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Tips to Prevent and Treat Winter Laryngitis

...other amplification when speaking or performing in front of a crowd, not smoking, using good breath support when you speak by filling your lungs with air regularly, and warming up the voice before using it with exercises such as tongue trills and humming. SRM...

Children's Killer Preyed On Victims For Two Years

...t parents of missing children thronged the road in front of a villa in Noida's Sector 31 from where the skulls were found. The parents, mostly daily wagers, say the police were callous in their attitude to the missing person complaints they had filed as they were poor. The businessman owner of the house ...

The Bulging Waist Line Determines Your Life Line

...h the body joining two points from the back to the front of the abdomen. This distance is referred to as the sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) ,measured using callipers. The researchers claim that this measurement is more reliable to measure obesity than the more commonly used body mass index (BMI). Th...

Vitamin D or Anti-osteoporosis Drug Reduces Bone Loss from Binge Drinking

...d. Youngsters who spend hours indoors sitting in front of a computer and surfing the Web are putting their bones at risk. They should be active out-of-doors, weight-conscious, and properly nourished for calcium and vitamin D intake. “Teen and young adult “Web potatoes” face future bone problems even wi...

Unbelted Backseat Passengers Produce Deadly Results

...ry or death to themselves and the driver seated in front of them in the event of a head-on crash.// Automobile sled tests simulating head-on crashes between two vehicles and using crash-test dummies have demonstrated the likelihood of severe head and chest traumas for driver and passenger caused by an un...

A New Gamma Camera Technique for the Detection of Small Breast Tumors

...sorb the substance. These women then are seated in front of the device, which looks like “a strange mammography unit,” Dr. O’Connor says. Each breast is lightly compressed between the gamma cameras with just enough pressure to keep it from moving for 5 to 10 minutes while several images are taken. “It is m...

Are The Short And Dark Days Of Winter Making You SAD?

...uorescent light. 'Patients are advised to sit in front of a specially designed light box that emits about 10,000 lux from a fluorescent bulb, most often in the morning for at least 45 minutes. Then later, they can also be given antidepressants or try cognitive behaviour therapy,' says Dr Sameer Parikh of...

Researchers Discover Internal Compass of Immune Cells

...tivates A3 adenosine receptors concentrated at the front of cells, providing the signal to move toward the source of chemoattractants. Lead authors Yu Chen, M.D., UCSD postgraduate researcher in surgery and Ross Corriden, UCSD graduate student in biomedical sciences, found that when ATP receptors were b...

New Tool Being Tested to Halt Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation

...r. And one way we can do this is on the technology front by developing better tools. This trial may be a big part of that." Source-Newswis SRM...

Video Games Fun but Pose Social, Health Risks

...t casual gaming from spiraling into hours spent in front of a television screen with a controller. Child...port." Serious gamers who spend hours sitting in front of a TV also risk becoming obese and developing associated health problems, such as cardiovascular d...

Extra Funding To Fight Bird Flu

... also advocates that poultry farmers caught in the front line should be effectively compensated. The sums though they seem huge, were only a fraction of the potential damage around an estimated $US1.5 trillion - $US2 trillion ($A1.9 to $A2.5 trillion) that may occur as a result of a severe human influen...

The Fat Divide

...urprised to see your fat neighbor jiving past your front gate. <BR...

Thailand’s Decision to Manufacture Generic AIDS Drug Wins Acclai

...he interests of people living with HIV in Thailand front and centre," UNAIDS country coordinator Patrick Brenny said SA...

'Red'y to Fight HIV – 'AbstinenceBehaviorCondom', Sacrosanct to AIDS Preventio

...robicides to halt the epidemic. The challenge in front of us can be tackled well, if there is unflinching financial support for research and development of the AIDS vaccine and microbicides. There is an evident chasm in the funding for vaccines and microbicides, estimated at a whopping figure of $500m an...

Public Transport Causing Backaches in Delhi, Mumbai

...most people complaining of backaches don't work in front of the computer. "Hence, there is a very positive correlation between people who have been commuting to their workplace using public transport and the rate of incidence. Commuting contributes to the problem in many ways. The type of vehicle used, ...

A New Research Explores Connection Between Emotionality And Alcoholism

...strated lower levels of electrical activity in the front left compared to the front right region of the brain." Yet very little, added Grekin, is known about EEG asymmetry and alcohol ...

Whet your appetite with “Mindless Eating”: A gourmet's deligh!

... of noodles, beer, snacks, or anything free put in front of his mouth. Many of his experiments involve grad...ke a difference, too. A large bag of corn chips in front of us means we will consume more; so why don't we try smaller bags" We may not eat much of the fried...

Picture Book Reading Helps Toddlers Grasp Complex Actions

...ere asked to construct a rattle using the items in front of them. The study revealed that many of the children were able to imitate the actions depicted and described in the book. 'This research shows that very young children can learn to perform novel actions with novel objects from a brief ...

Delhi's Sanitation in a Pathetic State: UNDP

...ealth Games, cuts a sorry figure on its sanitation front with most of its sewer lines silted //and not functioning, according to a UN report Thursday. According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report, a large proportion of Delhi's 5,600-km of feeder sewers are silted and less than 15 p...

Kids' Food: Saltier than the Deep Blue Sea

...lt is in their foods by putting information on the front of packs and including salt equivalence." NL...

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