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New Survey List Out Cities That Take Sun Protection Seriously

...rcent of adults polled across all cities." When asked whether "Getting a base tan is a healthy way to pr...ut sun exposure to adults in other cities. When asked if they agree or disagree with the statement "I prefer to enjoy sunshine and not worry about what I ...

Eyeing a Good Memory - Not an Exercise in Futility!

... words. The subjects were then provided a list and asked to choose what they had just heard. The study revealed that students who had moved their eyes from side to side performed better -10 per cent more than the rest. In contrast the up and down eye movement did not prove beneficial to memory recall. Dr...

Women's Separatist Group Opposes Sex Education in Kashmir

...k, the school boards of different states have been asked to start courses to create awareness about environment, healthcare and HIV infections....

Hemangioblasts Aiding Eye Damage Repair

... the company wants to test the cells in people has asked the Food and Drug Administration for permission to do so by the end of next year. "We also have studies underway indicating that the cells can also considerably accelerate wound healing, repair lung damage, and can even generate unlimited amounts o...

Brazilian President Silva Issues Compulsory License for Merck's Antiretroviral Efavirenz

...sperson with the ministry said on Thursday. Brazil asked Merck to reduce the cost of Efavirenz to 65 cents per dose from $1.57 per dose. An unnamed source said that Merck offered to sell the drug for $1.10 per patient daily, but Brazil rejected the offer. Merck sells Efavirenz for $1.80 per daily dose in...

Court Seeks Explanation from Hospital for Childs Amputation

...sion bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and S.N. Agrawal asked the Safdarjung Hospital and the central government...I was told he would not meet me. A senior official asked me to slug it out in the court if I had the money." To the horror of both the parents, on Feb 21,...

A Serious Look at Mental Health Issues in Children

...epartment of Early Education and Care will also be asked to provide behavioral health consultants to preschools and child-care programs to assist in such endeavours....

Meditation May Fine-Tune Control Over Attention

...and improving sensory awareness. Volunteers were asked to look for target numbers that were mixed into a series of distracting letters and quickly flashed on a screen. As subjects performed the task, their brain activity was recorded with electrodes placed on the scalp. In some cases, two target numbers ...

Sleep Problems Haunts More in Children from Low Income Groups

... The children were 4 to 10 years old. Parents were asked to fill out a survey, which examined amount of sleep, sleep anxiety, night awakenings, night terrors, bed wetting, sleep walking, sleep disordered breathing, daytime sleepiness, bedtime resistance, and the time it took their children to fall asleep. ...

Too Much TV Watching Linked With Poor Academic Performance in Teens

...he upper regions of the US. The researchers also asked the teens' parents whether the youngsters had any behavioural or academic difficulties. The researchers continued collecting information from the parents and interviewed the teens again at age 16, and again at ages 22 and 33. The 20-year study, beg...

Pregnant Irish Teenager Wins the Right to Abort

...rvice Executive (HSE) since March and it had first asked the police to prevent her from travelling. Subsequently it changed its mind though, saying that it would allow her to go to the UK after all, but only with the consent of her mother and a judge. Miss D believed that she should have the right to cho...

Use of Swedish 'snus' is Linked to a Doubled Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

... ups between 1978 and 1992, during which they were asked to report on their smoking and snusing habits. The researchers have also studied rates of oral and lung cancer amongst the men, but found no correlation to snus. "Were actually not that surprised," says project leader Professor Olof Nyrn of the Dep...

Heavy Drinking may Trigger Stroke

...don with symptoms of a new cardiac arrhythmia were asked about their weekly alcohol consumption, reported health portal Health Central. Participants were grouped according to how much they drank: teetotaller (those who abstained completely), moderate drinkers (one to 14 units per week for females and one...

Farm Milk Reduces Childhood Asthma and Allergies but Raw Consumption is Unsafe

...st these common childhood diseases. Parents were asked to complete detailed questionnaires about their childs consumption of milk, butter, yoghurt, eggs and fruit and vegetables and whether they were farm-produced or shop-bought. They also answered questions about their childs height and weight, whethe...

Reddy Asks Stanford University to Open Hyderabad Campus

...ajasekhara Reddy, who is on a visit to the US, has asked Stanford University to set up an offshore campus in Hyderabad, promising to provide all necessary infrastructure. The chief minister made the request after the signing of an MoU between Stanford University, the Andhra government and Satyam Compute...

GlaxoSmithKline, Brazil Expected To Sign Deal on Providing Antiretroviral at Reduced Cost

...ck did not offer the drug at a lower price. Brazil asked Merck to reduce the cost of Efavirenz to 65 cents per dose from $1.57 per dose. An unnamed source said that Merck offered to sell the drug for $1.10 per patient daily, but Brazil rejected the offer. Merck sells Efavirenz for $1.80 per daily dose in...

Mumps Breaks Out In Canada

...argets the vulnerable cohort. Those infected are asked to isolate themselves at home for nine days. According to Neil Rau, an infectious disease specialist at Halton Healthcare Services in Ontario, the current strain of mumps originated in Britain, where there was a large outbreak in 2004. Immunization ...

Student Beaten With Hammer for Not Bringing Book

...class bell. After hitting the student, the teacher asked him to go out of school. Sugam was admitted to R...chool administration has suspended the teacher and asked him for an explanation. "The teacher has been suspended for one month. We are unable to understand...

Medical Marijuana Activist Drops Lawsuit

...guarantee of due process of law. Raich could've asked that the March decision be reviewed by a larger, 11-judge 9th Circuit panel; or that it be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court; or that it return to U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins of San Francisco for a few unresolved issues. But Robert Raich, ...

Higher Gas Prices Leave Many Workers Running on Empty

...arch, approximately 1,000 full-time employees were asked to note how gas prices have affected their disposable spending patterns. They also were asked how these changes affected their stress levels and willingness to participate at work. (Respondents,...

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