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Madhya Pradesh may Ban Sale of Vibrating Condom

...t he had no idea about the product nor had he been asked by anyone to investigate. Madhya Pradesh Health Minister Ajay Vishnoi also told IANS that he was "clueless" about any such controversy....

Hair Restoration Procedures Performed Worldwide Increased 34 Percent in 2006

...vs. 28.7 percent in 2004. When ISHRS members were asked the average age of their patients who underwent hair restoration surgery for the first time in 2006, nearly half (48 percent) of patients were between 30 and 39 years old, with patients in their 40s representing the second-largest age group of first-...

Scientists Identify Broad Neural Response Behind Speech Reception

...hole. During the course of study, the researchers asked volunteers to listen to spoken sentences such as "he held his arms close to his sides and made himself as small as possible," and scanned their brains simultaneously using magnetoencephalography. The researchers found that the theta band, which osc...

Go for Russia, Not China, Wine Experts Say

... logistics are weak. "The question I am most often asked in India is 'where can I get good wine?'," he said, but the supply is just not there. "People want wine in India and they have money - my local BMW salesroom which opened in December is sold out for the next year, some people think nothing of spendin...

Minister from MP Urges to Ban the Sale of Sex Toys

...y he had no idea about the product nor had he been asked by anyone to investigate. Madhya Pradesh Health Minister Ajay Vishnoi also said he was "clueless" about any such controversy....

WTC Neighborhood Residents Misled on Extent of Contamination

..., only 295 residents and apartment building owners asked to take part in a new residential cleanup program before enrollment ended in March. That number represented just a small portion of the 20,000 apartments eligible to participate. Residents are understandably reluctant to participate in what they c...

Domestic Abuse Led Wife Killing Her Preacher Husband

...ded herself saying that it was her husband who had asked her to do so. During Winkler's trial earlier this year, defense psychologist Lynne Zager testified that Winkler's mental state affected her ability to form the criminal intent to kill her husband. A defense psychologist testified Tuesday that Win...

Chikungunya-hit Villages to Get Funds to Fight Mosquitoes

...ral have been reported so far this year. 'We have asked the nine chikungunya-affected states to set up village surveillance committees. Under the National Rural Health Mission, we will provide Rs.10,000 each to these committees to prevent the spread of this vector borne disease,' Ramadoss told reporters. ...

Two-year-old Joins Mensa, Becomes Its Youngest Ever Genius

...as you would expect a five-year-old. In one test I asked her to draw a circle and she did it so perfectly,'... or children who have an IQ in the top 2 per cent, asked Georgia to join and confirmed that she was the group's youngest current member, and the youngest gir...

Pubs Propose to Sell Nicotine Gum Patches

...als in Great Britain over the age of 16 years were asked about their smoking habits. The research, from 2006, shows 77% of people agree with legislation to ban smoking in enclosed public places - with 53% strongly supporting the ban. People feel particularly strongly about banning smoking in restaurants...

Sex Offender Honored Twice by Texan Lawmakers

...was unaware of Tallant's criminal past when he was asked to introduce him. "I introduced the doctor never seen him before in my life," Berman recalled. "The speaker yelled down, 'Leo, could you introduce the doctor of the day so we can get started?' " Berman said it's "horrendous" that Tallant was allo...

Sixteen-year-old UK Girl Demands Right to Wear 'purity Ring'

A 16-year-old schoolgirl has asked High Court judges to uphold her right to wear a ri...of faith and "cannot rule on religious truth". He asked Judge Supperstone to declare that the school had acted outside its powers when it banned the wearing...

Chikungunya Spreads as Funds Remain Unspent

...i Ramadoss, who expressed disappointment. "We have asked the respective states to submit a utilisation report within a week or so," he said. However, the minister promised not to withdraw the funds. "They have been instructed to spend it as soon as possible," Ramadoss told IANS. The minister said that ...

Drugs More Important Than Kids for Katona, Says Her Candy Man

...for days to go on a bender once. The singer even asked the dealer once to put the drugs in the alloy wheels of her car while delivering so that the kids nanny does not find it and lied TV bosses in Ireland who were set to pay the singer 170,000 pounds a year for ads. Ogden insisted that he took a per...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

...p: it will be a place where these questions can be asked and answered. Im excited by the Centres vision, and I hope it will shake up established thinking about the relationship between science, technology, poverty and sustainability. STEPS will partner Demos in the second phase of the Atlas of Ideas proj...

US Hospitals Increasingly Colonized by Drug-resistant Germs

...n sent surveys to its more than 11,000 members and asked them to pick one day from Oct. 1 to Nov. 10, 2006, to count cases of the infection. They were to turn in the number of all the patients in their health care facilities who were identified through test results as infected or colonized with the superbu...

Afghan Refugee Gives Birth to Quintuplets in Pakistan

...stan's southwestern Baluchistan province have been asked to either go home or to move to new camps further from the border. More than 2.8 million Afghans who fled a quarter-century of instability in their homeland have returned since 2002 under a United Nations-assisted voluntary scheme, but almost the s...

Laura Bush in Senegal for Anti-HIV/AIDS, Malaria Campaigns

...due to expire in September 2008. Bush last month asked Congress to set aside 30 billion dollars over five years to fight AIDS worldwide. Sub-Saharan Africa remains by far the worst-affected region and is home to two-thirds of all people living with HIV. In 2005 Bush launched a anti-malaria campaign a...

Radio-frequency Ablation Offers Hope for People With Inoperable Kidney Tumours

...use the probe cools as it is removed. My doctor asked me to come back for an MRI in three months, so that he could make sure the tumours were gone, explained Bershad, who was diagnosed with stage II renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer that begins in the cells that line the small ...

Common Antidepressants Linked to Increased Bone Loss in Older Adults

...subregions. At each visit, the participants were asked to bring in all the medications they had used with... measured between 2000 and 2002. Participants were asked to bring all medications to their clinic visit, where they were also given a physical examination an...

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