| WIC food program serves up healthier mix
October 14, 2009 at 7:56 am
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| Fight obesity by taxing calories
October 14, 2009 at 7:56 am
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| Altruism may be taught, not genetic
October 14, 2009 at 7:37 am
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| | DAVIS, Calif., Oct 14, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Altruistic behavior, self-sacrifice among strangers has more to do with nurture than nature, or culture more than genes, U.S. researchers suggest. Adrian V. Bell and colleagues of the University of California, Davis, say behaviors that help unrelated people while being costly to the individual and creating a risk for genetic descendants could not likely be favored by evolution -- at least by common evolutionary arguments. The researchers used a mathematical equation -- the Price equation -- that describes the conditions for altruism to evolve. This equation motivated the researchers to compare |
| Injectable H1N1 vaccine becoming available
October 14, 2009 at 7:37 am
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| | ATLANTA, Oct 13, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Almost 10 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine are available and about half are the injectable kind, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. Orders are being processed and vaccine doses are heading out in a process officials said would take weeks. The first batches of the vaccine were in the nasal spray, FluMist, but since it uses "live virus" it's only recommended for healthy people ages 2-49, health officials said. Pregnant women, who have been hit hard by H1N1 flu, can get the injectable H1N1 flu vaccines, which consist of "dead" virus. There | | | 
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