Microsoft warns of new zero-day flaw targeting Internet Explorer
By Charles Arthur, The Guardian Tuesday, September 18, 2012 8:10 EDT Topics: internet explorer ♦ Microsoft Hackers have already targeted flaw that affects IE versions 7, 8 and 9, and…
Higher levels of BPA in children and teens associated with obesity
Contact: Jessica Guenzel Jessica.Guenzel@nyumc.org 212-404-3591 JAMA and Archives Journals NEW YORK – In a nationally representative sample of nearly 3,000 children and adolescents, those who had higher concentrations of urinary…
Flame cyber virus linked to more malware: report
By Agence France-Presse Monday, September 17, 2012 16:29 EDT Topics: iran ♦ Kaspersky Lab WASHINGTON — The Flame virus believed to be part of a cyberwarfare effort against Iran was…
Former Justice Souter: ‘Pervasive civic ignorance’ in U.S. could bring dictatorship
By Eric W. Dolan Monday, September 17, 2012 18:20 EDT Topics: Justice Souter ♦ Souter ♦ U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter ♦ University of New Hampshire School of…
Is your scent making you ill? Today’s obsession with perfuming everything from candles to bin liners could be to blame
By Victoria Lambert PUBLISHED:16:34 EST, 17 September 2012| UPDATED:16:45 EST, 17 September 2012 Nearly a third of people may suffer adverse health effects from being exposed to scents The smell…
Brief History of The Islands in Dispute between China and Japan: Islands Just sold for 26 Million
October Surprise: 2012 Sino-Japanese War Edition A chain of islands with a land area just a little more than 10% that of Manhattan is causing big trouble in East Asia. …
Insight: In India, gift-giving drives drug makers’ marketing: shower Indian doctors with gifts, posh junkets abroad, and cash payments disguised as consultancy or other types of fees
By Frederik JoelvingPosted 2012/09/17 at 7:20 am EDT MUMBAI, Sep. 17, 2012 (Reuters) — Sales representatives for Abbott Laboratories Inc's Indian subsidiaries know what it takes to get a doctor…
U.S. military suspends joint patrols with Afghans ” our allies — have turned their guns on NATO forces 36 times this year, killing 51, most of them Americans”
(CBS News) The strategy for getting U.S. forces out of Afghanistan depends on training Afghan soldiers and police to protect the country themselves, but on Monday the U.S. military suspended…
Prenatal Damage from Dioxin Shown to Involve microRNAs
ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2012) — Research carried out at the University of South Carolina has identified novel mechanisms through which dioxin, a well-known environmental contaminant, can alter physiological functions, according…
Can we engineer love and morality?
By RICHARD WEIKART The Modesto Bee Published: Sunday, Sep. 16, 2012 - 1:00 am Recently Oxford philosophy professor Julian Savulescu moved his campaign for "moral enhancement" out of the…
US wades into China-Japan island dispute with missile defense deal
Published: 17 September, 2012, 13:32 Edited: 17 September, 2012, 16:44 A territorial dispute between China and Japan could spark a “violent conflict,” US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said. The US…
Transsexual wife killer who was granted tax-payer funded sex change will also have his legal fees paid, judge rules
Robert Kosilek was convicted of murdering his wife Cheryl in 1990 In prison, he changed his name to Michelle, sued for the state to pay for a sex change and …
Japan firms close Chinese plants after protests
By Agence France-Presse Monday, September 17, 2012 7:05 EDT Topics: china ♦ japan ♦ plants Japanese firms including Panasonic suspended operations at plants in China, companies and reports said Monday,…
Cleveland Clinic study shows vitamin E may decrease cancer risk in Cowden syndrome patients
Contact: Stephanie Jansky janskys@ccf.org 216-636-5869 Cleveland Clinic Saturday, September 15, 2012, Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered that vitamin E may prevent cancer in patients with an under-recognized genetic disorder.…
The epigenetics of increasing weight through the generations ” resulting in amplification of obesity across generations “
Re-Post from 2008 Contact: Dipali Pathak pathak@bcm.edu 713-798-4710 Baylor College of Medicine Overweight mothers give birth to offspring who become even heavier, resulting in amplification of obesity across generations, said…
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