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Americans Bloated On Happy Pills

...ssants are the answer," he states. Goodman is the founder of a group called "No Free Lunch," a group that encourages doctors to reject gifts from pharmaceutical companies. He claims that patients sometimes see ads for antidepressants on television and ask doctors for the drugs - and that studies show these ...

Paris Set for Pedal Power Revolution

...up cycling and that have caused similar schemes to founder in cities such as Amsterdam. Despite a growing 400-kilometre (250-mile) network of cycle paths, the city of two million, which has one of the best public transport systems in the world, has only 150,000 bike owners. It is also rolling out a major...

War Stimulates Research Blitz in Prosthetics Industry

... prostheses, also has wartime roots. The company's founder and namesake "was considered a little bit like the Henry Ford of the prosthetic industry" for mass-producing devices for World War I veterans, said Brad Ruhl, vice president of sales at the company's North American headquarters in Minneapolis. The pr...

Ujjain Ashram Adopts Eco-friendly Burial Process

...vironment through forestation. Sudhirbhai Goyal, founder of the ashram, said: "During the time of cremation, a pit of six feet long and 3 feet wide is dug. After laying the dead body, the pit is covered with mud. After five or six months, sapling of a tree is planted - which once grown up benefits us with ...

NKorea Extols Virtues of Dog Meat

...mism for dog meat that was coined by North Korea's founder Kim Il-Sung in the early 1980s. Dangogi-jang means dog meat soup. "These days workers sweating to taste boshintang can be witnessed in any Dangogi houses and traditional restaurants in the capital of Pyongyang," the agency said. While dog meat re...

Palestinian Rival Leader Claims That Arafat Died of AIDS

... has claimed in an interview. Ahmad Jibril, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, was quoted by the New York Daily News as saying that he received confirmation of this from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his staff. Jibril said that earlier he...

Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India

...p is very difficult to get," said Anuja Gupta, the founder of the group Recovering and Healing from Incest (RAHI), where the young woman went for counselling. "There are women who've come to us pretty screwed up by the kind of help they've got. There are women writing in from other cities and I don't know ...

The New Recruitment Process Leaves Thousands of Doctors Jobless

...linical Pharmacology at Cambridge University and a founder of the Fidelio Group of senior doctors. The group is trying to highlight the scale of the problem. Yesterday senior medical researchers who launched Fidelio, a campaign group to support junior doctors, said the reduced emphasis on medical research ...

Four-legged Friends Connect Online at Dogster

...ring along with more than 121,000 members. Dogster founder Ted Rheingold credits the birth of the pooch-oriented website in January of 2004 to a simple observation. "I realized there was nowhere to make a webpage for your dog, or more importantly, there was nowhere to share photos and stories about your do...

Indian Yoga Expert Teaches Fitness Mantras to Lahoris

... Indian science in Lahore . Dr Rajesh Mishra, the founder director of Yoga Darshan, India, in his lecture on Yoga, Stress and Personality, organised by the Sukh Chan Wellness Club, said, yoga could help the people of Lahore keep healthy, besides establishing a harmonious and humane society. Yoga can help ...

Boys and Girls are Different by Nature and Learn in Different Ways

...t very young ages," he added. Gurian, who is the founder of Colorado-based Gurian Institute for training and researching how gender affects learning, explained that both co-education and single sex education could work superbly for boys and girls provided teachers are taught about the differences. "Both ...

New Brain Neuromarker May Shed Light on Autism and Schizophrenia

...d and Martha Creech Eminent Scholar in Science and founder of the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences. What this research suggests is that a unique pattern can be seen in the brains of two people interacting and that these brain activities distinguish independence from cooperation. This new brain r...

Floida to Electronically Track Alzheimers Patients

...ut informed consent," said Katherine Albrecht, the founder of the advocacy group Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering. Albrecht is concerned that Alzheimer's patients are being enrolled in what she considers a potentially risky study without their consent. When the FDA approved Ve...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

...idt, an internationally known social activist and founder of the Work Less Party, a Vancouver-based initiative aimed at moving to a 32-hour work week. "As a society, we're working exponentially hard to decrease sustainability and it's making us miserable -- just look at how antidepressants are on the ris...

Naresh Trehan Reinstated as Chief of Escorts After Weeklong Row

...luable contribution made by executive director and founder Dr. Naresh Trehan is recognised," the management added. Expressing happiness over the development, Trehan said things have changed now and he believed that patient care will get due importance at the hospital once again. "They have withdrawn the ...

Yoga Session at North Carolina State University

... lot of learning together," said Kanchan Banerjee, founder of the first chapter of the Hindu Students Council, after the event Saturday. It has been 17 years since the Council first organised the camp. More than 30 students sat barefoot and cross-legged and chanted Sanskrit verses led by Sudeep Roy, who ...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...ge of 25. Paul Rieckhoff, executive director and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, says ...k of suicide. Floyd "Shad" Meshad, president and founder of the California-based National Veterans Foundation, has no doubt that military suicides are a grow...

WHO Condemns Tobacco Industry for Misleading Public

...ts soldiers; and doctors Wang Ke-an and Wang Chen, founder and director of the Think Tank Research Centre for Health Development in China, for providing key research for anti-smoking legislation. Setsu Seo and Jun Sono, chairman and vice chairman of the No Smoke Hyogo in Japan, were cited for spearheading ...

Rapid Syphilis Could Prevent Congenital Disease and Stillbirths in Haiti

...e best strategy,' says co-author Dr. Jean W. Pape, founder and director of GHESKIO and professor of medicine in the Division of International Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Pape, an internationally renowned infectious disease expert who is from Haiti, founded GHESKIO...

Thai 'Condom King's' NGO Wins Gates Award for Anti-AIDS Work

...ing and AIDS prevention. Mechai Viravaidya, the founder and chairman of the Population and Community Devel...ton. The Gates Foundation was created by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda....

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