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Drink till you drop dead in English Pubs- Restriction on Timings Lifted

London: For the first time in 90 years the timings for the last order for drinks has been lifted from the traditional 11PM to round the clock drinking. ..Thousands of revelers up and down the country greeted the news with an extra drink in pubs and bars after midnight. // No major untoward incident was reported... ..The relaxed opening hours, already a feature in most European countries, have le...

Fat chance: Live Statistics of an English Man

Not withstanding the Englishman’s love for beer and fast food, here’s some live statistics about how English men make their presence felt longer on the planet, beating other European counterparts hollow.// ..A significant report based on official statistics, has communicated that the average life expectancy for English men is 76.6 years, ranked second highest, in the European Union, which lead...

Nurses Help Sought To Check Teenage Pregnancies In English Schools

Nurses will now work for birth control in all the schools of England in a move to slash the rising incidence of teenage pregnancies//. ....There are currently 2,409 nurses who work in primary and secondary schools across the country but the latest announcement signals a massive extension, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. ....By 2010, every primary care trust will be funded to have at l...

Ayurvedic Massage & English Food May Cheer England Team

Kochi, April 4. Given an awaiting crowd of 80,000 and the humid weather, the few things the thrice defeated one-day English team can feel cheerful about here are a spruced up// ayurvedic spa and typical English food... ..The fourth one-day cricket match between England and India takes place at the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium Thursday. The teams were given a traditional Kerala welcome w...

Good English Gives Better Mental Health To Asian Americans

Indian and other Asian men with good or excellent English skills are less likely to have mental health problems than those with poorer English //proficiency, according to a new study of immigrants to the US. ....Asian Americans in general have lower rates of psychiatric disorders than American-born Asians and other native-born Americans with English-language proficiency the main variable among m...

English Women Avoid Smear Test for Cervical Cancer

There is a steady drop of women in the late twenties group who take the preventive test for cervical cancer viz. the pap smear test. //The percentage has come down to 69.4 in 2005-06 from 80% in 1995. A parallel trend was observed in women in mid thirties group too. ..Women are said to avoid this test due to the painful and invasive procedures of the same. But according to the medical fraternit...

Siddha Medicine Texts to Be Published in English

A project to translate the ancient Tamil texts of Siddha system of medicine into English is on the verge of completion. // ..One set of translations from the texts, contained in palm leaf manuscripts, would be published soon, according to Arcot N.Veerasamy, a senior minister in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. ....As many as six Sidha practitioners have worked on a Rs.500 thousand pr...

Many NYC Pharmacies Fail to Translate Prescription Labels for Patients Who Don't Understand English

Despite widespread capacity to provide prescription medication labels in languages other than English, few New York City pharmacies do so and as a result//, limited-English patients face serious risk of medication error, according to a study by The New York Academy of Medicine presented today at the annual meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) in Toronto, Ontario. ...."Imag...