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Britons Turn to Alcohol Due to Work Stress

...longest working hours in Europe - a reason that is driving them to drink and jeopardising their health, says a study //. Stress expert Cary Cooper, of Lancaster University, said the changing patterns of work seem to be having their negative effect on men's health, particularly those working in professions s...

Sensing Devices to Measure Sleep In the Pipeline

... safe monitoring and early warning of people while driving or supervising a critical task, like the operators of nuclear power stations or air traffic controllers, before they fall asleep and cause an accident. According to statistics about 25 % of the traffic accidents in the UK and 40% in the US occur as a...

Road Traffic Accidents Kill 4,000 people in Delhi

The poor driving skills of motorist has resulted in over 4,000 peop...trol and coordinate the traffic if the standard of driving is not up to the mark," Qamar Ahmed, joint commissioner, traffic, said. He also said that about six...

Drug Research and Development Gets the ‘go ahead’ from WO

... charity Medicine Sans Frontier which has been the driving force behind the changes in the development of drugs. 192 member countries will now be acting on the recommendations of the report. ...

All State Run Schools Are To Ban Whole Milk To Children

... that consumers concerned about healthy living are driving this move. He explained that many parents wanted to give their children semi-skimmed milk, as it was a top selling product. The statistics show that 3,711 million litres of semi-skimmed milk, which is consumed in a year, make up 58% of the market. Te...

Frustrated Australian Surgeons Opting For Private Hospitals

...ipment and a shortage of both beds and nurses were driving surgeons out of public hospitals. The collage pres...not enough beds and not employing enough nurses is driving them from the public system, he said. Dr Stitz said there were currently not enough surgical train...

Freak Incident Kills College Kid

... Witnesses informed the police that they saw Dowds driving westbound at breakneck on Route 114, swerving and ...ight, a colleague raised an alarm that someone was driving his car from the parking lot. Koster made a dash towards the Ford Explorer and begged Dowds to stop ...

Watch Out! Sideswipe Elbow Injuries On The Rise

...te direction. Additionally, loss of control during driving followed by a collision with a wall or post was found to account for elbow injuries. In some cases, the damage may be limited, such as soft tissue damage. In more severe cases, it can result in open fractures or partial amputation of the limb, nece...

Dialing On Cell Phones Or Applying Make-Up Increase Crash Risk

...arch found that reaching for a moving object while driving increased accident risk nine times, while dialing or applying make-up tripled it. Almost 80 percent of the crashes and 65 percent of the near-crashes in the study happened within a few moments of the driver getting distracted. Cell phones were the mo...

Assam's Floating Hospital To Render Medical Services To Islanders

...loods,' said Sanjoy Hazarika, C-NES member and the driving force behind the one-year-old project. 'It has space for on-board treatment of basic health problems and can even take a few emergency cases back to the nearest referral or district hospital whenever needed,' Hazarika, a New Delhi-based columnist a...

Breakthrough in Battle Against Cancer

... treatments for birth defects.Cell division is the driving force behind cancer when it runs out of control. The research was led by Dr Gary Gorbsky at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Results of the research have been published in the science journal Nature today, which describes a new technique ...

IMF considers Bird Flu to be a Dark Cloud

...entral Asia and Africa, high commodity prices were driving developments, and the IMF warned that a sharp reversal in oil prices "could have adverse effects on the financial systems in some of these countries." Further hikes in oil prices could "create headwinds in financial markets" by pushing up interest...

Saudi Women Undergo Sex Change

...fully cover themselves in public and ban them from driving or going out unaccompanied by a male relative. Hence five Saudi women took a sex change operation. The main reason is that they developed a psychologic complex. Al Watan newspaper quoted psychology expert Mohamed Abdelmawjoud saying that the se...

The Scent of a Safe Driver

...his study worthy of mention. Generally prolonged driving takes its toll on the driver’s physical strength and vigor. However with these results it would be possible to expect that when these odors are presented periodically while driving, the person behind the wheels becomes more alert and conscientious. ...

Call Of The Wild: Heard Of Spring Drinking? Ask The College Girls, Who Are Getting Freaked Out

...t happened in their inebriated state. The AMA is driving a point home to these wild women, who could do well to temper it down. AMA President Dr. J. Edward Hil has said "Scientific evidence shows women process alcohol differently, putting them at greater risks for heart problems, reproductive disorders and...

Ambien Plus Alcohol Has A Bad Influence on the Drivers

...cials say that there are signs that Ambien-related driving arrests are on the rise. Ambien's maker, Sanofi-Av...tales. Her presentation reported six cases of bad driving under the influence of Ambien. Ms. Liddicoat's cases involved drivers whose blood revealed evidence...

Sleep Science awakens from deep slumber!

...sleep. About half of these people were tested in a driving simulator but the other half was tested driving on highways with double command cars. The tests show a significant difference in the persons reactio...

Alcohol Consumption Pattern Plays A Vital Role in Alcohol Related Injury

...ve measures include strict enforcement of drinking driving policies and the combined effort from the individual and at the level of the society....

Location largely affects weight

...weight or obese than those in neighbourhoods where driving is the norm. As per the statistics approximately 12 per cent of urban trips in Canada are made on foot or by bicycle, slightly higher than the U.S. rate of seven per cent, but far below that in the Netherlands (46 per cent) and Denmark (41 per cent)...

Wake Up Call: U.N Takes Stock to Curb Fake Medicines Racket

...ons. The United Nations has risen to the occasion, driving a // world wide initiative , by way of a task force team that would strive to put an end to the sale of counterfeit drugs. A three day meeting is underway in Rome, starting today, February 16th, where all the key players - Pharamaceutical companies,...

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