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Heavy braking of the car, as in an emergency stop, causes cell damage in the lungs, researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Particle and Fibre Toxicology found. However normal breaking and even close proximity to a ...  Read more

Around 6,750 people have died from the swine flu pandemic, World Health Organisation data showed Friday, about 500 more than a week ago. ...  Read more

People who smoke are more likely to have seizures than those who don't, says a new study by Boston-based researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. ...  Read more

It is a small step for affordable housing for the poor, still something to be cherished. The Habitat for Humanity volunteers have dedicated 166 homes in Thailand, Vietnam, China, Laos and Cambodia. ...  Read more

With the US still struggling to get out of the recession, Canadian farmers have begun to look east.

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz led a mission to Japan to create new export opportunities by meeting with newly elected officials and ...  Read more

The Roman Catholic bishops of the UK have come down strongly on a move to legalize assisted suicide in certain cases.

Relatives who assist suicide can escape prosecution under certain conditions, the UK government has can escape prosecution, ...  Read more

In a bid to avoid getting bashed up by his parents, a 6-year-old boy in Shanghai has come up with a formula that could harm his parents.

The youngster was said to have...  Read more

Non-steroidal and tissue-selective anabolic agents such as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) are being sold on the black market for their performance enhancing qualities, researchers from the German Sport University Cologne in Germany ...  Read more

A statistical analysis of approval intervals from 1997 to 2006, published in the International Journal of Electronic Healthcare says that drug approvals are taking just as long as they ever did despite increased expenditure on new information ...  Read more

Switzerland lifted on Thursday some of the restrictions imposed earlier on the use of swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, allowing it now to be used also by people over the age of 60. ...  Read more

Japanese researchers have said that monetary gain and high-risk plans stimulate activity in the brain.

Dr. Tadashi Ino and colleagues, from the Department of Neurology at the Rakuwakai-Otowa Hospital and the Research Center for Nano Medic...  Read more

Scientists at the University of Leeds have brought a new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) a step closer to reality.

The team has found that a protein called ...  Read more

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found a landmark, 25-year review of cases in which surgeons had to remove the lower portion of the body from the waist down for...  Read more

An economist has calculated that tying the knot makes men feel happy to the worth of 18,000 pounds while women experience the joy worth only half the amount.

Paul Frijters, Queensland University of Technology, estimated the value in cash...  Read more

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found in an animal study that a condition called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) might not develop as a direct result of acidic digestive juices burning the esophagus.

Rather, ...  Read more

The legendary French movie star turned animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot has written to Nepal's president urging him to stop a mass animal sacrifice from going ahead next week. ...  Read more

What's in a name? 'A lot of flavour' may just be the answer you could get from a man who can taste anything from coconuts to crisps upon hearing names of people....  Read more

In what could possible be a case study in avoiding lonely hearts ads, here's the story of a blonde gold-digger who has been sent behind bars for 12 months after conning men out of cash. ...  Read more

Cindy Crawford, who once ruled fashion pages, is appalled by the onslaught of ’skinny models’ that today’s women have to face. She has advised female consumers to stop buying...  Read more

Experts believe that women should wear clothes that bare 40 per cent of their bodies in a bid to allure men.

Keeping the right balance between revealing too much and...  Read more

With the Copenhagen climate change summit looming, the world of wine convened on Spain's Rioja region for a conference in which global warming emerged as the industry's top concern. ...  Read more

More than one in 10 British people don't realise that a woman can still get pregnant if she has sex standing up, according to a poll Friday. ...  Read more

A new study says that beauty products such as lipstick, lotion, foundation, mascara add up to 515 chemicals on a woman's face every day.

Charlotte Smith of deodorant firm...  Read more

Protein content of women's saliva changes with advancing age, a new study has revealed.

According to study's researchers, the discovery could lead to a simple, non-invasive test for better diagnosing and treating certain age-related ...  Read more

A new study has revealed that pregnant women with multiple sclerosis are at a modest risk of suffering complications or having caesarean deliveries. ...  Read more