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Omega 3 Supplements Is Very Essential For the Kids

...e lives of many British kids. He reported from the war zones around the world. But left his job after he nearly lost his life in Croatioa. He along with Close Up's Anita McNaught campaigns for the Omega 3 fish oil and its benefits....

UN Sending Aid To Angola To Counter Cholera

...ntry struggles to rebound from a devastating civil war that ended in 2002 after destroying much of its infrastructure over the previous 27 years. With global attention focused on the World Cup, four football stars have taken to the airwaves encouraging Angolans to participate in an upcoming immunizatio...

Angola To Launch A Massive Health Protection Campaign For The Children

...had been ravaged over the years by a 27-year civil war that has left millions, especially children, defen...n throughout the country next week, the effects of war would be a definite hindrance hampering the smooth flow. Iyer further explained that the supplies ...

Angola Warned of Recurrent Cholera Outbreaks

... the city. Following the end of the 27-year civil war in 2002 Luanda’s population has exploded to between 4 and 7 million. Godley said, "A great majority of people have no access to government water supply. People have to purchase water at very high prices - it is a very profitable activity.” Since the...

Yoga and Meditation Comes in Aid of Iraqis to Rid of Trauma

... armed forces, everyone goes through trauma during war situations. They have to cope with total uncertainty and total lack of assurance what they will do the next day." Al Mosawi, head of the ruling Shia Council in Baghdad, who also came here, added: "I have brought with me delegates from (Iraq) so tha...

Studies Show That Brain Cells Do Not Regenerate But Remain The Same Throughout

...ncentrations of C14 peaked sharply during the cold war tests. By comparing levels of C14 in plant and animal cells with atmospheric levels, it is possible to pinpoint the exact time the cells were born. Jonas Frisén has now teamed up with another Swedish research group from G?teborg University, led by ...

A Plant Used By Ancient Britons Found To Have Properties To Fight Cancer

...ve found that plant ‘Woad’, which was once used as war paint by ancient Britons and Celtic warriors to st...ed that the plant was used to get blue dye for the war paint is a rich source of a compound that fights breast cancer, scientists have found. They also men...

Risk of Silent AIDS epidemic in Middle East and North Africa

...phics, large movements of displaced people fleeing war and strife, and entrenched taboos about homosexuality have been identified as factors that could lead to a AIDS epidemic in this region. Samir, a Jordanian man affected with HIV who attended the conference said the real problem is not a medical one....

Vietnam veterans affected by post-traumatic stress

...s. The recent study was invigorated by the ongoing war in Iraq. Though this study confirmed the presenc...studied had given reliable information about their war experience since the findings were based on military records not available to researchers in previou...

Drug-Related Death Drop In Scotland

...el Goldie said that the report was misleading. The war against drugs is far from won; indeed the Scottish Executive's own target was to reduce the number of fatalities to 218 or fewer by the end of 2004. The 2005 total of 336 shows just how far off track they are." RAS...

Military Hospitals Need To Be Prepared To Treat Children

...or are used as human shields. In addition, because war disrupts medical facilities in the affected area, ...eral key points regarding caring for children in a war zone, the authors conclude. Hospitals near battlefields should expect to treat civilians, including ...

Child death reduction needs five times more funds

...14 nations, in the period 1990-2004, mainly due to war and HIV. The study revealed that not enough money was spent on the 2 major diseases (that are preventable) that are responsible for child death worldwide: diarrhoea and pneumonia.Pneumonia causes death of over 2 million under-5 children, every year...

Spanish flu virus – secrets uncovere

... pandemic took lives of more people than the World war I. The reason for the severity of the virus was not understood then. Dr John Kash, of the University of Washington in Seattle and his team conducted a research by infecting mice with a reconstructed form of the 1918 virus and observing their response...

New Drug Blocks Influenza, Including Bird Flu Virus

Opening a new front in the war against flu, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have reported the discovery of a novel compound that confers broad protection// against influenza viruses, including deadly avian influenza. The new work, reported online this week (Oc...

Threat of Cervical Cancer Unknown to Most Women

...: “Cervical cancer can be our first victory in the war on cancer. By ensuring that women are educated about this disease and the virus that causes it, and that they have access to preventive technologies, regardless of socio-economic status, we can ensure that no more women die of this preventable diseas...

A Soldier's Healing Touch

Haryana: This one's a very different kind of war for Prem Khullar. Here you don't shed blood - you donate some. You bomb bacteria, not civilian populations//. And the retired air force squadron leader has been doing this consistently for the past 13 years. What began in 1993 as a one-room clinic ...

Delhi Death Toll Due to Dengue Rises to 24

...d to city hospitals as health officials launched a war against// the mosquito-borne disease. With the fresh dengue cases, the total number of patients in Delhi rose Friday to 1,278, officials said. "We have received 92 new patients since Thursday. Though no new measures have been announced and all th...

Is India Prepared to Face the Epidemics?

...onfidentially the information that in the event of war breaking out in the Far East, there is the possibility of Japan resorting to biological warfare with YF virus". Source-IANS...

Stress Produces PTSD-like Symptoms in Rats

...“A substantial number of troops returning from the war in Iraq have been diagnosed with PTSD, according to the latest studies conducted by the U.S. Army,” said Diamond. “As a result, there’s an urgent need for research into the biological basis of PTSD to facilitate the development of treatments for this...

YSR launches 'Operation Dengue'

'Operation Dengue', State's war against mosquitoes has been formally launched by the Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Friday formally from the Jali Hanuman temple area of Pardiwada in Maharajgunj constituency here. // The operation will also include an added impetus on t...

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