dietary Guidelines for Americans certainly won't hurt when it comes to maintaining a healthy lifestyle and preventing chronic disease." Importantly, the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet did not increase the risk of obesity, metabolic syndrome or diabetes. Although the intervention phase of the study is c......the Indian Ocean Bottlenose dolphins may have been hurt by pollution or underwater noise. Author, Dr. Jonathan David, MCIWEM, suggests that mitigation measures be put in place to help prevent any adverse impacts upon dolphin populations. Operations should be restricted to low tide and suspended during ca...New method for dating art prints and early books borrows know-how from genetic science
...thod to use for dating early prints and it doesn't hurt the prints -- anybody can go to a library, take pictures of the prints made from wood blocks or copper plates, and analyze the changes over time." Hedges' analyses also show that changes in print quality were caused by aging of the wood and copper al...Pollution threatens coral health by preventing lesions from healing, UCF study shows
...oss of coral harms natural reef ecosystems and can hurt Florida's tourism economy if divers decide to go elsewhere. Reefs also help to protect coastal areas from hurricanes, as they break up storm surge in the same manner that sea walls do. "We're losing places where animals can hide and fish can feed,"...Bacterial protein shows promise in treating intestinal parasites
...f mammals or other vertebrates, Cry proteins can't hurt humans. "Crystal proteins had been used for decades to kill insects by organic farmers who sprayed their crops with Bt," said Aroian. "Until now, however, no one has used a purified Cry protein to treat a parasitic nematode." Aroian met Cappello,......in other studies. Moreover, slack air currents may hurt energy efficiency in Europe, where countries like Denmark and Germany have made major wind-power investments. Slower winds evaporate less water from oceans, rivers and lakes. Furthermore, the cooling of the ground provoked by the aerosol particles ...