California researchers have developed a two-drug regimen that could free type 1 diabetes sufferers from from dependence on insulin and dietary restrictions.
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Combination Treatment May Reverse Diabetes
Camel’s Milk Coming to a Health Food Store Near You
Camel’s milk is quickly becoming the newest super food to hit the shelves of health food stores and upscale retailers.
Give Your Political Opponent a Virus
In Nevada’s gubernatorial race, Democratic Party candidate Jim Gibson has been hampered by a sonorous personal style that many see as dull. But last week, he livened up that staid image by issuing an animated attack ad lampooning his opponent for once taking a campaign donation from Enron.
Social Networking Sites Becoming Mainstream Business Model
Social networking online isn’t just for hip twenty-year-olds any longer, as a new wave of targeted Internet community sites build business models to attract larger audiences and more advertisers.
Sweden Aims to Go Green
Twenty years after Sweden alerted the world to the meltdown at Chernobyl, it aims to phase out nuclear power and end dependency on fossil fuels, putting the country in the vanguard of green energy policy.
Childhood Obesity ‘Doubles in Decade’
Childhood obesity in England has doubled in 10 years, figures show.
China Slow to Institute Sex Ed
When Lao Li was a boy, sex was never discussed at home or school.
TV that Makes You Watch Commercials
In this era of easy ad skipping with TiVo-like video recorders, could television viewers one day be forced to watch commercials with a system that prevents channel switching?
Microsoft Back with New Spin on Antitrust Case
Microsoft and its critics agree that the future of innovation is at stake when the U.S. software giant challenges a landmark 2004 antitrust ruling next week before the European Union’s second highest court.
Top 10 Signs You Need a Hair Makeover
Not the normal kind of article we do on the Impact Lab, but understanding the female mind, one of nature’s great mysteries, is a noble cause. Also, this article appeared in China Daily.
Quest for Immortality Ends as Freezer Dies
Raymond Martinot and his wife were the toast of the world cryonics movement. For years they were France’s best preserved corpses, lying in a freezer in a chateau in the Loire Valley, in the hope that modern science could one day bring them back to life. But the French couple’s journey into the future ended […]
