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Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

... outbreak, announced in March. "Bangladesh has a real chance to get the virus under control, if it commits itself to a full-scale comprehensive national control campaign," FAO Chief Veterinary Officer Joseph Domenech said in a statement. "In response to recent outbreaks in Bangladesh, the Government a...

Policeman in Trouble for Seeking Oral Sex in Return for a Favour

... porn star, who is identified on a citation by her real name, Justis Richert. In her blog, written under the screen name "Barbie Cummings," she goes into explicit detail about the encounter. She says she has photos and video footage of the encounter sent to her by the trooper, as well as a speeding tick...

Performance of Mental Tasks Affected by Sexual Orientation

...f Warwick have found that sexual orientation has a real effect on how we perform mental tasks such as navi...ut the skills used are also those one would use in real life to navigate with a map). They found that women outperformed men in verbal dexterity tests, and ...

Hypnotherapy may Help Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

...y psychological treatment for a condition in which real improvement can be achieved....

NHS Oversupplied With Cataract Surgery, Say Doctors

... be in more deprived areas. This suggests either real differences in the prevalence of cataract, or differences in referral patterns, say the authors, who question whether some areas are overservicing. The push to provide more cataract surgery was kick-started in the 1990s when eye and public health ...

Scientist Observes real Time Generation of Neurones in Mammals

...versity of Jerusalem says that he has observed the real time generation of neurones in a mammals brain, the first ever claim of such kind in the world. Dr. Adi Mizrahi of the Department of Neurobiology, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, used mouse models to study how neurones develop fro...

Lack of Timely Intervention Results in Needless Death Due to Stroke in US

...re reluctant to give the only drug shown to make a real difference, tPA, or tissue plasminogen activator. It is a thrombolytic agent. It can dissolve blood clots, which cause most heart attacks and strokes. Many hospitals say they cannot afford to have neurologists on call to diagnose strokes, and cann...

Blood from Bird Flu Survivors Provides Breakthrough in Treatment of H5N1

...rified to better target the virus. Then came the real tests: Subbarao's lab infected mice with H5N1. Some were given the antibodies before they were exposed, others after they already were infected; still others were given antibodies that target different diseases, not influenza. Mice given the non-H5...

Delivering the Green Message to Children

...pond to the challenge provided the issues are made real to them. "We should talk about where the shoe pinches. We need to explain to the students that if the glaciers in the North Pole or the South Pole melt, there can be floods in Kolkata and Mumbai, where their relatives and favourite Bollywood actors w...

American Who Exposed Air Passengers to Drug Resistant TB Quarantined

...ace months of testing and uncertainty. "That's the real . . . tough story here, is that most of these people are not going to have been infected by this fellow, but it might be hard to know that," said Gardam, head of infection control at University Health Network, a consortium of three large Toronto teac...

Growth of Smoke-Free Air Laws Worldwide; More Than 200 Million Found "Fully Protected"

...d and Uruguay are leading the way, and were seeing real action now.' The report shows that nine countries have laws that require smoke-free air in workplaces, including all restaurants, bars and pubs: Ireland, Uruguay, New Zealand, Bermuda, Iran, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Englands law takes ...

Shock TV Reality Organ Donor Show Goes on Air

...will get her kidney. That is not gruesome, that is real life," says BNN's website. "Every year hundreds of people die because there are not enough donors," it adds. Significantly, the young people's channel, which has built up a reputation for controversy, is screening the show on the fifth anniversar...

Research Says Small Penis Syndrome Affects Men Than Women

...han the size of his penis, but men can experience real anxiety even if they are average sized, according to a research review published in the June issue of the urology journal BJU International. Dr Kevan Wylie from the Porterbrook Clinic and Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK, reports that while...

Now Viagra Oysters Could Appease Your Appetite and Boost Your Libido!

...py to change the name but they are going to have a real David and Goliath battle if they want me to stop, he added. However, food authorities and health groups are concerned, saying the drug is infecting the oysters. "There are tight regulations on oysters in NSW so they are safe. They can't add Viagr...

Neural Basis of Anxiety: Newer Insights

...he tone even if the shock is not delivered. But in real life the situation is not always so clear; a stimulus will only sometimes be followed by a threat while other times nothing might happen. Normal mice show less fear towards such ambiguous cues than to clearly threatening stimuli. A team of research...

New Studies: Commercials Aren't Making Kids Fat

...out TV commercials is diverting attention from the real cause of childhood obesity: physical inactivity."...

Forgetfulness Actually Helps Your Brain Stay Healthy

...is is something that probably happens a lot in the real world," he added. As a part of the study, that appears in Nature magazine, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure the brain activity of 20 healthy adults as they performed a simple memory test. The test inclu...

India Committed to Sustainable Development: PM

...f consumption". "The threat of climate change is real and unless we alter our lifestyles and pursue a sustainable model of development, our future will be at peril," he said. The prime minister has set up a committee to coordinate national action plans for assessment, adaptation and mitigation of clim...

Stem Cell Therapy Could Provide Cure for AMD in Five Years

... treatment of AMD. The London Project represents a real chance to tackle this untreatable condition and bring hope to many. It is marvellous to think that clinical trials could start within five years," said Professor Alistair Fielder, Senior Medical Adviser of Fight for Sight, the leading eye research ch...

"Pre-treatment Blood Test" A New Guide to Lung Cancer Therapy

...rd in the era of personalized medicine. Theres a real clinical need to identify which patients will benefit from targeted therapies, said David Carbone, M.D., Ph.D., Harold L. Moses Professor of Cancer Research at Vanderbilt-Ingram and the senior author of the study. If our findings are confirmed, we wi...

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