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Blood Pressure Tackled Better With Cocoa Than Tea

...lood pressure was an average of 4.7 millimeters of mercury lower and diastolic blood pressure was an average of 2.8 millimeters of mercury lower. The effects are comparable to those achieved with blood pressure-lowering medications, the ...

US States Get Ready to Fight Mercury Pollution

...e federal government to enact tougher standards of mercury emissions.// Throughout the Northeast, mercury contamination has become a growing health concern. Mercury is a metal that occurs naturally. It ...

No Respite for Rajasthan from Heat Wave

...tinued to paralyse life in Rajasthan Monday as the mercury hovered between 40-45 degrees Celsius in most parts - well above normal.// The roads wore a deserted look with people preferring to stay indoors. The meteorological department said there would be no respite from the heat wave. "Heat wave condi...

Sweltering Heat in Madhya Pradesh Claims Fifteen Lives

...ude two each in Shivpuri, Morena and Damoh. The mercury soared to more than 46 degree Celsius at many places in northern Madhya Pradesh, with Datia turning out to be the hottest at 48 degrees. Among other places, it touched 45.5 degrees in Khajuraho, 45.1 degrees in Chhatarpur, 44.8 in Gwalior and in B...

Wearing Shorts, Sleeveless Clothes Could Make You Prone to Skin Cancer

...nagar in Rajasthan recorded nearly 48 degrees, the mercury climbed to a high of 44.9 degrees in the national capital June 9....

US Court Asked to Decide Whether Childhood Vaccines can Cause Autism

...ited activities and interests. Classic symptoms of mercury poisoning include anxiety, fatigue and abnormal ir...ing thimerosal. The preservative, about 50 percent mercury by weight, is no longer found in routine childhood vaccines but is used in some flu shots. In July...

North India Reels Under Heat Wave

...es Celsius, Lucknow was 44 degrees. Jaipur saw the mercury cross 43 degrees while Hissar in Haryana recorded ...s and soaring temperatures Friday. In Delhi, the mercury rose by a degree over Thursday to 43.5 degrees Celsius - two degrees above normal. The minimum tempe...

Vaccine-Induced Autism Victims in the Thousands Will Finally Get Day in Court

...armaceutical companies and supportive of injecting mercury into infants. "In my opinion, as glaring as Dr. Offit's conflicts are, what's even more disturbing is that such close ties between vaccine policy decision makers and vaccine manufacturers are routine," said parent and National Autism Association bo...

25 Pesticides Banned in India, Others Face Partial Curbs

...acetoarsenite, cibromochloropropane, endrin, ethel mercury chloride, ethyl parathion, heptachlor, menzaone, n...aquat dimethyl suplhate, pentachlorophenol, phenyl mercury acetate, sodium methane arsonate, tetradifon, toxafen, aldicarb, chlorobenzilate, dieldrine, maleic ...

Delhi's Hottest Day at 44.1 Degrees Celsius

The mercury crossed the 44 degrees Celsius mark in Delhi Saturday, leaving millions of residents sweating it out in the hottest day of the season so far. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the national capital recorded a maximum temperatu...

Soy Nuts may Improve Blood Pressure, Cholesterol Levels in Women

...omen had high blood pressure (140/90 milligrams of mercury or higher) and 48 had normal blood pressure. "Soy ... with normal blood pressure. "A 12-millimeter of mercury decrease in systolic blood pressure for 10 years has been estimated to prevent one death for every 1...

Fly Ash Bricks are Absolutely Safer Than Actually Predicted

...n predicted. Rather than leach minute amounts of mercury as some researchers had predicted, the bricks do t...sed air. On average, air contains low amounts of mercury that can range from less than one nanogram per cubic meter (ng/m3) to tens of ng/m3--a small fractio...

Jharkhand Reeling Under Heat Wave

... days. The meteorological department predicts that mercury will rise higher in the city. Ranchi has a history of getting rainfall after a rise in mercury but this time the weatherman has no word of hope to offer. "The cloud which is formed goes upward ...

Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

...anys share-holders to raise to raise the issues of mercury contamination and long term medical remediation of...ment of the hill station. But workers exposed to mercury poisoning when it was operational are struggling to cope with their shattered lives. They have for...

New Drug Could Keep High Blood Pressure Under Control for Several Months

...duced systolic blood pressure by 25 millimetres of mercury as compared to placebo treatment. The drug also lowered diastolic pressure went down by 13 mmHg. We can certainly reduce blood pressure, but whether it's enough to be clinically meaningful we can't say yet," New Scientist quoted Martin Bachmann o...

EU Move Against Mercury Should Be Adopted in India: NGO

...European Union (EU) Parliament's resolution to ban mercury trade which causes environmental pollution, and ur...upon governments across the world to ban import of mercury at the 24th United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in February. In one of its studies carrie...

Mercury in Antiques can Pose a Hazard - Study

...Prevention (CDC) warns. Mirrors can be backed with mercury and tin ; Clock pendulums might be weighted with e...y; and barometers, thermometers and lamps may have mercury in their bases for ballast.The problem is that mercury in old items can leak, particularly as seals ...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

... other witnesses had much specialized knowledge in mercury or other metals, and the focus quickly shifted to ...acknowledge that most if not all cases of clinical mercury poisoning in the past had involved doses hundreds or thousands of times higher than what was adminis...

Sienna Sizzles in Wet T-shirt to Spread Global Warming Awareness

It looks like Sienna Miller is raising the mercury rather then cooling the earth through her global warning campaign, for the actress posed in a wet T-shirt to do her bit in spreading environmental awareness. The 25-year-old, who flew to India recently for a week-long promotional visit as part of ...

Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted

...strial chemicals such as dioxins, PCBs, and methyl mercury that they are unfit for human consumption, says the report. Health effects of these chemicals include damage to the nervous, respiratory and immune system, as well as cancer. While there have been reductions in contaminants in parts of the Great ...

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