Day June 26, 2015

Creative people innately feel a deep connection to their art. As a writer, I feel protective over every story, lyric, poem or article I craft. I feel as though I birthed each of them, therefore it is natural for me…

The Supreme Court of the United States made a historic ruling on same-sex marriage on Friday, voting 5 to 4 in favor of legalizing all unions. Not only does this allow everyone to marry the person they love, regardless of…

“I spent 13 months as a prisoner in the federal system… The longest amount of time I was placed alone in a holding cell was four hours and I was ready to climb the walls of that small room by…

Relocating is something either you or your partner has to do at some point if you want to take a long-distance relationship to the next level; but how do you know if it’s a good idea? Here are a few…

Before: 240 After: 148 The Lifestyle Most of my adult life, I’ve weighed somewhere around 170 pounds. For someone who is 5’9?, that’s not the ideal weight, but I felt okay about myself. For the most part, I was eating things…

My husband, Chris, and I were pretty poor when we got married. We weren’t subsisting solely on ramen noodles and sitting on cardboard furniture, but we definitely didn’t have any extra cash to splurge on a splashy honeymoon. Luckily, my…

Enlarge Obesity rates tend to be higher in communities without access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Credit: iStock.com More Californians than ever are obese, according to a new report by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. The study found…

Barcelona, Spain: Using a concentrated, highly targeted dose of radiation to the breast has equally good results as irradiating the whole area, with no adverse effects on survival and a much better cosmetic outcome, Hungarian …

As inquisitive beings, we are constantly questioning and quantifying the speed of various things. With a fair degree of accuracy, scientists have quantified the speed of light, the speed of sound, the speed at which the earth revolves around the…

Screening families of patients with bowel cancer for a genetic condition would cut their risk of developing bowel, womb, and ovarian cancers, new research has found.

A shisha-pen is an electronic inhaler that vaporises a liquid solution consisting mainly of humectants and flavors into an aerosol mist. Like e-cigarettes, shisha-pens simulate the act of tobacco smoking. In the present study, the contents and vapor of shisha-pens…

TFTRs are the most abundant type of HTH DNA binding proteins in mycobacterial genomes The majority of HTH-containing DNA binding proteins are sub-divided into families based on the structure and spatial arrangement of the helices 18]. InterPro 19] was used…

Reagents The used reagents were purchased from Sigma Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, US if not stated otherwise. L-alanyl-L-glutamine was purchased from Biochrom AG (Berlin, Germany). The rabbit anti-14-3-3 abs for cell incubation and the secondary antibody goat-anti-rabbit IgG-HL (FITC) were…

1 Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kumamoto University, 1-1-1, Honjo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi 860-8556, Kumamoto, Japan 2 Department of Multidisciplinary Treatment for Gastroenterological Cancer, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan 3 Department of Surgical Pathology, Kumamoto University Hospital,…

Oxidative and salt stress induced genome-wide transcriptional changes in A. nidulans, which were highly depended on the type and strength of the stress (Tables 3 and 4, Fig. 2). The observed global stress responses were similar to those found by other researchers…

i Sara Solovitch plays the piano in the Terminal B baggage claim area at San Jose International Airport. Chloe Veltman/KQED hide caption itoggle caption Chloe Veltman/KQED Sara Solovitch plays the piano in the Terminal B baggage claim area at San…

When it comes to breast cancer screening, the density of your breasts affects how well a mammogram can detect cancerous tissues. That’s why Pennsylvania and 20 other states have adopted laws requiring radiologists to include information about breast density in…

CarePoint Health, a fully integrated healthcare system that provides quality, patient-focused healthcare to residents of the Hudson County region, and Fresenius North America, through its subsidiary Shiel Medical Laboratory (Shiel), a reference laboratory offering clinical, anatomic pathology and molecular testing…

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Organized by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), PolyU Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Student Challenge (GSC) 2015 has come to a fruitful close. The Final competition was held on 24 June on PolyU campus, with six finalist teams competing in…

Upheld again by the US Supreme Court on Thursday, President Barack Obama’s landmark health care law has survived numerous political and legal challenges since it was passed by Congress more than five years ago. This “never-ending saga,” in the words…

BEIJING (Reuters) – When Mangshi opened its airport two decades ago, the small tropical city on China’s border with Myanmar was served by few airlines. China’s recent travel boom has changed that – seven carriers brought in more than 1…

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – General Electric Co GE.N said it will help fund a $348 million Australian windfarm, the country’s third largest, after political leaders ended a deadlock over state subsidies that had stalled the $13 billion industry…

WASHINGTON (AP) — If you thought the legal fight over the health care overhaul was finally over, think again. At least four issues related to the Affordable Care Act still are being sorted out in the courts, although none seems…

By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When anthropologist Kameel Ahmady began investigating female genital mutilation in his native Iran he had no idea his own mother and sister had been cut – a reflection of just how shrouded…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s resounding rejection of a conservative attempt to gut President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul won’t stop Republicans from attacking the law they detest. But now, their efforts will be chiefly about teeing up the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief justice who once mangled President Barack Obama’s oath of office has once again helped rescue the president’s signature achievement, his health care law. After an awkward first encounter, these two Harvard Law graduates who rose…

PITTSBURGH–Scientific controversies, from problems replicating results – such as with the now debunked association between autism and MMR vaccines – to researcher misconduct and sensationalism, have led to speculation of “trouble at the lab,” as the Economist put it. The…

IMAGE: TART CHERRY JUICE REDUCED POST-RACE RESPIRATORY TRACT SYMPTOMS AFTER A MARATHON. view more Credit: Courtesy of Cherry Marketing Institute LANSING, Mich. June 25 — While previous research suggests tart cherry juice may help aid muscle recovery after extensive exercise, a…

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Emergency room visits and hospitalizations of children with severe, potentially life-threatening food allergy reactions increased nearly 30 percent in Illinois over five years, reports a Northwestern Medicine study. Hispanic children, who previously had the lowest reported cases of food allergies,…

When I quit smoking with a rudimentary electronic cigarette in 2010, I was so passionate about this viable alternative to combustible tobacco that at the age of 25 I started a vaping company to help others. Slowly I realized that…

SPECIAL FROM Grandparents.com Bedmates of snorers, listen up: You may be able to retire those sleep-saving earplugs for good. A study released in May 2015 found that certain tongue and mouth (oropharyngeal) exercises effectively reduce snoring frequency by 36 percent…

Warsaw (AFP) – A Dutch women’s rights group said Thursday it will fly a drone carrying abortion pills into Poland this weekend to highlight the staunchly Catholic country’s restrictive abortion laws. The drone will set off from the German city…

By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) – Corals that naturally thrive in the hottest tropical waters can be bred with cousins in cooler seas to help them survive mounting threats from global warming, scientists reported on Thursday. Tests of corals in…

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists have identified a key gene used by poppies to make morphine, paving the way for better methods of producing the medically important drug, potentially without the need for cultivating poppy fields. The latest…

(Reuters) – Capital One Financial Corp and Apollo Global Management have bid for General Electric Co’s health-care finance unit, which could fetch more than $11 billion, Bloomberg reported. Initial bids for the unit which offers mortgages and business loans to…

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana University cancer researchers found that a particular microRNA may be a potent therapeutic agent against pancreatic cancer. The research was published June 22 in the journal Scientific Reports. Led by Janaiah Kota, Ph.D., assistant professor of medical…

A new study published in the Articles in Advance section of Transportation Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), improves how air traffic managers cope with unexpected delays and provides them with more…

Scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics can image the optical properties of individual nanoparticles with a novel microscope. Nanomaterials play an essential role in many areas of daily life. There is thus…