"Two large-scale studies published in the journal Circulation, report that the chances of surviving cardiac arrest are no better -- and may be worse -- when bystanders perform mouth-to-mouth breathing than if they press on the chest without interruption."

"Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts."

The research, carried out in the UK and Belgium, involved a new brain scanning method.

Awareness was detected in three other patients previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.

"The synthetic alcohol, being developed from chemicals related to Valium, works like alcohol on nerves in the brain that provide a feeling of wellbeing and relaxation.

But unlike alcohol its does not affect other parts of the brain that control mood swings and lead to addiction. It is also much easier to flush out of the body.

Finally because it is much more focused in its effects, it can also be switched off with an antidote, leaving the drinker immediately sober. "

"Of 180 claims for probiotic ingredients, the EU's food agency the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) threw out every one. Ten were rejected outright and a 21-member expert panel could not assess the remaining 170 because the ingredients for which the claims were made could not be identified. ... However Britain's best-selling yogurt drinks, Actimel and Yakult, were excluded from Efsa's findings yesterday because Danone, Actimel's maker, and Yakult, the Japanese firm which introduced probiotic drinks to the UK in 1996, withdrew their claims before they could be scrutinised."

"If a nasal spray can improve memory, perhaps we're on our way to giving some folks a whiff of common sense, such as accepting the realities of evolution," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "This is exciting piece of interdisciplinary science, since IL-6 had previously been considered a by-product of inflammation, not an agent that affects cognition."

"MOSCOW, June 26 (Reuters) - Cheap and illicit alcohol kills more than half Russian men and women in their most productive years and the government must act urgently to reverse the trend, a study to be published in The Lancet at the weekend said."

"“Need a paramedic on corner of John Wesley Dobbs and Jackson st. Woman on the ground unconscious. Pls ReTweet,” Hall tweeted, eschewing the use of his cell phone as, well, a phone, to call 911 since his battery was low and he didn’t want to lose contact if it died while he was trying to save a life."

"The approximately 800 million mostly middle class adults and children act as a massive epidemiological experiment that allows hypotheses that faith in a creator or disbelief in evolution improves or degrades societal conditions to be tested on an international scale. ... the data examined in this study demonstrates that only the more secular, pro-evolution democracies have, for the first time in history, come closest to achieving practical “cultures of life” that feature low rates of lethal crime, juvenile-adult mortality, sex related dysfunction, and even abortion. The least theistic secular developed democracies such as Japan, France, and Scandinavia have been most successful in these regards."

"If you set your Google SafeSearch filter on "strict filtering" and search for clitoris, you get zero returns. But if you try a Google SafeSearch "strict filtering" search for penis, you get... 33,000,000 returns."

"A surgical procedure performed by a team from Boston University, Massachusetts led by Professor Frank Guenther, has enabled a mute man to speak again. An electrode implanted in the patient’s brain made it possible for the patient to produce vowels by thinking them, using a speech synthesizer. In the future, this breakthrough may help patients with similar injuries produce entire sentences, using signals from their brains."

"Giving your house a weekly clean could be enough to give you asthma, according to research." - Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

They say the object left a deep crater after crashing down over the weekend near the town of Carancas in the Andes. People who have visited scene have been complaining of headaches, vomiting and nausea after inhaling gases."

"It's a fantastic time to be a mouse. Mouse with cancer? No problem. Mouse with alzheimers? No problem. Mouse with diabetes? Go ahead and have that Snicker bar, we have the cure for what ails ya."

"The findings, published in the Hong Kong Medical Journal, are based on 23 cases of people who suffered mahjong-induced seizures. The report's four authors, from Hong Kong's Queen Mary Hospital, said the best prevention - and cure - was to avoid playing m

As title.

"Scientists are working on a new type of nanogenerator that could draw the necessary energy from flowing blood in the human body, by using the beating heart and pulsating blood vessels. Once completed, this new cellular engine could find various applicati

"So there you have it: Acute Anterior Myocardial Infarction presenting with Partial Complex Seizures manifested as hallucinations of Christmas Elves."

Article on Alexander Shulgin, druggie.

"A Polish man has woken up from a 19-year coma to find the Communist party no longer in power and food no longer rationed ... 'What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning," said Mr Grzebski. 'I'

"They use a herpes virus - which usually causes cold sores. It is genetically modify so that it's attracted to growing cancer cells, but can't infect normal tissue. The virus gets into the cancer cells and once inside, replicates until the cells burst."

"These animations (NSFW) are French ads promoting AIDS awareness and condom use. They are pretty entertaining, and well done. The sex scenes are hillarious. The straight version is above, the gay version below. Enjoy."

"IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Egypt -- Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert's grueling 4,000

A very interesting flash visualisation tool that creates animated graphs for certain statistics on international development.

"In all, 57% of the teenagers had not used contraception, and 51% of the older women - and this small difference was not statistically significant."

"Me: Oh, did you think that was my wake-up alarm? It’s actually my snuggle alarm."

"The PRONTO condom can be applied in a few seconds. You simply crack the pack open and unroll the condom directly onto the penis."

"While the ratio of men to women in the West was nearly even, in countries like China, India, and Pakistan, there were far more men than women."

"Scientists have launched a rebranding exercise to rename a list of genes after doctors said they were offensive and sometimes led to "inappropriate conversations" with patients."

"Saliva from humans has yielded a natural painkiller up to six times more powerful than morphine, researchers say."

As the title. I prefer the taste of bottled water, but I'm not crazy enough to pay extortionate prices for it - I just buy diluting juice.

Cyclists who wear protective helmets are more likely to be knocked down by passing vehicles, new research from Bath University suggests.