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  • Heart healthy lifestyle may help protect kidney patients from dying prematurely

    A new study has found that maintaining a heart healthy lifestyle may also help protect chronic kidney disease patients from developing kidney failure and early death. The findings suggest that patients with kidney disease should be encouraged to improve their heart health. Paul Muntner, PhD (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and his colleagues used the American Heart Association's recently ...

  • Drug target to boost bodys natural flu killer identified

    A known difficulty in fighting influenza (flu) is the ability of the flu viruses to mutate and thus evade various medications that were previously found to be effective. Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have shown recently that another, more promising, approach is to focus on improving drugs that boost the body's natural flu killer system. Emergence of new influenza strains, ...

  • Boys stem cells successfully treat cerebral palsy

    Doctors have been able to successfully treat a 2.5-year-old boy who had suffered from cardiac arrest and brain damage, putting him in a vegetative state, using his own cord blood containing stem cells. The symptoms improved significantly; over the following months, the child learned to speak simple sentences and to move. "Our findings, along with those from a Korean study, dispel the long-held ...

  • Turning off technology hours before bedtime promotes sound sleep

    Using your tablet or smartphone before bed can suppress quality sleep, thus putting you at risk for health problems, a new study suggests. If you want to improve your sleep, researchers advise shutting off your tablet well before bedtime. Nighttime exposure to LED rays illuminating from tablets, computers, TVs, and smartphones can disrupt your body's natural rhythms, and raise your risk for ...

  • Breast cancer cells release protective proteins that suppress tumour growth

    University of East Anglia scientists have made a breakthrough in breast cancer research which shows how some enzymes released by cancerous cells could have a protective function. Their research revealed that an enzyme called MMP-8 (matrix metalloproteinase-8) could be acting as a locator to the immune system, which then becomes activated to attack tumours. It was originally thought that the ...


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The Ladykillers (1955) [DVD]

The Ladykillers (1955) [DVD]

Because England is a country well known for its cultural refinement, black comedy has always been a natural fit there because it can play off those proper manners in absurdly comic ways. Take, for instance, Alexander Mackendricks The Ladykillers, a wonderfully macabre comedy about a gang of professional criminals who meet their demise because their plan is inadvertently foiled by a little ... ...

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  • H7N9 flu virus transmitted through close contact coughing

    Scientists have proved that the H7N9 influenza virus is efficiently transmitted when animals are in close contact-defined in the study as touching, coughing and the exchange of bodily fluids. David Kelvin, PhD, a senior scientist at the Toronto General Research Institute and Professor at the University of Toronto, noted that the study was designed to give them clues about the transmission of ...

  • Secrets behind itching revealed

    Scientists at the National Institutes of Health report have discovered that a small molecule released in the spinal cord of a mouse triggers a process that is later experienced in the brain as the sensation of itch. The small molecule, called natriuretic polypeptide b (Nppb), streams ahead and selectively plugs into a specific nerve cell in the spinal cord, which sends the signal onward through ...

  • Non-invasive technique to detect oral cancer developed

    Scientists have come up with a non-invasive and more effective way to detect oral cancer, says a study. The imaging technique, which is detailed in the Journal of Biomedical Optics, has been developed by Kristen Maitland, assistant professor at the department of biomedical engineering of Texas Aamp;M University. The non-invasive system combines two separate technologies -- confocal microscopy ...

  • TV characters slammed for on-screen unhealthy lifestyles

    Television's top shows have come under fire by health experts for the unhealthy lifestyles of their best loved characters. According to a new research, the serials set a bad example as they exemplify unhealthy diets and high levels of boozing. Scientists analysed more than 830 scenes from four popular soaps - Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks- for over two weeks and found ...

  • Way to make cancer cells more responsive to chemotherapy identified

    A new research from Western University has shed light on why some cancer cells don't respond to chemotherapy, and identified a mechanism to rectify that. Breast cancer characterized as "triple negative" carries a poor prognosis, with limited treatment options. In some cases, chemotherapy doesn't kill the cancer cells the way it's supposed to. Dr. Shawn Li, PhD, and his team at Western's ...

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