March 31, 2008 -- Fasting prior to cancer chemotherapy treatment may significantly enhance the cancer-killing effects of the drugs while protecting healthy cells from damage.
A new study suggests starvation induces a protective shield around healthy cells, allowing them to tolerate a much higher dose of chemotherapy.
Not only did they help thousands of people, but they even ended up saving quite a few lives. Even if you are the biggest retailer in the world, it pays to be in the local community.
Materials that directly convert radiation into electricity could produce a new era of spacecraft and even Earth-based vehicles powered by high-powered nuclear batteries, say US researchers.
When robbed, this young man said to the robber he looked cold and offered his coat also. He must have read the Sermon on the Mount. Read this brave and heartwarming story, with audio too.
When those in charge of the computer network of a small school was stumped and corn-fused, look who they came to for help. For him, it was like a kid in a candy store. I hope you enjoy this, our 100th post!
A pro-life group in Texas is drawing attention to the Abortion Breast Cancer link and Planned Parenthood's relationship with the Susan G. Komen Foundation with a new billboard that raises serious questions -- and is drawing fire. Pro-Life Waco has set up a billboard on the 1700 block of Franklin Avenue that poses suggestive questions: "What? An abortion increases my risk for breast cancer? Why does the Komen Race grant $45,000 to Waco's Planned Parenthood abortion provider?"
Most people have been told since childhood that too much candy is bad for them, but the Mars candy company says its latest confectionary creation may actually help lower cholesterol levels, Boston television station WCVB reported.The candy giant said it did a study with researchers at the University of Illinois that showed that daily consumption of its CocoaVia dark chocolate bars "significantly lowered total cholesterol by 2 percent and LDL or 'bad' cholesterol levels by 5.3 percent."
Independent Christian filmmakers have the opportunity to receive the largest cash prize ever awarded at a film festival.
One lucky and talented Christian filmmaker will receive $101,000 and a “Best of Festival” Jubilee Award next year from the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.
The winner will be announced during a ceremony at the festival, which is slated for Jan. 2009. The amount is more than 10 times what the festival awarded to past "Best of Film" winners, who received $10,000.
Things are looking up for honey bees this year, but keepers know only too well that a fine line separates a good year from a disastrous one.
Adobe Systems opened up Photoshop Express on Thursday, its long-anticipated Web-based image editor aimed at the millions of consumers that want a simple way to touch up, share, and store photos.
Photoshop Express, available for free with 2 gigabytes of storage at www.photoshop.com/express, is a significant departure from Adobe's desktop software business and a big bet that it can make money offering Web services directly to consumers.
There's a wealth of downloadable software and online services, but free doesn't necessarily mean good. Here's some of the best of the bunch
Tired of paying an arm and a leg for gas? Check out these models, they do cost more but the money you will save on gas might be worth it if you can afford them.
In two years, the state dropped from fifth to 39th in the use of the illegal drug. Its secret: good advertising.
In January, Scientific American writers unleashed an ambitious plan to halt global warming, eliminate our dependence on petroleum and the substantial trade deficit, boost the economy and create 3 million jobs, and brighten the dismal forecasts for the mid twenty-first century.
Leonid Stadnik's phenomenal height has forced him to quit a job he loved and to stoop as he moves around his house.But Stadnik, who Guinness World Records says is the world's tallest human, says his condition has also taught him that there are many kindhearted strangers.
Zach Dunlap says he feels "pretty good," four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant.
It took seven surgeons more than 15 hours, in which they removed her stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver and large and small intestines, while keeping Zepp alive. Once they cut out the tumor, which was wrapped around a major artery, they painstakenly put all the organs back in her body.
In other words, it was like taking the engine out of a car to repair it while the car is still running.
It was a great choice. Backwoods Barbie, her latest CD is at #2 on the Billboard charts, her biggest hit in a long, long time. With modern technology, more and more people are proving that you don't need to depend on the big labels anymore, and you can also keep more of the money.
Unlike most physicians, naturopathic doctors don’t look to pharmaceutical companies as their first line of defense against heart disease. Instead, they turn to natural means of lowering risk.
Would you be willing to pay a little extra for goods made in the USA? Join the club. Polls show a majority of Americans willing to do the same. "How Americans Can Buy American: The Power of Consumer Patriotism" is hot off the press, providing tips and listing thousands of retail outlets owned by Americans as well as manufacturers still operating in the U.S.
Electrics Cars, Biofeuls, Hybrids, and more ....... its all here. Get the latest news about the upcoming energy REVOLUTION.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bible counsels misers that it's better to give than to receive. Science agrees. People who made gifts to others or to charities reported they were happier than folks who didn't share, according to a report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
While previous studies have shown that having more money can increase happiness, the researchers at the University of British Columbia and Harvard University wondered if the way people spent their money made any difference.
Turns out, it does.
Analysis found that the more marital satisfaction and adjustment spouses reported, the lower their average blood pressure was over the 24 hours and during the daytime.
After three years of clandestine development, a Georgia company is now going public with a simple, natural way to convert anything that grows out of the Earth into oil.
Image of a little pot.
Feed a hungry child, give safe water, rescue animals, prevent breast cancer and more. 5 neat sites to help those in need just by clicking or playing a game.
People who believe in God are happier than agnostics or atheists, researchers claimed yesterday.
BAINBRIDGE, Ohio --
Go ahead, get the chuckle out of the way. Timmons expects a few laughs over the creature comforts now extended to his herd. The Geauga County farmer installed 200 of the squishy mattresses in the bovine boudoir. Spent nearly $40,000 doing it, too.
"The court cannot 'make' something illegal – that's the legislature's job. Sheesh!" wrote Jon Chi Lou, of Heritage Christian High School. And Hye-Sung F. Gehring added, "This is ridiculous. California is retarded. Always has been."
Most diabetes sufferers could be cured within four years if a revolutionary treatment involving the BCG vaccine works, scientists said yesterday.
A human clinical trial with hopes of finding a cure for type 1 diabetes is to start at a leading American research hospital using BCG, universally given for many years in Britain to prevent tuberculosis.
16 year old Chelsea Hogan has always been fond of medicine and the structure and mysteries of the human body. At age 12, Chelsea began studying the effects of cancer causing agents and how they affect the body. By the age of 13, Chelsea�s understanding of the subject far surpassed those of many medical students far older than her.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Breast-fed babies appear to be less likely to develop type 2 diabetes when they reach adolescence, according to findings published in the medical journal Diabetes Care.
It was six years and barely a peep, even though doctors could find nothing medially wrong with the child. Everyone was at wit's end, until one day last December when Marc came home from school looking like he was about to burst.
You're going to wage battle inside your house and even inside your body to reduce the number of allergy attacks you suffer and minimize those so-annoying symptoms. Allergies may not be life-threatening, but they're nothing to sneeze at either. Here are 20 of the best ways to protect yourself. 
These are truely wonderful, but since the collections are large they will take awhile to load.
I bet it's not really 3 million years old, but it could have found its demise by the great flood. Anyway, right now it doesn't have any bids on E-Bay, and the bidding starts at $115,000. Some assembly required.
A bionic device the size of a pencil eraser - the labor of 20 years for a group of visionary Hub doctors and scientists - is offering hope that some forms of blindness could be alleviated within a few years.
A second petition has been launched in opposition to a California appeals court's ruling that is being interpreted to ban homeschooling in the state, this one an appeal to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state legislature, who already have expressed concern over the court's activism.
