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Reducing Smoking - Mixed Messages and Latest Findings

...ple reduce use. It is also unclear whether cutting down the number of cigarettes delivers clear health benefits. The main effort in therapies aimed at smokers has been at helping them to stop smoking completely. Little attention has been given to the idea of helping them reduce their use. This is partl...

Young Babies at Risk of 'sudden Death' Syndrome While Seated: Study

...ead was invariably flexed forward. Its jaw pressed down on its chest, which caused a narrowing of the upper airway and led to breathing difficulties. Several factors could have aggravated their difficulties, the main one being that the infants were very young -- average age five weeks -- and were thus a...

Queensland Hospitals Reeling Under Norovirus Attack

... the highly infectious norovirus, which has struck down almost 150 patients and staff . Queensland Health announced that the Royal Brisbane and Woman's (RBWH), Gold Coast and Cairns Base hospitals had been affected by the virus, which causes vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, stomach cramps, fever and headaches...

Groundwater Levels Depleting Alarmingly in India

...ction," the official said. Water level has gone down drastically in such states as Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh in the northern region, Gujarat, Daman and Diu in the west and Andhra and Tamil Nadu in the south. While 80 per cent of Delhi is in extreme category of over exp...

Nutritious Diet Help Improve Childrens Academic Performance

...hildren in planning and preparing lunches. Write down lunch menu ideas for the week and post it in the kitchen. After planning three to four weeks worth you can rotate the menus throughout the year. Encourage your child to choose lowfat white milk or water to drink. Calories and sugar in chocolate mil...

Chain Smokers Prepared to Lessen Their Daily Cigs Rather Than Quitting

...tion has been given to this alternative of cutting down the number of cigarettes. The main effort in therapies aimed at smokers has been at helping them to stop smoking completely. But, little thought has been given to the idea of helping them reduce their use. This is partly for the fear of creating th...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

... Thailand has adopted a different tack to breaking down the taboos regarding HIV with innovative education campaigns such as traffic police handing out condoms, an initiative dubbed "Cops and Rubbers." The country, which has experienced about half a million AIDS deaths and has about the same number of H...

Kelly Clarksons Hits are Making Her an Insomniac

...sleep. Clarkson added that she has to write them down or record them on the spot, which results in a disturbed sleep. "The moment a song comes to me, I have to get it out. That's why I have a hard time sleeping, because a lot of those times are at night, Contactmusic quoted her, as saying....

Ukrainian Town Under A Canopy Of Toxic Skies

...hemical blaze and health threat is sending jitters down Ukraine, where the memories of the 1986 explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant still hang afresh....

China Vows to Improve Food Safety in Wake of Health Scares

China has shut down companies involved in some of the highest-profile ...ancement of supervision." Li said China has shut down two companies in eastern China blamed for adding the dangerous chemical melamine to protein products...

Motorists Getting Greyer, Greener, Thriftier: Nissan's Ghosn

...n said Friday. "There is no doubt that 10 years down the road, the average age of a human being living on the planet is going to be higher," said Ghosn, who heads both Japan's Nissan Motor Co. and its French partner Renault. "The average consumer on earth is going to be much older. We know also that ...

Red 2G Food Colour to Be Banned by EU Due to Cancer Fears

... Red 2G could provoke cancer, as it tends to break down into a carcinogenic substance called aniline," the European Commission said. The Commission said in a statement that the ban would be imposed in a few days once a new regulation is published in the EU's Official Journal. It said that shops which ...

Free Your Necktie and Stop Global Warming

... And cooling workers would allow offices to turn down the air conditioning on hot summer days, thereby saving energy and reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, reported the online edition of New Scientist. Italy is one of the European Union's worst performers on the pollution front and is expected to exce...

Strange Marks on Poshs Legs Look Horrifying

...ove wearing tracksuits and Ugg boots. They dress down quite a lot here, don't they? It seems to be in keeping to go to Starbucks in tracksuit bottoms and Ugg boots, she said....

Binge Drinking on College Campuses is a Matter of Fear, Not Freedom

...t -- new students. Introduce people. "It all boils down to taking the attention off of yourself and getting involved in the lives of others," Carducci said. » Parents, think "inoculation." Parents shouldn't be afraid of talking to their children about limited alcohol consumption and about the anxie...

Interactions Between Food and Drugs Could Lower Drug Costs

...0 mg lapatinib pill accompanied by food and washed down with a glass of grapefruit juice may yield plasma concentrations comparable to five 250 mg pills on an empty stomach," Ratain said. Such a "value meal," the authors add, may have other benefits. The major toxicity associated with lapatinib is diarr...

Glaucoma can Be Cured by Oven Cleaner!

...g reaching inside the eye, also allowing us to cut down on the dosage needed," Mallik said....

Japanese are Weighed Down by Deviating from Their Traditional Diet

...d over, but a change of eating habits is weighing down the land of the rising sun. Japan's health minist...nacking potato chips on commuter trains or chowing down fast food. "As more and more mothers took up jobs, many of them had no time for cooking," Kaneda l...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

... authorities have said they could consider closing down a hospital at the centre of national outrage over...w the entire hospital is in danger of being closed down permanently....

African AIDS Epidemic Slows Down: World Bank

The pace of the deadly AIDS epidemic is slowing down in some African countries due to a series of effective prevention measures, Cote d'Ivoire media quoted a World Bank report as saying . According to the report released Friday, in some African countries such as Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and urban area...

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