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Fitness has fallen since the days of Ancient Greece

We may not be as fit as the people of ancient Athens, despite all that modern diet and training can provide, according to research by University of Leeds (UK) exercise physiologist, Dr Harry Rossiter. Dr Rossiter measured the metabolic rates of modern athletes rowing a reconstruction of an Athenian trireme, a 37m long warship powered by 170 rowers seated in three tiers. Using portable meta...
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Slovenia, Bulgaria, Greece Face Bird Flu Threat: European Union

The presence of the deadly bird flu infection has been confirmed in Greece, Bulgaria and Slovenia by the European Union. Reassurance steps have been initiated by the Italian following detection of the infection in dead swans, last week . // The EU confirmed that samples sent to its reference laboratory in Britain after a first analysis by local research institutes confirmed the H5N1...

Poultry Farms face Ruin in Greece

The bird flu fears in Greece may lead to collapse of the whole industry in that country The poultry industry employs over 15,000 people and produces almost 1.5 billion eggs a year.// Although so far no bird flu strain has been reported in chickens; there have been 19 confirmed cases that were reported in wild swans. The phobia of the avian influenza or bird flu among consu...

Modern Medicine Originated in Egypt, Not Greece

The origins of modern medicine lay along the Nile in ancient Egypt and not with Hippocrates and the Greeks, a recent research by the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology at the University of Manchester has revealed. The research team discovered the evidence in medical papyri written in 1,500BC, about 1,000 years before Hippocrates was born. "Classical scholars have al...

Germany, Greece Hold Gay Rights Marches

Around 400,000 German gays and lesbians marched through Berlin on Saturday to protest against discrimination in the workplace and schools, but only about 1,000 people joined a similar march in Greece, organisers said. In the German capital homosexuals were joined by bisexuals and trans-sexuals, many swathed in eccentric clothing or wearing elaborate masks and wigs, as the march woun...
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The European Myeloma Platform Reports New Survival data for Revlimid Presented at the International Myeloma Workshop in Greece

BRUSSELS, Belgium and KOS, Greece, June 29, 2007 /PRNewswire/ --The European Myeloma Platform (EMP) says updated data forpreviously treated patients on REVLIMID (lenalidomide) plus thesteroid dexamethasone shows median survival of 35 months, nearlythree years. The data are pooled from two large randomizedcontrolled Phase III trials that enrolled more than 700 patientsfrom nearly 100 clin...

The International Myeloma Foundation Says Data Reported at a Global Medical Meeting in Greece Demonstrates Improved Survival for a Wide Range of Myeloma Patients

- Data Presented at the 11th International Myeloma Workshop - NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., and KOS, Greece, June 29, 2007/PRNewswire/ -- The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) --supporting research and providing education, advocacy and supportfor myeloma patients, families, researchers and physicians -- todaysaid that updated statistics reported at the 11th InternationalMyeloma Workshop i...
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