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Quest for an hour glass figure results in rise of eating disorders by the hour

...tructed most of the general practitioners to be on alert regarding underweight women and ensure they are examined for symptoms of eating disorder. The rise in obesity and all the euphoria about fancy diets for the elusive ‘hour glass’ figure, has resulted in many young women getting anxious about food, res...

Diabetics’ Blood Sugar to be Tracked in New York Cit

... officials are supposed to contact the patient and alert them of the need for prod better control of their diabetes. According to Medical ethicist Lawrence Gostin, a law professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., he supports the program but wonders if others will see it as the government act...

Pakistan civil servants may retire at 62

...ce are generally found physically fit and mentally alert to carry on with official work. Otherwise too, it is said those retiring from senior grades rarely sit idle. They get extensions or seek government consultancies by "using their connections". However, if the retirement age is raised, then the gov...

Health Care in America-Not a Rosy Picture

... physicians said they had a computerized system to alert them to a potential problem with a drug dose or interaction. Physicians in most other countries reported using such systems. The Netherlands was highest at 93 percent. The United States and Canada also ranked lower than the others in use of computeri...

India sounds bird flu alert as migration season begins

India Wednesday sounded a bird flu alert in all states as the season of migratory birds beg... instruction to all our states to be on vigil. The alert will be in place till February next year," said Upma Chawdhry, joint secretary, department of animal...

India Free From Bird Flu

...old there. The department is vigilant and is on an alert to prevent another outbreak and have kept the migratory birds under surveillance.' She added, 'We still test random samples at regular intervals to avoid any outbreak of bird flu.' Charusheela Sohoni also stated that demand for feedstocks 'is no...

Alert in hotel after detection of bacterial contamination

An alert over potential outbreak of 'Legionnaires Disease' has been sounded in North Somerset. //Over 500 guests who visited the Grand Atlantic Hotel before 10 Nov in Weston-super-Mare were contacted by the health officials after water samples tested positive...

Are call centers turning a deaf ear to potential acoustic shocks?

In a report that might alert the antennae of call centre employees, and cause them to make noise about the apathy of nearly two-thirds of call // centers in UK, who are now in a tight spot for having done precious little to prevent hearing damage in their employees. This revelat...

WATCH's 2006 List Of Ten Potentially - Dangerous Toys

...nsibilities in this issue. WATCH's mission is to alert manufacturers and others. The mission aims that 'there needs to be more attention paid in the design process, in the testing process ... because the manufacturers are in the best position to know the toys, know the regulations.' Moreover WATCH sug...

Carcinogens in Fish Worries Chinese Watchdogs

...on has ordered local offices and authorities to be alert in coastal areas including Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Liaoning, and Tianjin. The Ministry of Agriculture and the State Food and Drug Administration have appointed an inspection team to investigate fish farms in Weihai, S...

Adolescent Smokers Have Greater Vulnerability To AUDs Than Do Non-Smokers

...dent studies. "Studies like this will set up an alert – for those who consider adolescent smoking tolerable – to rethink the issue, or perceive the problem differently," noted Chen. "Although we do not know the exact causal relation between the two, the damage to our health is so severe that we need to ...

Fear Factor in Toronto: health officials fight Hepatitis A outbreak

...nts from the Elmbank Middle school. Following the alert from health officials, more than 900 residents fro...with the stools of an infected person. So the high alert is on to ensure that precautions are taken to avoid contamination of food and water. All residents ...

China Issues Bird Flu Alert Following Outbreak in South Korea

China has issued an alert in six provinces to step up vigilance following an outbreak of bird flu in South Korea, according to the agriculture ministry.// South Korea Tuesday reported its second outbreak in two weeks,with 236,000 chickens as well as pigs and dogs culled. ...

Technology To Aid Cancer Patients

... and advice would be organized by means of a red alert sent to medical staff, or an ambulance may be arranged as well. This wonder of new age technology may be used along with a mobile or a personal digital assistant which sends the data to the central server and reaches the patient’s oncologist through...

Salmonella Contamination Suspected In A Brand Of Fresh Spinach

An alert has been issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to the public asking them not to consume Queen Victoria //brand of fresh spinach, as they fear that it may be contaminated with salmonella. This brand of spinach is available in 284-gram packag...

The 70 and Above Would Do Well With Brain Training, to Maintain Mental Agility

... to enhance their cognitive abilities to keep them alert as they advance in age, researchers said. Previous insights have indicated the benefits of engaging the brain in crossword puzzles and mind games. The study led by Sherry Willis, a human-development professor at Penn State University and published ...

Vietnam Reports Fresh Bird Flu Outbreak

Hanoi: Vietnam went on high alert Wednesday following the first confirmed outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus in over a year even as thousands of poultry were slaughtered in the// Mekong Delta. Chickens and ducks were slaughtered in large numbers in southern Ca Mau and Bac Lieu prov...

New Bird Flu Outbreak In Vietnam

Vietnam went on high alert Wednesday following the first confirmed outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus in over a year even as thousands of poultry were slaughtered in the Mekong// Delta. Chickens and ducks were slaughtered in large numbers in southern Ca Mau and Bac Lieu provi...

New Technique to Identify Bacteria for Food Safety

...d and the material analyzed. Such a system could alert employees in the food and health-care industries to the presence of pathogens and could provide security personnel with a new tool for screening suspicious suitcases or packages. Song will further the research, conducting experiments to look for ba...

Hong Kong on Bird Flu Alert

Hong Kong was on bird flu alert Friday after a wild bird found in a busy shopping area was tested positive for the avian flu virus//. Officials confirmed Thursday that preliminary testing of a dead bird found in Causeway Bay had indicated it was suspected to have died of H5 avian...

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(Date:12/4/2009)Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Natural History Museum believe that carnivorous behaviour in plants is far more widespread than previously thought, with many commonly grown plan
(Date:12/4/2009)Using a new mathematical model of heart cells, University of Iowa investigators have shown how activation of a critical enzyme, calmodulin kinase II (CaM kinase), disrupts the electrical activity of h
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