NO MORE FILLINGS? GEL REGENERATES TEETH
Dentists could soon hang up their drills. A new peptide, embedded in a soft gel or a thin, flexible film and placed next to a cavity, encourages cells inside teeth […]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
LAY VOLUNTEERS CAN PLAY A KEY ROLE IN DIABETES CARE
Investigators are reporting early promising results with a program that trains lay volunteers to help people with diabetes achieve better control of their blood sugar.
RACING PALESTINIAN GIRLS SPEED INTO RECORD BOOKS
Palestinian women are speeding into the record books by competing on an all-female car racing team — the Speed Sisters. Along the way, they’re crashing through another gender barrier in […]
‘AFRICA’S MOTHER TERESA’ ON RAISING ETHIOPIA’S FAMINE ORPHANS
The sight of a baby girl suckling on the breast of her dead mother changed the course of Abebech Gobena’s life forever. The year was 1980 and Ethiopia lay in […]
FORMER BASKETBALL STAR INSPIRES INNER CITY YOUTHS IN LOS ANGELES
Former sports star Brian Taylor has taken a message of hard work that he learned on the basketball court to the inner city classroom. In this week’s installment of Making […]
EARLY EXPOSURE TO COW’S MILK HAS BENEFITS: STUDY
A taste of cow’s milk during the first two weeks of life may protect a child from later developing an allergy to the milk’s protein, a new study suggests.
TEEN SAILOR REUNITED WITH BROTHER AFTER SEA DRAMA
Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland was reunited with her brother Saturday and defended her family against criticism that she had been too young to try to sail around the world […]
RED PANDA CUB BORN AT THE NATIONAL ZOO
Smithsonian National Zoological Park is celebrating yesterday’s birth of a red panda cub, the first born at the Washington, D.C., zoo in 15 years.
IL ENCOURAGES TESTING FOR HIV
The Illinois Department of Public Health is sponsoring a number of events across the state this month so people can get tested for the virus that causes AIDS. Sunday is […]
US UNVEILS PLAN TO MAKE ONLINE TRANSACTIONS SAFER
In a draft plan released Friday, the White House laid out an argument for a yet-undeveloped, voluntary identification system and set up a website to gather input from experts and […]
