A high salt intake has been implicated in cardiovascular disease risk for 5000 years. But salt-sensitive Blood Pressure still remains an enigma. Now, investigators from Germany at the University of Erlangen, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Regensburg, collaborating with researchers from Finland and Austria have shed new light on the relationship between salt intake, bodily processes, and blood pressure regulation.

Further exploration of Mars revealed new interesting details, giving NASA another evidence of life on this planet.

Amid concern that people in the United States are consuming inadequate amounts of iodine, scientists in Texas have found that 53 percent of iodized salt samples contained less than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended level of this key nutrient.

KFG Resources (TSX.V: KFG) announced on Oct 26th that its subsidiary KFG Petroleum will participate in the drilling of 6,550 ft oil test in the Wilcox Formation in Adams County, Mississippi. If this well is successful, the company will retain a 15.375% working interest and an 11.5% net revenue interest in the well and surrounding acreage.

Using a new twist on standard Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, a team of scientists has found that Earth’s largest salt flat is rougher than expected, according to a new report led by Adrian Borsa of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and published in Geophysical Journal International.

Researchers have identified unique proteins that allow a unicellular algae called Dunaliella salina to proliferate in environments with extreme salt content.

Low salt foods are just as safe or safer than high salt level products in spite of expectations that cutting salt levels in food would increase the risk of spoilage by bacteria, say scientists today at the Society for General Microbiology's 161st Meeting at the University of Edinburgh, UK, which runs from 3-6 September 2007.

Scientists have identified yet another risk from a high-salt diet. High concentrations of salt in the stomach appear to induce gene activity in the ulcer-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori, making it more virulent and increasing the likelihood of an infected person developing a severe gastric disease.