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Australian Injured as Spain Begins Annual Bullrunning Festival

...cker by Pamplona's mayor. Organisers expect more than one million people, many of them from Britain. The bullrun has been criticised by international animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) for what it says amounts to gratuitous cruelty....

Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns

...civil action for loss of income, estimated at more than $2 million. The full-time thoracic surgeon is also an Australian Army reservist and served with Australian forces in East Timor last year, receiving the Australian Service Medal in recognition of his efforts. He also spent a month in the frontli...

British Woman Who Has inherited Breast Cancer Wants to Spread Awareness

.... "Death was accepted far more in the Caribbean than it is here. I was told that my mother had come hom...being picked up by health services much more often than they used to be. Clinical trials of the drug Tamoxifen are underway to see if that can play a role i...

No Flu Outbreak Here , West Australians Told

... successive deaths of three Perth children younger than five past week - all killed within 24 hours of developing flu-like symptoms had triggered off panic. The state communicable disease control Paul van Buynder had said tests had established that the three children had died from a combination of inf...

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

...ymptoms and most others seem to suffer little more than weakness or shortness of breath, atrial fibrillati...Advocates of the procedure say it is less invasive than open-heart surgery the only proven method for curing many patients and in the long run more cost-e...

The Chattier Gender

...ting the popular stereotype that females talk more than men, researchers at The University of Texas at Aus...use an average of 16,000 words each day. For more than a decade, researchers have claimed that women use far more words each day than men. One set of numbe...

Violence at Croatian Gay Pride March

...e Croatian capital Zagreb . Organisers said more than 20 marchers had been the target of homophobic attacks. "Around 10 people were hurt, with two needing medical treatment," Marko Jurcic, one of the organisers, told AFP. Italian senator Gianpaolo Silvestri was in one of the groups attacked, but was u...

Pumpkins Could Be Showing Insulin Injections The Door Soon

... to Chinese researchers, the pumpkin promises more than it shows . Studies conducted on diabetic (Type 1...and 8 per cent fewer insulin-positive (beta) cells than healthy rats. According to the scientists, the protective effect of pumpkin is thought to be due to...

Parkinsons Disease Mechanism Identified

...and modulating a relevant downstream target rather than Cdk5 directly may be a better therapeutic strategy with regard to this pathway....

European Commission Seeks To Dispel The Darkness Out Of Sunscreens

...esearch UK says that the skin cancer rate has more than doubled in 20 years, with more than 75,000 new cases diagnosed last year. Recent tests by Which? -a consumer association, found that ...

An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk

...gh risk of developing heart disease. This is lower than previous scores have suggested, but the researcher....They found that the QRISK score was more accurate than either Framingham or ASSIGN. In patients aged 35-74, Framingham over-predicted cardiovascular diseas...

Vegas Couples Hope Sevens Will Be Lucky Wedding Day

...lowers hosted around 115 weddings Saturday -- more than twice the usual number -- with the final wedding scheduled for 11:59 pm. "We turned down approximately 100 more weddings because we want to do them correctly," Foote said. The publicity surrounding the date will only help the city's ever-popular ...

Risk Factors for Alzheimers Disease

...were seven-times more likely to develop Alzheimers than their peers. Alzheimers disease, a highly debilitating and ultimately fatal neurological disease, is already associated with other risk factors such as poor cognitive scores, education or health conditions, says study author Caterina Rosano. This ...

Higher Rates of Trampoline Injuries

...is new study indicates even higher rates of injury than first thought, said James Linakis, PhD, MD, a pediatric emergency physician at Hasbro Childrens Hospital. There were 1.2 million new trampoline sales in 2004, indicating that parents continue to purchase this as a form of fun and exercise for childr...

Boom in Internet Shopping may Be Adding to CO2 Emissions

...icient for one van to deliver to several addresses than for each household to travel by car to the shops. ... the road has increased by almost a third, or more than 730,000 in the past decade. The total distance travelled by vans is also growing four times faster...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

... is still considered rare -- there have been fewer than 89 cases in the past 70 years -- but proves fatal to more than half of the people who are infected. As few as 10 to 20 percent of the people who contract EEE ret...

Divorce Leaves Women Significantly Worse Off Financially Than Men

...oney-wise as compared to men . The study of more than 4,000 people has found that while a man's earnings...t divorced women would be wealthier marrying again than trying to go back to work. The study also showed that, on the whole, mothers of young children far...

Grandparents' Care Makes Grandchildren More Caring for Them

...s displayed more desire to help their grandparents than did grandsons. However, in reality, no difference was noted in the actual support given to grandparents between granddaughters and grandsons. "It is important to note that while the grandchildren felt an emotional connection to past experiences...

Ships to the Rescue of Medically Deprived Assamese

...re are around 3,000 such islands inhabited by more than 2.5 million people. In most of these islands, there are no health centres, schools or power supply, Sanjoy Hazarika, a managing trustee of C-NES, said. With two ships - Akha (meaning hope in Assamese) and Shehnaz, C-NES is conducting camps free of ...

Awareness About Condoms Among Pakistani Punjabis is Very Low

...an affected person could cause the disease. Less than one percent of the respondents knew that unborn children could catch HIV/AIDS from the infected mother, and that the virus by the wounds of a HIV positive person could infect one. Quoting Akbar Babar, Team Leader of the survey, the Daily Times re...

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