Health News On March 29, 2008

The World Trade Organisation has ruled against the United States and Canada in a row with the European Union over an EU ban on beef treated with growth hormones, a European official told AFP on Friday.... Read more

FDA on Thursday announced that it will review the safety of GlaxoSmithKline’s antiretroviral drug abacavir and Bristol-Myers Squibb’s antiretroviral didanosine, Reuters reports.... Read more

A young school principal in Bangalore, capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka, hanged himself Friday, apparently overpowered by guilt.

Vivek Vardhan, 29, had failed... Read more

Blind faith has claimed the life of a 11-year-old girl in the state of Wisconsin in the US. Her parents chose to pray instead of taking her to hospital.... Read more

A device called `Braille Mitra' brought out for the first time in India at Pune has made reading books a lot easier for the visually impaired.

Modular InfoTech has come... Read more

Children studying in a cooperative learning environment are more likely to achieve higher grades and have better social interactions, says a new study. ... Read more

Schools should prevent pupils from leaving school grounds during lunchtime to keep them away from nearby fast food outlets, a government trust said Friday.... Read more

Young men who chase picture-perfect physique could be harming themselves, by exercising to excess, warns Dr. David Giles of Winchester in the UK.

"Lads" Magazines, increasingly... Read more

Japan last year saw a record number of cases in which schools failed to protect children from being bullied, the justice ministry said Friday.

The government received... Read more

Researchers at the University of Washington and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories have found a link between genetic errors and schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is a... Read more