Killing a cancer cell from the inside out
 Researchers at MIT and Switzerland's ETH Zurich have found a way to program cells to determine whether they have become cancerous, and if they have, to order their own suicide.
The new technology, described in the Sept. 2 issue of Science, offers the possibility of designing cell-death-inducing programs specific to any type of cancer, which could effectively kill tumors while leaving healthy tissues unharmed.
Kids decontaminated after old blood pressure monitor breaks at Ohio day care, spilling mercury
Authorities in Ohio say a show-and-tell item got broken at an Ohio day care and spilled mercury, leading to cold decontamination showers for about 30 preschoolers.
Toledo fire officials tell multiple media outlets that an employee of Gingerbread House Too brought an old blood pressure monitor to show the children on Thursday. It was left on the floor and a child in a rocking chair rolled over it, breaking a glass tube on the device that contained mercury.
Potato diet for lower blood pressure... and no weight gain
They have long been maligned as fattening and shunned by those following the Dukan and other low-carb diets.
But potatoes could be the latest superfood. For eating a portion twice a day can lower blood pressure, researchers say. What is more, it seems there is no weight gain involved.
Poor sleep quality increases risk of high blood pressure
 Reduced slow wave sleep (SWS) is a powerful predictor for developing high blood pressure in older men, according to new research in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
SWS, one of the deeper stages of sleep, is characterized by non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) from which it's difficult to awaken. It's represented by relatively slow, synchronized brain waves called delta activity on an electroencephalogram. Researchers from the Outcomes of Sleep Disorders in Older Men Study (MrOs Sleep Study) found that people with the lowest level of SWS had an 80 percent increased risk of developing high blood pressure.
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