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M-rated Violent Video Games Most Popular Among Young Teens

...ated bloody gory video and computer games are most popular among young teens, according to a new study. M-...ong sexual content, and use of drugs, was the most popular game series among the boys surveyed. Surprisingly, it was also the second most popular series among ...

Bat Virus Renamed After Protests from Malaysia State

...ld harm the tourism industry in Malacca which is a popular destination for foreign visitors. "We will rename the virus if we can as we do not want to tarnish the good name of the state," Health Minister Chua Soi Lek was quoted saying by The Star newspaper. "We may name it according to the (actual) place ...

Annual Tobacco-related Deaths to Reach 8.3 Million by 2030

...use of trans-border advertisements, especially for popular sports events such as Formula One racing. He said the tobacco companies spend between 300 to 400 million dollars a year in ads and sponsorships of Formula One, which reach 300 million Asian viewers on TV and the Internet. Thailand's efforts to pr...

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

...ntent of bringing together 150 of the world's most popular music acts and drawing a worldwide audience of 2 b...the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, will feature popular national singers as well as Britain's Sarah Brightman, and be broadcast across the country by the Sh...

Japan's Kobayashi Might Drop Out of Hot Dog Eating Championship

...nsidered the blue ribbon event of the increasingly popular and lucrative competitive eating calendar. Most participants now use the "Solomon technique" patented by Kobayashi, breaking the wieners in half before wolfing them down. The buns are eaten separately after being dunked in water to make them easier...

American Bests Japanese Hot Dog Eating Champion, Sets Record

...nsidered the blue ribbon event of the increasingly popular and lucrative competitive eating calendar. Most participants now use the 'Solomon technique' patented by Kobayashi, breaking the wieners in half before wolfing them down. The buns are eaten separately after being dunked in water to make them easier...

Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted

... locations across the Great Lakes. Many types of popular sports fish found in the Great Lakes remain so heavily contaminated by industrial chemicals such as dioxins, PCBs, and methyl mercury that they are unfit for human consumption, says the report. Health effects of these chemicals include damage to th...

Will Seven Be the Lucky Number for Las Vegas Newlyweds?

...ction. More than 100 weddings are planned at the popular Chapel of the Flowers. At the Little White Chapel the schedule was filled with 460 weddings, with more possible. "We can't make any more reservations but we will take walk-ins and drive-ups, and fit them in when we can," owner Richards said. Th...

Functional Food What is That, Ask First

...emoved from our diets. Functional foods were now popular because health-conscious baby boomers had made them the leading trend in the United States food industry, he said. "When you extract something from a food and put into a pill, you don't necessarily know it is still active. "It may be more concent...

Ban on Hookah Smoking Should Stay, Argue Doctors

...ruits after meals, but it is becoming increasingly popular among young adults in Western Europe for smoking tobacco, massel (aromatic tobacco), cannabis and bango (an intoxicating plant leaf), write Dr Rashid Gatrad and colleagues. It is thought that around 100 million people use a hookah daily worldwide. ...

Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too

... women have already been exposed to these two most popular strains, the vaccine has no effect. In fact, some ...rability to sexual disease. But it appears to be popular among parents of young girls, according to surveys, and at least some religious groups are viewing i...

The Chattier Gender

...Men" in the July issue of Science . Refuting the popular stereotype that females talk more than men, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found women and men both use an average of 16,000 words each day. For more than a decade, researchers have claimed that women use far more words each d...

Hormone Replacement Therapy Liberation at a Cost

...at is now called HRT. HRT quickly became a very popular treatment, recommended not only for treating menopausal symptoms but also for long-term protection against osteoporosis and fractures, heart disease and even Alzheimer's disease. In 2002, a large study by the National Institutes of Health, called ...

Indonesia Confirms 81st Bird Flu Death

...attle bird flu, barring Jakarta residents from the popular practice of keeping poultry in their backyards. Officials were criticised for being slow to act when avian influenza first appeared in the archipelago nation. Since 2003 the H5N1 virus has infected 317 people, 191 of whom have died, according to ...

Sugary Diet can Be Helpful in Shedding Off Pounds

A new study has challenged the popular notion that a high carbohydrate, low fat slimming plan only works if theres little or no sugar involved. The exclusion of sugar (sucrose) is normally advocated in a weight loss diet but now researchers have found that it is not necessary to achieve...

A Spoonful of Sugar can Melt Away the Pounds

A new study has challenged the popular notion that a high carbohydrate, low fat slimming plan only works if there's little or no sugar involved . The exclusion of sugar (sucrose) is normally advocated in a weight loss diet but now researchers have found that it is not necessary to achie...

Armani to Launch First Spa in Tokyo

...is dotted by natural hot springs, making bathing a popular form of relaxation....

Milk Thistle Extract Effective in Cancer Treatment

...ncient Greeks and Romans, is today one of the most popular herbal supplements, with U.S. retail sales of nearly nine million dollars . The current issue of Integrative Cancer Therapies (ICT) published by SAGE, contains a summary of current research on and clinical application of silymarin, the mixture of c...

Viagra Improves Heart Function, Finds Study

...ove heart function . This finding means that the popular drug prescribed for erectile dysfunction can potentially save the lives of people with specific heart problems. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Alberta who are now encouraging doctors to consider prescribing the drug whe...

Strategies for the Summer

...tion about the water quality for some of the areas popular swim spots this summer. When beaches are tested and listed weekly, they will be categorized as either open, or posted. Posted status is given when coli form counts exceed 200 fecal bacteria per 100 milliliters of water and swimming is not recommende...

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