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Effect of MDM2 SNP309 and p53 codon 72 polymorphisms on lung cancer risk and survival among non-smoking Chinese women in Singapore
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 | BMC Cancer
Conclusions: The results thus demonstrate that the MDM2 SNP309 TT rather than the GG genotype is associated with increased risk of lung cancer in this population, suggesting that other mechanisms independent of increased MDM2 levels can influence cancer susceptibility. (Source: BMC Cancer)

Lifemax, Inc.: Mila Sales Spike With Lifemax Prosperity Promotion
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:00:00 +0100 | Market Wire - Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
ORLANDO, FL (MARKET WIRE) Lifemax, a network marketing company known for Mila(TM), the world's healthiest whole raw food, has concluded its first month running the largest promotion in its history. Top earners in the two-part global promotion have already achieved more than 250,000 USD in only the first month of the 15-month eligibility window. Lifemax Independent Distributors have been participating from across the world, including North America, Philippines, Singapore, and Ireland. (Source: Market Wire - Pharmaceuticals and Biotech)

Soft Drink and Juice Consumption and Risk of Physician-diagnosed Incident Type 2 Diabetes: The Singapore Chinese Health Study
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:52:15 +0100 | American Journal of Epidemiology
Soft drinks and other sweetened beverages may contribute to risk of type 2 diabetes and obesity. However, research has not addressed higher risk and Asian populations. The authors examined the association between soft drinks and juice and the risk of type 2 diabetes among Chinese Singaporeans enrolled in a prospective cohort study of 43,580 participants aged 45–74 years and free of diabetes and other chronic diseases at baseline. The incidence of physician-diagnosed type 2 diabetes was assessed by interview and validated; 2,273 participants developed diabetes during follow-up. After adjustment for potential lifestyle and dietary confounders, participants consuming ≥2 soft drinks per week had a relative risk of type 2 diabetes of 1.42 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.25, 1.62) comp...

Progression of Parkinson's disease as evaluated by Hoehn and Yahr stage transition times
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 | Movement Disorders
In conclusion, H&Y transition time is a useful measure of disease progression in PD and may be utilized in clinical studies evaluating therapeutic interventions and prognostic factors in PD. © 2010 Movement Disorder Society (Source: Movement Disorders)

Vlatko Vedral: "I'd like to explain the origin of God"
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:07:21 +0100 | Guardian Unlimited Science
Quantum physicist Vlatko Vedral thinks he has found what the universe is made of: information. Interview by Aleks KrotoskiProfessor Vlatko Vedral is a quantum physicist at the universities of Oxford and Singapore who grapples with the behaviour of energy and matter at subatomic scales, and this has led him to ask some bigger questions including why are we here? And what does it all mean? The 39-year-old, originally from Belgrade, passionately believes units of information – not particles – are the building blocks of humanity and everything that surrounds us. Information, he maintains, is what came before everything else. It is akin to God.Vedral has set out his argument in a new book, Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information (OUP), in which he explains faith, love and tele...

Vlatko Vedral: 'I'd like to explain the origin of God'
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:07:21 +0100 | Guardian Unlimited Science
Quantum physicist Vlatko Vedral thinks he has found what the universe is made of: information. Interview by Aleks KrotoskiProfessor Vlatko Vedral is a quantum physicist at the universities of Oxford and Singapore who grapples with the behaviour of energy and matter at subatomic scales, and this has led him to ask some bigger questions including why are we here? And what does it all mean? The 39-year-old, originally from Belgrade, passionately believes units of information – not particles – are the building blocks of humanity and everything that surrounds us. Information, he maintains, is what came before everything else. It is akin to God.Vedral has set out his argument in a new book, Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information (OUP), in which he explains faith, love and tele...

Universal biases in self-perception: Better and more human than average.
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 | The British Journal of Social Psychology
We examined these biases in six diverse nations: Australia, Germany, Israel, Japan, Singapore, and the USA. Both biases were found in all nations. The self-humanizing effect was obtained independent of self-enhancement, and was stronger than self-enhancement in two nations (Germany and Japan). Self-humanizing was not specific to Western or English-speaking cultures and its magnitude was less cross-culturally variable than self-enhancement. Implications of these findings for research on the self and its biases are discussed. PMID: 20211052 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology)

David Reisman, Social Policy in an Ageing Society: Age and Health in Singapore , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2009, 320 pp., hbk £75, ISBN 13: 978 1 84844 094 4.
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:23:43 +0100 | Ageing
Book ReviewsDAVID R. PHILLIPS, Ageing & Society, Volume 30 Issue 03 , pp 553-555Abstract (Source: Ageing)

Secular trends in breast cancer mortality in five East Asian populations: Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 | Cancer Science
Breast cancer risk is increasing in most Asian female populations, but little is known about the long-term mortality trend of the disease among these populations. We extracted data for Hong Kong (1979[ndash]2005), Japan (1963[ndash]2006), Korea (1985[ndash]2006), and Singapore (1963[ndash]2006) from the World Health Organization (WHO) mortality database and for Taiwan (1964[ndash]2007) from the Taiwan cancer registry. The annual age-standardized, truncated (to [ge]20 years) breast cancer death rates for 11 age groups were estimated and joinpoint regression was applied to detect significant changes in breast cancer mortality. We also compared age-specific mortality rates for three calendar periods (1975[ndash]1984, 1985[ndash]1994, and 1995[ndash]2006). After 1990, breast cancer mortality t...