| New lawsuit filed to stop moth plan
SAN JOSE -- In a last-ditch effort to stop aerial spraying aimed at eliminating the light brown apple moth, three Santa Cruz County women are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the state Department of Food and Agriculture, saying their civil rights have been violated and that they have not received due process. .
Sound Off!
The community college calling Thanksgiving a religious holiday is a first for me. I'm in my 50s, and I've never hear it referred to as a religious holiday. It's a harvest festival, it's giving thanks, but it's not religious. Everybody's gotta try to tie everything into religion these days. Religion is actually becoming a dangerous thing. It's causing a lot of problems, a lot of grief, it's causing wars, it's causing hard feelings between people and it's causing hypocrisy. I just read the Sun-News on Nov. 20, and it was just so refreshing to see that beautiful baby being adopted. You know, he was so lucky with so many children being killed. It's just so beautiful; thank you for printing that. I just want to warn all the natives the weatherman is saying that we could get one to three inches of snow.
Placenta uses a cloaking device similar to that used by parasites
The placenta uses a cloaking device similar to that used by parasites to avoid detection by the mother's immune system. MRC funded scientists looking to develop a diagnostic test for pre-eclampsia, a major and potentially fatal cause of fetal and maternal illness, made the amazing discovery which could have far reaching implications. The team, based at the University of Reading, believe their findings will revolutionise our understanding of the placenta and research into recurrent miscarriages and pre-eclampsia. It is also hoped this method of avoiding immune rejection could be mimicked and used in other areas such as arthritis or even stem cell therapy. At the turn of 21 st century Professor Lowry and his team discovered that the small protein neurokinin B (NKB), which is secreted by the placenta, is raised significantly in mothers when pre-eclampsia develops.
Calling in sick when nothing hurts
Most of us have called in sick, sometimes even when we feel fine. But have you ever gone through the trouble of typing up, printing up and handing your boss a phony doctor's note?KOMO 4 News conducted a few experiments to find out what it takes to sell a fake sickness to the boss.First we bought several phony excuses from the Web site phoneyexcuses.com, which specializes in just that. Then, with the help of three employees of Jones Soda, we sent in our hidden cameras to see whether their bosses bought the phony excuses. Our first accomplice handed over a phony doctor's note for a future medical visit. And we mean business when we say "phony." The list of doctors on the slip was actually the list of the cast members from the ABC show "Grey's Anatomy." And the address of the phony doctor's office was that of the Space Needle.
Experts Release New Asthma Care Guidelines
MONDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Asthma control and prevention of attacks are the focus of new national asthma guidelines released by the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP). The 23 million Americans -- including 6.5 million children -- with asthma can avoid serious symptoms and disability if they follow these latest guidelines to keep their asthma under control, said the experts who wrote the guidelines. "Asthma is not an event, it is a chronic disease that can be managed so that symptoms are controlled and severe attacks are prevented," Dr. Michael B. Foggs, chief of asthma, allergy and immunology at Advocate Health Care in Chicago, said in a prepared statement. "The guidelines underscore the fact that people who are diagnosed with asthma do not have to suffer breathing difficulties or cut back on their activities.
|
