www.chinaview.cn 2006-12-23 09:20:02
PRAGUE, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Czech astronomers have discovered a star outburst in the Perseus constellation, three quarters of a year earlier than expected, the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences said on Friday.
The astronomers found that the brightness of the star fluctuates in intervals of minutes to hours, Petr Sobotka from the institute said. |
Last Updated: Friday, December 22, 2006 | 3:03 PM ET
CBC News Psychological treatments may help lower the intensity of chronic low back pain, a review suggests.
Researchers evaluated 22 randomized trials published between 1982 and 2003 to evaluate the effects of psychological interventions on pain. The approaches improve outcomes such as depression and health-related quality of life as well as patients' experience of pain, the team concluded in the January issue of the journal Health Psychology. |
By Associated Press
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - Updated: 08:24 AM EST BOSTON - What city health officials at first thought was an outbreak of whooping cough among employees at Children's Hospital Boston may have been something else entirely.
But exactly what is still in question. It started when a 19-month-old patient came down with the classic symptoms of whooping cough, a respiratory disease also known as pertussis. Symptoms include a runny nose, sneezing, slight fever, and mild cough, which can develop into a violent and persistent cough. |
Posted 12/25/2006 6:04 PM ET
By Kathleen Fackelmann, USA TODAY A gene that helps people live to age 90 and beyond might also help ward off Alzheimer's, a study suggests Tuesday.
People with this "supergene" have a much higher chance of living to the century mark without developing dementia, the confused thinking and memory loss that so often plagues the oldest of the old, says Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. |
Madrid, Dec 22 (Prensa Latina)
After study of the Riodeva giant dinosaur fossil, three paleontologists working for the Aragon government declared the fossils found in Teruel in 2003 belong to giant dinosaurs.
Rafael Royo-Torres, Alberto Cobos and Luis Alcala, of Teurel-Dianopolis Joint Paleontology Foundation, explain this is an important discovery for the European continent as dinosaur fossils have hitherto only been found in Asia and Africa. |
Monday, 25 December 2006, 00:41 GMT
Scientists are closer to understanding why a common parasite is harmless to most people, while causing severe illness in others.
Toxoplasma is carried by cats and rats in the UK, and a large proportion of humans are also thought to carry the parasite, without any ill effects. But it can cause toxoplasmosis, which can lead to brain damage or even death. |
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