All News from Wed, 13 Oct 2010
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Students learning abroad increase drinking
University of Washington study found drinking increased most dramatically among its students who studied in Europe, Australia and New Zealand Read more…
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Russian claims to uncover “Caucasian Stonehenge”
Located in the North Caucasus mountains a built by a previously unknown Bronze Age civilisation Read more…
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WHO takes aim at tuberculosis with new 5-year plan
"The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015" will cost about $47 ($NZ62.06) billion, with money going to fund more testing labs and research projects to develop and deliver medicine to treat the disease Read more…
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Dogs can be optimistic or pessimistic too – study
University of Bristol animal behaviour study published in Current Biology Read more…
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Parliament passes bill that protects frozen eggs and sperm
Corrects the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004 that regulated the length of time gamete (sperm and eggs) and embryos could be stored Read more…
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IVF now found to make kids taller
Liggins researchers found the height advantage occurred only in children born as a result of IVF using fresh, and not frozen, embryos Read more…
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Another big aftershock jolts Canterbury
This second magnitude 5.0 aftershock to hit the region Read more…
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Chili supplement unlikely to help dieters burn away fat
US study finds diet supplement containing dihydrocapsiate has negligible effect on weight loss Read more…
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Niwa scientists find new ways of seeing past quakes
Using acoustic soundings to interpret the history of undersea earthquake activity on major faultlines around New Zealand Read more…
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Many dying US cancer patients still get screenings
Study compared the use of screening tests in people 65 or older with advanced cancer and a group of healthy people of a similar age enrolled in Medicare Read more…
