Scientists from the University of Nottingham have discovered that drinking a cup of coffee can stimulate 'brown fat', the body's own fat-fighting defenses, which could be the key to tackling obesity and diabetes.
OWNERS Colin Goldring and Jason Whittingham say they will remain “full-time” with Warriors and remain open to offers for Morecambe Football Club.
(University of Texas at San Antonio) The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of Engineering has been selected to receive approximately $2.6 million in City funding to complete three water sustainability projects in San Antonio. Five UTSA engineering professors and one environmental scientist from the College of Sciences will work on behalf of the City to demonstrate the viability of permeable parking lots, to use roadside vegetation and trenchless technology to improve water quality, and to mitigate inner city flooding.
For nearly 5 million Americans a year, home healthcare is critical as they recover from illness or injury. New research highlights the important role nutrition plays in helping these patients stay healthy and out of the hospital. The new study finds that when home healthcare patients are screened for malnutrition, educated, and provided with a nutrition care plan that includes nutritional drinks, the risk of being hospitalized was reduced by 24% in the first 30 days and 18% after 90 days.
Despite a time limit imposed in many countries on the freeze-storage of sperm, a new study from China has found that the long-term cryopreservation of semen in a sperm bank does not affect future clinical outcomes. Results of the study are presented today in Vienna at the 35th Annual Meeting of ESHRE by Dr Chuan Huang of the Changsa-Hunan Sperm Bank in China.
The transfer of embryos cultured for five or six days (instead of two or three) after fertilisation in IVF and ICSI has become routine in many fertility clinics. Many (but not all) studies show that transferring these longer and better developed embryos - known as blastocysts - will increase the chance of pregnancy and live birth.
Devoted mum-of-four, 48, dies before seeing baby grandson she 'so wanted to meet' Liverpool Echo
She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer just four weeks ago.
Advocates for obesity prevention and treatment have designed two new resources for medical educators, healthcare providers and community programs that will enhance the level of care for patients, according to two new studies published online today in Obesity, the flagship journal of The Obesity Society. The resources include the first set of competencies for how to care for patients with obesity for undergraduate and graduate medical education, and a proposed standard of care for people with obesity.
Detectives are renewing their appeal for urgent information to trace a violent absconder from a Mental Health Unit
Premier League transfer news and rumours from around the competition
MOUSSA Djenepo is in line to make his first appearance for Mali since signing for Saints.
SAINTS are yet to receive any enquires for goalkeeping duo Fraser Forster and Alex McCarthy.
OED Word of the Day: mono no aware, n. In Japanese art, literary criticism, etc.: a capacity to be, or the experience of being, deeply and spontaneously moved by various poignant manifestations of nature, including human nature...
Campaigners say sectioning a child should only happen when "absolutely necessary"
MANCHESTER UNITED boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is still furious about the club’s nightmare Premier League campaign ahead of the new season.
Oral steroid use in patients with the inflammatory diseases polymyalgia rheumatica and/or giant cell arteritis significantly increased the risk of infection, and the risk increased with higher doses, found a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Micronutrient deficiencies, including vitamins B12 and D, as well as folate, iron, zinc and copper, are common in adults at the time of diagnosis with celiac disease. These deficiencies should be addressed at that time, according to a study by Mayo Clinic researchers.
If the future could be summed up in the 1967 movie The Graduate in just one word — “Plastics” — it might be summed up today in one question: What do we do with all this blasted plastic?
Toledo City Council rightfully is concerned about the quality of rental housing, especially the amount of lead dust and paint chips found in rented homes and apartments, yet the city can’t seem to implement any preventive steps.
The statistics show Toledoans are hard workers, with just over 4.5 percent unemployment but an adult poverty rate over 25 percent. This means that over 20 percent of the adults living in the city work but earn poverty wages.
Mark R. “Bunky” Roehrig, whom people in his Tiffin community knew as “the bike guy,” died on June 12 at his sister's home in Temperance. He was 57.
David Axe
Security,
Think Russia and China.
The U.S. Air Force is developing a new air-to-air missile.
The AIM-260 Joint Air Tactical Missile could fly farther than the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, U.S. forces’ current main air-to-air missile, can do. The extra range could help Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps fighters to counter Chinese and Russian planes armed with their own long-range missiles.
Air Force magazine reporter Rachel Cohen broke the news at an industry event in Ohio. Читать дальше...
