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Australians Enjoy Sex Less Than Newzealanders, or Indians

...sfied. The Durex Global Sexual Wellbeing Survey questioned more than 26,000 respondents in 26 countries. GPL/L...

Cats at Home Poses Allergy Risk in Young Children

...n between late 1997 and early 1999 were repeatedly questioned about different family and health parameters as well as the frequency of contact with cats and other pets. The longitudinal analysis of the development of allergic sensitization due to contact with cats, as it has just been published, also relies o...

Millions of Children Denied Drug That Costs Less Than $3 a Year

...rce restricted countries, but this policy has been questioned because of concerns about adverse behavioural effects, particularly in children. Yet a study of children in Bangladesh also published in this weeks BMJ, found no significant difference in behavioural problems between phenobarbital and another drug ...

China Turning Tables on the US on Food Import

...ealth and safety of the American Chemical Society, questioned whether China's seizure was in retaliation for recent U.S. actions against Chinese products. Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University, said she didn't know why sulfur dioxide would pose a problem, since it's often used to preserv...

New Drug to Help Kick Smoking Habit Cleared in UK

...monn Butler, director of the Adam Smith Institute, questioned Nices priorities. It seems odd that smokers should get this when people with really life-threatening conditions cant get the medicines they need, he said. Others have pointed out that the cost of Champix will be recouped from the NHSs 1.5bn annual ...

Masimo SET Pulse Oximetry Technology Significantly Reduce the Risk of ROP

...ould dramatically reduce ROP. But some observers questioned how critical Masimo SET pulse oximetry was to the success of the protocol. This multi-center study shows that the accuracy and reliability of Masimo SET pulse oximetry, in the hands of caring clinicians with sound protocol, is indeed important to ach...

Detecting Cold, Feeling Pain: Study Reveals Why Menthol Fresh

...e in sensing cold. However, some subsequent papers questioned this theory. In the current study, the team confirmed their hypothesis by knocking out the gene that synthesizes the receptor, both in sensory neurons in cell culture and in mice. The cells in culture were unresponsive to cooling agents, including...

Sylvester Stallone Regrets Smuggling Banned Substances to Australia

...cal condition was not revealed in court, but Agius questioned whether the condition could be treated by Jintropin. He said a medical statement indicated doctors were "trying to get him off" the banned hormone and trying to educate Stallone about it. The magistrate was told Jintropin was a generic hu...

IT Delays Putting Patient Safety at Risk, Say Senior NHS Staff

...stem, some very serious risks." Respondents also questioned whether NHS-wide connectivity would ever be achieved. Finally, there was little support for Choose and Book and none of the interviewees was optimistic about the ability of Connecting for Health to deliver the systems. The software is not fit for p...

Scientists Saying Against Trees Sparks Debate

...e. Yet until recently, no published research has questioned Keppler's central discovery that plants can emit methane in the first place. Recently, however, rival researchers reported that plants emit virtually no methane whatsoever. Tom Dueck, of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, says his team's i...

A Stroll Along Countryside Could Reduce Depression and Raise Self-esteem

...mental health problems, the university researchers questioned them about their experience of ecotherapy. While 94 per cent of the participants said that green activities had benefited their mental health and lifted depression, 90 per cent said that the combination of nature and exercise had the greatest effec...

Burnt Brits Don't Feel Hot

...in the sun - only one fifth (22 per cent) of those questioned in the national survey of 2,000 people claim to have never been burnt. Despite the warnings, sunburn has ruined many Britons holidays. 15 per cent of those surveyed had to miss a night out because of burnt skin. Nearly a third (31 per cent) of peop...

Cats at Home Poses Allergy Risk in Young Children

...n between late 1997 and early 1999 were repeatedly questioned about different family and health parameters as well as the frequency of contact with cats and other pets. The longitudinal analysis of the development of allergic sensitization due to contact with cats, as it has just been published, also relies o...

Indian Doctors Refuse to Help HIV-positive Woman Deliver: Report

...l officials dismissed the couple's complaints when questioned by NDTV. "How can I believe what he said?" said Abhilasha Gupta, head of the medical school's gynaecology department. "These days those who have HIV think they will get media sympathy by blaming others." But officials from India's National Aids C...

One-third of US Teen Netizens are Victims of Cyber-bullying

...pants reported experiencing one of the harassments questioned about-having a private e-mail, IM or text messaging forwarded or posted where others could see it, the victim of an aggressive email, IM or text message, having a rumour spread about them online, or having an embarrassing photograph posted online wit...

HIV Prevention to Thai Prisoners

...sitive,' say the authors. 'The fact that none have questioned that three prisoners facing the death sentence receive antiretroviral treatment is a clear indication of the staffs commitment to treatment as a basic human right.'...

Parents Boycott India School After HIV Kids Allowed Back

...channel Monday. Another father, speaking to AFP, questioned why the shelter that houses the kids had not admitted them into its own school if there was no risk of transmission. The school's parent-teacher association has said it will not send children to class in protest against state government pressure ov...

Wear Protective Sunglasses, Not Just for Style

...etrists in Britain showed that 63 percent of those questioned were more influenced by how sunglasses looked and how much they cost than by the protection they offered, said the online edition of Daily Mail. This rose to 80 percent amongst respondents in the under-25 age group - with many keen to emulate the ...

Mothers of Children Killed in Fire Charged With Manslaughter

...hile Mangham is a certified nursing assistant, was questioned by detectives on Monday. Love, a senior student of criminology at Point Park University who worked in the evenings, was interviewed yesterday at police headquarters. She was accompanied by her attorney, one of her sisters, and her father, Lutual L...

One in a Hundred Eleven-year Olds Use Drugs to Enhance Performance in Sport

...orting event by 44% of the children. The authors questioned 3,500 eleven-year olds entering their first year of secondary school in eastern France in November 2001 about their use of drugs banned under the World Anti-Doping Agency International Standard. Use of any of the listed drugs for a medical condition ...

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