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Fishes Use Threat of Punishment in Mating Process

... in a situation where youd expect there would be a lot of competition, says Dr Wong. In the case of the gobies, only the top male and top female mate, and all the other females have to wait their turn in a queue based on their size the fishy equivalent of the barnyard pecking order. Dr Wong found th...

Car Sickness for the Little Ones can Be Prevented

...ickness is not a major illness. But it can cause a lot of distraction to the driver. It can also cause a lot of unhappiness to fellow passengers. Pediatricians say that there are ways to prevent car sickness....

Brazil Government New Health Offer

...razils new health minister has managed to offend a lot of people with his new offerings. Brazil's govern...rder to crack down on heavy drinking. He faced a lot of opposition when he when he criticized popular samba singer Zeca Pagodinho's frequent appearances ...

Emotions Play 'significant Role' in Recovery from Hip Surgery

...y're not doing well, but why? It appears to have a lot to do with their emotional state. It's the elephant in the exam room - that is, something doctors need to acknowledge is a real issue," he said. And one way of dealing with this issue, Dr Moed says, may be to recommend that the patients see a psych...

Surgical Students Fail to Report Needle Stick Injuries

...are more likely to report the injury. I think a lot of it is really a person's perception of risk," said Dr. Jim Kelaher, director of Occupational Health Programs at Baylor College of Medicine. More hospitals need to do a better job in protection," Makary said. "They need more appropriate and more t...

Avian Flu Seen in Others Birds too

...tly in Indonesia." The new disease is causing a lot of concern. A new respiratory disease that causes flu-like symptoms may be spread by bats. The virus was discovered in three members of a family in Malaysia last year. The Melaka virus, named after the place it was discovered, is not believed to be...

Meningitis Shots for Teens

...luenzae bacteriaVaccination is going to do a whole lot to reduce the incidence of this disease," said Lynn Bozof, executive director of the National Meningitis Association. "The CDC's action will raise awareness ... among parents and adolescents that this disease is out there and it is potentially vacc...

Outdoor Alcohol Ads Boost Urge to Drink in Young Teens

... 12 years, and those who had not yet imbibed. "A lot of times advertisers say ads are targeted to people who are already drinking, so we looked at kids who were already drinking in sixth grade and kids who were not. Among those kids who were not drinking, we still found the association between exposure...

Bird Flu Risk Still Running High in Egypt, Indonesia, WHO Says

...t," Domenech added. "There is a high density and a lot of contacts." "The H5N1 virus is not stable and keeps constantly changing," Domenech warned. "On one occasion in China last year a new virus strain appeared with different immunologic characteristics which made it necessary to modify the vaccines...

Pakistan to Launch World's Biggest Anti-measles Drive

...tion campaign in the world. I think it will show a lot of results," health minister Nasir Khan told a news conference in Islamabad. The campaign targeting all children aged up to 13 years is due to start on Monday in southwestern Baluchistan province. It will cover the whole country by March 2008, offi...

Canadian Mountain Bikers Hit by Bacterial Infection

... exactly caused people to get sick. There's been a lot of rumours circulating, he said. One suspect? The mud mixed with animal waste. "It [the waste] gets wet. It gets washed into a puddle. It gets churned up with dirt, which turns into mud, which covers everybody," said Miller. Suspect No. 2? The ...

Anxiety Disorders Show in Tiny Tots

...to be able to sleep over at a friend's house and a lot of them can't join activities like school camps because of it. It really can affect their lives.' Professor Rapee said a lack of confidence underlined many anxiety disorders in children. The growing prevalence of anxiety disorders in increasingly...

Steve Tyler Tells All About His Beauty Regime

...at. "I stay slim by having sex - and sweating a lot while I'm on stage!" Tyler says jokily....

Hong Kong's Shopping Spree Surges On, and on

...ople live in very small spaces and there are not a lot of places to go. This is the third place, somewhere away from office and home where they can go to relax." The centre is on a direct rail link to Hong Kong's busy airport, making it easily accessible to the hordes of tourists -- 28 million last yea...

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...ve us your thoughts on how India could improve the lot of doctors in the country? Uniformity of basic standards and infrastructure is a fundamental aspect of job satisfaction for doctors. In a country which has the high standards of Apollo and AIIMS there are also PHCs unsuitable and unworthy for inha...

Lets Care For Our Physicians A Salute to Them on Doctors Day!

... doctors hang their coats in protest. India has a lot of explaining to do, especially at a time when medical tourism is fast catching up. India is sitting on a goldmine of healthcare resources, a report by McKinsey Consultants has revealed. If we get our house in order, medical tourism may open up re...

Experts Critical of a New OTC Product to Treat Psoriasis

...Canada. "Some people try it without success, but a lot of people are very loyal to it," he says. "Some of the letters and pictures we get are amazing." In one radio spot, an unidentified customer calls it "the closest thing to a medical miracle." Ads in national magazines claim that the SkinZinc spray ...

Shisha Owners Mobilise Against July 1 Smoking Ban in England

...nomic impact. "Arabs and Asian people generate a lot of business for tourism, shopping and gambling. Lo... listen to music. It's very multi-cultural, with a lot of non-Muslims coming," she added. For these young people, the pub and night clubs are not alterna...

The American Dream Comes True for 105-year-old Cuban

...tro. To fight," Temprana told AFP. "There were a lot of us, but there was also one person who infiltrated the group. He talked, so they arrested us." He and his sons were jailed in 1964. Temprana spent 18 years in prison and 12 more under house arrest. Immediately upon his release he obtained a ref...

Dutchman Rebuilds Noah's Ark to Spread His Faith

...ors are Christians but Huibers said he also gets a lot of visits from (nondenominational) state schools. With some 30,000 visitors since the opening April 30th this year the ark is proving popular, perhaps somewhat surprisingly in the Netherlands where only one in five people say they attend church reg...

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