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China's young graduates live 'ant's' lifeSix years after moving into a maze of bunkhouses on the outskirts of Beijing, Yu Ping still frowns as she heads home along the muddy lanes lined with grocery stores, web cafes and hair...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:57 am Buddhist tattoos gaining popularity in SingaporeWhen Ben Loke wanted to boost his financial prospects, he approached neither his banker nor his broker. Instead, the 35-year-old company executive asked a professional tattooist to ink...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:48 am Baghdad battles to preserve its battered heritageFawziya al-Maliki, an elegant and determined 44-year old, is spearheading Iraq's efforts to preserve what architectural treasures remain in the war-ravaged country, but her job is proving...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:43 am Africa's league of fashionable gentlemen 'sapeurs'An hour late, Jocelyn Armel swaggers in to his mens' clothing boutique in Paris in three-piece black suit, black felt miller hat and shiny black patent lace-ups. Lifting his hat and...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:38 am Struggling 'Czech Hollywood' pins hope on state aidOnce renowned as the bustling "Czech Hollywood", Prague's vast Barrandov film studios are now empty but Central Europe's Tinseltown is hoping state aid will start cameras rolling. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:33 am Results Unproven, Robotic Surgery Wins ConvertsRobot-assisted prostate cancer surgery makes sense on some levels but it is not clear if its outcomes are better. Source: NYT > Health | 13 Feb 2010 | 11:43 pm Insurer Delays Increase for California CustomersAnthem Blue Cross, California’s largest for-profit health insurer, expressed confidence that its new premiums would pass state scrutiny even as it delayed the increase.Source: NYT > Health | 13 Feb 2010 | 11:40 pm China welcomes Year of the TigerFirecrackers echoed through the streets in Shanghai Sunday as Chinese braved the rain and cold to line up outside temples to usher in the Year of the Tiger by praying for good fortune. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 13 Feb 2010 | 10:03 pm Lung sufferers offered sex advicePeople with breathing problems have been offered some timely Valentine's Day advice to help them enjoy a fulfilling love life.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 13 Feb 2010 | 8:46 pm I love you, babyThe man saved by an unknown child's umbilical cordSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 13 Feb 2010 | 5:30 pm After somber start, color punctuates New York runwaysNew York's Autumn-Winter 2010 presentations began in sadness, with the death of Alexander McQueen, but designers including Lacoste have showed color-saturated collections designed to dispelSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 13 Feb 2010 | 4:33 pm Novelties: Hospital-Clean Hands, Without All the ScrubbingIn the battle against harmful germs, researchers are studying room-temperature plasma gases as the next great disinfectants.Source: NYT > Health | 13 Feb 2010 | 4:13 pm Poet urges fellow Haitians to ride out their miseryThe wall supporting his bookcase partially collapsed but the books were saved. The Haitian poet and painter Franketienne sees in the January 12 "apocalypse" a chance for a "collective...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 13 Feb 2010 | 3:35 pm Guggenheim artists fill 'void' with ideasWhat do almost 200 artists and architects answer when asked how to fill a vast empty space in the middle of New York? Useful things like: fill it with coffee. The Guggenheim Museum's...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 13 Feb 2010 | 3:33 pm Indians get particular about online marriageFrom the overweight and transsexuals to people with HIV and those supposedly afflicted by negative planetary positions, the Internet dating game in India increasingly has a website for...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 13 Feb 2010 | 3:27 pm Childhood Obesity Battle Is Taken Up by First LadyThe initiative led by Michelle Obama is intended to revamp the way American youngsters eat and play.Source: NYT > Health | 13 Feb 2010 | 12:41 pm Start obesity prevention in the cradle, study urges (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:50 am Rye More Filling Than WheatWholegrain bread is good and good for you, as most people know. But it is not only the fiber-rich bran, the outer shell of the grain, that is healthful. On the contrary, research at the Lund University Faculty of Engineering shows that bread baked with white rye flour, which is flour made from the inner, white part of the rye kernel, leads to better insulin and blood sugar levels compared with wheat bread with rye bran. White rye flour thus leads to much better values than both regular wheat flour and rye bran...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am Blood Clotting Finding May Lead To New TreatmentsA key protein that causes the blood to clot is produced by blood vessels in the lungs and not just the liver, according to new research published in the journal PLoS One, led by scientists at Imperial College London. The findings may ultimately help scientists to develop better treatments for conditions where the blood's ability to clot is impaired, including deep vein thrombosis, where dangerous blood clots form inside the body, and haemophilia A, where the blood cannot clot sufficiently well...