Search For Better Breast Cancer Drugs

A joint initiative between computer scientists at the University of Edinburgh and cellular biologists at the Riken Genomic Research Centre in Japan may result in improved drug treatments for breast cancer sufferers that will also minimize side effects.

Search For Better Breast Cancer Drugs

Health Risks in the Future

The 1990 Global Burden of Disease study carried out by researchers at Harvard University and the World Health Organization (WHO) provided the first comprehensive global estimates of death and illness by age, sex, and region. Sponsored by the World Bank, it also provided projections of the global burden of disease and mortality up to 2020. Colin Mathers and Dejan Locar from the World Health Organization, Geneva have now updated the projections based on 2002 data.

Health Risks in the Future

Street Robbers Want More Than Money

New research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) reveals complex motivations behind street robbery in the UK. Rather than being simply an acquisitive crime, it commonly reflects a damaged sense of self in the perpetrator resulting in a need for violence or revenge, or to increase status among peers.

Street Robbers Want More Than Money

Keeping the Pounds Off

It is a sad fact that many (perhaps, most) attempts to lose weight result in a temporary loss that is reversed in a relatively short time. But new research indicates that this is not inevitable.

Keeping the Pounds Off

Measuring the Digital Divide

Simplistic measurements such as the number of Internet access points in a place tell us little about today's digital divide, according to Karine Barzilai-Nahon.

Measuring the Digital Divide

New Health Articles

A new study examines how helpful parents may be in assessing their children's alcohol and/or drug use and abuse. Findings indicate that they do not provide valuable information because they are often unaware of it. Read the article a: Teenage Substance Misuse: What Parents Don't Know

Physicians prescribing new medication often do not communicate to patients important details, such as potential side effects, how long or how often to take the drug or the specific name of the medication. More at: Physicians Don't Tell All

Physicians prescribing new medication often do not communicate to patients important details, such as potential side effects, how long or how often to take the drug or the specific name of the medication. Read: Malnutrition and Seniors in Hospital

Diabetes puts people at risk of developing critical illness and dying early, but obesity without diabetes does not. Read on: Diabetes is Bad News

A new study concludes that most patients who undergo gastric cancer staging by lymph node sampling have inadequate assessments that compromise survival. More at: Lymph Node Sampling Compromises Cancer Survival

Closing the Distance: Chasing a Father's Olympic Fencing Legacy

Every kid wants to grow up to be like his father, and Jeff Bukantz was no different - but unfortunately for Jeff, his father was a four-time Olympian and one of the greatest fencers ever! In his sentimental memoir Closing the Distance: Chasing a Father's Olympic Fencing Legacy, Jeff recounts the trials and tribulations he encountered
while trying to follow in the footsteps of Danny Bukantz, a great man both on and off the fencing strip.

Read an excerpt from: Closing the Distance

Greek Islands

Articles on some of the Greek islands:

Corfu

Crete

Greek Islands

The Ionian Islands

Paros

Gardening - Articles about growing from seed

Saving Seeds

With proper storage, gardeners can save seeds for next year

Reading Seed Packets

Reading fine print on seed packages is good gardening advice

Damping Off

Damping off is the single term used to describe underground, soil line, or crown rots of seedlings due to unknown causes.

Wales Book of the Year

The 2006 Wales Book of the Year Shortlist is: (English) To Babel and Back by Robert Minhinnick; ,Body Beautiful by Ifor Evans, Ice Trap by Kitty Sewell; and (Welsh) Gwynfor Rhag Pob Brad by Rhys Evans, Llen Yr Uchelwyr by Dafydd Johnston, Rara Avis by Manon Rhys.

Details at: Wales Book the Year

Cajun Recipe

The Mrs. Dash brand has teamed with Jimmy Bannos, chef/owner of Heaven on Seven restaurants, to suggest a combination of unique seasoning blends and fresh ingredients to create Cajun-inspired grilling specialties. Jimmy Bannos has written "The Heaven on Seven Cookbook: Where It's Mardi Gras All The Time!" and "Big Easy Cocktails, Jazzy Drinks and Savory Bites from New Orleans" inspired by the Creole and Cajun cuisines from New Orleans. His new Bayou Shrimp and Veggies with Creole Mustard Sauce is an interesting example


Cajun-inspired Grilling Specialties

Guacamole Recipe

This classic, creamy recipe for Guacamole (Avocado dip) comes from Hass Avocado from Mexico and makes 4 servings:

Guacamole

Avocado Recipe

To celebrate the spring season, the California Avocado Commission has developed a recipe that combines these two refreshing ingredients, Eggs in California Avocado Cups with Asparagus and Lemon, creating a complex layering of tastes that will leave your guests craving more.


Avocado and Asparagus Recipe

Victorian Health and Medicine

Some new articles (of different lengths) including some fascinating details about Vitorian Health and Medicine:

Abdomen

Aberration of Mind

Ablution

Abrasion

Abscess

Abstinence

Accidents

Acidity of the Stomach

Adder Bite

Aether (Ether)

Age

Ague

Air

Stress

Stress is associated with a number of physical conditions including back-pain, susceptibility to viruses, chronic fatigue syndrome and autoimmune disease.

More at Stress in the 21st Century

St Vincent and the Grenadines

St Vincent and the Grenadines is a group of about 30 islands in the Caribbean. They were used as a location for Pirates of the Caribbean. St Vincent is the main island. A mere 8% of the population live on the exquisite, and highly varied, Grenadines

Edwardian Gardens

Two gardens with different fates. The first has gone. The second is a major film location.



The lost garden at Campsea Ashe

The garden featured long stretches of water, avenues of elms, limes and horse chestnuts, cedar trees, an elliptical bowling green and the Great Hedge. This yew hedge was over 600 metres long, 3 metres thick and 2-8 metres high.



Haddon Hall, Derbyshire

By the early 1900s the gardens were hoplessly overgrown and a massive clearance was required. Yew trees and herbaceous borders were planted and the ivy stripped from the balustrades to be replaced by climbing roses.

Victorian mourning

Something light for the weekend:

MOURNING, ETIQUETTE OF. The various degrees of relationship which the living bear to the dead, regulate the depth of the mourning worn, and the length of time that it is to be retained. Mourning for a husband in the widow's cap and crape is usually extended over twelve months, and after that period the wearer may either adopt a half mourning, or put by mourning altogether, without appearing singular or wanting in feeling. In cases of this kind, the wearing of mourning beyond the prescribed interval depends, as a matter of course, greatly upon sentiment, the degree of affection which subsisted between the parties, the length of time which the marriage existed, &c.

More at The Victorian Etiquette of Mourning

Indian Ocean

Two fantastic but very different islands in the Indian Ocean:

Madagascar: Great Leaping Lemurs!

Mauritius

Gardening - Victorian Pear Tree Cultivation

Victorian Pear Tree Cultivation

The pear requires a good, naturally rich, loamy soil, not however enriched by artificial means, as that would only have the effect of producing a luxuriance of growth that would require much skill and labour to overcome.