Same-sex Marriage: Shahzina Tariq Vows to Live With groom
...Later, the apex court granted the couple bail, but they were not released so far. Couple Shumail, 36, and Shehzina, 25, are cousins and were friends since childhood....Organic Tomatoes may Be Healthier for Your Heart Than Traditionally Grown Ones
...ht save your heart, for a new study has found that they are far better than traditionally grown crops. D...ic tomatoes have higher level of one antioxidants, they cannot be claimed to be better than conventionally grown counter parts. "Tomato ketchup has higher...People With Higher IQs are More Patient in Financial Matters
...day or 150 euros in a year's time, which sum would they take? The researchers measured the cognitive abi... this amount straight into their pockets. However, they could also invest it for a year at a guaranteed fixed rate of interest. In this way the 100 euros wo...Cheap Indian Medicines Illegally Flooding Pak Markets
...cines arriving in Pakistan are very low priced and they fetch considerable benefit to the carriers. As a result, large number of passengers coming to Pakistan through rail and air route from India carry of large variety of drugs, says the report. Dr Waheed said around 15 percent of Indian vaccine throug...Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma
...o not explain completely how asthma is caused, but they do provide a further part of the gene-environment jigsaw that makes up the disease." In evolutionary terms, ORMDL3 appears to be a very old part of the human genome. Similar genes are found in primitive organisms such as yeast. It may be a relic ...India's Share in Global Diabetes Research is One Percent
...etes, heart disease and cancer affect poor as much they affect the affluent. The editorial suggested that developing countries like India and China should address the issue of diabetes prevention and management with all seriousness and find affordable health products for diabetes....Diabetics Risking Health by Using Alternative Medications Without Consultation
...ry and alternative therapies may benefit patients, they can also have side effects or interact with conven...ple will tell their alternative practitioners that they are using Western medicines but the vast majority will not discuss their alternative therapies with ...New Diagnostic Test for Mad Cow Disease Developed
...and causes specialists to wrongly tell people that they are suffering from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disea...rks by boosting the replication of prions, so that they can be easily detected in test samples of the brain tissues. For the diagnosis, a test sample is ...Genetic Mutation That Makes Common Cancers Resistant to Drugs Identified
...ain types of therapies. The researchers say that they found a recurring mutation of the gene AKT1 in bre...ement of cancer treatment and drug development, if they are validated by further studies. "This is a gorgeous study that used a variety of sophisticated ...For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week
...hi family wanted to eat a simple nutritious diet , they would have to spend three times their salary on food. According to official estimates reported by The Independent, this would amount to a 1,700 pound bill at the supermarket each week. The research calculated how much a healthy diet, based on loc...EU Aims to Shake Up Wine Industry With Root-and-branch Reform
...eling the squeeze as consumption falls at home and they lose market share to New World imports in traditionally large markets like Britain and Germany. Under the root-and-branch reform, the distillation of excess wine, aid for private storage and export refunds would all be abolished while incentives wo...Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis
.... Regardless of how one interprets these findings, they are important in truly informing the debate with generalizable facts," the study concluded....Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission
...rs in California should consider carefully whether they want to proceed down this path alone." And Schwa...riticizing the governor that, like Schwarzenegger, they were not making decisions about which industries need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and by how ...Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted
...als such as dioxins, PCBs, and methyl mercury that they are unfit for human consumption, says the report. .... Even though PCBs have not been used for decades, they are still being found in some fish at unsafe levels. The report was based on a comparison of Minis...Cat Exposure Increases Bronchial Responsiveness
... in people with certain common allergies , even if they are not specifically allergic to cats. This sugges... to cat allergen and whose blood tests showed that they were allergic to cats. But our study suggests that all allergic individuals have signs of asthmatic ...Lab Tests Throw Up New Path for Parkinson's
Finnish doctors say they have identified a new protein that, in rats, rescu...w has generated the most excitement in this field, they say. The findings are published on Thursday in a letter to Nature, the British science journal, by...Will Seven Be the Lucky Number for Las Vegas Newlyweds?
In Las Vegas you roll the dice and hope they come up seven: on Saturday thousands of newlyweds-...where nearby gamblers are sweating and shouting as they watch the dice tumble, thousands will tie the knot. "This is the busiest I've been in my 49 years ......esize that IGFBP2 activates the Akt pathway, which they confirmed in subsequent lab experiments. In a final experiment, they treated IGFBP2-PDGFB infected cells in culture with a known Akt inhibitor, which killed more of the ...New York, the City That Roars 24/7, is Forced to Quiet Down
...e rules in some cases will have devices with which they can measure the vibrating noise typical of a techn... produce a plan to curb their noise output; and if they don't deliver, fines of up to 8,000 dollars could be imposed. New Yorkers whose cars are tricked o...... of scientists exhumed her body in the late 1990s, they could recover enough viral RNA to sequence the 1918 strain in its entirety. This remarkable good fortune enabled these scientists to open a window onto a past pandemic--and perhaps gain a foothold for preventing a future one. Discovery and characte...