Anti-inflammatory Effect Of 'Rotten Eggs' Gas
Science Daily Thu, 21 May 2009 18:23 PM PDT
Researchers have synthesized a new molecule which releases hydrogen sulfide -- the gas that gives rotten eggs their characteristic smell and which has recently been found to be produced naturally in the body -- and discovered that it could in time lead to a range of new, safer and effective anti-inflammatory drugs for human use. |
Lawmakers finally show a bit of common sense
Suburban Thu, 21 May 2009 17:52 PM PDT
My father died a hard death from lung cancer in 1983. From the first diagnosis, about six months before he passed, there was never any real hope, since his type of cancer is nearly always fatal. Still, he tried to beat it with ever-more aggressive chemotherapy treatments that took his hair and his body and his energy. |
RSD bill advances
The Ottawa Times Thu, 21 May 2009 17:42 PM PDT
SPRINGFIELD â€" The wrenching pain associated with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy drives some to suicide. "My pain feels like that I am in a vice and my legs and my arms and body feel so bad and there's |
Great Works: Reclining Nude (1844/5), Jean-François Millet
Independent Thu, 21 May 2009 16:19 PM PDT
"Flesh is the reason oil paint was invented," said the painter Willem de Kooning. If it sounds like truth at once, that's probably because it makes you forget how many ways we can feel about flesh, and how many ways oil paint can do it. It can render a body as solid as stone. It can make it as springy as rubber and as sharp as wood. These different fleshes and more are in the gift of oil painting. |
Man tells inquest why he hid mother's body in freezer
Montreal Gazette Thu, 21 May 2009 15:55 PM PDT
Daniel Martin spoke barely above a whisper Thursday as he described to a coroner how his 73-year-old mother died at home almost two years ago â€" bedridden and wearing a soiled diaper â€" and how he proceeded to stuff her dead body in a freezer rather than alert authorities. |
How a reporter became a fan of natural childbirth
The Pantagraph Thu, 21 May 2009 15:47 PM PDT
MIAMI -- I was in the bathroom just after midnight, wishing I’d skipped that extra piece of my husband’s birthday cake. At nine months and a day, my pregnant body didn’t have room for extra anything. |
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