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Racy Novels are the Best Calorie Busters!

...les. People normally burn around one calorie per minute when sitting still, they say. However, reading encourages the production of adrenaline, and thereby causes BMR to rise to up to 1.75 calories per minute. Jilly Coopers 770-page novel Polo, which involves sex and scandal, has been found to be the hi...

Australians Enjoy Sex Less Than Newzealanders, or Indians

... also devote 17 minutes to a lovemaking session, a minute under the average. Unhappiest in the cot are the Japanese where just 15% are satisfied, and those in France, long since dubbed the country of romance, where only one in four are fully satisfied. The Durex Global Sexual Wellbeing Survey questioned ...

Infant Mortality Rising in Deep South in US

...apboard houses and trailers. So it takes only a minute to walk to the graves her first two children, marked with temporary metal signs because she cannot afford tombstones. Her son, who was born with deformities in 2002, died in her arms a few months later, after surgery. Her daughter was stillborn th...

Intravenous Delivery of Clot-busting Drug Still Best Intervention for Ischemic Stroke

...sible treatment because 'time is brain.' For every minute that goes by, the likelihood of a poorer outcome increases," said Harold P. Adams, Jr., M.D., chairman of the writing group. Intravenous delivery of the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is only approved to be used within three h...

Indian Films With Smoking Scenes may Get 'A' Certificate

...mption work said: "During the smoking scene, a one minute anti-smoking scroll will also run to negate the message among the audience." Reddy said a blanket ban on smoking scenes in movies faced a roadblock after producer-director Mahesh Bhatt moved the Delhi High Court challenging the government's proposa...

Arthritis Pain Processed in Brain’s 'fear Zone,' First PET Scans Revea

... and unpleasantness on 0 – 100 rating scales at 10 minute intervals. "We thought that arthritic and acute experimental pain would be processed within the same areas of the pain matrix," Dr Kulkarni continued. "But, although both activated both the medial and lateral pain systems, arthritic pain prompted i...

Hookah Could Be as Harmful as Cigarettes

...body increased by 250 percent after just one 40-45 minute session of hookah smoking. Since people spend a longer period of time smoking hookah, they may inhale more carcinogens - possibly up to the equivalent of 100 cigarettes, the report noted. Another risk in smoking water pipes is inhaling harmful ...

Novel Methods in Diagnosing Oral Cancer

...s painless and non-invasive, lasting less than one minute with a pen-sized hand-held probe. This device’s resolution or diagnostic capability may dictate its primary use as an indicator of the need for biopsy. Later, this modality may progressively reduce the need for biopsy, define surgical margins, ...

Kerala Youth Die of Carbon Monoxide Inhalation

...Possibly two had rushed out of the car at the last minute but could not manage to open the closed door of the garage. They had all been partying inside the car with its windows rolled up and air-conditioning switched on, forensic experts said. Petrol engines emit considerable amounts of CO, often up to...

Fight Nicotine With Brisk Walking

...ing muscles. It was found that a minimum of five minute exercises was sufficient for smokers to keep their craving for a cigarette under control. According to Taylor, exercise produced dopamine responsible for mood enhancing which reduced the smoker’s craving for nicotine. Dr. Robert West, professor fro...

Light Could Detect Bacteria Faster

... ascertain the presence of bacteria in less then a minute by using light, reported the online edition of BBC News. The technology could have wide applications in wound healing, counter-terrorism and screening patients for MRSA (bacterial) infection, the experts said. The scientists are developing a port...

Indian Doctors Headed to Lahore to Take Part in Gynecology Conference

... high maternal and neonatal mortality rates. Every minute there's a death due to pregnancy complications. Only 34 percent of births in the region get skilled help, said Malhotra. Source-IANS...

Transcendental Meditation To The Rescue of Cardiac Patients

... better than the control group in terms of the six minute walk test after both 3 and 6 months of practice in TM. They also bettered in quality of life measurements, depression, and had fewer re-hospitalizations. Ravishankar Jayadevappa from the University of Pennsylvania who headed this study said TM brin...

QUT Scientists on the Way to Sifting Out a Cure for HIV

...from water. Nanofiltration is the filtration of minute particles using a filter with extremely small pores. "If we can remove compounds from liquids and viruses from water, then there may also be potential to remove HIV from blood," Dr Zhu said. Dr Zhu said current ceramic membranes were unable to p...

New Microchip for Protein Sorting

...aid Han. "We can separate the molecules in about a minute with the current device versus hours for gels." Another advantage of the microchip is that it can have so many different pore sizes, and unlike gels, it is possible to design an exact pore size to increase the separation accuracy. That in turn can ...

TEMPE Spray Delays Ejaculation

...therapy they normally ejaculated an average of one minute after vaginal penetration. "The men who were prescribed the TEMPE spray, which delivers a combination of lidocaine and prilocaine, managed to delay ejaculation by just under an extra four minutes after using the product" reports Professor Wallace D...

Training Breathing Muscles Improves Swimmer's Performance

...he maximal volume of oxygen they could consume per minute to produce energy for exercise), and length of time they could swim at a moderately high speed. The men then were randomized to one of three training protocols: RRMT-resistance respiratory muscle training; ERMT-endurance respiratory muscle trainin...

Rewiring the Heart

A normal heart beats 60 beats to 100 beats per minute (BPM). If the rhythm of the heart goes one beat over 100, a patient’s life is in grave danger. This was the case for Jeffrey Nauser. //His irregular heartbeat was only discovered after repeat trips to the Emergency Room where his life hung in the bal...

Read This Now Not Later!

...per year, caused by delay in filing taxes and last minute Christmas shopping with credit cards being five times higher. According to Steel, it is easier delaying in today’s world than ever before. What are the causes of procrastination? TVs in every room, online video, Websurfing, cellphones, videogam...

New Technique to Identify Bacteria for Food Safety

... to take "fingerprints" of bacteria in less than a minute using a mass spectrometer. "This is the first time we've been able to chemically analyze and accurately identify the type of bacteria using a mass spectrometer without any prior pretreatment within a matter of seconds," Cooks said. New findings s...

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