Vitamin 'may blunt cancer drugs'

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7643533.stm) web side

Thirty to 70% less cancer cells in a lab were killed by a range of drugs, after pretreatment with vitamin C. chemotherapy tests found tumours grew more rapidly in mice given cancer pretreated with vitamin C. they is a center called (Memorial Sloan-Ketterin) and US researchers say the same mechanism may affect patient outcomes. some student vitamin C is an antioxidant it could be beneficial to cancer patients. US team tested the impact of a form of vitamin C on the effectiveness of a range of anti-cancer drugs in tests on cancer cells in the lab. They found that every drug they tested did not work as well if cells were pretreated with vitamin C as they did on untreated cancer cells. vitamin C could help for the center....

Is air matter? Why or why not? (science)

matter is anything that has mass and takes up space. so, in order to prove that air 

matter, we need to prove that air has mass and takes up space.

we can get a balloon while go ahead and inflate the balloons with air

.balloon  lost its air in a very calm, controlled fashion without sending its balloon guts all over the room. The end of the meter stick with the deflated balloon should have risen into the air. It did this because there was less mass in the balloon after it deflated. The only way the balloon could have lost mass is if the air that was inside it has mass.

'Thousands ill' due to China milk

Nearly 13,000 children in China have been hospitalised due to tainted Chinese milk powder, officials say.

China's health ministry said 104 out of 12,892 babies showed serious symptoms.

Four infants have died after drinking the milk of the Sanlu Group containing the industrial chemical melamine, which could cause urinary problems.

Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, a toddler has been diagnosed with a kidney stone after drinking the powder - the first such case outside mainland China. A number of Asian and African countries have now banned Chinese dairy imports following the scandal.

Chinese police have arrested 18 people in connection with the scandal.

Instead of Eating to Diet, They’re Eating to Enjoy～！

after decades of obsessing about fat, calories  and carbs, many dieters have made the unorthodox decision to simply enjoy food again. but They didn’t mean they’re giving up on health or even weight loss.consumers and nutritionists say they are seeing a shift toward “positive eating” — shunning deprivation diets and instead focusing on adding seasonal vegetables, nuts, berries and other healthful foods to their plates. 

Worried Parents in China Wait for Answers on Tainted Formula

BEIJING — Harried nurses at Children’s Hospital on the east side of Beijing spent Wednesday behind a small desk, registering infants in a rapidly filling logbook.One father, Zhang Gaofeng, 35, had waited more than a day at the hospital with his wife, Wang Hui, and their 22-month-old daughter, Yue. The couple had fed Yue the Sanlu brand of baby formula now at the center of a nationwide food safety scandal that has left three infants dead and sickened more than 6,000 babies.“They are trying to make a profit off the people who are not rich enough to afford the imported brands. In the hospital parking lot with other families. “Poor people can only afford the low-end products like this one.” He said the Sanlu product had cost about $3.20 for two days’ worth of formula, compared with about $5 for the top brands.

Why Movie Stars Offer the Clothes Off Their Backs??

THE life of the celebrity-award-show dress is always short and frenzied. Conceived through a series of pleas by designers, fittings, rejections and more pleas, given birth to on the red carpet — generally without a single dollar changing hands — the dress dies in a garment bag in the back of a closet. Its existence is often memorialized only by People magazine.that the proceeds could be used to benefit people other than the designers, who get considerable publicity from these events.!!!