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Descendants of the Phoenicians

About 6% of the modern inhabitants of the Mediterranean, obviously, are descendants of the disappeared people - the Phoenicians.

01.11.2008
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Love and hate

When experiencing feelings of hatred, among other zones, the so-called shell and insular lobe of the large brain became active, which are also active when a person experiences romantic infatuation.

30.10.2008
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The heyday age is 39?

It is at this age that the body gradually loses the ability to regenerate myelin, which worsens the conduction of nerve impulses along axons.

29.10.2008
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Virtual Ambulance

It is planned to create similar virtual simulators for obstetricians, physiotherapists and other medical specialists.

29.10.2008
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Heart crisis

20 times more people die from stress caused by instability in the country than from incorrect diagnoses. Currently, the mortality rate (14.6 per 1000 people) Russia is on a par with the countries of Central Africa. At the same time, every third person who died in our country has not reached retirement age.

28.10.2008
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Another cure for old age?

Caenorhabditis elegans worms exposed to the anticonvulsant drug ethosuccimide lived on average 29 percent longer than the rest.

27.10.2008
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Anti-cancer tomatoes

Scientists have included two snapdragon genes responsible for the synthesis of anthocyanin in the genome of ordinary tomatoes. As a result, they managed to get dark purple tomatoes with a high content of a useful antioxidant.

27.10.2008
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Caution: Weight loss pills!

The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis has suspended the sale of the popular anti-obesity drug Acomplia (rimonabant) in the European Union. In Russia, the drug is known as Zimulti.

27.10.2008
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Moisturizers can turn even normal skin into dry

Long-term use of moisturizing ingredients does not help the skin, but only harms its tissues to produce the necessary fats independently and can change the natural structure of the skin.

27.10.2008
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All hereditary diseases – one test

The test, which costs fifteen hundred pounds, can detect 15 thousand genetic diseases, and the results of this test will be ready in a few weeks.

27.10.2008
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Is the wrong pill better than nothing?

Half of American doctors prescribe drugs to patients that do not affect their diseases, guided by the principle: it is better to do something than to do nothing at all.

24.10.2008
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Chewing food thoroughly reduces the risk of obesity

The probability of gaining excess weight for men who are accustomed to quickly absorb food is 84% compared to people who eat "with feeling, sense, arrangement." For women, this risk is twice as high. And those who eat fast and do not stop until they feel that they are full, the risk of getting better is three times greater!

24.10.2008
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Goodnight!

According to the National Sleep Foundation, lack of sleep costs the US economy about $ 100 billion a year - such are the losses from low labor productivity, medical expenses and other factors.

23.10.2008
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Hybrid embryos in Britain: the penultimate step

The House of Commons has approved a law allowing the creation of hybrid embryos. If the upper house makes a positive decision, the creation of chimeras in the UK may be allowed in November 2008.

23.10.2008