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Going To Bed Late Can Make You Gain Weight, Study Finds

11.10.2013 16:03
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have found that "Early to bed, early to rise" doesn't only make people "healthy, wealthy and wise" but also keeps them from putting on extra weight. In the study on the largest sample of healthy adults under controlled laboratory conditions till...

Talking cigarette packets warning smokers of risks to their health could be latest weapon to encourage them to quit

11.10.2013 15:56
Talking cigarette packets could become the latest trend to encourage smokers to quit. Scottish researchers have created talking packaging to warn addicts of the risks to their health. The idea was inspired by tobacco companies who have been making packaging more attractive for consumers. The...

Study Evidence Supports New Drug to Prevent Blood Clotting

11.10.2013 15:53
The blood clot preventer Eliquis, sold by Pfizer Inc and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, proved as effective as widely used warfarin in treating a dangerous condition known as venous thromboembolism and caused far less bleeding, according to data from a large clinical trial. The Pfizer and Bristol-Myers...

WHO: Treat people with HIV early to help them live longer and to help slow virus' spread

11.10.2013 15:51
LONDON - Young children and certain other people with the AIDS virus should be started on medicines as soon as they are diagnosed, the World Health Organization says in new guidelines that also recommend earlier treatment for adults. The advice will have the most impact in Africa, where nearly 70...

Syria chemical weapons monitors win Nobel Peace Prize

11.10.2013 15:34
The Nobel Committee said it was in honour of the OPCW's "extensive work to eliminate chemical weapons". The OPCW, based in The Hague, was established to enforce the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention. OPCW director general Ahmet Uzumcu said the award was a "great honour" and would spur it on in its...

How Danger Mouse became king of the TV ratings

11.10.2013 15:27
Voiced by Only Fools And Horses star David Jason, Danger Mouse was the flagship of Cosgrove Hall Films, based in a quirky studio in the Manchester suburb of Chorlton-cum-Hardy. Vibrant, surreal and deliciously silly, an astonishing 21 million viewers tuned in to watch it in 1983, a record for...

GIRLFRIEND OF EX -PATRIOT HERNANDEZ IS INDICTED

27.09.2013 21:32
FILE - In this July 24, 2013, file photo, Shayanna Jenkins, fiancee of former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez, arrives at hearing for Hernandez at Attleboro District Courtroom in Attleboro, Mass. A Massachusetts prosecutor said Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, that a grand jury...

Mad cows, cannibalism and the shaking death

27.09.2013 21:25
I made a brief appearance on HuffPostLive on Wednesday, to talk about kuru, a human form of mad cow disease' that is transmitted by eating infected nervous tissue. It was for a segment of the broadcast featuring cast members of We Are What We Are , a new film about a family of cannibals, one of...

Curiosity Mars rover hands in homework and gets top marks

27.09.2013 21:22
On 6 August 2012, the most technically advanced geochemistry laboratory ever sent to the surface of another planet arrived at Mars. The audacity of the landing, which involved using a hovering 'sky-crane' to lower the car-sized Mars rover to the ground, captured the world's attention. After 100...

'The rainbow belongs to God': Anti-gay US pastor sets sights on Sochi Olympics

20.09.2013 16:08
When President Vladimir Putin recently banned “homosexual propaganda” in Russia, he joined sides in a new global culture war: a struggle to stop the march of gay rights abroad even as advocates wave rainbow flags in America. Now, as the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics approach, both sides are bracing...
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