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War Trauma-hit UK Veteran Population Set to Increase

...sociate Professor in the Institute of Work, Health and Organisations, shows that, with no end in sight for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, more and more veterans will return home suffering the effects of war trauma. The cond...

People With Higher IQs are More Patient in Financial Matters

A study by scientists at the University of Bonn and the Institute for the Study of Labour has revealed...t time that this relationship between intelligence and patience in financial matters has been shown. Furthermore, the willingness to run risks increases wi...

Cheap Indian Medicines Illegally Flooding Pak Markets

...medicines arriving in Pakistan are very low priced and they fetch considerable benefit to the carriers. A...mber of passengers coming to Pakistan through rail and air route from India carry of large variety of drugs, says the report. Dr Waheed said around 15 pe...

Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma

...s from Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Austria joined the DNA trawl, comparing samples fr...he disease. Asthmatic youngsters were between 60 and 70 percent likelier to have telltale mutations, called single-nucleotide polymorphisms, in their ORM...

Pfizer Says Nigerian Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Hear Drug Case

...ing an epidemic in the city of meningitis, measles and cholera. Of the 200 children affected, 11 died w...-- suffered from deafness, paralysis, brain damage and blindness, according to the allegations. Pfizer denies the charges. The Nigerian federal governmen...

India's Share in Global Diabetes Research is One Percent

...IMS), New Delhi, Diabetes Research Centre, Chennai and Madras Diabetes Research Foundation have made sign... The editorial says that diabetes, heart disease and cancer affect poor as much they affect the affluent. The editorial suggested that developing countri...

South Africa Notes Signs of First-ever Decline in HIV Infection Rates

... the age of 20 years, followed by those between 20 and 24." The survey was carried out among pregnant women attending state clinics and hospitals, and its findings are used as an indication of the national HIV prevalence rate. "The de...

Malaysian Astronaut to Conduct Cancer Research in Space

...stronaut would conduct research on cells, bacteria and the crystallisation of protein, said Abdul Rahman ... local scientists the opportunity to study, design and conduct experiments in space," Abdul Rahman said, cited by the Bernama news agency. Zulkeffeli Mat...

Furore Over Spa Planned on Active Philippines Volcano

...e certificate (ECC) will be withdrawn, Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Angelo Reyes said in a...t won the backing of the Talisay municipal council and the project was launched in November 2006. Taal has erupted 33 times in the last 400 years, the la...

Diabetics Risking Health by Using Alternative Medications Without Consultation

... by using over the counter nutritional supplements and herbal medicines without discussing their pros and cons with the health professionals managing their conventional treatment. Annie Chang, a doctorat...

New Diagnostic Test for Mad Cow Disease Developed

...or the brain condition is not completely reliable, and causes specialists to wrongly tell people that the...proteins called prions, which kill off brain cells and are thought to cause the disease. Dubbed as 'Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification', the new te...

New Antidotes may Harbour Treatments for Deadliest Poisons

...s for deadliest poisons like Ricin, cholera toxin, and shiga toxin. Produced by the deadly strains of ...-making pathway, passing through the Golgi network and endoplasmic reticulum before interrupting protein synthesis. A team of researchers led by Jose Sa...

Stem Cell Treatment may Prolong Lives of Children With Brittle Bone Disease

...isrupts collagen production, leading to weak bones and stunted growth. Those with the condition suffer fractures while in the womb, and rarely survive beyond early adulthood. Led by Nicholas Fisk of the college, the researchers studie...

Common Environmental Chemicals Hamper Ovary Development in Foetus

...erm, low-level exposure to a cocktail of chemicals and heavy metals in an animal that has a long pregnanc...razing digested human sewage sludge fields, before and during pregnancy. Researchers found that ovaries from the foetuses in the treatment group had fewe...

Genetic Mutation That Makes Common Cancers Resistant to Drugs Identified

Researchers from Eli Lilly and Company and the Phoenix-based Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have identified the genetic muta...

For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week

...ed how much a healthy diet, based on local produce and allowing for seasonal factors such as flooding or ...seasons, would cost in four impoverished countries and then worked it out as a proportion of the average national income. The ratios were multiplied by the...

CCEA Extends National TB Control Project for Five Years

... 2012 - - in the States of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttranchal. The CCEA also gave its approval for i... Pradesh, Chandigarh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh - - by Indian Medical Association (IMA) with grant assistance from the Global Funds fo...

EU Aims to Shake Up Wine Industry With Root-and-branch Reform

...n on Wednesday proposed uprooting excess vineyards and launching an overseas marketing blitz under a new wine industry strategy aimed at soaking up glut and countering New World producers. Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel warned that the European Un...

Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis

...he journal Pediatrics. "We studied pediatricians and malpractice because while the medical malpractice issue is extremely stressful and gets a lot of press, and we all have heard numerous horror stories and anecdotes, there is little ac...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

... of emissions, after which a cap will be enforced, and industries will be able to buy and sell permits allowing a certain amount of pollution. CALIFORNIA ACTS ON CLIMATE - what the bill ...

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