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Beijing Says Food Safe for Olympic Athletes, Tourists

Athletes and visitors heading to Beijing for the Olympics should not be concerned by recent Chinese...as many safety measures are being put in place for the Games, city officials said. International alarm over Chinese food exports has been building for w...

Nurse Has Miraculous Escape as Window is Blown Off an Air Ambulance

... air ambulance . He was flying with a patient and the pilot last Wednesday from Twin Falls, Idaho, to Se...tle. Fogg's head and right arm were pulled outside the window, and he suffered cuts to his head. Some equipment, charts, his eye glasses and packages went ...

Pharaoh Hatshepsut Died in Pain Due to Cancer

...rother, Hatshepsut reigned from 1498 to 1483 BC as the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, whose later members included Akhenaton and Tutankhamun. Archaeologists led by Zahi ...

Impaired Odour Identification Predicts Cognitive Decline for the Elderly

...ernatives, and were scored from one to 12 based on the number of correct responses. The researchers sa...viduals developed mild cognitive impairment during the study, and the risk of developing mild cognitive impairment increased as odour identification decrea...

Robbie Donates 1.5 Million Pounds to Help His Native People Beat Addiction

...iams has reportedly donated 1.5 million pounds for the 'Give it Sum' charity. The 33-year-old had set the organisation in collaboration with Comic Relief, which aimed at helping drug and alcohol addicted yo...

One-third of Adults Have Had Some Form of Alcohol Use Disorder During Their Lifetimes

...point in their lifetimes. Some 17.8 per cent of the adults surveyed reported experiencing alcohol abus... background information in an article published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, states that alcohol abuse and dep...

Annual Tobacco-related Deaths to Reach 8.3 Million by 2030

...elated deaths are expected to reach 8.3 million by the year 2030, with 80 percent of them occurring in As...s more is done to tighten trans-border controls on the trade, international health experts warned Monday. "The only two epidemics that are encountering a ...

Amnesia Drug That Blocks Bad Memories on the Anvil

...ay help people discard bad memories, while leaving the rest of their memories intact. The scientists used the drug propranolol along with therapy to "dampen" memories of 19 accident or rape victims for ten days...

Pure Pomegranate Juice Helps Reverse Erectile Dysfunction Function

...rectile dysfunction (ED), a condition that affects the blood flow to the penis during sexual stimulation. This randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover pilot study exami...

Electric Field Therapy to Zap Cancerous Tumours

...rical field therapy, which could more than double the survival rates for people with one of the most common types of brain tumour. The device uses low intensity electrical fields delivered via i...

Scot's National Drink, Now Available at 1,000 Pounds a Nip

...on sale for 1,000 pounds a measure. Available at the main bar at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, the rare Johnnie Walker 1805 has just gone on sale. It is claimed to be a very limited edition: only 200...

Blood Protein may Hold Key to Why Healthy People Get Heart Attacks

...and releases a bleach-like substance that damages the cardiovascular system, which might be a clue to wh...a team of researchers led by Matthijs Boekholdt at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Earlier studies in patients with chest pain...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...st, will be coming alive, almost literally, across the world Saturday next. He is behind the Live Earth program - a series of concerts of pop and rock music featuring various artists planned to...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onnasis Phobia Over Daughters Weight Gain Revealed

Former First Lady of the United States, late Jacqueline Kennedy Onnasis, wa...ther her even half as much as her weight gain. In the book American Legacy: The Story of John & Caroline Kennedy, C. David Heymann, has revealed that once...

Jharkhand Village Shocked to Know About Its Huge HIV Positive Population

...arby cities in search of work, only to return with the deadly virus. The remote village fraught with p...o disbelief, after 35 AIDS deaths were reported in the last four years. Experts say Vishnugarh's case is just the tip of an iceberg and that the HIV pro...

Acute Mountain Sickness may Lead to Pulmonary or Cerebral Edema

...h as pulmonary or cerebral edema. The interest of the general public in AMS is thought to have increased over the past 25 years. This change is partly due to media exposure, trekking guidebooks and the wide availab...

Rosehips may Be an Effective Alternative for Rheumatoid Arthritis

...to conduct more extensive trials, which could form the basis of new clinical guidelines. Scientists said the rosehip remedy, called LitoZin, may in future help reduce spending by health-care services on expens...

Bird Flu in Asia Still High Risk Says WHO Official

...ainst deadly bird flu since it is still rampant in the region, a top UN health agency official said on Tuesday. "I think countries in this part of the world have done a lot to fight the virus. But in spite of it, the virus is still circulating," said ...

Alcohol Abuse, Addiction Hits 3 of 10 Americans

...ing their lives, including 3.8 percent who had had the problem during the year prior to the 2001-2002 survey. In addition, researchers led by Deborah Hasin of Columbia Univ...

Draft National Policy on Sight-saving Drugs unacceptable

...y gone blind in one eye is unacceptable concludes the July issue of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). But that is what the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the body responsible for guiding the N...

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