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...dose dependent: The louder the noise, the higher the jump in blood pressure. For every additional 5 dB in volume of aircraft noise, systolic and diastolic blood pressure rose another 0.65 mmHg each. "It's a small increase in the blood pressure, obviously, but it is significant," says co-author Dr. Lars Jarup, who specializes in environmental and occupational medicine at Imperial College London...
...sort of metabolic revving of the energy engines. The saccharin-fed animals, on the other hand, showed no such rise in temperature. "The animals that had the artificial sweetener appear to have a different anticipatory response," says Susan Swithers, a professor of psychological sciences at Purdue University and a co-author of the study. "They don't anticipate as many calories arriving." The net result is a more sluggish metabolism that stores, rather than burns, incoming excess calories...
...significance of our study lies in understanding that, if we can identify the relatively few cells that cause melanoma virulence and target them for destruction, we would have hope for an effective treatment for this and other forms of cancer,” said co-author George F. Murphy, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School...
...what is a tuna-lover to do? TIME asked the opinion of Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, and co-author of one of the most comprehensive studies to date on the impact of fish consumption on human health...
...political consultants. There's Steve Schmidt, who masterminded Arnold Schwarzenegger's comeback in California; veteran strategist Charlie Black, whose counsel has found an ear in every Republican White House since Reagan; Mark McKinnon, the political advertising genius who made John Kerry's wind surfing famous; Mark Salter, McCain's co-author, speechwriter and id; and Rick Davis, a successful lobbyist and Washington sage. They've all been with the campaign since it began, and they all survived its implosion last summer; the only thing that really took a hit in its aftermath, they joke, is their pocketbooks...