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Gila monster looks like hell and bites the same. This lizard and its cousins, the monitor lizards are the only venomous known lizards (would it be a surprise to know that snakes evolved from their ancestors?). Exenatide, a synthetic chemical imitating a compound encountered in the venomous saliva of the Gila monster ... |
13 July 2007
03:01 GMT |
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Does an erection solve a man's sexual problems? Apparently, it doesn't, as found by a research made by Dr. Hayley Matic from Deakin's School of Psychology under the supervision of Professor Marita McCabe. It appears that oral drugs, known as PDE5 inhibitors, can bring back a man's "sexual function... |
12 July 2007
13:11 GMT |
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The famous popular video sharing service YouTube is now involved in an interesting case after a clip showing seven students from the Tony Blair's children's school taking drugs was published on the official page. All the pupils were suspended but the police officers said there is no official case concerning... |
11 July 2007
10:31 GMT |
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Being addicted to sex can be almost normal if it does not affect your social life and mental health. But other types of addictions hint directly to your brain. And some of us can be genetically vulnerable to many narcotic chemicals. There is a wave of new researches revealing the physical aspects of addiction and exp... |
6 July 2007
14:11 GMT |
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This is the agony of the medical world: finding a cure or a vaccine against HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). Now, the latest hit against the virus is an experimental drug that suppressed it to undetectable levels in people with highly drug-resistant strains. The new chemical, TMC125 (etravirine), is the first of i... |
6 July 2007
04:59 GMT |
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Even shameful moments, like not having an erection or premature ejaculation can leave you with haunting memories that impair your sex life for a while. But what about the victims of a rape or the loss of a beloved one, when the effects on a person can go from excessive fear to depression and antisocial behavior? Now ... |
4 July 2007
04:26 GMT |
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Jellyfish do not have the "common sense" to always show themselves in the size of a (little) plate. Sometimes they can be enormous monsters, 2m (6 ft) in diameter and 200 kg (450 pounds) heavy. This is the case of the Nemopilema nomurai. Such monsters can easily break fishing nets and kill the fish captured inside th... |
3 July 2007
09:36 GMT |
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Some may feel offended if called alcoholics. And for good reason, as a new research made at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) established a first classification of the alcoholic people in US, resulting five distinct subtypes of the condition. "Our findings should help dispel the popular n... |
2 July 2007
06:13 GMT |
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Exercising means more than strong muscles and bones: it means a much better health. Exercising fights against impotence, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, bone diseases, arthritis, cancer, while boosting mood, memory and longevity. Physical exercises are also known to have an effect similar to that of antide... |
29 June 2007
07:01 GMT |
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In three days, heroin has hooked you. To remove the danger, opium production must be stopped. But the fight against opium crops is a sweet-bitter one: when they are eradicated in one place, they pop up in another. An UN report shows that while the opium production in the Golden Triangle (Burma-Laos-Vietnam) has been ... |
27 June 2007
02:59 GMT |
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Filling the shopping cart has turned into an act of faith. But while buying food, you can be misled. Because many times you do not really know what you eat. I'm not referring to the mad cow disease or bird flu, which appear in all news and daily capture our attention, but on the way we are cheated by food produc... |
23 June 2007
06:58 GMT |
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This is tearing you apart: how many sex partners has your partner had? A new nationwide survey, employing high-tech methods to require candid answers on sexual activity and illegal drug use, discovered that 29 % of American men report having 15 or more female sexual partners in a lifetime, while only 9 % of women rep... |
23 June 2007
05:13 GMT |
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The drive of getting over your opponents is as old as humankind. Power, a higher rank in the hierarchy, is strongly motivating the human males. "Whether it is in combat, business, sports, or even marriage, trying to gain an advantage is a no-brainer. It is an innate human trait," said Charles Yesalis, an expert on pe... |
23 June 2007
04:34 GMT |
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Drugs are even more deadly than viruses. So, why not a vaccine against them? That's what a team at Baylor College of Medicine, Canada, has developed: two novel vaccines designed to fight cocaine and methamphetamine dependencies. The new vaccines not only relieve addiction but also decrease withdrawal symptoms. T... |
22 June 2007
07:04 GMT |
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Do you know why your teen kids drink alcohol, smoke, take drugs and have sex? All these make them feel maturer than they really are, as revealed by a Canadian research. With getting older, teens deepen the gap between their real age and their self-perceived age.The team at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and th... |
19 June 2007
15:06 GMT |
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It should be better if we ate to live, but for some people, life isn't worth living without food, and a lot of it. An American review addressing a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel found that the obesity pill boost suicidal thoughts or actions. "The 20-milligram dose of the drug, Zimulti, produced cli... |
13 June 2007
08:16 GMT |
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Khat use is older than coffee. This plant has been employed as a stimulant for centuries in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen). Its fresh leaves and tops are chewed or, less frequently, dried and consumed as tea, to achieve a state of euphoria and stimulation, the way coca leaves are used in South A... |
