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Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in the USA may have discovered a new way to tackle the problem of HIV, by increasing the levels of a substance called manganese in infected cells. Manganese is found naturally in cells, but high levels of the metal stop a key enzyme f...
Cambridgeshire has long had a poor reputation for road safety because of the high number of accidents, but a new study reveals that this is largely a result of high traffic levels. By taking into account the number of miles travelled within the county, Cambridgeshire has a...
The sexual desire of women is boosted by the smells given off by breastfeeding women and newborn babies, researchers have found. The finding adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting that our natural smell influences other people on an unconscious level, supporting t...
When on-call, during emergencies doctors frequently have to get from one side of the hospital to the other very quickly - so should they be using scooters, asked one group of researchers ? They gave a group of doctors a foot scooter each and compared the time it too them t...
Heavy marijuana users do badly at work or school, and are more likely to be delinquent and develop psychiatric problems, or have abnormal brain waves. Time and again, however, such studies encounter the same objection: are the problems caused by smoking marijuana, or is it...
Cannabis users face long-term irreversible damage to their memories, says recent research published in America. The bad news is that you don't need to take much to produce the effects. In the study, people who used Cannabis as little as once per week for only 3 years showe...
Doctors are worried that people in Britain are too fat, placing themselves at increased risk of heart disease and diabetes - in fact a record one in five of us are now clinically obese and about 1 person in 3 is overweight, a problem that is costing the NHS over 3 billion ...
