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Numerous Defense Personnel Granted Early Retirement Due to Mental Illness

...the northern and eastern commands where troops are engaged in counter-insurgency operations. The armed forces witnessed 146 suicides in 2006, with 120 in the army, 24 in the air force and two in the navy and the coast guard. There were 120 suicides, including 15 failed attempts in 2005. These included 92...

Racy Novels are the Best Calorie Busters!

...weight. The researchers say when a person has been engaged in reading for a few hours, his basal metabolic rate doubles. People normally burn around one calorie per minute when sitting still, they say. However, reading encourages the production of adrenaline, and thereby causes BMR to rise to up to 1.75 ca...

Women Choose Their Men With Their Fathers Resemblance

...onships looking at areas such as how much a father engaged in bringing up his daughter, how much leisure time he spent with her and how much emotional investment she received from him. These scores then made up an overall positivity score. As a group as a whole there was no correlation between fathers and...

Army to Conduct Psychological Tests During Recruits to Curb Suicides

...the northern and eastern commands where troops are engaged in counter-insurgency operations. Among other steps, rotation of units and individuals has been ordered to minimise exposure to stress, and leave rules have liberalised to permit splitting of causal and annual leave....

Chandigarh to Become India's First Smoke-free City

...arious departments of the local administration are engaged in doing the groundwork to ensure the implementation of the smoke-free plan for the city. "I think this is a very good step. It will solve the problem of passive smoking forced on women, children and non-smokers. The administration should be compli...

Astrazeneca's Investigational Cancer Therapies Revealed at ASCO

...eneca is a major international healthcare business engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of prescription pharmaceuticals and the supply of healthcare services. It is one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies with healthcare sales of $26.47 billion and leading positions i...

New Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment Program in African Workplace

...being a sound business decision. 'Merck has been engaged in the fight against HIV/AIDS for two decades,' said Donald de Korte, director of HIV Access Programs for Merck in Africa. 'During that time, we have learned that HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment programs in the workplace for employees and the...

Pakistani Doctors Behind Bars for Illegal Kidney Removals

...akistani city of Lahore have arrested four doctors engaged in the illegally removing human kidneys, officials said Saturday. The arrests were made Friday night after police apprehended three middlemen and recovered nine men and a woman being held at a heavily guarded house in the city, Lahore police chief...

FDA Refuses to Lift Ban on Blood Donation by Gays

...ut the right response is to exclude anyone who has engaged in any risky sexual or drug behavior for, say, a month prior to donating blood not those who had sex with a man 30 years ago!Currently the odds of getting HIV from a blood transfusion are about 1 per 2-million people in the United States. The FDA ha...

Improved Communication may Help to Accept the Death of Loved Ones With Poise

...he multicenter trial found that family members who engaged in an average of 30 minutes of a family conference with the patients physician and received an in-depth bereavement booklet had a lower prevalence of post-traumatic stress syndrome after 90 days (44.6% compared with 69.2% for family members who went ...

FDA Approves Ranbaxys Allergy Drug

...L), India's largest pharmaceutical company. RPI is engaged in the sale and distribution of generic and branded prescription products in the US healthcare system....

Sylvester Stallone Regrets Smuggling Banned Substances to Australia

...I have never supported the use of illegal drugs or engaged in any illegal activities in my entire life. Finally, I wish to express my deepest remorse and again apologise for my actions. It was a hard learned lesson and an eye opener that the world is a complex society and knowing the rules of your intended...

UW Establishes Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center

...estimate that as many as 50 UW-Madison faculty are engaged to varying degrees in stem cell research and regenerative medicine. In addition to the much-publicized work with human cells on the UW-Madison campus, scientists whose work could be supported by the new center include basic scientists who study stem ...

Exposure to Computer Games can Be 'good' for Kids, Says New Study

...mes. "We noted how entrepreneurial young players engaged in business deals online, experiencing positive opportunities often not open to them in the material world. At a time when emerging technologies such as the internet, and computer games continue to be subject to suspicion and concern, it is important...

Concern in Mizoram Over Growing Tobacco-related Diseases

...o at a very young age. With most of the families engaged in farming, the belief that consumption of tobacco cures the field-workers of insect bites has led to the current situation. According to authorities, every year over 1,000 men and women reach hospitals in fading condition, mostly suffering with lu...

Link Between Teenage Violence and Domestic Violence Found

... behavior in adolescence. Desisters (15 percent) engaged in violence early on but stopped by age 16. Chronic offenders (16 percent) began violent behaviour early and it persisted at a moderate level up to age 18. Late increasers (9 percent) became involved with violence in mid adolescence with the beha...

US Observers Concerned Over Increasingly Permissive Atmosphere

...percent of U.S. adults aged between 20 and 59 have engaged in some kind of sex, including oral and anal sex, according to the study published on Friday. The researchers believe they have one of the most honest assessments yet of sexual behavior and drug use because they used a new method to do the survey, ...

Nicole 'hoping Pregnancy Will Keep Her Out of the Slammer'!

..." she said. Also, rumours have it that Richie is engaged to Madden after she was seen sporting a huge diamond ring....

Australia is Shamed by an Inquiry Report on Child Sexual Abuse in Aboriginal Communities

... other.'' The report revealed of Aboriginal girls engaged in rampant informal sex trade with non-Aboriginal workers from a mining company for alcohol, cash and other goods in exchange for sex. In at least three other cases, the inquiry was told that young Aboriginal girls traded sex for drugs. In one comm...

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

...cided to explore the frequency and breadth of NSSI engaged in by teens in the community because little is kno...y asked the participants whether they purposefully engaged in 11 different NSSI behaviours in the past year, and if so, the frequency of occurrence. In additio...

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