6 June 2007
03:59 GMT |
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The "magic mushrooms" are gilled fungi that induce psychotic effects due to the alkaloid called psilocybin. Psilocybin occurs in high levels in some species of Psilocybe and Panaeolus, and in lower levels in Conocybe, Gymnopilus and Inocybe. Psilocybe, Panaeolus, Conocybe grow in varied habitats, from dung to humus. ... |
1 June 2007
11:23 GMT |
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. A common antipsychotic chemical used in emergency rooms against methamphetamine overdose has been found to damage neurons in those brain zones involved in regulating movement. The new findings were noticed in experiments on rats and point that only mixing the drug, halo... |
31 May 2007
07:19 GMT |
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Many painkillers have undesirable side effects, because they don't have the ability to target just the damaged areas. That's why researchers are trying to find a painkiller that would work just on the injured tissue, leaving the rest of the body unaffected. A new class of painkillers speculates the pH diffe... |
31 May 2007
06:42 GMT |
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Methamphetamine is one of the most powerful drugs and is prone to addiction. Yet, synthesizing it can take just a few hours and simple ingredients: striker plates from matchbooks, the guts of lithium batteries, drain cleaner. "If someone was truly interested in manufacturing meth, it would not be that hard", said Mat... |
29 May 2007
06:58 GMT |
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Quitting marijuana can be extremely difficult. But now better therapies against this addiction in humans could be based on a recently discovered chemical that decreases the desire for marijuana and impedes its brain effects. Rats that received the chemical extracted from larkspur, a plant in the buttercup family, los... |
23 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Poison can be turned into a cure. This is also the case of the yew trees, extremely toxic gymnosperms, whose only non-toxic part is the comestible seed's aril (resembling a berry). Their bark (in the case of some species) contains a chemical that fights cancer. A new research shows that the dirt from the place ... |
25 April 2007
03:11 GMT |
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Worldwide, each minute, six young people aged 15 to 24 get infected with HIV. Researchers have been studying a way to improve the life quality of the HIV patients the so-called "autovaccine". Researches in this direction have been made in Barcelona (Spain), Laussane (Switzerland) and New York. This method consists in... |
11 April 2007
10:36 GMT |
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The weakness of the males is increasingly showing up. A new research reveals that, in the past three decades, the number of male births has decreased yearly in the U.S. and Japan. The University of Pittsburgh-led research found significantly fewer boys being born relative to girls and that a rising percentage of dead... |
10 April 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Each day, more persons accusing chronic pains turn their attention to the mysterious homeopathy. In countries like Germany, France or UK, 30-70 % of the patients have visited at least once a homeopath. This science was developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) and is not a natural medicine, like ... |
6 April 2007
09:48 GMT |
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You may be wanting to forget shameful moments of your bad life but imagine how beneficial forgetting would be for the victim of a rape ...Researchers have revealed that the memory of a traumatic event could be wiped out, even if other associated recollections would not be modified. This has been recently proven in ra... |
31 March 2007
05:21 GMT |
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Women resorting to IVF (in vitro fertilization) take drugs to boost egg maturation in their ovaries. These ovules are extracted by doctors and fertilized in the laboratory; but some women's ovaries cannot generate any egg even under medication, and in such cases the treatment fails. As IVF treatment means $10,00... |
15 March 2007
08:33 GMT |
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Aspirin is a naturally occurring chemical found in the willow bark (in fact, its chemical name, acetylsalicylic acid, comes from "Salix", willow in Latin), whose properties were known for centuries by South American Indians. It is present in a lot of drugs sold without prescription and its use is increasingly growing... |
13 March 2007
10:40 GMT |
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If your PC gets into the water, after that you can throw it to trash. But the future philosophy of making computers may be based on a watery support. Plain nitrogen bubbles, directing the flow of liquid through networks of microscopic microfluidic tubes, could act as computer bits by sending liquid in one way or anot... |
9 March 2007
05:13 GMT |
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You know that Blizzard's MMO has easily reached 8 million subscribers, right? Well, hold on to your pantyhose because with 3.5 million units of WoW: The Burning Crusade sold, the subscriber population has reached the record number of 8.5 million. Here's how the 3.5 Burning Crusade sold on the globe: Europe ... |
8 March 2007
07:17 GMT |
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Coca is a bush growing naturally in northern Andes and indigenous people in the area have been chewing coca leaves as a mild stimulant for centuries. Coca tea is commonly served in its native region as a coffee surrogate. But the small fresh green leaves, collected in the fashion of green tea, are also manufactured i... |
7 March 2007
09:42 GMT |
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You're playing Ramiro (Ram), the black sheep of the family. Your DEA agent of a brother, Tommy, is desperate to get your help in bringing down a Mexican drug cartel. You never behave and since you're not officially working for the agency, you have to follow no rules. The rich storyline takes you through 18 ... |
6 March 2007
06:47 GMT |
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Genes dictates everything in you: from height, eye and hair color to the way you smile or grin. And not only. A recent research made on rats by a team at Cambridge University points that physical differences in the brain dictated by genes may rise the chances of an individual to fall to drugs consume. Variations in t... |
3 March 2007
07:13 GMT |
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