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am Technology And Culture Determine Our View Of The BrainWhat does the brain look like? What do we really know about our brains? For centuries, we've been telling ourselves time and again that we now have an objective view of our brains. However, objectivity depends on technological developments, human actions and social and cultural factors, to name but a few. This has been revealed by research by Sarah de Rijcke, who will be awarded a PhD by the University of Groningen on 18 February 2010. In her research, De Rijcke charted how over the past four centuries humans have regarded the brain...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am Obesity And Diabetes Study Weighs Influence Of Genetics, LifestyleA team of Northern Arizona University-led researchers is using nearly $1.3 million in new funding from the National Institutes of Health to continue with the world's longest-running study on obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Obesity and diabetes have been described as the major public health concerns of the 21st century, explains Leslie Schulz, executive dean of NAU's College of Health and Human Services and the study's principal investigator. "This study is taking those necessary steps toward finding a way to protect people against the development of these pervasive diseases," she says...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am Data Monitoring Committee Recommends Continuation Of Phase III Study Of StemEx(R), A Cord Blood Stem Cell Product, For Leukemia And LymphomaThe Gamida Cell-Teva Joint Venture (JV) announced that the Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) has independently reviewed preliminary data from the pivotal registration, Phase III clinical trial of StemEx (called ExCell) and has recommended that the JV continue to enroll patients in this study. The next data analysis is anticipated to take place during Q2 2010. StemEx is being evaluated as a therapeutic treatment for adolescents and adults with blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma, who cannot find a family related matched bone marrow donor...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am Circassia Achieves Positive Phase II Clinical Results With Ragweed Allergy T-Cell VaccineCircassia Ltd, a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on allergy, announced that its ToleroMune(R) ragweed allergy T-cell vaccine achieved positive results in a recently completed phase II clinical trial. Ragweed allergy is particularly common in America, where it affects approximately 25% of the population. Circassia's latest clinical results follow two earlier successful phase II studies with the company's T-cell vaccine against cat allergy...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am Quitting Smoking Especially Difficult For Select GroupsWith the national trend toward quitting smoking flat, psychologists are finding some success with treatments aimed at helping smokers from underserved groups, including racial and ethnic minorities and those with psychiatric disorders. In a special section of this month's issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association, researchers report on several effective treatments that may help these smokers in an effort to increase national smoking cessation rates. The percentage of American smokers rose from 19...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am Allegheny General Hospital Study Demonstrates Safety And Potential Efficacy Of Oral Allergy TreatmentAn oral allergy treatment administered in drops under the tongue is a safe and effective alternative to injections for adults who are allergic to ragweed pollen, according to a study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology by allergic disease specialist at Allegheny General Hospital. Widely used in Europe, but not yet approved by the U.S...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am A Healthy Relationship Depends On Your Patterns Of LoveDo you make the same mistakes in love over and over again? For example, do you always seem to pick the wrong partner or always experience the same negative romantic outcome? If so, you need to understand your developmental history of love and break the pattern, according to Dr. Mark Beitel, a licensed clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at Greenwich Hospital's Center for Integrative Medicine in Cos Cob, CT. "Certain conditions for loving, and being loved, are created and then maintained across a person's lifespan," explains Beitel...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am FDA Approves Benicar(R) For The Treatment Of High Blood Pressure In Children And Adolescents Aged 6-16Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the hypertension treatment Benicar® (olmesartan medoxomil) for use in children and adolescents 6 to 16 years of age.(1) Benicar was originally approved in 2002 for the treatment of hypertension in adults. Approximately 5 percent or 3.6 million American children suffer from high blood pressure, with the majority unaware they have the condition.(2)(3) Studies have also found that the average blood pressure of American children is on the rise, in parallel with the increase of children's weight...
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