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Gifted kids reject schools' diet - but choose healthy eating

A new survey of over 700 gifted young people by the University of Warwick shows that they consider themselves bright enough to take responsibility for their food choices and don't think that schools should be allowed to dictate their diet.

1 Aug 2006

Omega-3 fatty acids in the news again

Fish is in the news again as some researchers are claiming that the fatty acids which are found in fish, can help people burn off the kilos, while another team say it improves learning and memory in young children.

31 Jul 2006

Cigarette smoking appears to promote the consumption of alcohol

Nicotine can reduce blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) at dosage levels that could be achieved by human smokers.

25 Jul 2006

Digital magnetofluidics holds hope for better medicine

Critical advances in medicine and environmental protection promise to emerge from a new method for biochemical analysis of fluids developed by an international science team led in part by Arizona State University researchers.

21 Jul 2006

Tobacco control policy advocacy attitudes and self-efficacy among ethnically diverse high school students

Teens who feel that they can be effective anti-smoking spokespeople in their communities are less likely to be smokers themselves, according to a new survey of Texas high school students.

21 Jul 2006

Pregnant robot to help student midwives

A pregnant robot will offer a helping hand to student midwives, as they learn to cope with the most complex of births before ever meeting a real mother.

From Sheffield Hallam University 19 Jul 2006

School-based programmes for preventing smoking

It may take more than anti-smoking lessons in the classroom to keep school-age children and teens from lighting up, according to a recent review of studies.

19 Jul 2006

Gender bias in the scientific world from someone who knows the score

Professor Ben Barres says the reason there are fewer women in academic research is because of gender bias rather than a lack of aptitude.

13 Jul 2006

AMA offers a better plan to get young doctors to live and work in country Australia

Australian Medical Association (AMA) President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, has called for the scrapping of the Government's unpopular, unfunded and ultimately unworkable bonded medical schools places program.

13 Jul 2006

University of Florida and France sign cooperative four-year research agreement

The University of Florida and two biomedical institutes in France have signed a four-year cooperative agreement on biopharmaceutical research that is designed to help bring new therapies to clinical trials.

11 Jul 2006

Fombonne's autism research is dangerously inaccurate

Fombonne, a thimerosal litigation expert witness on behalf of various pharmaceutical companies, will reportedly state that it is "very clear" there is no relationship between mercury-based thimerosal and the onset of autism.

11 Jul 2006

Study finds sleep vital for memory

Sleep benefits an individual's ability to recall recently learned declarative memories, even when recall of these memories is challenged hours later by competing information.

11 Jul 2006

A good nights sleep will help the memory

According to new research a good nights sleep has more benefits than just making one feel rested.

10 Jul 2006

Innovative diabetes research wins prestigious health award

A life-saving approach to controlling blood glucose levels in critical care developed at the University of Canterbury and Christchurch Hospital Department of Intensive Care Medicine has won the Supreme Award at the 2006 New Zealand Health Innovation Awards.

5 Jul 2006