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Special properties of mouse urine are being harnessed to build artificial noses — devices that can sniff out trace quantities of explosives or pollutants, or pick out different smells for food quality control.
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An AWOL servicemember explained in detail to his emergency room doctor how he planned to climb atop Richmond City Hall and pick off legislators with a .50-caliber rifle...
Jan 11 2008
AP, New York
Founded in the mid-19th century, the Young Men’s Christian Association has expanded far beyond its name in the United States. It welcomes all faiths, half the...
Jan 11 2008
AP, Washington
The AIDS virus has to hijack human proteins to do its damage, but scientists until now have known only a few dozen of its targets. On Thursday, Harvard researchers...
Jan 10 2008
AP, San Francisco
A city program that provides health care to the uninsured and is partly funded by businesses can continue at least until a lawsuit challenging the program is resolved,...
Jan 10 2008
AP, Paris
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was briefly hospitalized in secret in October for treatment of an infection and abscess in his throat, the authors of a new book said...
Jan 9 2008
AP, Beijing
The rising cost of health care topped Chinese citizens’ concerns in a government survey released Wednesday, a day after Beijing announced plans to reform the...
Jan 9 2008
AP, Washington
Seniors and the disabled flocked to the pharmacy counter in 2006 with their new Medicare drug cards, fueling a 6.7 percent increase in health spending, the federal...
Jan 8 2008
AP, New York
Americans who said they became anxious and stressed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks _ some just from watching the collapse of the twin towers on television _...
Jan 7 2008
AP, Washington
Loud snoring doesn’t just annoy your spouse. It could signal dangerous sleep apnea, yet millions go undiagnosed.
Jan 7 2008
AP, Baltimore
Olympic gold medalist Dorothy Hamill is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Hamill said in a statement Friday that she is being treated at the Kimmel Cancer Center...
Jan 5 2008
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Till date AIDS retains the status of an incurable disease and no vaccine has been developed to treat it. There are about 25 million people who have succumbed to this...
May 4 2008
A pain is the most gruesome experience of all bodily discomfitures. It not only poses a big threat to the normal functioning of the body but it also demoralizes even a...
May 3 2008
The Notwane Netball Club hosted ‘HIV/AIDS Youth Under-20 tournament’ that will be played in Gaborone. It is a tournament played with a noble mission of fighting...
May 2 2008
If you are planning to conceive or are pregnant, then you’d better get your blood sugar levels tested. According to a research conducted by Kaiser Permanente, a...
Apr 29 2008
Quitting smoking, losing weight, and renouncing alcohol and cocaine may lead you to the risk of depression and even the chances of suicide. Now, it’s so very evident...
Apr 28 2008
People with cardiovascular problems have a greater chance of surviving with the new study being conducted on growing “master” heart cells that are believed to...
Apr 24 2008
It would only seem like a sensible thing to do when one proports the idea that out of all the face creams available in the market, let’s figure out which one...
Apr 23 2008
If you are planning to conceive, you no longer need to depend on luck to have a baby of the gender you desire. If you want to conceive a girl, you simply need to cut...
Apr 23 2008
Things are definitely looking down for the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Canada, where 326 cancer patients were exposed to wrong dose of radiations for a long span of...
Apr 23 2008
It can be a bit alarming for the normal Canadian to know that it has been established by research that obesity and inactivity stand almost on the same scale between...
Apr 22 2008
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May 12 2008
Mahatma Gandhi shared his decision, to call off the Non-Cooperation Movement, with my hundred years old teenage son, after the Chaura Chauri incident in 1922. King John...
May 10 2008
Desperate times call for desperate measures. In my search for better health I discovered the Rife Resonator. I heard about it from a family friend (as it usually...
May 10 2008
Being someone that enjoys eating, and who have used food to try and improve my health in the past, I’ve stumbled upon a new eating disorder, called Orthorexia...
May 9 2008
Who doesn’t love to gorge on those yummy roadside foods once in a while? Though due to health reasons we tend to keep away from junk food, there is no harm if we...
May 7 2008
It’s good news for those who start their day with a cup of black coffee. Thanks to the extensive studies on coffee that contradicts the bad reputation coffee had...
May 5 2008
Every month, health departments in India organise polio vaccination camps. Its theme, ‘Do boond zindagi ki’, has achieved success in checking the virus...
May 5 2008
CMD is the most powerful, health-giving mineral and trace mineral food supplement formulated by nature for greater bio-electric health and body mineral balancing. In...
May 5 2008
A recent study of CSIR reveals that there is no genetic uniformity among castes and hence prove that purity of genetic characters that attributed towards social...
May 3 2008
Dateline May 02, 2008
Belleville, Ontario
We all want to retire, but often we don’t know what were going to do with the time once were there, and once there we...
May 3 2008
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Newsflash for rock stars and teenagers: It turns out everything doesn’t go downhill as we age — the golden years really are golden.
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I just can’t make this any clearer. Vaccines do not cause autism. Study after study has shown this, in multiple ways. The removal of the MMR (mumps-measles-rubella)...
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The quickest way to beauty is to sweat.” So goes the battle cry in a recent issue of Anan, Tokyo’s most influential women’s magazine. A year ago this...
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Inca surgeons in ancient Peru commonly and successfully removed small portions of patients’ skulls to treat head injuries, according to a new study. The surgical...
May 13 2008
Cat odour is seen to work as an aphrodisiac for mice
May 12 2008
Cigarette vending machines may soon start counting wrinkles, crow’s feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.
May 12 2008
According to a global survey that looked at where mothers fare best and where they face the greatest hardships, India is ranked a dismal 66th among 71 less developed...
May 12 2008
Rhett Lamb, 3, is often irritable, but it’s not just the routine growing pains of a toddler’s life that has affected him. It’s the fact that Rhett...
May 11 2008
For people with early cancer of the larynx, the standard treatment can be grueling: a biopsy in an operating room followed by a six-week course of radiation that may...
May 11 2008
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An unidentified Tamil woman cries on the grave of her son, killed in fighting with government forces, at a cemetery in Mullathivu, 280 kilometers (175 miles) northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, in this Nov. 27, 2002 file photo.