Booze will ‘kill 250K people over the next 20 yrs’
February 21st, 2011 - 12:35 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 21 (ANI): Health experts have warned that alcohol consumption will kill up to 250,000 extra people in England and Wales over the next 20 years.Figures from the Office for National ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Middle-class women ‘more than twice as likely to drink heavily’
January 28th, 2011 - 1:23 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 28 (ANI): Officials figures show that middle-class women in UK are more than twice as likely to drink heavily as those on lower incomes.Some 43 per cent of women whose ... Read more...
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A hormone to help you live longer, but only if you are rich!
October 21st, 2010 - 11:46 am ICT by ANI
London, Oct 21 (ANI): If a new study is to be believed, a hormone called DHEAS makes you live longer - but only if you are wealthy enough.In the meantime, leading a ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Pressure mounting for Rajendra Pachauri to resign as IPCC head
September 23rd, 2010 - 6:54 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept.23 (ANI): Pressure is reportedly mounting on Rajendra Pachauri to resign as head of the UN climate change panel over fears that his increasingly troubled tenure is hampering efforts to halt ... Read more...
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Stem cell breakthrough could offer cure for motor neurone disease
May 24th, 2010 - 3:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 24 (ANI): Scottish researchers have for the first time created brain cells bearing a deadly genetic mutation linked to motor neurone disease in an Edinburgh laboratory-a breakthrough that could lead ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Prizewinning software may reduce number of breast cancer cases missed
January 18th, 2010 - 6:14 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 18 (ANI): NHS can save hundreds of lives each year by adopting a computerised technique for breast cancer screening, says one of Britain's leading biomedical scientists.While speaking at the ... Read more...
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Scientists tie light in knots
January 18th, 2010 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, January 18 (ANI): A team of scientists has achieved the remarkable feat of tying light in knots.The feat has been made by a team of physicists working at the universities of ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Planting forests across Britain will reduce CO2 emissions, say scientists
November 25th, 2009 - 11:45 am ICT by ANI
London, November 25 (ANI): A scientific study for the Forestry Commission, UK, has suggested that the creation of new forests and woodlands across Britain will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10 ... Read more...
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Double food output may stop world starving
October 21st, 2009 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 21 (ANI): Leading scientists have said that global food production needs to be increased by between 50 and 100 per cent if widespread famine and world starving is to be ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Archaeologists discover full Roman bath suite in the Isle of Wight
August 17th, 2009 - 3:27 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 17 (ANI): A team of professional archaeologists, along with volunteers, has discovered a full Roman bath suite, complete with hot baths and a cold plunge pool, in the town of ... Read more...
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How cells protect themselves against cancer
February 1st, 2009 - 2:30 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 01 (ANI): Scientists in Singapore and the University of Dundee have identified a missing link in the way cells protect themselves against cancer.They have discovered how cells switch a ... Read more...
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Nanotechnology may turn harmful in the future, warns report
November 12th, 2008 - 3:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 12 (ANI): A Royal Commission report in UK has raised concern that just like asbestos, nanomaterials may turn out to be fatally dangerous for humans in the future.The report ... Read more...
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Vaccines for deadly superbugs may be available in 10yrs
July 14th, 2008 - 5:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 14 (ANI): If UK experts are to be believed, vaccines to keep deadly superbug infections at bay will be available in hospitals within a decade.The Department of Health ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Lanka to continue probe of alleged rights abuses: MInister
April 22nd, 2008 - 8:20 pm ICT by admin
Colombo, April 22 (ANI): Sri Lankas Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said on Tuesday that President Mahinda Rajapakse-led government is committed to completing the work of the Presidential commission of inquiry ... Read more...
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How women can combat global warming snub men in Ferraris!
December 16th, 2007 - 6:05 pm ICT by admin
London, Dec 16 (ANI): A chief scientist with the British govt believes that women can fight against global warming if they stop admiring men who drive sports cars.Professor Sir David King said ... Read more...
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UK to use invisible tanks by 2012
November 14th, 2007 - 8:18 am ICT by admin
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