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Toxic Algae Pose New Health Scare in China

Two of China's biggest lakes are under renewed attack from toxic algae that destroy plant and fish life and threaten humans in the country's latest pollution scare, state media reported on Sunday . New satellite pictures of eastern China show the blue-green foul-smelling algae spreading i...

Obese Infant Kacey Causes Concern

...se cutting down on her food her weight was brought under control....

Questions Raised Over Safety of In-vitro Fertilization

...tment unsuccessfully (the success rate among women under 35 is 28.2 per cent, falling to 10.6 per cent for ... a disability. Rules governing IVF mean that women under 40 in Britain can have two embryos implanted, while those over 40 are allowed three. But the Huma...

Lead Scare Causes Thomas to Derail

...ldren, causing brain and blood disorders. Children under the age of 6 are the most affected. Karen Liller, an expert on child injury at the University of South Florida, said lead can accumulate in a child's nervous system, damaging brain development and potentially causing learning difficulties. Once that ...

AIDS No Longer a Death Sentence for South Africa's Children

...earch Council estimating that some 45,000 children under 15 died due to AIDS in 2006. According to Farai Dube of Johannesburg's Wits Paediatric HIV clinics, the change of attitude from the government is to be welcomed but only goes so far. "No one was concentrating on children. There were very few advocacy...

Tea Pill, Tea Cola Hitting Markets Soon

...ll is absolutely safe and can be chewed, or placed under the tongue, besides drinking in the conventional manner by dipping the tablet in a cup of hot water," Hazarika said. "We are sure the tea tablets will refresh and cheer a person up with nearly the same feeling as having a hot cup of brewed tea." ...

Lindsay Lohan Gets Another Vodka Deal!

...d said. Lohan was arrested and cited for driving under the influence after crashing her luxury car in Beverly Hills on May 26. The cops recovered "a usable amount of cocaine" in her car, after an accident in which the actress was slightly injured....

New Technology Makes Diagnosis of Abnormal Pregnancy Cheaper

... Family Welfare (NIHFW), a government organisation under the ministry of health and family welfare. They say they have developed the technology, the first of its kind across the globe, after two decades of labour to help millions of women who suffer. "Our technology is more accurate and cheaper than th...

Child Car Seat Danger

...5cm tall, or about 11 years old, and that children under 12 years of age should travel in the rear seat. However, legislation currently requires only that infants up to the age of one year travel in a properly-fitted, Australian Standards-approved child restraint. The review, co-authored by Assistant D...

Increase in the Rate of Food Allergy

...d allergy-related consultations with children aged under five over the 12 years to 2006. Theres been a seven-fold increase in consultations related to food-associated anaphylaxis over that time, and a dramatic increase in hospital admissions for anaphylaxis throughout Australia, particularly in young inf...

Hot Tips for Keeping Your PC Cool in Summer

...mperature is reached at bootup, when the PC is not under stress. Occasionally temperatures for a CPU - the main processor in your computer - will rise higher than 60 degrees Celsius, but usually such temperatures should not be the norm. If they are, your computer will likely slow down, as performance-throt...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

...epsy. The 12-year-old girls parents demand payment under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, ...o which most toxicologists would subscribe. Also under cross-examination, Aposhian said that he was not an immunologist and that he had composed his theory...

Thirty One Kids Rescued from a Pedophile Ring

...uthorities in August 2006. The center is an agency under the Home Office that is made up of officers with special experience in tracking and prosecuting sex offenders. Cox also had been a member of a U.S.-based online pedophile ring shut down by U.S. authorities in March 2006, Gamble said. Forensic teams...

Thai Separatists Burn School, Kill Four

...ered by Bangkok in 1786. The border provinces came under direct rule of the Thai bureaucracy in 1902. A separatist struggle took off in the 1950s, fuelled by government efforts to suppress the local culture and religion in the region....

Kerala Opposition's Unique Protest Over Fever Deaths

...er has come down dramatically and that things were under control....

Smokers Blow Their Infants Health into Thin Air

...inated with smoke particles. Over 6,000 children under the age of five die each year in United States alone due to second hand smoking. It causes respiratory diseases in children. Children of smoking parents 'had significantly reduced lung function similar to that seen in smokers. If a woman smokes whi...

The New Recruitment Process Leaves Thousands of Doctors Jobless

...ousands of junior doctors will be rendered jobless under the new recruitment process and it is the best qualified doctors are among the hardest hit . The new system will undermine Britain's position as a leader in medical science. Non-urgent patient care in England could be hit by a shortage of medical s...

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

...e 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 was allowed. The children filled out questionnaires every six months which asked about use of doping agents, tobacco, alcohol and cannabis; ...

Milk Firms in Philippines Violate Breastfeeding Code: WHO

...ant formula as a breast milk substitute for babies under the age of one. This is in line with an international code established by the WHO and the UN children's agency UNICEF about 25 years ago. WHO regional director Shigeru Omi said failure to breastfeed led to the deaths of 16,000 children in the Phil...

National Commission for Women to Investigate Unearthing of Female Fetuses in Pataudi

...conducting sex determination tests which is banned under the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act. Incidentally, Haryana has one of the poorest sex ratio in the country....

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