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A team of CIC bioGUNE researchers, led by Dr. Naiara Beraza, have discovered that 'natural killer' (NK) cells are fundamental in the inflammation of the liver during the early stages of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

Dozens, if not hundreds, of pharmaceutical drugs are recalled every single year because of contamination or adverse side effects, but many pharmacists and healthcare providers never get the memo.

Platypuses on the Australian mainland and in Tasmania are fighting fit but those on small islands are at high risk of being wiped out from disease, according to a University of Sydney study.

This week I wrote a post for Forbes.com entitled "3 Reasons Why Card-Carrying Capitalists Should Support Family Leave." To help individuals advocate for Paid Family Leave (which is really Family Leave "Insurance") in their state, Ellen Bravo the Executive Director of Family Values @ Work, a national network of 16 state and local coalitions helping spur the growing movement for family-friendly workplace policies, offered the following get-started tips:

In today's 'arrested development' culture where adults go into their 20's and beyond behaving like children while the actual children rule over their squeamish, indecisive parents with little candy-coated fists, the fact that something is seriously wrong couldn't be more clear.

Australians' strong concerns about animal welfare put us at odds with Asian live export markets; but sharing our food production technologies gives us a potential advantage.

Link between unconscious conflicts and conscious anxiety disorder symptoms shown, lending empirical support to psychoanalysis.

As long and as hard as some nations (especially the United States) have fought through the years to achieve and maintain independence, it's mind-boggling to think they would ever voluntarily surrender that sovereignty.

Once upon a time, Spanish Banks, on account of its meticulous banking practices, were credited as one of the most reliable pillars of the Western Economies to withhold the pressure of global liquidity crisis.

We periodically hold a writing competition for our members. Travellerspoint shortlists the top entries and a panel of experts judges the winner. The blogs below are the best entries from our first Travel Blogging Competition. - Travellerspoint

Thank you to readers for their feedback to Monday's Daily Reckoning. We were expecting some outraged hate mail at our scepticism. Instead it was only thoughtful and often sad stories from people who had to personally experience the issues we raved about.

Weill Cornell Researchers Show Tiny Vitamin in Milk, in High Doses, Makes Mice Leaner, Faster and Stronger

The first U.S. hotel management company signed a code of conduct at a June 14 press conference to help protect children from exploitation driven by tourism. It joins 40 other companies worldwide.

The Maserati GranSport name could make a comeback attached to a new mid-mounted V8-powered sports car planned for 2015.

The Porsche Boxster remains the cheapest way into the German car maker’s sports car range – and may well continue to do so as the company continues to dither and deliberate over a new, smaller entry-level sports car.

Stroke remains the third leading cause of death in the US, taking the lives of more than 140,000 people each year, and is the leading cause of serious, long-term disability.

The Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG hot-hatch will be one of three new models that will bring the German luxury brand’s performance models to a broader audience with sub-$100,000 price tags.

Paralympic tandem cycling legend Kieran Modra has earned the chance to spearhead the Australian cycling team at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, having overcome the injuries he sustained in a horror crash late last year.

All tides turn. Last night a major sporting tide may have done just that...

The successful takeover of Xstrata by Glencore might turn the company into the fourth largest miner globally. It has been billed as the "merger of equals" by industry observers and insiders alike.

The United Nations (U.N.) Environment Program has released a 525-page report in conjunction with its upcoming Rio+20 conference on sustainable development that warns about "sudden, irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes" that will occur in the world if drastic measures are not taken to stop them. In correctly identifying pesticides and other chemicals as one of the primary causes, however, the U.N. also tacks on the global warming myth in an attempt to push for a centralized, wo...

Vitamin D is an essential cofactor in the prevention of a host of conditions ranging from cancer to diabetes, dementia and cardiovascular disease.

For global internet retailers you would imagine that being eco-friendly can be more than a little bit difficult to achieve, what with making of goods on a large scale, transporting these products all around the world and having many bases in a number of different countries.

There have been various reports on NaturalNews and in the mainstream media concerning the side effects of consuming food that has been genetically modified.

The Australian government and the Australian Medical Association are targeting 27,000 three-year-olds for psychiatric treatment.

It's a tradition in Britain and the Commonwealth for the queen to award special honors each year on her birthday. This year, the controversial philosopher Peter Singer becomes a Companion in the Order of Australia.

Just when, as a parent, you think you've got this drug thing with your kids handled, they come up with something else to put themselves at risk and make you begin worrying about them all over again.

The South African Women's Open will make its return to the international women's golf circuit for the first time in three years when the tournament tees off at Selborne Park Golf Club in KwaZulu-Natal from 13-15 July.

Image depicting a depressed pregnant woman. (stock image)ANN ARBOR, Mich.-It seems logical that programs to screen and manage depression in pregnant, HIV-positive Medicaid patients should already be in place, but they aren't.