Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, Mar 15 (ANI): Lowering blood pressure to normal levels does not reduce the combined risk of fatal or nonfatal cardiovascular disease events in type 2 diabetes patients prone to such events, according to new results from the landmark Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) clinical trial.
Similarly, ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, Mar 15 (ANI): In a breakthrough discovery, researchers at the University of Calgary have found the unique genes that allow the opium poppy to make codeine and morphine.
The advance has opened doors to alternate methods of producing these effective painkillers either by manufacturing them in a lab or controlling ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, Mar 15 (ANI): Feeling shy to tell your partner that you are in the mood for sex? Well, your lip colour might just do the trick for you.
A new lipstick has gone on sale that shows when women are in the mood for sex.
In fact, the gloss changes ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, March 15 (ANI): The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is the world’s leading climate change group, is expected to backtrack over its claims about how rainforests would be devastated by rising temperatures, as one of its own scientists has said that the claim is “totally wrong”. ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, Mar. 15 (ANI): Pakistan''s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has called for tighter control of the Afghan border by NATO troops to stop Taliban fighters from escaping its operations in the North West Frontier.
Major General Athar Abbas, the director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), claimed that a ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, March 15 (ANI): Reports indicate that scientists have detected anti-matter particles, known as geo-neutrinos, emitted during nuclear reactions within the Earth’s crust for the first time.
According to a report in the Times, the measurements, by a detector buried more than one kilometre beneath the Italian town of l’Aquila ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, March 15 (ANI): Three-year-old Daisy Uranjek-Hollick has been diagnosed with a rare medical condition, which does not allow her to swallow food.
Daisy is suffering from Pompe Disease, a genetic problem that affects her throat muscles, which means she has to be fed through a tube in her stomach ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_23727" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Jennifer Aniston"][/caption]London, March 15 (ANI): Jennifer Aniston has opened up about her experience while filming her soon-to-be released action flick ‘The Bounty Hunter’.
In the film Aniston, 41, steps into the shoes of investigative journalist Nicole Hurley who has jumped bail to go after a story ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, March 15 (ANI): Biologists from the University of Columbia, Irvine have played a major role in sequencing Hydra genome – a research that found the freshwater polyp shares many genes with humans.
The study has appeared in the March 14 online version of Nature.
In the report UCI biologists ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, Mar 15 (ANI): Argentine footballer Carlos Tevez’s lover has blasted his wife Vanesa and also accused her of trying to derail her fling with the Manchester City player.
Glamour model Mariana Paesani, 27, insists that she is the 100,000-pound-a week striker’s “real woman” and not childhood sweetheart Vanesa, 25, ...
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