Tuesday, 22nd May 2012.

NFL and concussion: Pride over pain

Posted on Thursday, 30th June 2011 by Jake Clutterbuck

During a shoot for Dorsey Levens’ documentary, Ellis Hobbs talks with Levens about life and pain in the NFL.

Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Ellis Hobbs likened his spine to a jelly doughnut, saying that one of his vertebrae “squeezed out the back end” when he took a jolt to the head during a kick return in 2009.

His interviewer, ex-Green Bay Packers running back Dorsey Levens, looked concerned as Hobbs described the surgery: Doctors cut into the front of his neck and shifted his voice box to the side so they could reach his spine.

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Hugo Chavez, the pelvic abscess and the mystery cancer — how long will it take to get back to Venezuela?

Posted on Wednesday, 29th June 2011 by Brooke Richmond

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has acknowledged that he’s fighting cancer, but he won’t say what kind. Chavez, who looked as if he’d lost some weight, spoke from Cuba, where he’s been at a medical facility for three weeks. Officials have said that Chavez had emergency surgery June 10 for a pelvic abscess, a collection of pus — kind of like a dangerous internal pimple — that’s generally situated in the lower abdomen. Chavez said that the abscess-removal procedure had happened, but that doctors had detected cancerous cells and had removed a tumor. How long it will take to recover is unclear — Chavez and officials have not released much information about the cancer or how developed it is, and have indicated that it may be as much as six months before Chavez is back governing in Venezuela. Read full article…

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Goa beaches unfit for swimming: Scientist

Posted on Wednesday, 29th June 2011 by Brooke Richmond

India’s most popular Goa beaches are unfit for swimming and fishing because of high sewage contamination, scientists have warned.

The level of fecal coliform bacteria in coastal and river waters is much higher than the accepted safety standards, said a study by the government-run National Institute of Oceanography.

Senior scientist at the institute N. Ramaiah said that the contamination has been measured at 190 so-called colony forming units while safety levels should be at 100 units.

Goa is one of the most sought after beach destinations in India. It attracts nearly 2.6 million tourists annually, including nearly half a million foreigners, mostly from Britain, Russia and Germany.

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Ancient quasar can give clues to the dawn of the universe

Posted on Wednesday, 29th June 2011 by Jake Clutterbuck

It’s hard to overstate the shock astronomers felt when the true nature of quasars began to dawn on them in the early 1960s. At first, these mysterious objects seemed like ordinary stars, tucked in the embrace of our familiar Milky Way. But a closer look revealed that they were billions of light-years away, far beyond the confines of our galaxy. To be visible at such vast distances, a quasar must, by itself, have been as bright as an entire galaxy, but somehow squeezed into a pinpoint of light and nobody knew how such a thing could be possible.

It took a while, but theorists finally agreed that quasars are really giant black holes that lurk in the cores of distant galaxies, sucking in surrounding gases and heating them until they shine halfway across the universe.

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Eating blueberries helps build strong bones, suggests study

Posted on Tuesday, 28th June 2011 by Marcus Gollan

Move over calcium, there is a new bone builder in town. Research published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research back in 2010 showed that blueberry compounds helped improve bone development in lab rats, and new research conducted by the same team of scientists is now investigating how the fruit works in humans to boost bone development.Jin-Ran Chen and his colleagues from the Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center in Little Rock recently received funding from the US Department of Agriculture to explore bone development in humans during infancy, childhood, and early adulthood. Read full article…

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