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President Bush Not for Expansion of Child Health Insurance

...to $1 a pack, to expand the program by $35 billion over the next five years. That would create total program funding of $60 billion over the period enough, lawmakers said, to cover 3.3 million additional youths while keeping the focus o...

Diaphragms offer no extra protection Against HIV

...ctive effect. ... It's taken me a long time to get over how devastating this is", she added.Researchers are desperately seeking a low-cost method that women could use (without the consent of male partners) to protect themselves against HIV. The study was conducted in Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa...

Food Poisoning at the Chicago Food Festival

...Cove Persian Cuisine booth served a cucumber salad over hummus. Reports of salmonella infection started to...vere illness from salmonella infection. There are over one million reported cases of salmonella poisoning in the USA each year, according to the CDC (Cente...

New Target for Muscular Dystrophy Drug Therapy Discovered

...soon after birth, following which dystrophin takes over as the primary muscle-associated protein. How this... Khurana. Since the gene sequence of utrophin is over 80 per cent identical to that of dystrophin, it may substitute for dystrophin in muscle cells, says ...

Evidence Underlying Repeated Courses of Steroids for Preterm Birth may Be Unsound

...iveness declines with time to delivery, and if so, over what timescale this occurs. They, however, warn that the new trials should avoid making the same errors in subgroup analyses "or we risk repeating the errors made in the conclusions of the original antenatal steroid trials."...

Rats Back on the Menu in Southern China

...hough the scientific community is not in agreement over whether certain animals can spread the disease, vendors in China are no longer allowed to sell wild animals. After its emergence in Guangdong province, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome quickly spread globally to infect more than 8,000 people and k...

Efficacy of Lyme Disease Vaccination Examined

...t the research also sheds light on the controversy over whether girls should receive the HPV vaccine to fight cervical cancer. Ticks spread Lyme disease, which is usually treatable by antibiotics. However, late detection or a poor response to antibiotics can lead to lasting pain, fatigue and neurologica...

Harvard to Develop Medical City in Islamabad

... governments and NGOs around the world, developing over 50 programmes in more than 30 countries. According to a Daily Times report, HMI has also entered into a long-term relationship with the Defence Housing Authority, Islamabad, for setting up the medical city. HMI said although, in recent years, Pa...

Ujjain Ashram Adopts Eco-friendly Burial Process

... Sewadham Ashram bury the dead and plant a sapling over the grave instead of consigning the mortal remains to flames as per the Hindu tradition. The burial process is eco-friendly as it prevents pollution, saves fuel and enriches the environment through forestation. Sudhirbhai Goyal, founder of the as...

Posh Prefers to Have a Baby Girl

...he house, she would love to bond with her daughter over the latest girlie fashion. "I would love to have a little girl. I'm really girlie. I'd love to dress a little girl up. We will see what happens in a few years," the Daily Mail quoted her, as saying. "If I am blessed to have another baby at some p...

Key Mechanism to Emergence of Strep Bacteria

...toxic shock syndrome. Strep is estimated to cause over 700 million infections each year; over 650,000 of these are dangerous invasive forms. The UCSD-Australian research team sought to identif...

First Drug for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

...do not go away on their own, or may even get worse over time, severely affecting their lives. Treating these disorders involves methods geared toward making the behavior go away, or become extinct, but the molecular mechanisms underlying the extinction process are not well understood. However, Tsai sa...

Kate Moss to Pay for Dohertys Anti-heroin Implant

Though reports have suggested that it is all over between Kate Moss and Pete Doherty after the singer cheated on her with a South African model , it seems that the waifish beauty will still pay for the troubled musicians anti-heroin implant. The implant will be the fifth one for the Babyshambles f...

Walking Upright Saves Humans 75 Pc More Energy Compared to Apes

...ided early hominids with an evolutionary advantage over other apes by reducing the cost of foraging for food, said Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. "Walking upright on two legs is a defining feature that makes us human. ...

Rivers in China Shrinking Due to Climate Change

... the wetlands on the Tibetan Plateau had shrunk by over 10 percent over the past four decades. They also claimed that the wetlands at the origin of the Yangtze have suffe...

Village Panchayat in Tamil Nadu Bans Tobacco Consumption

... on tobacco consumption among villagers . Aghast over an ever-increasing trend of tobacco consumption, t...Arambakkam and Ramanujapuram, with a population of over 8,000, in the Kanchipuram District of the State. Nagarajan and a committee of councillors have bee...

Complaining Girls Faces Higher Depression, Anxiety Risk

...Science conducted the study, which was carried out over a period of six months. The study, which include...ot develop greater depressive and anxiety symptoms over time. "For years, we have encouraged kids to find friends who they can talk to about their problem...

Character Test for Australian Visa Subjective

...have made a decision on Haneef when he was charged over the weekend - why wait until now?" he said. "It is doubtful that Andrews' decision is reasonable as he suggests, given the weakness of the case against Haneef and that he is an innocent man," he said. Senior University of New South Wales constit...

Manufacturer to Pay $20 Million for Improperly Promoting a Sleep Disorder Drug

... As part of the settlement - which Jazz will pay over the next five years - Orphan executives pleaded guilty to illegally promoting their drug Xyrem. That medication has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating people suffering from narcolepsy only. But the settleme...

Drink Milk for a Healthy Heart

...iff University said milk consumption has plummeted over the last 25 years amid concerns about the effect its high saturated fat content may have on health and the heart. But growing evidence suggests this idea is false. "We are reviewing worldwide studies on the link between dairy (product) consumption a...

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