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Bra-less Britneys New Affairs

...ims he is her new found love. Britney has this habit of revealing herself bit by bit. With her new single status the pop diva has been having a ball in the public and not too long back she was snapped flashing her crotch. This time in LA she was snapped wearing a lacy top - sans bra. The Sun newspap...

Meet the petroholic Boy of Kanpur

...it. Later, he turned a nuisance since he made it a habit to cut fuel hose pipes of automobiles and drink petrol. Sajids mother Nagina says: "He (Sajid) has been drinking petrol since he was only two and a half years old. He used to play near cars and perhaps developed an attraction to smell petrol. One d...

UAE Plans to Implement Anti-smoking Law

...nsive anti-tobacco law to reduce the spread of the habit in the society, especially among children and adolescents," Ali bin Shukur, Under-secretary of the Ministry of Health, was quoted as saying by Khaleej Times. A draft bill on smoking is being deliberated at the UAE Ministerial Council. Consumption...

Supermodel Kate Moss Brands Pete Doherty The Slug

...s chose the nickname because of the junkie rockers habit of leaving a trail of nasty substances wherever he went. The scornful comment marks the final collapse for their troubled relationship, which ended after Doherty slept with a South African model. "Pete's disgusting. He looks like a slug, acts l...

Video Game Addiction to Be Termed as a Medical Condition

.... Even some mental health experts say labeling the habit a formal addiction is going too far.Michael Gallagher, president of the Entertainment Software Association, said the trade group sides with psychiatrists who agree that this so-called video-game addiction is not a mental disorder. The American Medica...

China's Three Gorges Dam Changing Local Weather: Scientists

...ple have kept records, the Yangtze has been in the habit of periodically overflowing its banks and flooding vast areas. Controlling that ancient threat, along with producing electricity, are the main goals of the Three Gorges Dam....

Adenoviruses Could Help Kick Drinking

...f virus known as adenoviruses can help give up the habit of drinking, a study indicates. Researchers have found that rats bred to crave alcohol were found to drink 50 percent less for more than a month after being injected with engineered adenoviruses. Many people in East Asia react badly to alcohol be...

Concern in Mizoram Over Growing Tobacco-related Diseases

...ruth is that it is very hard to give up such a bad habit once we are into it. After knowing the hazards of tobacco use, many young men and women have got themselves enrolled in several de-addiction centres. The clinics attend to 1400 clients every month, besides creating awareness among people from fa...

Preterm Labor Drug Causes More Side Effects

...n clear if one is better than the others. Force of habit has dictated the use of magnesium sulfate by many physicians in the absence of a compelling reason to choose an alternative. Lyell and El-Sayed and their collaborators randomly assigned 192 patients at Packard Children's or Santa Clara Valley Medic...

Swallowing The Bitter Pill-Oral Sex Linked To Oral Cancer

...ing previous theories blaming a pack-a-day smoking habit for 20 years, or regular heavy alcohol consumption over 15 years. Although previous research had indicated HPV caused oral cancer, this new study appears to be the first to definitively establish the link. Says Gilson: "It makes it absolutely cle...

The Plight of Jharkhand's Mysterious deaf Village

...d: "The disease might have resulted from some food habit or absence of the hearing vein. It can also be a reaction to medicines or injury in the ear. But the exact reason can be known only after investigating the villagers and studying their medical history." When Jharkhand Health Minister Bhanu Pratap S...

Australia Agonising Over the Problem of Cocaine Use by Lawyers

...y. But that all ended when Fraser developed a drug habit that finished up costing him as much as $1000 a day. And he is not the only solicitor who has been convicted of drug trafficking. Australian Federal Police sources say that there are taped intercepts of a conversation between a "supergrass" and dru...

Majority of Europeans in Favor of Smoking Ban in Public Places

...hs, more than 70 percent of them relapsed into the habit in less than two months with most smokers citing stress as the main reason. The commission earlier this year urged member states to prohibit smoking in public places but insisted that an EU-wide ban would be the most effective way to fight tobacco-...

Limiting Eligibility for Medical Studies can Omit Women and African-Americans

...chers often use exclusions in their studies out of habit or tradition. In other cases, researchers may use eligibility criteria to enroll only "desirable" patients in their study, in an effort to make the trial run smoothly or to increase the chances that a favored treatment will show positive outcomes. ...

Choice is a Key Element in Success for Smokers Who Want to Quit

...n how they quit are more likely to try kicking the habit and are more successful, according to new research at the University of Rochester . Rochester researcher Dr. Geoffrey Williams associate professor of medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, will unveil new findings...

Ban Smoking Indoor Workplaces and China Cause for Concern WHO

...ensive laws to reduce the number of smokers or the habit could end up killing 2.2 million Chinese a year by 2020, WHOs representative for the country Henk Bekedam said. Tobacco use is the worlds leading cause of preventable death, accounting for 10 percent of adult fatalities, according to WHO. It is re...

Stop Smoking, Start Living: World No Tobacco Day

...e health implications smoking is a very expensive habit ! Secondary tobacco smoking is also a health hazard and is capable of causing grave illnesses like cancer, serious respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in both children and adults, often leading to premature death. There is no safe level at wh...

Chronically Ill Prisoners Face Great Healthcare Problems

...r said that prison had saved his life, as his drug habit had made it difficult to access mental health services outside prison. While he was on remand he’d seen a psychiatric nurse and psychiatrist and being in prison had enabled him to access diagnosis and treatment for the first time. Many other prison...

Richard Gere Urges Truck Drivers to Have Safe Sex

... high prevalence of HIV among the truckers and the habit of many of them of having sex with many women, especially prostitutes, while away from home. Gere, along with Bollywood actors Sunny Deol and Shilpa Shetty, joined nearly 4,000 truck drivers Sunday evening to celebrate "Seena Taan Ke", an event aim...

Sons Gone Up In Smoke

...s likely to have a miscarriage if she takes up the habit around the time of conception."So the message is don't smoke at all if you want a child." ANN/...

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