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Exposure to Chlorinated Swimming Pools Could Increase Asthma Risk in Children

...ale higher concentrations of the chemicals. The former Olympic swimmer Samantha Riley began swimming as a child to help combat her asthma. Riley, who now runs a chain of indoor pools in Queensland, doubts that her condition was caused by pool exposure. "It has always been my understanding that swim...

African NGO Sets 20-million-dollar Goal to Fight Disease

...of 10 million dollars was pledged by the regime of former president Olusegun Obasanjo before leaving office last month. He said the organisation will meet in Johannesburg on Saturday to devise strategies to meet its financial goal. Friends Africa was established in 2006 as a private sector initiative to r...

Sea Massage for French Wines

...our, a professional fisherman, and Rene Suzanne, a former restaurateur and the one who came up with the idea in the first place.In 2002, the three friends, after deciding during a wine tasting that what united them was "wine and passion for the sea," decided to plunge bottles into the Saint Malo bay, known ...

Hong Kong Choked by Growing Pollution Problem

...ollution is one of the biggest problems facing the former British colony as it bears the environmental consequences of China's rampant economic growth. For around a third of last year, Hong Kong's renowned Victoria Harbour was obscured by a grimy haze, with the number of days of reduced visibility up by 172...

US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

...tal health. Only three days ago a study revealed former soldiers were twice as likely to commit suicide as people who had not seen combat. The July issue of Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health will be reporting the work of researchers who followed up 320,000 men aged over 18 years for 12 year...

Virginia Tech Shooters Mental Health Records No More Secret

...community," says Massengill, who is incidentally a former Virginia State Police superintendent who oversaw the agency's response to the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon and the 2002 Washington-area sniper attacks....

Teenage Girls Conviced for Killing Cabbie

... girls too deserved to be in prison. Mr. Hormozi's former wife Anna and daughter Melin. were overcome with emotion after Supreme Court Justice Peter McClellan ordered the killers to serve minimum three-and-a-half years. Since the girls are already serving sentence they will be eligible for parole in Aug...

HCV Patients Survival After Liver Transplantation is Not Improving

...mpared to non-HCV patients (81.7 percent.) For the former group, there was no improvement in survival during the study period, in contrast to the latter group. "In summary, the survival of patients transplanted with HCV is significantly lower than those without HCV," the authors report. "There has been a...

Government Expels Superintendent for Not Informing Newborn Deaths

...ate hospitals charge over Rs.12,000. C.R. Soman, former professor at the Medical College and a public health expert, told IANS: "The SAT hospital is simply overburdened and just cannot meet the present day demands. "Poor facilities, shortage of qualified nurses and paramedical staff is another serious ...

Hearts Saved As Doctors Put Cutting Edge Discoveries to Use

...American Medical Association. Dr. Steven Nissen, former president of the American College of Cardiology and a Cleveland Clinic heart specialist, opines that the study does not prove the recommended treatments are saving lives, yet it can be concluded. "I really am encouraged that those things that appear ...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...dealing with this type of thing in the past,' says former astronaut Story Musgrave, a six-time space shuttle flier who has a medical degree. 'But it's very nice that they're considering it now.' ANN/V...

Ex Pro-football Players Saddled With Depression After Retirement

...to fore at a time of a tragic incident involving a former NFL player who committed suicide. Schwenk says “On retirement, athletes have reported jarring transitions to a life in which the focus of such intense commitment is unclear, the resources and personnel that organized and managed their lives away fr...

Former Official Confesses He Had Sold Steroids to Leading Baseball Players

A former official of the Mets, a leading baseball team of N...ibuting// performance-enhancing drugs to dozens of former and current Major League Baseball players for a decade. Kirk Radomski, 37, who had worked as a cl...

US Psychiatrist Suspended from Practicing Medicine for Involvement in Doping Scam

... information to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on her former coach Remi Korchemny and Conte. In the mid 1990...was Montgomery, a 2000 Olympic gold medalist and a former 100-meter world record holder. He retired in 2005 after he was banned from track and field for two y...

Overseeing Agency Indifferent to Workplace Safety in US

...n. Across Washington, political appointees — often former officials of the industries they now oversee — have eased regulations or weakened enforcement of rules on issues like driving hours for truckers, logging in forests and corporate mergers, critics say. Since George W. Bush became president, OSHA h...

Kenya to Implement National Food and Nutrition Policy

...an for academic affairs at the Friedman School and former head of nutrition at the World Food Program, and Nevin Scrimshaw, PhD, visiting professor at the Friedman School and president of the International Nutrition Foundation, formed a team that facilitated two meetings in Nairobi on March 26 and March 27-...

Suicide - Aboriginal Communities Take Stock of the Killing Numbers

... Simon, Canada’s leading aboriginal diplomat and a former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, said, “The numbers speak for the issue; it should be considered an epidemic. It always overshadows the communities, even the healthy communities.” According to experts, the reasons for the increase in ...

MMR Immunization Drive Begins in Iraq

...s plan of eliminating measles from the nation. The former immunization campaigns were successful in reducing the incidence of measles drastically-from 9,181 in 2004 to below 500 in 2006. The greatest impediment to the perpetuation of such campaigns is the country’s strife torn environment. This has made it ...

Wire-Free – Handcuffing Good Healt

...t, chairman of the Health Protection Agency, and a former chief scientific adviser to the Government, who has chaired two official inquiries into the hazards of mobile phones. According to British scientists there are fears that the networks could be doing untold damage to health. Campaigners claim the l...

Armed Forces Officers And Other Dignitaries Pledge Organs For Donation

...t// others, Ms Nikita Anand and Ms Gul Panag, both former Miss India, Mrs Shyama Chona, Principal DPS, RK Puram, New Delhi, Mr Ajit Bajaj, the first Indian to conquer North & South poles and eminent media personality Col Ajai Shukla, also pledged their organs. Another unique initiative was also taken by ...

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