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Two Indians on Team to Battle Cervical Cancer

... during the development of the cerviScope," said a university statement. During an early prototype demonstration, Peter Cartwright proclaimed: "I think it's got some potential. (The cerviScope) is much better actually than the colposcope... considering the social impact on women in the developing world, I wou...

Laws on Mentally Ill Endangers Public Life

...ruly classroom behavior and suicide threats to the university police. He was taken to an of –campus mental health agency. The councilor had recommended a temporary detention order saying that he was an ‘imminent danger’ to himself. But official court document reveal that after assessment by the Carilion St. Alb...

Cloned Dogs to Be Mated as Test

...s hailed as a national hero in South Korea until a university inquiry ruled that some of his work on cloning embryonic human stem cells was fake. He is now on trial for fraud, embezzlement, ethical breaches and other charges but has insisted he can still prove he created the first cloned human stem cells. ...

Highly Educated Women Woo Career and Boo Motherhood

Going to university and getting the much desired professional degree i... that almost one-third of British women who attend university put off motherhood till very late or simply chose to be childless. The study that followed the lives...

Obesity Could Be Linked to Mother's Early Puberty

...gs follow a study of 6,000 children by a Cambridge university team. It is already known that age at which a girl has her first period - or reaches "menarche" - is largely inherited. And women who start their periods early are at increased risk of obesity in later life, and are likely to be overweight eve...

Measures Needed to Avert Another Bloodbath

...the Virginia Tech Many people including law makers university officials are asking the congressmen to formulate ...selves and the others. A law that would permit the university to inform the students parents without the fear of infringing the privacy laws if that students show...

Alcoholism Develops Cognitive Problems in Women

...ior scientist at the research institute RTI at the university in Baltimore “Alcoholism related cognition problems affect drinker’s’ ‘visual working, memory spatial planning, problem solving and cognitive flexibility.” Drinkers have problems affecting the social life to; they have trouble conducting themselves i...

Today Cancer is the Deadliest Killer

...dreas Wielgosz, Cardiologist and epidemiologist at university of OttawaMany of these occupational cancer risks are acquired from work places where the health and safety measures are not adequate to counter these risks. The pollutions levels are not checked to regulate carcinogens. "The tragedy of occupational c...

Mailing Pamphlets can Reduce Alcohol Consumption

...tment. “While these are important target groups, university students only represent a small fraction of drinkers in the general population who engage in heavy alcohol consumption and get into problems,” said Dr. Cameron Wild, lead author of the paper and a professor in the School of Public Health at the Unive...

Shortage of Veterinarians Worry Public Health Experts in US

...se small towns," said an official of the Minnesota university had said. "Now it's more likely our students will come from Bloomington, Edina or Plymouth, and they're usually female, and they're often interested in small animal veterinarian medicine rather than food animal veterinarian medicine." Existing pr...

Cats at Home Poses Allergy Risk in Young Children

... Environmental Research Halle Leipzig (UFZ), other university and clinical partners are also involved. In the framework of the study the parents of the children born between late 1997 and early 1999 were repeatedly questioned about different family and health parameters as well as the frequency of contact with ...

Distance Education By All Universities

...ndira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), any university set up by the Act of Parliament/State legislature// or deemed to be university can offer distance education programme subject to the fulfillment of norms and guidelines laid down ...

Risk Factors for Rheumatoid Arthritis

...n, such as elementary school education only versus university degree status (odds ratio 2.46 confidence interval 1.20 to 5.02), may independently increase the risk of developing RA. The second study similarly highlights the link between of smoking and RA but, contrary to previously noted relationships between...

Virginia Tech Shooters Mental Health Records No More Secret

... negotiations, investigating officers obtained the university mental health records of Seung-Hui Cho , who cau...acy laws. For the first time since the shooting, university officials let members of the news media tour Norris Hall. Here, Cho, armed with two handguns, had fi...

Plants Have the Ability to Recognize Kin

...rdingly. Dr. Susan Dudley and Amanda File of the university say they have found that plants that are grown alongside unrelated neighbours are more competitive than those that are grown with their siblings. "That plants have a secret social life is something well known to plant ecologists," the Nature magazi...

Medical Students Get Poor Quality Sleep

...epiness and poor sleep quality are prevalent among university students, affecting their academic performance and daytime functioning. This study, which compared sleepiness and sleep quality among undergraduate students whose majors were either medically or humanities-oriented, found that, while there were no di...

Make-or-break Exams Stress China Youth

...illion college hopefuls struggling through China's university placement exams, a pressure-packed, make-or-break ordeal that will propel her into the educated elite -- or trap her down in the faceless masses. "The pressure comes from all sides -- from classmates, teachers, family, society and also myself," Dua...

Taiwan Skincare Empire Built on 'Natural Beauty'

...trained by Tsai, some in coordination with Tamkang university in the capital. In 1989, Tsai married Lee Ming-ta who became senior manager of the NB international group which now also runs a listed biotechnology company in Hong Kong. As the NB facial franchise and product sales began to slow in Taiwan in the...

Vaccine-Induced Autism Victims in the Thousands Will Finally Get Day in Court

...has 28 licensing agreements with companies and one university for vaccines or vaccine-related products. It has eight ongoing projects to collaborate on new vaccines. Dr. Paul Offit, MD, former chairman of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which guides vaccine policy decisions at the ...

Too Much of Iron During Pregnancy is Harmful

...regnancy could be harmful, according to an Iranian university study. Iron is often given to combat anemia in pregnancy but many women take extra iron. Anemia is a condition where the blood is unable to carry enough oxygen due to low number of red blood cells or because each red blood cell is unable to carry ...

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