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Thomson Reuters LAREDO, Texas (AP) — As vehicles line up at the Border Patrol’s checkpoint a half-hour drive’s north of the US-Mexico border, its agents have around 10 seconds to check each driver and decide which few they will stop for additional inspection. It’s a situation challenged constantly by smugglers, sometimes with deadly consequences. In […]
Cannabidiol, or CBD, is a non-psychoactive component of cannabis. CBD won’t get you high; THC is the component of cannabis responsible for that. Products made with CBD extract are becoming increasingly popular, but because of limited research, it remains unclear what most of them do. Only two CBD-containing medicines have been studied extensively, and neither […]
Thomson Reuters There’s a major gender component to global inequality: most of the world’s extreme-poor are women, and most uber-wealthy individuals are men, a new Oxfam report shows. Around 82% of all wealth generated in the last year went to the top 1%. The richest 1% hold more wealth than the whole of the rest […]
Phenylalanine – a component of dietary protein – reduces food intake by affecting the release of appetite-regulating hormones in the gut, research shows. Experts believe that it may be the reason why diets that involve eating a lot of protein can be successful at promoting weight loss. However, high-protein diets such as Atkins and Dukan […]
HIGH-PROTEIN diets have led scientists to a hunger suppressant that could help fight obesity. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Researchers from the University of British Columbia are retracting their scientific paper linking aluminum in vaccines to autism in mice, because one of the co-authors claims figures published in the study were deliberately altered before publication — an issue he says he realized after allegations of data manipulation surfaced online. CBC | Health News
A global shortage of a component used in conjunction with a popular brand of insulin pump has left some people resorting to older methods to test their blood sugar. CBC | Health News
Published time: 11 May, 2017 19:38 All test flights of Boeing’s 737 MAX have been put on hold, pending a review of a flaw in an engine component. The aircraft is still on schedule for its first deliveries later this month the company said, as its shares slipped on the announcement. Boeing grounded the fleet […]
(credit: Kenyaboy7) A protein found in the plasma of human umbilical cord blood perked up the memories of elderly mice, researchers reported Wednesday in Nature. Researchers at Stanford had first noted that injecting middle-aged mice with plasma from human cord blood could boost activity in their hippocampi, an area of the brain critical for creating […]
A German arms producer has refused to deliver key components for a new US grenade launcher, citing an 1868 convention prohibiting grenades being fired straight at a person. The German company is now facing penalties. Mass production of the US, state-of-the-art, shoulder-fired grenade launcher XM25 has stalled since German company Heckler & Koch (H&K) has […]
