Dry Eyes Are More Than a Nuisance
..., including reading, using a computer, driving and watching television, than people without DES. The researchers concluded that DES may be more of a public health problem than previously realized. Dry eye symptoms usually first appear in adults over the age of 40, but they can appear in individuals between...Food Ads Prompts Children to Eat More
...ldren of all weights, food intake was higher after watching food adverts rather than toy adverts but overweigh...Ps that children under three should be banned from watching television and that older children should face severe rationing. Over 2,000 obesity experts are at...Weight Issues In Children-Experts Take Stock
...o be obese if they spent a lot of their spare time watching TV, playing video games or using the computer. Meanwhile, another study funded by the non-profit Canadian Population Health Initiative, found that Old Order Mennonite children tended to be fitter, stronger and leaner than other Canadian kids – even...Iron Clothes to Lower Blood Sugar Levels
...he more time we're sedentary, such as sitting down watching television, the higher blood glucose levels. "Wh...sted even activities such as folding clothes while watching television may have positive effects on blood-sugar levels. But she stressed people should not rep...Village Health Centres to the Rescue of Infants
...r first year, says Grassroots Features. "I kept watching helplessly as my child lay dying on my lap," said Padmavati. "We went to the Gunia (the local traditional healer) but the condition did not improve," said Suryamani Behera, Padmavati's mother-in-law. After continued illness for a few days, the chi...Talcum Powder Curbs Lung Tumor Risk
...re spares the patient and the family the misery of watching their loved one suffer. Its been used very extensively in Europe but its had slower acceptance (in the United States), perhaps because of the need to learn a new technology. The Food and Drug Administration approved talc for use in medical thoracos...Multi-tasking is Mentally Damaging, Warn Experts
...-taskingsuch as listening to music on their iPods, watching TV and doing their homework simultaneously. The...ing while doing homework, playing games online and watching TV are not going to do well in the long run," said Jordan Grafman of the National Institute of Neuro...Brain Inflammation A Friend for Alzheimer's Patients
...se and followed the mice for an additional month, watching for effects in the brain regions that were awash in higher-than-normal levels of IL-1beta. Its the first use of an organism where scientists can boost IL-1beta in select areas and then watch what happens as the process unfolds. The team expected to...Mother Hangs Herself and Three Children in Texas
... abused the girls. 'I just got a big kick out of watching the kids play over there on her porch, and today it's sad, very sad', neighbor Joyce Harris said as other trailer park residents milled about on their porches, some crying and talking softly about the deaths. Estrada's trailer was dilapidated, with p...Skinny Girl-bands are Making Detrimental Impact on Teenage Girls
... where all the band-members are skinny, found that watching such videos for only 10 minutes makes girls between the ages of 16 to 19 feel worse about their own bodies. 87 teenage girls from a Roman Catholic girls sixth-form college took part in the study. As a part of the study the researchers asked a gro...Inactivity in Kids may Lead to Chronic Health Problems in Future
... exercise, for they spent four hours or more a day watching television or playing games on the computer. The researchers noted that only half of the kids walked to school every day. Lead author Professor Kamlesh Khunti of Leicester University, said that parents and the Government needed to wake up to the ...Australian Children Sleep Less, Perhaps Not Well Monitored
...ours, mobile phones, computer usage and television watching are to blame, with adolescents no longer adhering to 'lights out', says the University of South Australia's Dr Jim Dollman. The UniSA study compares the results of two surveys the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey and the 2004 SA P...Pre- and Post-menopausal Women Responses Equally to Most Sexual Desire Cues
...such as feeling a sense of love with a partner, or watching an erotic movie) would lead them to desire sexual activity. The researchers found that pre- and post-menopausal women were equally responsive in terms of endorsing cues resulting in feelings of sexual desire in three of the four categories (Erotic/...'Katee Holmes' Vs 'Katie Holmes' Case of Losing Virginity
...t I like the fulfillment and excitement I get from watching porn, so I figured a movie was the best place for me to lose it,' Katee said....Even at Four Months, Babies can Tell When Speakers Switch Languages
... to discern when a different language is spoken by watching the shapes and rhythm of the speaker's mouth and face movements. The findings suggest that babies growing up in a bilingual environment advantageously maintain the discrimination abilities needed for separating and learning multiple languages. As...$5M Gift Will Attack Lou Gehrig's Disease
...wn as Lou Gehrigs disease or ALS. The memory of watching New York Sen. Jacob Javits slowly succumb to the nerve-killing condition has never left Mr. Taubmans mind. And that memory has motivated him to support ALS research at the University of Michigan Medical School and beyond. Now, he has greatly increa...Women in Iraq More Unsafe Than Ever
One almost freezes in horror watching the ghastly video.A slender girl dragged along by her headlocks, on the ground then, covering her head as stones are hurled in a torrent, then her head is smashed with a concrete block, blood oozes from her head, the body is still and then victoriou...Junk Food Ad Ban What Parents Want
...an on junk food ads during times when children are watching TV. More and more Australian children are becoming overweight and obese, Dr Yong said. Banning junk food ads for kids is an easy, cost-effective way to help address this growing problem. The Australian Communications and Media Authority is curr...Saliva Helps to Identify Child Victims of Chronic Bullying
...rmation about their experience on being bullied or watching someone being bullied, and additional measures of anxiety and trauma. The study suggested that while bullying was directly linked to trauma and anxiety, it was indirectly linked to cortisol levels. 'This confirms our theory that while exposure ...Toddlers to Be Trained to Improve Their Communication Skills
...by the charity found that parents use up more time watching TV and maintaining the house than conversing with their children. The charity has brought out teaching kits for staff in nurseries to help respond to the crisis and give confidence to babies and toddlers to "talk" to each other and adults. It will...