Eye's light receptors key in regulating sleep/wake cycle (TechJournal South)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — Biologists at the University of Virginia have discovered a switching mechanism in the eye that plays a key role in regulating the sleep/wake cycles in mammals. The finding could lead to new treatments for sleep disorders.
Studies eye sleep's effects (The San Angelo Standard-Times)
To sleep, perchance to dream - perchance to lower our blood pressure. Almost since the first equipment to measure blood pressure was devised, doctors have known that sleeping drops the numbers by about 20 percent in most folks, and that pressure spikes when we first wake up.
Movie work drops off as actors negotiate (Moldova.org)
Union members say major movie production in Los Angeles has come to a virtual halt as producers eye contract talks with the Screen Actors Guild.The Hollywood studios scheduled most of their productions to wrap up around June 30 in anticipation of drawn-out negotiations, and indeed, talks between the Guild and the industry are ongoing, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. It said only one ...
UN: Opium cultivation drops in Afghanistan (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Drought and anti-drug campaigns helped slash Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation by 19 percent this year compared to 2007, but Taliban militants could still earn up to US$70 million from the harvest, the U.N. said Tuesday.
Aussie drops to 2-day low against NZ dollar (Nasdaq)
(RTTNews) - Wednesday in Asia, the Australian dollar declined to a 2-day low against its New Zealand counterpart. Meanwhile, the Aussie showed strength against the US dollar and the Canadian currency, but showed choppy trading versus the Japanese yen.
Girl, 11, is shot in eye while playing (The Journal)
AN 11-year-old girl is fighting for her sight after being shot in the face by a ball bearing (BB) gun. Chloe Laidlaw was playing outside her house, in Blyth, when she was shot in an apparently unprovoked attack.
UN: Opium cultivation drops in Afghanistan (AP via Yahoo! News)
Drought and anti-drug campaigns helped slash Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation by 19 percent this year compared to 2007, but the country is still far and away the world's leading source of the heroin-producing crop, the U.N. said Tuesday.
Movie work drops off as actors negotiate (UPI)
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Union members say major movie production in Los Angeles has come to a virtual halt as producers eye contract talks with the Screen Actors Guild.
45 lose vision due to 'contaminated' eye drops in TN (IBN live)
Six of those affected have been declared fully blind by the doctors.
UN says opium cultivation drops in Afghanistan (AP via Yahoo! News)
Drought and anti-drug campaigns helped slash Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation by 19 percent this year compared to 2007, but Taliban militants could still derive up to $70 million from the harvest, the U.N. anti-drug chief said Tuesday.
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