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• Absinthe Proof

  
  sherrill brown recommends — Authority: 140
  Absinthe has become once again a popular alcoholic drink after being legalized in the USA and other countries. Without any consideration of alcohol content in Absinthe lots of young people are trying. So, what is Absinthe proof? Absinthe is an anise flavored liquor which is made from distilling alcohol with a blend ...
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• Study: Women have a better sense of touch

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  New York, Jan 2 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There was a study done by the McMaster University, women have a much better sense of touch than their male counterparts. The study says that women have smaller hands so the density of their ‘touch receptors’ is high, and therefore touch sensitivity is increased.These touch sensors ...
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• Study Reveals Women Don’t Have A Better Sense Of Touch, Smaller Fingers Do

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  By Madhuri DeyJan. 02, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A recent study that was published in a science journal looks into the baffling fact that some people seem to have a better sense of touch than others. The difference is more pronounced in the comparison between men and women. So far, the myth attributed the phenomenon to just ...
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• Molecular Modeling for Screening Environmental Chemicals for Est...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  There is a paucity of relevant experimental information available for the evaluation of the potential health and environmental effects of many man made chemicals. Knowledge of the potential pathways for activity provides a rational basis for the extrapolations inherent in the preliminary evaluation of risk and the ...
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• Women Have Better Sense Of Touch: Says Study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  By Ranjan Bhaduri,Dec 29, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A study conducted recently tells us that the women are much more sensitive to the feeling of a touch than their male counterparts. The study carried out in Canada’s McMaster University of Ontario, suggests that given to small hands in women, the ‘touch receptors’ are ...
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• How Cigarette Nicotine Affects The Brain

  
  Better Health — Authority: 521
  I was recently asked to review a new textbook on Nicotine Psychopharmacology, containing 18 very thorough chapters describing the latest evidence on the effects of smoking and nicotine on the brain and behavior. Much of it, though interesting, was a very heavy read. But it occurred to me that it might be useful to ...
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• Source of nonallergic itch found

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): Remember that itching sensation that refused to go no matter how much you scratched it? Well, sensory scientists from Johns Hopkins have now discovered in mice a molecular basis for such nonallergic itch.Using the itch-inducing compound chloroquine, an antimalarial drug, the team identified ...
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• Medical Doctor Proposes New Brain Function Theory

  
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• Blocked nose does play spoilsport with taste buds

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Washington, Dec 23 (IANS) Have a blocked nose? Surely, the yummiest food tastes awful. Latest research validates the belief that a blocked nose plays spoilsport with one’s taste buds, stripping food of flavours.Scientists have proved that olfactory sense influences the perception of taste. Neuro-scientist Don Katz, ...
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• High-fat diet, sugar stimulate opiate receptor to cause fat gain

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 134
  Highly palatable, energy-dense foods may activate genes that ultimately make us obese. According to a new research report recently appearing in The FASEB Journal, a diet that is high in fat and in sugar actually switches on genes that ultimately cause our bodies to store too much fat. This means these foods hit you ...
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• Overreaching leaves Obama with few friends

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  By Kathleen Parker Sunday, December 20, 2009 Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama. All he wanted for Christmas was a health-care reform bill -- and all he got was a lousy insurance industry bailout that few can love. Lefties hate it because theres no ...
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• Type 1 diabetes mellitus is characterized by loss of the insulin-producing beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas leading to a deficiency of insulin. Type 1: Results from the body’s failure to produce insulin. The majority of type 1

  
  Diabetes — Authority: 133
  using interventions for and diabetes, play role the of the stronger the group at of 4 interaction and is still be focused clinicians researchers. should use diets [...]
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• Is Swine Flu beating up the regular seasonal influenzas?

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  H1N1 may be suppressing seasonal flus.
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• Finger sensitivity. “… tested by pressing progressively narrower parallel grooves against a stationary fingertip — the tactile equivalent of the optometrist’s eye chart.”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 133
  Daniel Goldreich PhD, from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, has said: “Neuroscientists have long known that some people have a better sense of touch than others, but the reasons for this difference have been mysterious …” “Our discovery reveals that one important factor in the sense of touch is ...
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• Cannabis spray ‘helps reduce cancer pain’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, Dec 16 (ANI): A study has found that a cannabis mouth spray can help reduce the level of pain cancer patients go through by 30 percent.Researchers from Edinburgh University used the cannabis-based spray, like a mouth freshener, on 177 cancer patients, who had not been helped by morphine or other medicines, and ...
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• Car Ipod Kits by Peter Gitundu

  
  e-Guru.org — Authority: 157
  Car ipods are used as a great companion when one is traveling and they come in handy when one is alone. Car ipods are a great accessory to have and they are used for playing music as well as using them along with FM transmitter to listen to live music. The ipods come in kits of various accessories but one can choose ...
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• Aria alerts you of incoming calls

  
  Gadget News and Reviews — Authority: 470
  How many times have you missed a phone signal simply considering it was on silent mode, and even next, the vibration that emanates from it just isnt vigorous sufficient? The Aria concept could very well change that - it will interact with your skin receptors with various patterns of touch, where half a dozen audible ...
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• Hindering HIV-1-fighting immune cells

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 595
  Immune proteins called HLA molecules help to activate killer T cell responses against pathogens. Link:  http://www.rockefeller.edu/RUPress/
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• Substance Abuse Meds Helpful for Gambling Disorder

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 584
  A research announcement at the annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) suggests pathological gambling can be successfully treated with medications that decrease urges and increase inhibitions. A pathological gambling disorder is a condition in which people will continue their gambling ...
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• Why King Kong Failed To Impress

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 141
  Humans have the same receptors for detecting odors related to sex as do other apes and primates. But each species uses them in different ways, stemming from the way the genes for these receptors have evolved over time, according to Duke University researchers… Source: Why King Kong Failed To Impress
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