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Singapore Extends Smoking Ban to Pubs, Nightclubs

...s a natural extension of our decades of efforts to free public places in Singapore of tobacco smoke," said Khoo Seow Poh, the National Environment Agency's director general for public health. In a statement on the NEA website, Khoo said the extension of the smoking ban "not only protects the members of ...

Lohan Leaving Her Happening Sierra Towers Address to Stay Booze Free

...t from her Sierra Towers apartment to lead a booze free life. According to a source the apartment is at a very happening place, so the 'party girl' who is currently in rehab after her drunken car crash has decided not to go back there once she completes her therapy. "The Sierra Towers is party centra...

Indias First condom Bar Inaugurated by AIDS Patient

...d safe sex, the bar even has a counter that offers free condoms. It has been set up by the semi-government Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation (CITCO) in a unique gesture to show its commitment to a social cause. "I am so happy that CITCO has taken the initiative to create awar...

Brazil Government In Contention With Merck Over Anti-AIDS Drug

...used by Brazil's anti-AIDS program, which provides free medication for anyone who needs it.Currently 75,000 of the 180,000 Brazilians who receive the free cocktail of anti-AIDS drug use efavirenz. Victims of AIDS in the United States, who are so disable...

Galliker Dairy Issues a Product Recall on Half-Gallons of Acidophilus Plus Reduced Fat Milk

...nce of all pathogens and thereby ensure that it is free of infectious organisms. Only products with the code date of May 13, 2007 are involved. The product comes in a 64-ounce (One Half-Gallon), plastic package marked with the code date on the front of the package. No illnesses have been reported to dat...

Cause of Gender Differences in Blood Pressure, Kidney Damage Under Study

... and constrict and the amount of damage-producing free radicals. Shes finding that nitric oxide syntha...too many highly reactive and potentially damaging free radicals. Free radicals or reactive oxygen species have important jobs in the body, like cell sign...

Yoghurt To Treat Bowel Infections

...Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) bacteria were all free of VRE within 4 weeks. Of the 12 control patients who ate standard yoghurt without LGG, 10 remained VRE-positive after 4 weeks. The authors explain that yoghurt containing LGG works because LGG can survive stomach and bile acids to remain in su...

Diet for Autism

... are validations from various quarters that a diet free of gluten (plant protein found mostly in wheat...r which half the subjects will be provided gluten free snacks daily for another two months, while the other half will be provided snacks containing gluten....

Some High Blood Pressure Drugs may Help Reduce Dementia Risk

...ically looked at 1,074 study participants who were free of dementia when they entered the study and who were being treated for high blood pressure. They evaluated whether exposure to ACE inhibitors in general and to the centrally active versus non-centrally active drugs was related to dementia and cogni...

Cancer Cells Reprogram Energy Needs To Grow And Spread

...ria again, the cells produced increased amounts of free radicals, which can cause cells to stop dividing or even die. Semenzas team uncovered the mitochondrial mechanism in a study of Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome, caused by a single gene mutation and characterized by the tendency to develop tumors ...

Study to Investigate Gene's Effect on Bone Loss in Breast Cancer Patients

...eir cancer treatment. Participants will receive free bone density scans and will be tested for blood markers that indicate bone turnover. Each volunteer will be genotyped for CYP19 variants to investigate any link between genetic profile and bone loss....

Swallowing The Bitter Pill-Oral Sex Linked To Oral Cancer

...kely to develop one form of oral cancer than those free of the virus. Patients whose blood or saliva samples indicated that they had prior HPV infection were 32 times more likely to develop oropharnygeal cancer, which affects the throat, tonsils and back of the tongue. Also, those people who had had m...

Nexus Between Psychiatrists and Drug Firms Dangerous, Say Critics

...d, or off-label, uses for drugs. But doctors are free to prescribe as they see fit, and drug companies can sidestep marketing prohibitions by paying doctors to give lectures in which, if asked, they may discuss unapproved uses. The drug industry and many doctors say that these promotional lectures pro...

Thin People may Be Internally Fat

...n complacent assuming they are healthy as they are free from obesity . British researchers caution that thin people may still be fat on the inside. Dr. Jimmy Bells team has conducted extensive research involving 800 subjects to establish that being thin does not mean one is not fat. The study warn...

Government Plans to Set Up Drug Banks in All Districts

...country to provide essential medicines to the poor free of charge and a committee has been set up to stud...tting up of drug banks and provision for providing free health insurance to all the poor people," Paswan told reporters after a meeting of the Pharmaceutica...

Study Finds That Fruit Flies also Have Free Wills

...he biological foundation for what we experience as free will," Sugihara said. "Our subjective notion of ...' if they were entirely determined. So if there is free will, it must be somewhere between chance and necessity - which is exactly where fly behavior comes ...

Australian Devises Online Game Based on Virginia Tech Shootout

...ssed admiration for the game. "This isn't about free speech and censorship or the political backlash over games like this (sic) . These people are angry about the complete lack of respect you have shown for those who are grieving," said one. But another wrote: "Dude! Super cool. I love it how peopl...

Functional Foods Must Be Monitored to Assess Their Long-term Safety and Effectiveness

...exposure, long term or otherwise, and safety under free conditions of use, and whether and how functional foods interfere with drugs designed for the same target. Nynke de Jong and her colleagues from the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands stress that to date th...

Rent-A Body Scam Busted

...en $300 and $1,000 per surgery, or credit toward a free or discounted cosmetic surgery. The doctors performed many of the surgeries on Saturdays and Sundays. Often, they operated on members of the same household on the same day. Chan is accused of performing procedures on 208 patients, which resulted in...

Campaign Against Trans Fat Gaining Fruit in US

...International is the latest to join the trans fat free club. It has announced that it has stopped using...KFC and Taco Bell recently switched to a trans-fat free oil. Burger King Corp. is testing cooking oils without trans fat, with plans to roll out a new oil b...

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