Kashmir University Stops Construction to Save Chinar Trees
...n icon of the rich Kashmiri heritage, is protected under the law and its felling without the explicit magisterial permission is illegal. While many historians credit the Mughal rule for bringing the majestic chinar tree to Kashmir from Iran, others argue the chinars in the Valley owe their origin to Gree...Eating Disorder Figures Among Children Soars
...n the last decade. This mainly comprises of people under the age of 18. The most common disorders are anor...istics also reveal there were 58 cases of children under the age of 10 being treated in NHS hospitals for eating disorders in 2005-06 - 23 of them were girls...Intraoperative Radiation Therapy a New Step in Breast Cancer Treatment
... Donato is the first woman in Canada to be treated under the procedure. She is very happy to be back on her...tead of going to the hospital for repeat radiation under the traditional method. The procedure is still experimental, and the Toronto team is participating...Insilico Studies on Chlorine Eating Bacteria
...er laboratory will test the D. ethenogenes strains under a variety of different conditions, such as exposin...odels of how the bacteria's proteins work together under each condition and whether the pathway for each condition is the same for PCE and TCE, and if not, w...Excessive Use of Cosmetics Leads to Adverse Effects on the Body
..., of the Soil Association, said. Among chemicals under inspection are parabens (para-hydroxybenzoic acids) which are preservatives used in products like soap, shampoo, deodorant and baby lotion. Sodium lauryl sulphate, used to help produce lather in soaps, shampoo, shaving foam, toothpaste and bubble ...Challenges in Entecavir Drug Treatment
...nufactured by Bristol-Myers Squibb and is marketed under the trade name Baraclude. The research team was led by Chloe Thio and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Robert Siliciano, both at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The analyses reported in the paper were performed by lead ...US Parents Risk Jail When Their Teens Drink at Parties
...ge children drink alcohol at parties, even at home under adult supervision. A Virginia couple who provided...heir backs, ran afoul of a law banning alcohol for under 21s, and were sent to jail for two years earlier this month. Many of the 50 US states allow for fi...Australia Proposes Comprehensive Plans to Protect Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse
...aphy would be enforced and all indigenous children under the age of 16 in the territory would be medically examined, he said. The commonwealth will bear the costs of the checks and any subsequent medical treatment. Welfare payments will be made dependent on children attending school and half the money w...Tamil Nadu Orders Probe into Operation by Minor
...X student, performed a caesarean section operation under his parents' supervision at the Mathi Surgical and Maternity Hospital in Manapparai, about 450 km from the state capital Chennai. Dipeean's parents K. Murugesan and Gandhimathi are medical practitioners and wanted him to enter record books as the ...Minister from MP Urges to Ban the Sale of Sex Toys
...a sex toy. "Hindustan Latex Ltd (HLL), which is under the union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, recently launched the vibrating ring that is imported from China," Vijayvargiya said. He quoted statistics to say that sex toys had an international market in the range of Rs.400 billion and China manuf...Keep a Cool Head on Hot, Humid Days to Avoid Heat Stroke
... persons regularly to make sure they're bearing up under the heat....Japanese Humanoid Happy to Work on in the Rain
...ry floor scattered with sand and held out its arms under a shower before media cameras. "We have made a leap towards creating a humanoid that works in a real environment," the firm said in a joint statement with Kawasaki Heavy Industries and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech...Employer Leave Helps the Parents of Chronically Ill Kids
... of the parents interviewed qualified for benefits under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. The law provides eligible workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year to care for ill family members without the risk of being fired. Only 30 percent of parents reported having employer-provided leave t...Plan to Contain Drug Resistant TB Launched-WHO
... and MDR-TB patients who will be treated and cured under WHO guidelines. Extensively drug resistant TB (XDR-TB), a form virtually immune to antibiotics, has been reported in 37 countries in all regions since emerging in 2006, according to the WHO. In Africa, a place which has high prevalence of HIV, it ha...France Celebrates Summer With All-night Music Fest; NY Swings Along
...hundreds of free concerts across the city gathered under the banner "Make Music New York". "It's amazing, they like it, it's very positive," said artist-songwriter Larry Stevens, as he entertained the lunchtime crowds munching on sandwiches in the shadow of the business district's skyscrapers. Outside t...Food Supplement to Combat Alzheimers Disease
... symptoms associated with Alzheimers disease. Just under 200 patients with mild Alzheimers were divided into two groups, one of which received omega-3, and one a placebo. There was no observable difference in therapeutic effect between the patients receiving the omega-3 and the placebo group. However, wh...Wine Packaging: Bag-in-box, Plastic Bottles, Cork Comeback?
...ne using aluminium. Even organic wines are going under screw cap," he moaned. Amorim was astounded to see...ine, in greater volume - 100,000 bottles a year -- under one name." "It was difficult to do this," he said. "But quite simply, what I want to do, as well as ...Cherie Blair to Challenge Hubbys Smoking Ban on Human Rights Ground
...es and gold-plated erotic taps. Her involvement, under her professional name Cherie Booth QC, is in direct opposition to one of the Governments flagship policies as Blair is about to resign. During her hour-long visit to the venue this week, Cherie advised nightclubs owner Dave West how he can challeng...Maths Theory Shows Genetic Pattern of Tumour Growth
...cs, then changed the cell mutation variable to see under which circumstances the tumour grew best. The mutation rate serves as the control knob. Then, we can calculate mathematically how long it takes a tumour with given parameters to reach a certain size, Komarova said. We found that at early stages o...Abbott's RealTime Hepatitis B Viral Load Test Receives CE Marking in Europe
...n the European Union. Abbott is marketing the test under its strategic alliance with Celera. The Abbott RealTime HBV test, developed for use on the Abbott m2000(TM) automated instrument system, is designed for the quantitation (precise measurement) of HBV in human plasma or serum from patients kn...