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Two More Unwanted Children Left at Japan's 'baby Hatch'

...-off to help children and troubled women who would otherwise resort to abortion or even infanticide to cope with unwanted babies. Abortion is widely accepted in Japan, where adoption outside of extended families is rare. The hatch, modelled on a similar idea in Germany, looks like a mailbox with pictures of ...

Wounded British Troops Wait Hours to Reach Hospital

...nded soldiers lost their lives in transit who were otherwise expected to survive, while four did unexpectedly s... of our troops to falsely suggest that the care is otherwise than excellent."...

Hot Tips for Keeping Your PC Cool in Summer

...your PC in a cool room - or a cool place within an otherwise warm room. If your room has air conditioning, place the computer itself as close to an air conditioning vent as possible - or somewhere where outside air circulation is available. The fact is that any personal computer can and will raise ambient ai...

Stem Cell Licensing Deal Positions Toronto as World Leader in Technology

...arrow, lie in sourcing them from tissue that would otherwise be thrown away at birth, their very rapid proliferation and the huge numbers of harvested stem cells....

Boffins Identify Gene That Helps Regulates Body Weight

...et. These mice burned more energy, were leaner and otherwise healthy. he researchers also examined the effects of resveratrol in mice. Resveratrol is a naturally occurring substance found in some plants such as mulberries, peanuts and red grapes used to make wine. It has been marketed as a drug that mimics ...

Meningitis Shots for Teens

...e seizures, brain damage, memory loss and death in otherwise healthy people in less than 48 hours. It has about a 15 percent fatality rate if treated with antibiotics. Characterized by fever, headache, and stiff neck, the relatively rare disease involves the inflammation of membranes covering the brain and s...

Researchers Identify Five Distinct Subtypes of Alcoholism

... primarily on individuals who were hospitalised or otherwise receiving treatment for alcoholism. Young Adult subtype included young adult drinkers with relatively low rates of co-occurring substance abuse and other mental disorders, a low rate of family alcoholism, and who rarely seek any kind of help for th...

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

...any poor lives by conducting free surgeries, which otherwise would have been unimaginable to the ailing poor. To all the Doctors in India, this day is in appreciation of your invaluable contribution to our healthcare services. This journey has not been easy for a developing nation like India. There have b...

Allergic Individuals Should Keep Away from Cats, Say UK Scientists

Cat lovers, otherwise allergic, beware. Cuddling your pet could prove bad for your lungs. UK researchers have found that a protein secreted from the cats skin could irritate the lungs and exacerbate the symptoms of asthma, even in people who have no specific allergy t...

Shambu With Bovine TB Being Prevented from Slaughter

It is a bull otherwise destined for the abattoir, especially because it is afflicted with bovine TB. For a country slowly recovering from the mad cow disease that took a heavy toll of the country's economy and prestige, sending the six-year-old Freisian bull to the slaugh...

More and More American Women Go for Facelifts to Get Jobs

...n those who might start hating wrinkles they could otherwise accept. The health gap between rich and poor is already wide enough. It's measured by access to health care, leisure, healthful food and freedom from stress. These disparities should be fought, not exaggerated, sociologists urge. They also add, "...

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

...ant mothers and their babies. Pre-eclampsia, an otherwise lethal pregnancy complication which could kill hundreds of fetuses a year can be averted with a simple saliva test. One in ten pregnancies is fraught with such risks and one in fifty, suffers a virulent repercussion of pre-eclampsia. This test in i...

Honey, I Shrunk The Abscess!

...cers could heal the infection and avoid what could otherwise lead to amputation of the infected foot. A doctor at the University of Wisconsin introduced this unique therapy to about 6 diabetic patients. The therapy healed the infection and offset the final blow of amputation. Honey destroys bacteria due to i...

Bipolar Spectrum Disorder may Be Under-recognized for Spectrum Disorder: Study

...ressive episodes. People with bipolar disorder not otherwise specified (BD-NOS), sometimes called subthreshold bipolar disorder, have manic and depressive symptoms as well, but they do not meet strict criteria for any specific type of bipolar disorder noted in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental D...

Use of Swedish 'snus' is Linked to a Doubled Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

...ting will not cause addictions in young people who otherwise wouldnt have started to smoke," he says....

UCLA Researchers Discover Link Between Parkinsons and Narcolepsy

... although the person cannot talk or move, they are otherwise in a state of high alertness, feeling, hearing and remembering everything that is going on around them. In fact, said Siegel, Parkinson's disease is often preceded and accompanied by daytime sleep attacks, nocturnal insomnia, REM sleep disorder, ha...

More Than Four Percent of US Adults Have Some Form of Bipolar Disorder

...hat involves hypomania with or without depression, otherwise classified as bipolar disorder "not otherwise specified" in the current diagnostic nomenclature of the American Psychiatric Association. The stu...

Study Finds That Fruit Flies also Have Free Wills

... "I would have never guessed that simple flies who otherwise keep bouncing off the same window have the capacity for non-random spontaneity if given the chance," Maye said....

WHO Launches Yellow Fever Initiative for West Africa

...educe the risk of devastating outbreaks that could otherwise threaten the region and the world," Mike Ryan, Director of the WHO Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response said in Geneva, where the World Health Assembly is convened. To prevent yellow fever infections from spreading into an epidem...

Suicide Gene Therapy Kills Bowel Cancer Cells

...on, the virus produces a protein that activates an otherwise harmless prodrug, given separately. Because this drug is only activated in tumours, it selectively kills only cancer cells. In normal tissue, the drug remains inactive, so healthy cells are not affected. This is the first time such a therapy has ...

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