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From Australia comes word via several outlets that a high-quality video of Neil Armstrong climbing down to the moon’s surface has been discovered and will soon get public screening:
Sydney Morning Herald / AAP – Judy Skatssoon: New moon walk footage another big step ; Never been seen before, says [...]
A shorty, from the BBC’s science news unit North East, Orkney, & Shetland Division, looks at first to be a refreshing, guilt-free bit on cute critters without the bother of also reading with distress of global warming, wildlife mistreatment by developers, oil spill, evil poachers or other dire context.
The news is simply that on Fetlar [...]
CBS News reports on its website that, according to a survey, nearly one-third of American workers need a cup of coffee to get through the workday.
Nurses and doctors are more dependent on coffee than others, and young people more than older people, CBS tells us.
MSNBC just read this story on the air, with the anchor, Contessa [...]
It’s no secret to long time tracker readers that this particular tracker is a fan of Quirks and Quarks, the CBC radio show that Bob McDonald hosts each Saturday – with exec. producer Jim Handman as drover.
Last Saturday had a good lineup on such things as foiling bed bugs with sex pheromones, an ancient Anasazi [...]
Adding the long-acting anticholinergic tiotropium (Spiriva) to a low-dose inhaled glucocorticoid resulted in better asthma control than doubling the dose of the glucocorticoid, a double-blind, three-way trial found.
Given the extensive care cholesterol campaign that has been developed over several years, the public identified cholesterol as a very harmful substance to the body. But we all have cholesterol.
Cholesterol is a lipid, very necessary for life, as with the body synthesizes bile, a substance secreted by the liver, important for digestion. Its also produces [...]
Anyone with asthma will know that a lot of progress has been made in combating the condition over the last ten years, although the benefit has not been evenly felt, especially by people with severe asthma.Metabolic problems, most likely due to poor diet early in life, are linked to asthma risk even in normal weight children, researchers found.Children's hospital admissions for asthma plummeted after passage of a law banning smoking in all enclosed public places and workplaces, a Scottish study found.The charity coalition that Asthma UK is leading met with the Health Minister Earl Howe yesterday. He made it clear that the Government is under unprecedented financial pressure, with the coming cuts in public spending.
Research also shows a link between accumulation of fat with cancer in the esophagus, pancreas, colon and rectum, uterus, and kidney, such as breast cancer in women who have entered menopause.
There are two recommendations for weight control, which activates the body for at least 30 minutes a day and avoid as much as possible to [...]The NHS is currently planning significant cuts. Although its spending is protected in real terms by government, it still needs to find £20 billion of savings in England over the next three years to meet the extra costs of medical inflation and an ageing population.At least half of children with severe, apparently treatment-resistant asthma can be successfully managed with conventional treatments using a thorough, multidisciplinary approach, researchers suggested.