November 1, 1995
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LINCOLN, Nebraska (CNN) -- Researchers at the University of Nebraska are studying a type of egg that might help lower the risk of heart disease.
The so-called "Omega eggs," are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, which increase the ratio of "good" to "bad" cholesterol. The eggs are created by feeding hens a diet of 15 percent Flax seed spring.
LONDON, England -- According to a report released Wednesday by Dutch researchers at the Netherland Institute for Brain Research, men who decide to become women do so not simply for psychological reasons, but because their brains are different.
Dick Swaab of the institute told Nature magazine that transsexuals often feel from childhood that they were born the wrong sex. Swaab said that their research, "Is the first to show a female brain structure in genetically male transsexuals." Swaab said these differences probably occur due to interaction between sex hormones and the developing brain prior to adulthood
Marc Breedlove, a University of California neurologist, commented that so far the regions of the brain the study refers to can only be measured in a post mortem. Breedlove added that until these regions can be measured in the same person at different ages, it cannot be stated positively whether they direct psychological sexual differentiation, or are instead directed by that process.
From Reuter news service.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thalidomide, a banned drug that causes severe birth defects, appears to heal mouth ulcers in AIDS patients.
The National Institutes of Health revealed Tuesday that Thalidomide cleared up severe mouth ulcers in more than half the patients tested. A wider trial is now being planned. Thalidomide was banned in the sixties because in many cases it gave disabilities to babies whose mothers had taken the drug. Patients who are to take the drug in the new trial must agree not to become pregnant.
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