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Canadian Court Rules Grocery Shops can Sell Cold Medications Containing Pseudoephedrine

...ian court has ruled that Ontario residents can get cold and allergy medicine containing pseudoephedrine from local grocery and corner stores . The Ontario Superior Court has overturned an April 2006 decision by pharmaceutical regulators and the Ontario College of Pharmacists preventing grocers from sell...

A Cold Shoulder to Cold - At Your Risk

New Delhi: The common cold may cause uncommon ailments if neglected, specialists warn. // Most of us brush aside a common cold because we have always thought it is harmless. But specialists say it could lead to chronic sinusiti...

Scientists Predict Bleak Future For Life

...ing that current universe forecasts predict a very cold cosmos in which life will have a hard time surviving. Over the next 100 billion years, dark energy is expected to accelerate the most distant galaxies and stars in the universe beyond the speed of light, meaning that they will be invisible to futur...

Hay Fever Can Send Work Productivity Down the Drain

...toms - perfumes, sinus infections, exercise, dust, cold air – even if a person doesn’t have an allergy. “Diagnostic testing followed by the right kind of treatment may mean less time out of work,” she said. Szeinbach and her colleagues collected questionnaires from 577 people whose medical and prescri...

Global Warming 55 Million Years Ago Too, Thanks to Fossil Fuels

...c domino: vast stores of frozen methane hydrate in cold sea beds. When these thawed and bubbled up they ad... and 10,000 giga-tons of methane hydrate buried in cold ocean sediments. Humans currently release between six and seven giga-tons of carbon into the atmosph...

No Respite for Rajasthan from Heat Wave

... the rising temperatures are ice cream vendors and cold drink sellers. Source-IANS/V...

Unknown Virus Takes the Life of Three Transplant Patients

... devastating consequences, whether it's the common cold or influenza or anything like that." Prospective transplant recipients and donors have been advised to keep an open mind about such procedures. This is only a stray incident and is certainly not the expected outcome of all organ transplants. S...

Canadians Consuming Too Much Salt

... So, the best thing to do say scientists, is to go cold turkey. Cut out all foods that contain more than 20 percent of the recommended daily intake of sodium and you may well be able to put your sodium intake under rein. ANN/B...

Lake Superior in US Losing Ice Cover Fast, Signaling Global Warming

...ea. Summer surface temperatures on this famously cold lake have increased about 4.5 degrees since 1979, compared with about a 2.7-degree increase in the region's annual average air temperature, the researchers found. The lake's "summer season" is now beginning about two weeks earlier than it did 27 year...

Diet May Play Vital Role to Help Smokers Quit

...ng items that make cigarettes taste bad, such as a cold glass of milk, and avoiding items that make cigarettes taste good, like a pint of beer -- smokers can make quitting a bit easier," McClernon said. The findings appear in the April 2007 issue of the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. The resear...

Public Libraries Turning into Shelters for the Homeless in the US

... Imagine the degradation of waiting an hour in the cold rain to get into a soup kitchen for a meal; the hassle of hunting endlessly for an unpoliced spot to sleep; the constant fear of being robbed or attacked by other street people; or the indignity of defecating in a vacant lot. It's a combination tha...

Cryoablation: A New Treatment Option for Some Kidney Tumor Patients

... heat through radiofrequency ablation, or freezing cold through cryoablation. Mayo Clinic’s radiologists are among the most experienced in the world in performing ablation techniques, and have treated nearly 300 kidney tumors either with radiofrequency ablation or cryoablation. Radiofrequency ablation (RF...

Family Members Most Often Source of Whooping Cough in Infants

...d person coughs or sneezes. It may start as a mild cold or dry cough that persists and eventually worsens. The infected person may look and feel healthy between episodes of coughing. If left untreated, people infected with pertussis can spread the disease for several weeks. Reports of pertussis have inc...

Fruit Crop Fungicide Induces Permanent Changes in Mating Behavior

...ntuitive ability of female rats, who simply give a cold shoulder to male rats// whose descent is contaminated by a common fruit crop fungicide; instead they showed a preference to male rats whose ancestors were untainted. Their research shows that environmental contamination could affect the evolution ...

Micro-jets for Painless Needle-free Injections

...n which could be used for the treatment of acne or cold sores. Further development is underway to bring the product to a stage where it is ready for the market, and it is too early to accurately estimate the final cost of the novel drug delivery system, said Mitragotri. However, US drug delivery firm St...

Autism a Complicated Genetic Problem

...social interaction and behavior. Even those who cold be normal and intelligent otherwise could have serious problems in communication skills. Such abilities are scattered throughout the human genome. Any small change anywhere could have broad effect, it has been found. For the present study, Dr. Jo...

UK to Pull Pseudoephedrine

...rive to produce alternative over the counter (OTC) cold and flu products// that do not contain the restric... GlaxoSmithKline now all offer phenylephrine-based cold and flu remedies in addition to their pseudoephedrine products in an effort to maintain an OTC prese...

All Forms of Ill Treatment Cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-PTSD

...ope or other restrictions of movement; loud music, cold showers and other sensory discomforts; and deprivation of food, water or other basic needs. Participants who had undergone physical torture rated their experiences from 3.2 to 3.8 on the distress scale. Sixteen of the 33 stressors from other catego...

Insulating Houses Improves Health and Wellbeing

... The state of housing has a real impact on health; cold houses place more physiological stress on people, and are more likely to be damp - leading to respiratory problems. Despite the fact we spend about three-quarters of our lives inside, little is known about the specific health effects of the indoor en...

Airborne Infection Less in Naturally Ventilated Rooms

...lution for patients in countries where winters are cold … the current practice of sealing in the local environment is probably the wrong route for hospital wards”. Source-Eurekalert...

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