Menstrual blood bank could save lives

Researchers have noted that a woman's menstrual blood is rich with stem cells that would be useful in stem cell research."The blood that uselessly leaks away from a woman’s body every month until she hits menopause is a good source of stem cells, which are still at an early...

Polar bears under threat: Now sharks are after them too

"Already threatened by a thaw of ice around the North Pole, the polar bear's title as the top Arctic predator may under challenge from a shark.Scientists researching how far sharks hunt seals in the Arctic were...

Prognosis Split for Hip Fracture and Hip Replacement in the Elderly

As the United States along with the rest of the Western population continue to age, hip fractures and hip replacements will become a more serious concern for patients, families, and healthcare systems. Elderly...

Prognosis Split for Hip Fracture and Hip Replacement in the Elderly

As the United States along with the rest of the Western population continue to age, hip fractures and hip replacements will become a more serious concern for patients, families, and healthcare systems. Elderly...

Prognosis Split for Hip Fracture and Hip Replacement in the Elderly

As the United States along with the rest of the Western population continue to age, hip fractures and hip replacements will become a more serious concern for patients, families, and healthcare systems. Elderly...

Youths throw woman on railway line in station no smoking row

More bad behavior by youths in the UK. In thsi instance, two teenagers threw a woman into the railroad tracks for telling them to stop smoking earlier in the week."A female commuter was thrown on to a live railway...

Aborigine skulls to be taken home

In 2004 The UK government launched a consultation document to consider the repatriation of human remains held in Britain to aboriginal groups and based on the news included below it would appear the the correct decision was eventually made. Thousands of ancient human parts -...

Myth of Dwarf Dinos in Dracula Country Confirmed

"Codrea, a professor of biology and geology at University Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and colleague Pascal Godefroit recently found several bones belonging to Zalmoxes shqiperorum, an herbivorous dinosaur...

Alejandro Albor takes first in Handcycling Championship despite recent injury

Alejandro Albor,a double-leg amputee and world champion handcyclist, participated inDenver's 8 th Annual Rocky Mountain Cycling Omnium on June 6, and tookfirst place in the Bear Creek Time Trial. This race, which...

Doctor or Non-Doctor - alternative healers at war over just who can call them...

"It took 99 years, but Minnesota has finally given official recognition to the practice of naturopathic medicine, which relies on the body's powers to heal itself.Under a new state law, naturopaths -- who use everything from herbal remedies to biofeedback -- will be allowed...

Chinese sell tiger bone wine

"Staff at two "safari parks" a few hours from the capital Beijing offered to sell undercover investigators wine made from the crushed bones of tigers that died in captivity at the sanctuaries.The wine, which it is...

Drug Zometa helps fight breast cancer spread

"A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease. It is the first large study to affirm wider anti-cancer hopes for Zometa...

'Horror frog' breaks own bones to produce claws

""Amphibian horror" isn't a movie genre, but on this evidence perhaps it should be. Harvard biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog with cat-like extendable claws. Trichobatrachus...

Japan to start counting crow`s feet

Before you will be able to get any cigarettes out of the vending machines in Japan, you better make sure you have plenty of wrinkles, crow`s feet, and skin sags so that the machine can tell if you are old enough to...

Grunge is Back! Sub Pop Celebrates 20th Birthday

Time to break out the flannel, the beards, the long hair, the long sleeve waffle-weave shirt underneath the ratty t-shirt, the gunshot jeans, the Singles soundtrack, the work boots, and all that penty up anti-80s...

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