PARIS (AFP) A purified form of omega 3, the so-called good fat found naturally in certain fish and nut oils, reduced dangerous polyps among people prone to bowel cancer, a study published on Thursday says.Fifty patients were enrolled in the investigation, all with a genetic mutation that prompts the development of polyps precancerous growths in the bowel that often develop into tumours requir
CHICAGO (Reuters) Instead of killing off cancer cells with toxic drugs, scientists have discovered a molecular pathway that forces them to grow old and die, they said on Wednesday.Cancer cells spread and grow because they can divide indefinitely.But a study in mice showed that blocking a cancer-causing gene called Skp2 forced cancer cells to go through an aging process known as senescence the s
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Elodia Ortiz drops her children at school in the morning, picks them up in the afternoon and makes an occasional trip to the supermarket.Anything else, she says, is too dangerous.Parents in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, are afraid to venture into the streets amid a turf war between two powerful drug cartels that has left more than 4,500 p
Mexico City – The Haiti government said that it will need $11.5 billion to rebuild after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Jan.12 left more than 220,000 dead and large swaths of the capital, Port-au-Prince, in ruins.The estimate comes from a draft Preliminary Damage and Needs Assessment that was released as delegations from 28 countries wrapped up a two-day meeting in Santo Domingo, Dominican
A US drone strike in Pakistan last week appears to have killed a top al-Qaeda planner who Washington believes helped organize December’s deadly suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan, US officials said on Wednesday.The CIA has stepped up the intensity of unmanned aerial drone attacks and intelligence-gathering operations in Pakistan since the Dec.30 bombing, which killed seven of the spy ag
Yusuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan’s prime minister, is strongly pushing for the imminent transfer of powers from the country’s presidency to the prime minister’s office in an effort to reverse a much-resented concentration of powers under military rule.Mr Gilani is seeking the authority to make appointments of armed forces chiefs and provincial governors and wants the power of the president to dissolve
Elena Salgado, the Spanish finance minister, joined the calls on Wednesday for faster consolidation of the country’s weaker savings banks, admitting in the process that up to a third of lending institutions could face “solvency problems.Speaking in parliament, Ms Salgado was seeking to reassure Spaniards that the difficulties of some cajas de ahorros – unlisted savings banks usually controlled by
EL CAJON, Calif. A California Highway Patrol report released Wednesday says an officer responding to a report of a runaway Toyota Prius arrived to find a Border Patrol agent near the driver with lights flashing.The Border Patrol presence raises the prospect that there were other witnesses, but the report offers few new details and does nothing to clarify wildly divergent explanations from Toyota
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