Archive for January 2nd, 2009

Grape Seeds to Fight Cancer

Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by Good Mood Admin
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Grapes

Grape seeds extract found to assist leukemia cells to destroy themselves while leaving the healthy cells unharmed. This research was taking place at the University of Kentucky in Philadelphia. During the research, 76% of leukemia cells, which were exposed to the Grape extract died during a 24 hours period.

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Donate Blood – Win Airfare Tickets

Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by Good Mood Admin
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Red Cross

The American red cross organization will run the “Live Life, Give Life” promotion till the end of March, during this time, anyone who will donate blood or platelets can enter a raffle to win 2 round trip airfare tickets on Delta airlines, there will be a total of 3 winners.

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Solution for Malaria and Dengue Fever

Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by Good Mood
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MosquitoAustralian researchers found a way to make mosquitoes die younger ‘naturally’, and thus spreading fewer diseases. The way to achieve it is by infecting the mosquitoes with a bacterium named Wolbachia causing them to shorter their live span by half.

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