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  • Mobile phone use may stave off, reverse Alzheimer's: study

    01/06/2010 7:09:57 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 26 replies · 695+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 1/6/10 | AFP
    WASHINGTON (AFP) – Long suspected of causing brain tumors, mobile phones are now being eyed as key allies in the fight against Alzheimer's disease, US researchers said Wednesday in a study. Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) found, to their surprise, that 96 mice they zapped twice daily for an hour each time with electromagnetic waves similar to those generated by US mobile (cellular) phones benefited from the exposure. Long-term exposure to the electromagnetic waves in mobile phones wiped out deposits of beta-amyloid -- a protein fragment that accumulates in the brain of Alzheimer's sufferers to form the...
  • Republicans try to stave off Bush veto (of bill expanding funds for embryonic stem cell research)

    07/18/2006 12:46:23 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 75 replies · 1,268+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/18/06 | Laurie Kellman - ap
    WASHINGTON - Debating science, ethics, morality and humanity, the Senate prepared Tuesday to send a bill expanding federal funding of embryonic stem cell research to an unreceptive President Bush. It wasn't a matter of simple party politics, however, as some of Bush fellow Republicans launched a last-ditch lobbying effort to save the bill from his veto. Wrote California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Mr. President, I urge you not to make the first veto of your presidency one that turns America backwards on the path of scientific progress and limits the promise of medical miracles for generations to come." And former first...