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Allergic Individuals Should Keep Away from Cats, Say UK Scientists

...are the second-most-common cause of allergy in the home in Britain after house dust mites, and 50 per cent of asthmatic children are allergic to cats. Pet allergens are proteins that, when in contact with the skin or breathed in, cause an allergic reaction that provokes the body into producing histam...

Benoits Son Suffered from Fragile X Syndrome, a Rare Mental Disability

...ss and consternation. '(She) wanted him to be at home more to care for the kid. She'd say she can't take care of him by herself when he was on the road.' Fragile X Syndrome is a defect of the X chromosome which causes mild mental retardation. The disorder occurs more frequently and severely among male...

Woman Army Officer Commits Suicide in Jammu and Kashmir

...and Kashmir has allegedly committed suicide in her home here. Police sources here said Captain Megha Ra...ng by her husband Captain Chetanya Razdan at their home in the army quarters at Kunjwani on the outskirts of this winter capital Saturday evening. Chetany...

RNA Play a Vital Role in Gene Activity

...ene chip called a tiling array in the new study to home in on nearby regions of DNA, they didn't know how ...ution. That's somewhat like zooming in on a single home from a satellite map on Google Earth. "It gives us an up-close, unbiased view of what's actually hap...

Hundreds of Thousands Attend Madrid Gay Pride Parade

...ens, and about 400,000 in Berlin, while Stockholm, home to Europride 2008, has its event on August 4....

Asian Workers Race Against Clock to Avoid Prison

...e in dispute, and they face the shame of returning home empty-handed. For the men, hanging themselves fr...d as a 'golden opportunity' for illegals to return home or try to get a work permit with the help of their national embassies. 'Around 300 Indians in an i...

Hoarding can Endanger Lives, Says New Study

...who died in a 2006 fire because her clutter-filled home hindered firefighters' efforts to rescue her. "Hoarding is different from being disorganized or not prioritizing," said John Hart, LCPC, a behaviour therapist with the Menninger Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Treatment Program who treats patients w...

China Unveils Green Plan to Revert Farmland to Forest

...aims at reverting farmland to forests. China is home to 10 per cent of all known plant species, and half of those unique to China, about 5000 species of plants, are under threat. According to Jia Jiansheng of the department of wildlife conservation in the State Forestry Administration, Beijing, the ...

Paris Hiltons Customary Marijuana Habit

...s is planning to move out of her current Hollywood home because her house is flanked by tempting night spots that she has been trying to avoid ever since leaving LA prison. The Simple Life star has decided to move to Beverly Hills, which will have quieter neighbours compared to the clubbers in her local...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

... orbiting outpost 220 miles above Earth and return home within hours aboard a Russian Soyuz space vehicle. Yet, that wouldn't be possible if a life-and-death situation were to arise on a voyage to Mars, where the nearest hospital is millions of miles away. Moreover, Mars-bound astronauts will not alway...

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

...hospital and in their first six months after going home decreased significantly. So did the risk that pati...tries around the world, and to contact patients at home after their initial hospitalization to get follow-up information. GRACE now includes 236 hospitals i...

New Research Promises To Take The Pain Off Breast Feeding

...new that breastfeeding was best and after having a home birth, wanted to do everything as naturally as possible. "I had about six weeks of pain, I had a bleeding nipple on the right and fed on my left the whole time which then became really sore. "It was really unbearable and I was half way to giving ...

Cats at Home Poses Allergy Risk in Young Children

Cats and cat allergens in the home clearly raise the risk of the allergic sensitisati...ren , however, the influence of the environment at home on the development of cat allergen sensitization decreases. This is the conclusion reached by scien...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Health Threat

...and other air pollutant within the confines of the home resulting in high exposure. It is mainly the women and children who are mainly affected by his. Exposure to the pollutants lead many kinds of diseases like pneumonia in children and chronic respiratory problems in adults Tobacco smoke is a major po...

Major Change Needed to Achieve Dignified Care for Older People

...dard setting are widespread in the health and care home sectors, and more of the same seems unlikely to alter attitudes and prejudices. There is a current vogue to appoint champions and commissioners for older people, but what is needed, they say, are not just individual advocates but rather a long overdu...

A Fit of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgery

...sounded very scary. Anastasia's hypothalamus was home to a benign tumor which was causing the seizures. This condition termed in medical parlance as hypothalamic hamartoma, is extremely rare affecting about 30 people worldwide each year. If the condition is left untreated, it could also cause mental ret...

Researchers To Test Whether ADHD Medication Helps Young Adults While Driving

...ies, there are no cell phones, no pressures to get home before curfew, no passengers encouraging the driver to get air,' no pets that slip from the driver's lap down to the pedals and no hamburger dripping with mustard in the driver's right hand," said Cox. "This, however, is real world driving. We want t...

Diet for Autism

...ients and their families. A nurturing ambience, at home and outside, will cultivate the positive traits of these special people and help them to lead more fulfilling lives....

Spit Test Kit on the Cards to Ascertain Pre-eclampsia Risk

...uccess, it could lead to the development of simple home test kits to enable expectant mothers to monitor urate levels at home....

Ostracized HIV Victim of Bihar Commits Suicide

... a village fair while his wife was at her parental home with her two children. "The family used to go wi...ger. Like millions of migrant workers who leave home in search of better prospects, he too had gone to Kolkata two years ago to earn a livelihood. While ...

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