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Italy's Divorce Rate Jumps 74 Percent in 10 Years

...e more industrialised and richer north against the poorer south. There were 6.2 separations and four divorces for every 1,000 marriages in the north in 2005, against 4.2 separations and 1.8 divorces in the south. In 1995, 158 of 1,000 married couples were separated and 80 were divorced. A decade later, ...

A Blood Test Developed in Australia to Repair DNA Damage

...ses was mounting. "As we age, our bodies produce poorer copies of DNA," he said. "It is something like a photocopier that is running out of toner. If the toner is running low, the copies get worse. "Optimal intake of key nutrients is required if cells in the body are to make accurate copies of DNA and...

Sleep Deprivation can Affect Competent Decision-making

...ensible to," said Chee. "Understanding why we make poorer choices when sleep deprived is important not only because of the increasing numbers of persons affected, but also because there exist today unprecedented opportunities to incur damaging losses by means such as online gambling. This work is one of man...

More and More American Women Go for Facelifts to Get Jobs

...sk in an insecure U.S. job market. In 2003, it was poorer in constant dollars than a similar household was in 1983 (despite women working!). Women -- who spend more on "anti-aging" products -- are under particular pressures. Age discrimination complaints by women to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commis...

HIV Survival Improves If Patients Stay in Care

...ixteen percent of the patients died. Those who had poorer retention in care or visited the physicians less during the year after starting treatment had a greater risk of dying than those who saw the physicians at least once each quarter. Patients with visits in one quarter had nearly twice the risk of dying...

Making Change: The Cost of Being Transgender

... afford access to those resources. Children from poorer families are more likely to be thrown out of their homes and end up on the streets. Though the transgender community in the United States is small, roughly estimated at between 1 and 3 million people, it represents a broad diversity of people. "T...

Feelings Of Injustice At Work Can Lead To A Heart Attack

...treatment as fair. They were also observed to have poorer physical and mental health overall. The researchers say the study reinforces the need for fair treatment in the workplace. It also provided a view into which people were most likely to find life unjust, although the results were adjusted to account...

Extinction Risk of Grazing Animals Depends on Reproductive Speed

...nd many species in these areas are threatened. The poorer the country, the greater the threat," she said. According to her, regional military conflicts also turn up the heat on species, as people in strife-torn areas increasingly turn to "bush meat," including hoofed animals, to supplement their diets. ...

Women Less Likely to Control LDL Cholesterol Levels Than Men

...for high cholesterol and heart disease, leading to poorer cholesterol control among women. The high cost of medications may also be secondary factor. "This study highlights the importance of not just knowing your health, but also taking an active role in your care. The data show that we've got our work c...

Performance of Mental Tasks Affected by Sexual Orientation

...an non-heterosexuals. When a particular gender was poorer at a task homosexual and bisexual people tended to perform better than heterosexual members of that gender. However age was found to discriminate on gender grounds but not sexual orientation. The study found that mens mental abilities declined fast...

Binge Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive Deficits Among College Students

* Alcoholics tend to have poorer neurocognitive functioning, including decision-mak...r. Researchers know that alcoholics tend to have poorer neurocognitive functioning, including decision making, than non-alcoholics do. Less is known, howeve...

Australian Children Sleep Less, Perhaps Not Well Monitored

...s of children and adolescents.' That children from poorer sections especially do not seem to be properly monitored is a matter of concern. The very group who should work harder to survive and move up the ladder is getting distracted....

Australia's Aborigines Affected by Poor Health: Experts

...ourished children in Indonesia, South America, the poorer countries of Africa and refugee camps in Pakistan," he was quoted, as saying. "These children are barely coping; they're on a knife edge. Any severe infection like pneumonia or gastro is likely to tip them over. They may even die," he added....

Refugees No Burden On Health System

...said. 'There is, however, increasing evidence of poorer health status and high prevalence of a range of health problems among recently arrived refugees in Australia,' he said. 'One way to measure whether people born in refugee-source countries face difficulties in accessing hospitals would be to assess ...

Breast Cancer More Aggressive and Less Responsive to Treatment in Younger Women

...ty in women differs according to age, leading to a poorer prognosis of breast cancer in younger women. Br...ertain patterns of cellular activity that confer a poorer prognosis in younger women, while the same tumor cell activity in older women confers a better progn...

Understanding and Treating Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

...ation. The combination of CVM and CDH results in a poorer prognosis than would be expected with either malformation alone. However, the impact on these survival data from patients with a malformation syndrome or other genetic etiology has not been consistently evaluated, and we encourage researchers to re-a...

New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

...much wood costs about 1,300 rupees (30 dollars) so poorer families sometimes try to get by with much less and end up having to dispose of partially burned bodies, or even whole corpses, in rivers. In 1993, Agarwal built his first pyre, a raised human-sized brazier under a roof with slats that could be lower...

Traders Smell Something Fishy in Tokyo Market Move

...g fish by bicycle -- Opponents also complain about poorer access to the new site by subway and train and point out that the periphery area of middlemen dealers, or "off-Tsukiji," would be pulled apart from the main market under the relocation. "I wonder what would happen to small buyers who come here by bic...

Medical Students Get Poor Quality Sleep

...ith medical-related majors are more likely to have poorer quality of sleep in comparison to those with a hum...pinski, global PSQI scores for the sample indicate poorer quality of sleep compared to the population norms. Sleep deprivation was longer and frequency of sle...

More and More American Women Go for Facelifts to Get Jobs

...sk in an insecure U.S. job market. In 2003, it was poorer in constant dollars than a similar household was in 1983 (despite women working!). Women -- who spend more on "anti-aging" products -- are under particular pressures. Age discrimination complaints by women to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commis...

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