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US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

...hraib prison. Officials and military analysts have blamed ethics lapses partly on the strain of combat and insufficient training troops got before being sent to the battlefront. A report from a Defense Department task force released Thursday also found "current efforts fall significantly short" in providi...

The Long Wait ... Dying for Lack of Kidneys

...officially atheist China, low donorship is in part blamed on cultural attitudes holding that the soul of a person buried in a form less than whole could court trouble in the after-life. The same applies to living donors in Japan, where life and death are not based on brain death -- the end of mental activit...

Nervousness Makes Lily Allen Drink!

British pop star Lily Allen has blamed her alcohol addiction to the nervousness and anxiety before a show . Allen said that the fear of doing a bad show makes her drink even more. "I have been getting really drunk because I've been so nervous about doing bad shows," the Daily Mail quoted...

Canadians Urged to Renovate Houses to Check Radon Gas Radiation

...oactive tailings from an old niobium mine has been blamed on elevated readings in homes, said Tracy. Dave Lefebure, chief geologist with the Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources in Victoria, said low levels of uranium are found in granitic rocks throughout B.C. Only in certain areas are thes...

Exposure to Chlorinated Swimming Pools Could Increase Asthma Risk in Children

...blems later on than those who did not. This was blamed on airway damage from breathing in various chlorination fumes. One of the potentially harmful gases was named as trichloramine - or nitrogen trichloride - which can result from chlorine reacting with ammonia or swimmers' urine or sweat. Indoor ...

China Admits Fake Blood Protein Used in Drips

...safety. And tainted Chinese toothpaste has been blamed for dozens of deaths in Panama. Anti-malarial drugs and pet food have also been found to contain contaminated or fake ingredients. The US and European Union have expressed concern over food and drug imports from China, and have pressed Beijing to im...

First Case of West Nile Virus Death in Madison County

...any symptoms, according to the CDC. Some experts blamed the West Nile spike on weather, saying last summer's heat wave may have contributed to mosquito breeding and activity. It was comparatively cool in 2004 and 2005. Precautions are being taken to prevent a west Nile virus attack. Agressive mosquito s...

Make-or-break Exams Stress China Youth

...uates did not find jobs upon graduation, a problem blamed in part on massive redundancies at many state-owned companies amid China's economic transformation. Yet students, parents and the government still go to great lengths in pursuit of a smooth gaokao. Parents in the eastern province of Anhui successfu...

New Bird Flu Case in Hong Kong

... worldwide since 2003. Migratory birds have been blamed for the global spread of the disease. Biologists believe local species of wild birds found dead with the virus could have picked it up from contact with infected flocks in mainland China, where it is believed the strain first mutated into a form dead...

Manmohan Singh to Meet UN Chief, Discuss Climate Change

...d at the cost of greenhouse emissions. India has blamed the "unsustainable production and consumption patterns" in the developed world for the problem of climate change. The Kyoto Protocol, the world's first treaty mandating developed countries for emission cuts by 2012, has exempted developing countries,...

Crackdown on Dirty Hospitals in UK

...s of cleanliness and the misuse of antibiotics are blamed for the spread of the bug. Last year, cases of C-difficile rose by 8 per cent to a record 55,681 cases. The number of deaths has risen four-fold since 1999, although part of the rise is due to better reporting. The Health Protection Agency, which r...

Bush Isolated on Climate Change Heading into G8

...ioxide from the burning of fossil fuels - that are blamed for global warming. "There's this fixation on a one-size-fits-all approach," said James Connaughton, the top White House adviser on climate change. But the mood in the US is shifting. The Democratic Party, resurgent since winning control of Congr...

China Repudiates Warning on Its Toothpaste

...e poison has never been determined. China has been blamed as a major source of counterfeit drugs. Panama is the most recent victim. Last year, government officials there unwittingly mixed diethylene glycol into 260,000 bottles of cold medicine with devastating results. Families have reported 365 deaths ...

Research Says Small Penis Syndrome Affects Men Than Women

...started with childhood comparisons and 37 per cent blamed erotic images viewed in their teenage years. None of the men studied actually had a micropenis. Another report based on data collected by Kinsey in the 1940s reported that, on average, homosexual men had larger penises than heterosexual men. The r...

UK Nurses Complain of Stress, One Quits After Screaming at Heart Attack Patient

...said they had started drinking more. Nursing Times blamed the pressure of financial deficits and the threat of job cuts. The poll also found one in 10 nurses were smoking more, and almost a third reported taking off more days sick than usual. More than one in five of those surveyed had taken 30 or more da...

Lazy Children may Face Chronic Health Problems

... excessive television and computer usage have been blamed for creating couch potato children. At the same time, many children no longer take part in competitive sport at school, reported online edition of the Daily Mail. Previous studies have shown that physical inactivity plays a major role in health. Th...

Oops I Did It in the Washroom - Britney and Ryans Tryst

...e period ever since her divorce last year. She has blamed her parents for her (mis)- behavior; she has shaved her head and done other things that indicate that she is going through an emotionally unstable phase in her life. Washroom sex is not unknown uncommon among teenagers after a few drinks. Only this t...

US Halts Import of Chinese Toothpaste

...rin, a sweetener commonly used in drugs. DEG was blamed for the deaths of at least 51 people in Panama last year after it was mixed into cough syrup, another case with allegations involving China. Between 1990 and 1998, similar incidents of DEG poisoning reportedly occurred in Argentina, Bangladesh, Haiti...

WHO Plans Global Campaign Against Alcohol Abuse

...were 2.3 million cases of alcoholism, with alcohol blamed for 1.8 million deaths a year or 3.2 percent of th... of cancer, liver, chest and throat disease and is blamed for up to a third of all traffic accidents. Alcohol consumption and diseases related to drink are ...

Pollution Induced Cancer Emerges as Top Killer in China

...s used in house renovations and furniture has been blamed for deterioration in air quality. In addition, farmers use additives on pigs, poultry and vegetables to make them grow faster, said Chen, adding that reports on "cancer villages" had shown a spurt in recent years....

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