Autopsy conducted on conservative activist Breitbart
Reuters Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:58 PM PST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Coroners conducted an autopsy on the body of conservative activist Andrew Breitbart on Friday but deferred a formal finding on the cause of his death until toxicology and lab tests are completed, officials said. |
United Nations urge FIFA to allow women to wear hijab
Deepika Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:45 PM PST
London, March 1 (Reuters) The United Nations has asked the world governing body FIFA to overturn its ban on allowing women footballers to wear a hijab, the Islamic headscarf, when its law-making body meets on Saturday. |
Donald P. Jones
Daily Pilot Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:16 PM PST
Donald P. Jones Donald Jones, longtime resident of the Balboa Peninsula, passed away February 29th after a long battle with cancer . Don was born in Alhambra, California in 1931. He attended Newport Beach Grammar School and Harbor High where he was Vice President of the student body. |
Smoking Linked to Higher Rate of Psoriasis: Study
HealthDay via Yahoo! News Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:09 PM PST
FRIDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers are at higher risk of developing the autoimmune skin condition psoriasis than nonsmokers, a new study finds, possibly because smoking pushes the body's immune system into overdrive, one expert suggests. |
Cold Air May Raise Heart-Attack Risk During Exercise
HealthDay via Yahoo! News Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:09 PM PST
FRIDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Breathing cold air during certain physical activities, such as shoveling snow, increases the body's demand for oxygen, which may put people with heart disease at greater risk for cardiac arrest or death, a new study finds. |
Daniel Porter Claims Self Defense
WABI Bangor Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:31 PM PST
According to the state medical examiner, 31 year old Jerry Perdomo died from a gunshot wound to the head. Perdomo, a firefighter from Florida, was last seen in Maine February 16. State police found his body in Newburgh earlier this week. The man accused of murdering him, 24 year old Daniel . . . |
Body found near trail in Vancouver
KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:06 PM PST
VANCOUVER â€" The body of a man was found Friday by someone on a walking trail in near Vancouver Lake. The body was found at the end of a muddy trail off of NW Erwin Rieger Memorial Highway, according to Kim Kapp of the Vancouver Police Department. A major crimes team remained on the scene Friday afternoon, searching the area for evidence. Investigators and medical personnel planned to work on ... |
How the body senses range of hot temperatures
UC Newsroom Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:06 PM PST
SACRAMENTO â€" The winter sun feels welcome, but not so a summer sunburn. Research over the past 20 years has shown that proteins on the surface of nerve cells enable the body to sense several different temperatures. |
Why Cramming Doesn't Work
Scientific American Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:59 PM PST
The human body harbors at least 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells. Collectively known as the microbiome, this community may play a role in regulating one's risk of obesity, asthma and allergies. Now some researchers are wondering if the microbiome may have a part in an even more crucial process: mate selection and, ultimately, evolution. [More] |
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