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Air Pollution in India Causes 527,700 Deaths a Year

... pollution is estimated to cause approximately two million premature deaths worldwide per year," National Geographic quoted Michal Krzyzanowski, an air quality adviser at the WHO Regional Office for Europe, as saying. In the United States, premature deaths from toxic air pollutants are estimated at 41,200...

Completely Neutral Evolutionary Changes Helped Shape Our Genome

... over a 10-million-year period centered roughly 54 million years ago - right around the time when the first p...cient mammals, but during the primate emergence 54 million years ago, they accumulated and spread through the small early primate populations precisely because...

Penguins Altered Diet When Humans Began Hunting Whales and Seals

...says that between 1793 and 1807, an estimated 3.2 million seals were killed or captured from the Southern Oc...vest of seals and whales resulted in more than 150 million tonnes of extra krill each year. Their dietary flexibility demonstrates the penguins' ability to a...

IFC to Invest About Rs.3 Billion in Max Healthcare

...nvestment to promote growth, has invested over 400 million dollars in various projects across India in the 2005-06 fiscal....

Uncooked Fish may Cause Liver Cancer

...ublic, Vietnam, and Cambodia. In Thailand alone, 6 million people are thought to be infected with the fluke. CONTACT: Banchob SripaKhon Kaen Universitybanchob@kku.ac.th...

Britains Free Fruit -And -Vegetable -Scheme Falls Flat

According to a study, UK s 119 million pound campaign to boost fruit and vegetable intake among young children could have been in vain after all . Professor Janet Cade and colleagues of Leeds University assessed the impact of the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme (SFVS), installed in ...

Indian Luxury Hotel Boss Calls for Major City Clean-up

...ters. Oberoi, 78, said India welcomes about four million tourists a year but compared this figure to the five million people who travel annually to the small Gulf Emirate of Dubai. The reason, he said, was because to...

Contamination of the Environment by Antibiotics Fed to Livestock

Approximately 9 and 13 million kilograms of antibiotics are used to raise live stocks in the US annually. These antibiotics are used for growth advancement and disease prevention purposes. Large amounts of antibiotics from these animals end up as manure, which is commonly applie...

Stem Cells Research in Parkinsons Disease

...gs commentary appears this week, receives nearly 6 million e-visitor hits per month. Content includes research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences....

Foot-and-mouth Disease Outbreak Forces Thiruvananthapuram Zoo to Shut Down

...hority guidelines, Jayasimhan added. At least a million people visit the scenic 56-acre zoo which houses 72 species of animals. India had not previously confirmed the presence of the highly contagious disease, which causes severe weight loss in cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle and hogs....

New Data Reinforces Correlation Between Carbohydrate Quality and Loss of Vision

...mpairing AMD is expected to double and reach three million by 2020. "Our results support our hypothesis," says Taylor, "that dietary glycemic index, which has been related to the risk of diabetes, is also associated with the risk and severity of AMD." Taylor speculates that carbohydrates that comprise a hi...

Milk Thistle Extract Effective in Cancer Treatment

...supplements, with U.S. retail sales of nearly nine million dollars . The current issue of Integrative Cancer Therapies (ICT) published by SAGE, contains a summary of current research on and clinical application of silymarin, the mixture of chemicals found in milk thistle. The special issue features new r...

Drinking More Milk may Lessen Type 2 Diabetes Risk

...drome (or pre-diabetes) influence an astounding 75 million Americans and death rates from diabetes have increased nearly 45 percent over the past 20 years, uplifting the significance of finding new ways to treat and prevent this lethal disease. The recommended three servings of lowfat or fat-free milk pro...

Newborn Screening Tests for Babies

...hat percentage has increased to 87.5, or about 3.6 million babies. While this important expansion of newborn screening is very good news for families, the lives of 500,000 newborns who still arent tested hang in the balance, said Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, president of the March of Dimes. Despite the pleas of ...

Envisat Captured Breath of Volcano

...ted along the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'. At least 500 million people live close to an active volcano. As world population increases, so does the potential threat from every eruption. Although there is no way ground-based monitoring can be carried out on all volcanoes across the globe, space-based monitoring...

Kylie Almost Doubled Earnings in Breast Cancer Year Off

... company Darenote, Kylie received a salary of 1.85 million pounds, expenses of 42,366 pounds and other earnings of 2.63 million pounds. The 39-year-old was diagnosed with cancer in May 2005; however her business showed a profi...

Hospital Infection Affecting Patients in Scotland

...ons were cut by 30 per cent, the NHS could save 55 million a year. Ms Sturgeon said this money could pay for an extra 8,000 patients to be treated. Willie Duffy, from health union Unison, said that the quality of cleaning in hospitals had declined since the introduction of competitive tendering of hospital ...

Tobacco Industry Promotes Antismoking Campaigns

...ditures in advertising and promotion grew from 491 million dollars to 15.5 billion dollars. During this period, the percentage of smokers in the United States fell from about 37 percent to 22 percent, according to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Attitudes are changing as the public is beco...

Canadian Cancer Society Calls for Ban on Asbestos

... The World Health Organization says that about 125 million people are exposed to asbestos at work and that at least 90,000 die annually from asbestos-related diseases. In Canada, almost one-third of the 1,097 workplace deaths in 2005 were attributed to asbestos, said the Canadian Centre for Occupational Heal...

Kenyan Capital Bans Smoking in Public

...overnment with around five billion shillings (74.6 million dollars, 55.5 million euros) per year in taxes, but costs five times as much in disease, disability and death, according t...

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