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and why does he have this role of being the saviour?

The Bible is filled with vague prophecies that have been reinterpreted a variety of ways by religions, including yours, which you accept whatever version the Watchtower demands you accept. Nostradamus also made many vague prophecies, which could be interpreted a variety of ways and many said...

American public opinion tends to be polarized on just about everything, so it's no surprise that we're split on the proper role of government in fighting obesity in America. A new poll conducted by The Associated Press found that while a third of Americans think the government should be "deeply...

Julien Diana and Yannick Simoni of the "Immune Mechanisms in Type 1 Diabetes" (Inserm/Universite Paris Descartes), directed by Agnes Lehuen, have just published the results of their work on type 1 diabetes in the Nature Medicine journal. This is a disease characterised by the self-destruction of...

It's the least understood organ in the human body: the brain, a massive network of electrically excitable neurons, all communicating with one another via receptors on their tree-like dendrites. Somehow these cells work together to enable great feats of human learning and memory. But how...

Turns out the same glands that make you sweat are responsible for another job vital to your health: they help heal wounds. Human skin is rich with millions of eccrine sweat glands that help your body cool down after a trip to the gym or on a warm day. These same glands, new University of...

Couples with high levels of PCBs and similar environmental pollutants take longer to achieve pregnancy in comparison to other couples with lower levels of the pollutants, according to a preliminary study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. PCBs...

Last night's presidential debate moderator, Candy Crowley, should be the new role model for women everywhere. Not only did she take charge of the debate (finally, someone with balls), but she played by her own rules and wasn't afraid to put either candidate (Romney, in particular) in his place...

A research team led by Dr. Christos Mantzoros, MD, PhD, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, has published new findings elucidating the molecular and clinical role of FNDC5/irisin in humans. Irisin is a recently identified hormone secreted from muscle cells that has...

Vitamin D is increasingly being recognized as important for good health. Vitamin D is a hormone made in the skin following sun exposure or acquired from diet and supplement intake. Previous medical research has shown that low body levels of vitamin D make people more susceptible to problems such...

The first study to model the dynamics of disease spreading in the early stages of an outbreak, looked at 40 US airports and finds the one that would spread the disease from its home city to other places the fastest would be New York's Kennedy International Airport, followed by airports in Los...

Ever since his famous jumping-up-and-down incident on Oprah where he declared his undying love for Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise has gotten, well, weird. And while some speculate that his involvement with Scientology is to blame for the demise of their marriage, others claim it was (gasp!) a...

I don't want to hear about a male dom. Any books about females in the power role? Thanks!

It's no surprise that Coca-Cola is pushing back against New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's controversial idea to ban super-sized sodas, but it is surprising that the world's largest sugary soft drink manufacturer takes absolutely no responsibility for America's obesity problem. More »Post from...

Scientists have just identified a new reason why some curry dishes, made with spices humans have used for thousands of years, might be good for you. New research at Oregon State University has discovered that curcumin, a compound found in the cooking spice turmeric, can cause a modest but...

Research into how carbohydrates are converted into energy has led to a surprising discovery with implications for the treatment of a perplexing and potentially fatal neuromuscular disorder and possibly even cancer and heart disease. Until this study, the cause of this neuromuscular disorder was...

of these books in judaism? like the book of judith, the book of tobias, the books of macabees, the wisdom and eclesiates?

politics, science, ethnicity, gen? What role have factors such as fear, social status, religion, race, poverty, politics, science, ethnicity, gender etc. played in response to disease?

Cancer remains a medical mystery - despite all of the research efforts devoted to understanding and controlling it. The most sought-after tumor model is one that would be able to formulate theoretical and computational tools to predict cancer progression and propose individual treatment...

Everyone knows that President Barack Obama is an avid sports fan and big time pick up basketball player, at least whenever he can cobble out the time to hit the court. What most didn't know before is that he's also a basketball coach … or at least he is one day a week, when he works with a team...