Archive for June 20th, 2012
Consumer Group: Purses With Lead Sold at Popular Stores
June 20th, 2012 | 
Author: The consumer group said that it discovered lead in the sides of 43 of the 300 purses it tested in a lab, even though hundreds of handbag manufacturers signed a court settlement to limit the lead in their products.
The five purses that contained the most lead were made by Tory Burch, Guess, House of Harlow, Nine West and Charlotte Russe.
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“Big Food” is focus of science magazine series
Multinational food corporations have a growing influence on the health of people around the world, including obesity, and their actions need greater scrutiny, according to an editorial Tuesday in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine.
The editorial kicks off the journal’s three-week series looking at what it calls “Big Food.” The first articles, and the editorial, criticize not just the food companies but also officials charged with protecting public health.
“The big multinational food companies control what people everywhere eat, resulting in a stark and sick irony: one billion people on the planet are hungry while 2 billion are obese or overweight,” the editorial says.
New Data on “God Particle” Shrouded in Secrecy
A team of physicists gathered in a room at CERN on Friday to begin crunching new data from the Large Hadron Collider this year. And they will be at it all week.
What they are seeing nobody knows.
What they are looking for is the beginning to the end of the longest and most expensive manhunt in the history of physics, one that has involved several generations of larger and larger particle accelerators: the spoor of a hypothetical particle that endows other elementary particles with mass. Known as the Higgs boson, it is the cornerstone of modern physics, but confirmation of its existence has eluded scientists for 40 years.
Researchers Estimate Ice Content of Crater at Moon’s South Pole
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the moon's south pole.
Stress Disorder Pervasive After Heart Attack, Study Finds
The emotional toll of a heart attack can be so severe that an estimated 1 in 8 patients who survive the experience develop post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition that doubles the risk of dying of a second heart attack, according to new research.
Plate color plays role in food intake, study finds
Data from the Plate Size and Color Suggestibility study at Cornell University revealed that people who eat food that has a similar color as their plates consumed 20% more than when they had meals on a plate that has a contrasting color. The results suggest high contrast between food and plate colors may prompt people to evaluate their food-portion intake, researchers said.
Sun’s Benefit in Pancreatic Cancer Affirmed
Three factors related to sunlight exposure reduced the risk of pancreatic cancer by as much as 49%, adding to a fairly substantial volume of evidence supporting a role for sun exposure in pancreatic cancer risk, a case-control study showed.