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Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...countries and by more than half worldwide. It also asks people to cut their own pollution, make their homes, businesses, schools and transport more energy efficient, and plant new trees and preserve forests. The organizers are happy that China too has been roped in, despite its known reservation on the ...

Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

...h, a team of National Cancer Institute researchers asks a fundamental question: are we looking at cancer vaccine trials the wrong way". In a review of five prostate cancer vaccine trials, NCI researchers offer evidence that patients who receive vaccines may respond better to subsequent chemotherapy or ho...

Use of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Canada Lags Behind U.S

... In a related commentary, Dr. Christopher Simpson asks How is it that we continue to underuse this safe and effective therapy [in Canada]" He reviews many potential factors, including economics and bedside rationing, access problems, cultural values and reduced rates of death, and advocates for increased...

Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

...have assets? Are there institutional safety nets?" asks Fraser. If "no" is successively the answer to these four questions, the crisis has a progressively deeper impact, he says. In other words, a harvest failure radiates out into the wider economy and then degenerates into a killer famine....

Hospital Rapped For Failing To Combat Superbug Infections

... Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals of North London, asks for urgent and necessary steps to be taken to combat the superbugs MRSA and Clostridium difficile. Inspectors discovered the flaws in management of such infections through a series of unannounced visits. In total 120 trusts will face spot checks ove...

Character Test for Australian Visa Subjective

...e, singles out people of Arabic descent. It also asks questions about the applicant's brothers and sisters - previously it was only parents and spouse - and about involvement in people smuggling, acts of violence and development of weapons of mass destruction. The form, which used to cover two pages b...

Drink-drivers Not Influenced by Ads Unless It Affects Them Personally

...ink-driving. In the advertisement, a young man asks for another pint from a barman. Immediately thereafter, the barman is morphed into a policeman, then a lawyer, the mans employer, and finally his girlfriend. Since the young man fails a breath test, he loses his licence for a year and has to pay a he...

WTC Neighborhood Residents Misled on Extent of Contamination

...hysical and mental health problems ever since, and asks through a bullhorn that they receive the same medical treatment as the Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Even the so-called enemy combatants seem to be doing better than those who selflessly cleaned up the debris was the message. Thus volunteers were left ...

Underage Youth Get Alcohol from Social Sources

...a stranger outside of an alcohol establishment and asks this person to purchase alcohol for him or her. We had heard that this was a popular strategy in some communities, but no systematic research had been conducted. Researchers conducted two waves of shoulder-tap requests outside of 219 randomly selec...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...countries and by more than half worldwide. It also asks people to cut their own pollution, make their homes, businesses, schools and transport more energy efficient, and plant new trees and preserve forests. The organizers are happy that China too has been roped in, despite its known reservation on the ...

Should the UK Adopt Dutch Rules on Euthanasia in Newborn Babies?

...erent countries. An editorial in this weeks BMJ asks should it be available? In the Netherlands, about 200,000 live births occur annually; of these, 10-20 babies mostly with severe congenital malformations are thought to be actively killed. Yet between 1997 and 2004 only 22 such deaths were reporte...

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

...sion safe and is it a reasonable lifestyle choice, asks Paula Derry, a Health Psychologist in this weeks BMJ? Birth control options that reduce or eliminate periods are being developed, she writes. The oral contraceptive Seasonale, for example, combines 84 days of active pills with seven days of placebo...

Reduction in Nicotine Craving Predicts Ability to Quit

... the Fagerstrm Test for Nicotine Dependence, which asks smokers how soon after they wake up do they smoke; do they find it difficult to refrain from smoking in places where it is forbidden; which cigarette do they most hate to give up; how many cigarettes do they smoke daily; is smoking more frequent earl...

Childhood Strokes Linked to Whiplash, Other Traumatic Injury

... that can break off and get to the brain. Jordan asks parents, coaches and other caregivers to watch out for symptoms of stroke, which, in addition to blood clots, can be caused by bleeding in the brain after a blood vessel ruptures. Watch out for: Sudden severe headache followed by confusion. Su...

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

...hospitals at the sub-district and district levels? asks Arajmand Hussain Talib, project manager at Action Aid International, Srinagar. Shaheena from Bijbehara was brought to the psychiatric hospital in 2000, seven years after the incident that caused her her trauma. Her elder brother was among the 43 ki...

Where is Our Soul, Asks Michael Moore

...the U.S. health care system is driven by greed and asks of Americans in general, "Where is our soul?" He demands to know why 50 million Americans, 9 million of them children, live without cover, while those that are insured are often driven to poverty by spiraling costs or wrongly refused treatment at ...

Policeman in Trouble for Seeking Oral Sex in Return for a Favour

...red them in the brush beside the highway. "Then he asks me, what does it cost for someone like me to get anything like you," she wrote. She describes performing oral sex on the officer outside his car in a secluded area. Photos that appear to be video stills she said he took during the incident and posted...

World No Tobacco Day Focuses on Secondhand Smoke

...wareness about the dangers of secondhand smoke and asks smokers to "take it outside" to prevent exposure to family and friends -- especially children, who are so vulnerable to the negative effects of environmental tobacco smoke. The American Legacy Foundation(R) is dedicated to building a world where yo...

Richie Sambora Enters Rehab

... undisclosed treatment facility in Los Angeles. He asks that you respect he and his family's privacy at this time," Us Weekly quoted the representative as saying. The magazine also reported that Richie was not being treated for drugs. "It is not a typical 30-day rehab. This is just a treatment center ...

Ancient Healing Technique Gains New Popularity in Iraq

...o sees up to 30 patients a day. At first, Hajam asks the patient where it hurts and then places his cup on the spot, sucks out the air, and leaves it for a few minutes, before removing the cup. He then makes a number of small cuts, replaces the cup and once again sucks out the air, bleeding the wound f...

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