Novato man burned in marshland fire
Twin Cities Times Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:19 PM PDT
A 22-year-old Novato man suffered burns on his arms and upper body after a small brush fire erupted in a homeless encampment in an eastern Corte Madera marsh just after midnight on June 22. |
New hurdle in Dutch plan to stop marijuana tourism
Boston Globe Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:04 PM PDT
The Dutch government's plan to stop tourists from buying marijuana was apparently set back Wednesday after a key decision by the country's top legal advisory body. |
A man's medical mystery solved 25 years later
Standard-Examiner Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:49 PM PDT
Diane Maestri figured it out first. Her husband, Don, is a 5-foot-9, 190-pound handyman from Camarillo, Calif., who looks likes what he is -- a retired middle-school gym teacher with big hands and fingers too beefy for rings, too thick to even think about the piano. About 25 years ago, Diane Maestri realized her husband's body was changing. Always big, his fingers were so fleshy, he couldn't see ... |
Greeter? In Orange, she's taken the job
Orange County Register Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:48 PM PDT
At 17, Dolores Whitman made the most important decision of her life:She gave up her body.It wasn't an easy choice. Born three and a half months premature with cerebral palsy, Whitman had endured campaigns of surgery and grueling physical therapy; she'd withstood isolation and spent... |
Chemical Produced In Pancreas Prevented And Reversed Diabetes In Mice
redOrbit Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:10 AM PDT
A chemical produced by the same cells that make insulin in the pancreas prevented and even reversed Type 1 diabetes in mice, researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital have found. Type 1 diabetes, formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is characterized by the immune system’s destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas that make and secrete insulin. As a result, the body makes little or no insulin ... |
Coping With Pre-Race Nerves
Triathlete / Inside Triathlon Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:03 AM PDT
I get so nervous before races that I sometimes almost throw up. I know it affects my performance. Why does my body sabotage itself like this, and what can I do about it |
Researchers discover new airway stem cell
UC Newsroom Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:44 AM PDT
LOS ANGELES â€" Researchers at UCLA have identified a new stem cell that participates in the repair of the lungs' large airways, which play a vital role in protecting the body from infectious agents and toxins in the environment. |
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