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Energetic study of cardioplegic hearts under ischaemia/reperfusion and [Ca2+] changes in cardiomyocytes of guinea‐pig: mitochondrial role :: ConclusionsCPG, diazoxide and clonazepam improve postischaemic recovery, respectively, by increasing the Ca2+ cycling and by reducing the mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake either by uniporter or by mNCX. The mitochondria compete with the leaky sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) as sink of Ca2+ in guinea‐pig hearts, affecting the postischaemic contractility. CPG also prevented the ouabain‐induced dysfunction by avoiding the Ca2+ overload. Ouabain reduced the synergism between CPG and clonazepam suggesting that [Na+]i and SR load influence the mNCX role. (Source: Acta Physiologica)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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Women: The car industry's future? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/o2Xj2jiuzAM/index.html

Getting ahead at work in 2013 :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/8ml0akuLc98/index.html

Record fines: 'New normal' for banks? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/OlEJVUWzzuU/index.html

Greek: We are getting hungry :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/dDVS3JK36Gw/

New rules hit Gaza's fishermen :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/GMk2xt0Izro/

U.S. to profit from AIG bailout :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/YN4XFHsAzoM/

Future risks: Solar storms, pandemic :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/dH1zA4KmsXk/index.html

Forbes: More taxes 'perverse' :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/ADZeJE6fmqY/

OECD: No easy fix to UK tax problem :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/v5xvZpUZQ_I/

North Korea rocket costs: $1.3 billion :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/_zL-zZMEf8s/index.html

Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
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Digital detox for gadget junkies :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/FP3oCToVHfg/index.html

Price tag of raising a child :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/NkJxRQ_gmJ4/

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:&bull; Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).&bull; E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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The selling of wartime needs sold the US on advertising, author says :: (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) It's hard to imagine today, but the advertising industry once faced fierce public opposition, in the 1930s. Then came World War II, and everything changed, says author Inger Stole, in "Advertising at War." The industry helped the government promote everything from war bonds to victory gardens to women in the workforce -- while still selling products -- and in the process cemented its place in the American economy and psyche. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
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Help Protect Federal Spending on Rare Diseases like Duchenne :: PPMD Taking Action to Avert Sequestration



Those engaged in federal advocacy probably thought the Prescription Drug User Fee Act and its acronym PDUFA would take the cake in terms of policy jargon. But as the nation's eyes are fixed on Washington to see whether or not the nation will careen over the "fiscal cliff," the term sequester and sequestration is invading the American lexicon.

According to Webster, sequester traces its roots to the 14th Century and is derived from the Latin "sequestrare" which means "to hand over to a trustee." After centuries of obscurity, the term gained new prominence beginning in the summer of 2011, when Congress reached a deal to increase the nation's debt that forced a set of across-the-board spending cuts – or a sequester of such funds – if a committe...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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Got Milk? For Kids, Pediatricians Recommend Two Cups A Day Max :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The recipe for a healthy child should include no more than 2 cups of milk a day, Canadian researchers say.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">But in the wintertime, milk alone might not be enough for kids with darker skin to get the Vitamin D they need, pediatricians from Toronto wrote <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2012/12/12/peds.2012-1793">in a study published in the journal Pediatrics</a> on Monday.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> </p></div></div></div>
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Liverpool Transfer News: Ince, Gomis, Turan And Yilmaz Involved in Latest Speculation :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has confirmed that he is looking to bolster the attacking area of his squad in next month's transfer window, but has said it may not be until next summer that he can truly reshape his squad.</p><p>Ever since Liverpool failed to sign a striker in the closing stages of the summer transfer window, it has been widely accepted both inside and outside the club that the Reds were desperately short of forward options. Currently Luis Suarez and the injured Fabio Borini are the only established strikers on Liverpool's books.</p></div></div></div>
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Zero Dark Thirty: The Reality And Future Of Special Forces After Osama Bin Laden :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Being a U.S. Special Forces operator isn't all fun, night-vision goggles, and killing Osama Bin Laden. At least according to Linda Robinson a former war journalist and adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations on Tuesday. </p><p class="p1">In fact, with the opening of the Oscar-baiting movie Zero Dark Thirty, which claims to be based on actual accounts of how the Bin Laden raid went down, Robinson said now is the time when Washington needs to decide what to do with further special operations, in Afghanistan and elsewhere.</p></div></div></div>
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