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Syphilis Rate on Rise in US Gay, Bisexual Men

... Between 1990 and 2000, syphilis rates fell by a whopping 90 percent, from a rate of 20.3 cases per 100,000 people to 2.1 cases per 100,000. Among other factors, public health officials think the rates dropped because fewer people were selling sex to get crack cocaine as the decade went by. However, the s...

North India Reels Under Heat Wave

...corded a maximum of 45 degrees. Jammu recorded a whopping 44 degrees Celsius, forcing people to cover their heads with wet towels and caps while outdoors. The national capital too had no respite, with the city reeling under hot winds and soaring temperatures Friday. In Delhi, the mercury rose by a degre...

Young Indians Say Cheers to White Spirits

...rnment plans to lower the taxes, which are still a whopping 550 percent on spirits and wines. Commerce secretary G.K. Pillai was quoted as saying in the media recently that the duty structure was in the process of realigning to WTO rules. According to market research firm Euromonitor International, the spir...

Regular Use of Laptop Could Seriously Damage Your Health

...mation Technology (MAIT), notebook sales grew by a whopping 180 percent between April and September 2006. Health experts are worried because booming laptop sales have led to a surge in the number of computer users with back and muscle problems, reported online edition of BBC News. Girls as young as 12 are b...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

...0 hours, or five weeks, more than the Brits, and a whopping 500 hours, or 12 and a half weeks, more than the Germans. Maintaining growth means using more energy and resources, both in manpower and raw materials, which results in increased waste and pollution. John de Graaf, producer of the groundbreaking ...

Million Mentally Ill in India

... of neuropsychiatry disorders is estimated to be a whopping 12% of the total disease burden and imposes a heavy burden on the family and society in terms of morbidity, loss of productivity and mortality in terms of suicide in extreme cases. A large number of people with mental problems do not seek help due...

Major Medicare Fraud Detected in Florida

...ngs to taxpayers and other beneficiaries will be a whopping $2.5 billion....

Uganda Bans Plastic Bags, Still a Tough Battle Lies Ahead

... banned. All other polythene would be subject to a whopping 120% tax. The country's environment minister, Jesca Eriyo, conceded that that she was embarrassed by her capital city's lamentable standards of waste management; by the Chitezi dump; by its sea of polythene, and its flying latrines. Now, at last...

Tree Bark Substance may Hold New Lung-cancer Treatment

...gy between the enzyme and this agent and you get a whopping kill, Dr. Boothman said. In the current study, Dr. Boothman tested dosing methods on human tumor cells using a synthesized version of beta-lapachone and found that a high dose of the compound given for only two to four hours caused all the NQO1-con...

This 'Grass' is Not Green - Say, 'No Thanks, I Am Fine Without Drugs'

..., THC- tops the list with 162 million users. And a whopping 13 million would do anything for cocaine. ATS -amphetamine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, and methcathinone rules the life of almost 35 million users. That makes more than 200 million in the grips of narcotic drugs. Cannabis is widely cultivated in man...

Australian Government Charged With Under-funding Public Hospitals

...overnment with under-funding public hospitals by a whopping $1.1 billion a year. That means 350,000 hospital admissions less. The report was prepared jointly by Australia's six state and two territory Labor health ministers. It also found that since 2000 the commonwealth's financial contribution to runnin...

China to Curtail Organ Sale

...gent laws. China is second only to the USA, with a whopping estimate of 10,000 transplants being done annually. Most of these are carried out on domestic patients. There are however several ethical issues involved. There is a lot of pressure on the hospitals to generate a profit, which prompts them to adopt ...

Clubbers Stunned by Mick Jaggers Boozy Bash

... bar in Bucharest, Romania after a gig and spent a whopping amount on booze. It looks like the rocker was missing girls in his party so he reportedly asked where the women went missing. According to a source, Jagger had the most expensive beverages and a group of girls who arrived after some time were dir...

American Bests Japanese Hot Dog Eating Champion, Sets Record

...reign of a Japanese champion Wednesday, gobbling a whopping 66 weiners in a mere 12 minutes in the annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating contest. American Joey Chestnut ended Japan's Takeru 'Tsunami' Kobayshi's remarkable streak to the cheers of a crowd of 50,000, according to police estimates. Only Tues...

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