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Insufficient Attention Paid to Potential Dangers, The Washington Post reports here: The United States is the world leader in nanotechnology — the newly blossoming science of making incredibly small materials and devices — but is not paying enough attention to the environmental, health and safety risks posed by nanoscale products, says a report released yesterday by the independent National Research Council.
Experts say low tar cigarettes are just as bad for health, BBC News reports here: A lawsuit which accuses tobacco firms of duping smokers into thinking low tar or "light" cigarettes are less harmful has been given the go ahead in the US.
Reuters reports here at CNN News: One in six Americans frequently have difficulty falling asleep, and 4.5 percent of them use some type of alternative medicine to treat their sleeping problems, a new study shows.
Herbs and relaxation exercises were the remedies most commonly used.
BBC News reports here: The European Union has approved the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, which could prevent nearly 3,000 cancers each year in the UK alone.
Spiegel Online asks here: Berlin’s popular gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit has become a more powerful force in German politics since he was re-elected on Sunday. Berliners like him because he embodies the city’s tolerant and cosmopolitan image. Media commentators are now speculating that he could even become chancellor one day. But the country’s homosexual lobby group has its doubts.
BBC News reports here: Taking vitamin D tablets could substantially reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer, research suggests. US scientists found taking the tablets cut the risk of a disease, which has a poor prognosis in almost half of cases.
HealthDay News reports here at Yahoo’s website: The fear that the new Medicare drug plan would limit access to medicines hasn’t come true, as least as far as cancer treatment is concerned, a new report finds. In fact, the researchers discovered that Part D expanded access to cancer therapies and required only low co-payments.
Spiegel Online reports here: Bavaria opens the gates to a heaven of beer, pork knuckles and sausages this Saturday with the start of the 173rd Munich Oktoberfest, the world’s biggest folk festival. This year, as Bavarians get ready to squeeze into Dirndl dresses and Lederhosen, they can look forward to an innovation that could make flirting easier than ever before.
BBC News reports here: Scientists have pinpointed an unlikely potential weapon in the war against obesity – seaweed. They hope fucoxanthin can be developed into a slimming supplement or a drug that targets harmful fat.