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The death of popular young actor Ricardo Yan, age 27, in the Philippines has put the spotlight on a mystery ailment that kills healthy Asian men in their sleep. Filipinos call it “bangungot” or the nightmare syndrome. Patients with the illness are heard moaning just before they die, which is usually in the middle of the night, doctors say.

Doctors say he died of haemorrhagic pancreatitis leading to cardiac arrest. But there is reason why the ailment should strike an apparently healthy young man.

Yan was on vacation at a beach resort with a group of friends. Autopsy results showed he had drunk only a moderate amount of alcohol, equivalent to about two bottles of beer, prior to his death. There was no evidence he had taken any drugs.
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Italian fertility specialist Severino Antinori says three women are currently pregnant with clones. “There are three pregnancies,” Antinori says. Two of them are in Russia and one in an “Islamic state,” according to Antinori. He says that they are six to nine weeks along. Antinori achieved fame a few years ago by helping a 62-year-old woman become pregnant with a donated egg.
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An epidemic of coral bleaching is effecting the world?s largest coral reef: the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. An extensive survey of the Great Barrier Reef carried out over the last month has revealed “widespread bleaching”, says Terry Done, chief conservation scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. This is happening here for second time in four years and is also spreading through the coral islands of the South Pacific.

Coral bleaching occurs when high sea temperatures force the algae that give coral its red color out of the coral polyps. Usually, bleached coral recovers in the next cool season, but if all the algae are lost, the coral will die and the reefs will crumble.
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Bread, biscuits, potato chips and french fries contain alarmingly high quantities of acrylamide, a substance believed to cause cancer, according to Swedish scientists. The research carried out at Stockholm University in cooperation with Sweden’s National Food Administration, a government food safety agency, shows that when carbohydrate-rich foods are heated, they form acrylamide, a substance that has been classified as a probable human carcinogen.
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