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Macca Finds Making Music Therapeutic

...cape. It always has been," he said. "You're in a bad mood or have an argument, you go off in a corner and write a song. It's a form of therapy," he added....

Mental Illness Foremost Reason for Absenteeism

...enteeism only next to muscle related problems like bad back. The study showed that worker took up to 30 days off on account of depression and those suffering from stress took almost 21 days sick leave. Thus it has become a major cause of lost productivity. Research conducted by the Mental Health Ame...

China Turning Tables on the US on Food Import

...tion has promised to implement a recall system for bad products by the end of the year. Its officials have also called for stronger surveillance and export controls in an effort to improve China's international image and foreign relations....

PG-13 Rated Films Adversely Expose Kids to Violence

...sed on features known to put violence in a good or bad light. The features included the motivation for violence, the presence of weapons, the consequences of violence and the degree of realism. The researchers found that a sample of 77 PG-13 rated had a total of 2,251 violent actions in the films with ...

Canadians Urged to Renovate Houses to Check Radon Gas Radiation

...ne Heywood, a retired teacher. "There are a lot of bad things to think about." The World Health Organization estimates radon causes up to 15 per cent of lung cancers worldwide. An estimated 22,700 Canadians last year were diagnosed with lung cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer. The five-year s...

Nervousness Makes Lily Allen Drink!

...efore a show . Allen said that the fear of doing a bad show makes her drink even more. "I have been gett...lly drunk because I've been so nervous about doing bad shows," the Daily Mail quoted Allen, as telling New magazine. "It's not good and that's why I want ...

Regular Sex Increases Longevity in Men

...cent. For women however, widowhood is not such a bad thing, for they are only 33 per cent more likely to die before 80 if they were widowed....

Hong Kong Choked by Growing Pollution Problem

...hrunk to just a few farms, and water quality is so bad that those that remain are threatened with closure. Bird numbers have not recovered from a rapid decline in 1996, particularly rarer species, and Young said the bird population mainly consists now of more pollution-tolerant species. His fears are ech...

New Clues for Treatment of Disease That Causes Accelerated Aging

...s' unusual mutations caused them to make many more bad copies of the gene's primary protein, lamin A, tha...ng these cells, which had unusually high levels of bad lamin A, suggest that progeria treatment may not be as distant as we thought," says senior author Je...

One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems

More bad news for the Bush administration in the US. A Defence Department panel has warned that continued engagement// in Iraq and Afghanistan is posing a serious challenge on two fronts. One, soldiers are at an ever greater risk of mental health problems....

Barbeque Lovers Warned To Load On Fruits And Vegetables

It’s bad news for older women who like their meat smoked or barbequed. // A study by American scientists has shown that post-menopausal women who consumed the most grilled, barbecued or smoked red meat over their lifetime have a 47 percent increased risk of...

New Trends in Drug Abuse Among Teenage Girls

...ed//, a report has shown. Teen boys have been in bad light for the use of illicit drugs. Wanting a slice of the vice, teen girls have become a cause to worry due to the abuse of prescription drugs, according to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. According to reports, nearly one i...

Marijuana can Trigger Psychotic Symptoms, New Study Finds

...cine. "In practice, we found that cannabis is very bad for people with schizophrenia," he said. While D'Souza had intended to study marijuana's impact on schizophrenics in more patients, the study was stopped prematurely because the impact was so pronounced that it would have been unethical to test it ...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

... once again topped the American Lung Association's bad air list of most polluted cities in America. The association found that the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside metropolitan area had the worst air based on 2003 through 2005 figures. The organization based the rankings on ozone pollution levels pro...

Row in Australia Over Mental Health Support Available for Returning Soldiers

...lth and Well Being Forum felt things were not that bad as veterans would claim. "Less than 1 per cent of all those who go to the Middle East are in fact discharged for mental health reasons," he said. "That's significantly less than our coalition partners in the Middle East and there are very compreh...

Enticing Doctors to Rural Community an Uphill Task

....'The next five to 10 years are going to be really bad … and the towns that get in first now and manage to keep them are going to do well,' Dr Moynihan opines. The association estimates extra 200 doctors are needed in country Victoria, and about 900 across Australia. The Australian Medical Associatio...

The Lethal Side of Human Error – Three Die After Consuming Inaccurately Weighed Dru

...ounding company, ApotheCure Inc. //in Texas, is in bad light following the irrevocable error committed by a worker while making the drug. ApotheCure Inc explained how a weighing error committed by a worker during the making of the drug ‘colchicine’, led to the death of three people in the Pacific Nort...

Super Bug - A Tough Bug to Plug

...ays topped the heap. Three other hospitals also in bad light due to the infection were Hereford Hospital, University Hospital of North Staffordshire and University Hospital Leicester. Since 2001, deaths due to super bug have gone up three times, prompting David Nicholson, chief executive of NHS to take t...

Dispirited Teens Work Up Team Spirit to End Their Lives

...t I was depressed before then . . . I'm still in a bad way, but I'm kind of getting there.” Ebony spoke on behalf of all those depressed teens who wish to end the sadness by killing themselves. She confessed that it is dangerous to feel suicidal. And worse, if one finds another equally depressed friend...

Chinese Cooks Spoil the Broth

... This has certainly put Chinese food products in bad light in the international markets. China needs to act quickly to put its house in order lest export revenues come down crumbling. /V...

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