Sitting down to dinner was a little disappointing.”I expected Francois Mitterand and Frida Kahlo,” joked retired languages teacher Mary, who together with her ex-GP husband was backpacking through south-east Mexico.
Na Bolom dining room. Mitterand, Kahlo, her husband, Diego Rivera, and even Henry Kissenger have dined here. Photograph: Ed Ewing
We were four at a table for [...]

The team pooled data from previous studies in an attempt to summarize what%26rsquo;s known about growth hormone%26rsquo;s effects on athletic performance. Although this analysis may not reflect the way athletes actually take the drug illicitly, the lead author of the study, Hau Liu, MD, said with growth hormone in the news, it was a good [...]

Thomas S. Smith, associate professor of wildlife science, has conducted field work among bears for 16 years and has never used bear spray, although he carries it faithfully. %26quot;I wish I had more scary stories to share, but I’ve behaved myself,%26quot; said Smith, emphasizing that caution and wisdom are the best way to prevent bear [...]

Blunt spokesman Nanci Gonder said the governor started using state planes because he is no longer a political candidate.”We had erred on the side of caution, so there would be no appearance the state plane was being used for political purposes,” Gonder said. Because Blunt is no longer a candidate, that appearance is gone, she [...]

However, some patients later developed leukemia. This slowed progress in the field and has led to detailed studies seeking to determine the mechanisms underlying the cause of leukemia and whether other genes that are candidates for gene therapy approaches might pose a similar risk.
A new study, carried out by Hans-Peter Kiem and colleagues, at the [...]

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Diabetes is undergoing a genetics revolution that suggests there are many subtypes of the disease.
The discoveries already trigger important changes in treatment for a fraction of patients with some rare diabetes types caused by single genes gone awry - if they have a doctor aware of the findings.
“We’ve got a whole group [...]

Hamilton began the day with a decided advantage, but in the end the match went to the wire with the fortunes of both sides ebbing and flowing throughout the day.
Resuming at their overnight score of 304-4, Hamilton batted through to be all out for 407 in their first innings, just after the lunch break.
Earlier, Grant [...]

St Francis de Sales School in Island Bay sent a warning leaflet home to parents after reports a sex offender had been seen loitering in the area, but police say the information came from a parent and they do not hold serious concerns about the man.
He is not the paedophile deported from Australia who was [...]

‘Let me guess. You’re going to the middle of the world,” says the Quito taxi driver, turning to the English backpackers in the backseat, while simultaneously negotiating the city’s mid-morning traffic.He’s right first time. The equator is one of the Ecuadorian capital’s biggest attractions - even though GPS devices have recently revealed the much-photographed line [...]

Damage from both diseases was prevented and even reversed when the protein, Robo4, was activated in mice models that simulate age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy, according to Dean Y. Li, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study published March 16 in Nature Medicine online.
Robo4 treated and prevented the diseases by inhibiting abnormal blood [...]