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Daily Dose of Dark Chocolate Helps the Heart: Study

...the study said. Systolic refers to the top reading for blood pressure, and diastolic the bottom reading. Consuming dark chocolate also helped reduce the prevalence of hypertension, or high blood pressure, from 86 percent to 68 percent, it said. The participants who ate white chocolate saw no reductio...

Embryo Protection Law in Germany

...frozen or discarded. For the first time, figures for 2004 from the ESHRE European IVF monitoring consor...s in Germany has nearly halved since state funding for them was cut. Professor Anders Nyboe Andersen told the conference that Germany was a stark illustr...

US Traveler With Deadly TB Has Less Serious Strain

...al health alert two months ago when the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said he was infected with a ...heir Greek wedding, the newlyweds flew on to Italy for their honeymoon. By then, US health officials had realized just how serious the case was and manag...

Japan's Kobayashi Might Drop Out of Hot Dog Eating Championship

... ploy to disconcert his rivals. "I don't have time for this," he said. The 70-kilo (154-pound) Kobayashi has caused a sensation by winning the contest six year in a row; last year by eating an astounding 53-3/4 hot dogs with buns and all in the stipulated time of 12 minutes. Chestnut, at 97 kilos (21...

Complementary Therapy may Reduce Pregnancy Chances in Women

...ay diminish the effectiveness of medical treatment for infertility in women, was found by a scientist in...oblems than non-users, and that this could account for the fact that they were willing to use complementary therapies that were not proven to improve ferti...

Egyptian Clerics Say Female Circumcision Un-Islamic

...linic in Minya, a town on the Nile south of Cairo, for the operation. She died before she could be transferred to hospital....

Skin Rashes Signifies Longer Survival in Cancer Patients

...er Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, reports that for patients taking Tarceva who developed a moderate to severe rash, survival without progression of dis...

Mother Donates Eggs So Daughter can Give Birth

...nfertile, her mother's eggs could make it possible for her to give birth nonetheless, to a child who woul...half-brother. "It's the first time in the world" for a mother-daughter egg donation, said Seang Lin Tan, professor and chairman of obstetrics and gynecol...

Elderberry A Natural Boost to Skin

...her the elderberry extract can reduce risk factors for heart disease. We already know that a healthy diet can help protect against heart disease and skin damage, and that a mixture of similar food components have been shown to improve the skins structure. There is also evidence that the active componen...

China Fears Show Food Export Quality Key: WHO Official

...said Tuesday. Shigeru Omi, the regional director for the Western Pacific for the World Health Organisation (WHO), warned that countries which failed to monitor food export quali...

Prions Prevent Alzheimers Disease

A role for prion proteins, the much debated agents of mad cow... cause Alzheimers disease. The possible function for the mysterious proteins was discovered by a team of scientists led by Medical Research Council funde...

Luciano Pavarotti Believes He is 'nearing His End'

...y man, and that the illness made him pay the price for the 'fortune and happiness'. 'I was a fortunate ...this blow arrived. And now I am paying the penalty for this fortune and happiness," he said. Pavarotti's agent Terri Robson said that Pavarotti has chos...

Stray Kerala Dogs Face Keyhole Surgery to Control Birth Rate

... of stray dogs in Kerala, has prompted the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and th...Control (ABC) by starting a keyhole surgery drive for stray dogs to control their reproductive ability. M.K. Sethumadhavan, District Secretary of the SP...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

...aking in students from countries under the scanner for terrorist networks. All eight people arrested in...applicant's criminal record. There is little scope for picking up radicalisation, militancy or revolutionary tendencies. The NHS Employers said in a sta...

Sporty Spice Fears That She Might Never Get Pregnant

...holm is worried that she might never get pregnant, for she thinks that the unhealthy lifestyle that she ...is in a relationship with Thomas Starr, a builder, for five years now, said that being a member of a successful girl band was a life changing experience. ...

Just One Cigarette can Cause Nicotine Addiction

...ts in six Massachusetts communities were monitored for over four years. The students were interviewed fre...lieves the craving produced by nicotine withdrawal for weeks at first, but as tolerance to nicotine builds, the smoker starts fagging more frequently to co...

Australian Father Gets 15 Year Jail Term for Forcing Bestial Acts on His Daughters

...the offending and will no doubt continue to suffer for the whole of their lives. "In each case their ab... personality disorder and had shown little remorse for his paedophilic and zoophilic deviant sexual behaviour at the time. He sentenced the man to 15 yea...

Humans are Gobbling Up a Quarter of Nature's Resources, Reveals Study

...e, "if plants like palm oil and rapeseed are grown for biofuels to ease reliance on fossil fuels". "We are asking for trouble, if we expand production of biofuels, as the only fertile land available is tropical rainfor...

Boeing Unveils 'green' Dreamliner Passenger Jet

...ing out fewer greenhouse gases, will be rolled out for 300 gathered media. The 787 -- Boeing's first ne... said. "The airplane will use 20 percent less fuel for comparable missions than today's similarly sized airplane." Lower fuel-costs could in theory lead ...

FDA Extends GRAS Approval Listex to All Food Products

... Listeria, as GRAS (Generally Recognised as Safe), for all Food Products . In the fight against Listeria...n October 2006 the FDA had already proclaimed GRAS for LISTEX(TM) against Listeria in cheese. The extension to all products susceptible to Listeria, opens ...

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