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Dog Fighting in the US: Bloody, Illegal and Booming

...o agitate each other but too far away to bite -- a common tactic to prepare the dogs for combat, experts say. If convicted, the football star faces a possible six year prison sentence and 350,000 dollars in fines. "It does go with the gang culture, in every urban area," said Laurie Maxwell of the Humane...

Mother Has the Right to the Placenta, US Court Rules

...sulating placentas is simple, requiring only a few common kitchen appliances and ingredients, she said. For the most part, Selander washes the placenta, steams it, slices it, and places it into a professional grade dehydrator. It is then ground up into a powder and put into non-gelatin capsules. The proce...

Katrina Evacuees Made To Remain In Toxic Air

...mended workplace-safety threshold. Formaldehyde, a common wood preservative used in construction materials such as particleboard, can cause vision and respiratory problems; long-term exposure has been linked to cancer and higher rates of asthma, bronchitis and allergies in children. One man in Slidell, La...

Fake Drug Factory Busted in Orissa

... manufactured by Agarwal included paracetamol, the common anti-fever and pain-relieving drug, the official added....

Report Shows How Children With Brain Tumors Perform at School

...said Lhteenmki. Brain tumors are the second most common form of cancer occurring in childhood, and the leading cause of cancer-related illness and death in this age group....

Orissa CM Orders Probe into Female Foeticides

...on more than a decade ago. However, it remains a common practice in Orissa and in several parts of the country that claims about half a million female lives each year, Mohanty said....

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

...at teens indulgence in non-suicidal injury is more common than what was previously suspected. Non-suicidal...esults from the study also indicated that the most common reasons teens in the study engaged in NSSI included to get control of a situation, to stop bad feeli...

Older Women With Memory Problems at Increased Risk for Restless Nights

...he risk of sleep disturbances is that they share a common underlying cause, such as brain changes seen with Alzheimers disease or other dementias that could increase risk of both memory loss and sleep problems, said Yaffe. Another reason could be that women with memory problems may also have anxiety or depr...

Interactions Between Food and Drugs Could Lower Drug Costs

...he relationship between, say, grapefruit juice and common drugs, such as the statins, which taken daily by millions of people to prevent heart disease, we could save a fortune in drug costs," Cohen said. "And patients would get a little vitamin C to boot." "The rapidly escalating price of medications (esp...

Glaucoma can Be Cured by Oven Cleaner!

...y B that cerium oxide nanoparticles (nanoceria), a common ingredient in oven cleaners, not only inhibits carbonic anhydrase II enzyme, but also tends to have pretty good absorption rates across the cornea. Sudipta Seal, lead researcher at University of Central Florida, was testing cerium oxide nanoparticl...

Traditional Tibetan Medicine Gaining Acceptance in Himachal Pradesh

...titioner. Tibetan System treats almost all the common and major disease. It is found particularly effective in treating asthma, diabetes, cardio-vascular problems and hypertension, gastro-intestinal problems, nervous diseases, skin, thyroid and psycholomatic. Damdul, a researcher in the clinical resea...

Present Rate of Carbon Emissions Could Increase Number of Hot Days in Mediterranean by 500 Pc

...he 2003 heat wave in Europe, will become much more common as greenhouse gas concentrations increase. The frequency at which that scale of event occurs at high greenhouse gas concentrations is staggering. Rare events become the norm, and the extreme events of the future are unprecedented in their severity," ...

You Need Blood? Just Click the Mouse!

...life. From Adilabad to Yamuna Nagar, from the most common blood group to the most rare, the site has a huge database of blood donors. So if you need blood, it's a good place to turn to. And it is free," reads the website. "There is always an acute shortage of blood in most government and private blood ban...

Smoking, Glucose Tolerance Level may Increase Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk

...e giant jigsaw of risk factors for one of the most common autoimmune diseases, affecting approximately 1% of adults worldwide," Bergstrom said. "We hope these findings will contribute to better understanding of future RA prevention and treatment. Whilst the glucose tolerance findings contrast with previou...

Website Offers to Help Women Raise Money for Breast Enhancement

...ical appearance through cosmetic surgery. Our most common request, and thus our name, is breast implants. However, we do have relationships with a variety of cosmetic surgeons and often provide our female clientele with other cosmetic surgeries at no cost. We are dedicated to providing women, of all legal...

Boffin Identifies Gene Causing Otosclerosis

...ene responsible for otosclerosis - the single most common cause of hearing loss among white adults . Melis...ion. "Combining the data from both groups with a common odds ratio gave a very significant result, from which we were able to conclude that we were the firs...

Pureed Products Unnecessary and Harmful for Babies UK Expert

...ts derived from breast milk, which protect against common infections and allergies, says Gill Rapley, deputy director of UNICEF UK's Baby Friendly Initiative. Spoon-feeding them pureed products could also delay their chewing ability, cause them to become fussy eaters and increase the likelihood of constip...

Questions Raised Over Safety of In-vitro Fertilization

...ous studies. Researchers in the U.S. say that the common practice of storing fertilized embryos can provoke genetic changes that may develop into mental and behavioral disorders later in life. From Canada come claims that IVF can increase some birth defects tenfold; while from Denmark a study of young men ...

World Epilepsy Week - 2007

...fear and ill-informed public attitudes toward this common medical condition contribute to widespread discrim...genius most likely reflects the probability that a common disorder will at times afflict people with uncommon potential." However certain types of epilepsy...

Four Organ Transplants Dont Help, Canadian Teenager Dies

...ceiving treatment for graft versus host disease, a common side effect of transplants that, in Gairett's case, caused a rash.He had just arrived home when he was hit hard by pneumonia and was taken back to Vancouver General on May 17, where he remained in intensive care, till the end came....

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