 | Certain paediatric medicines contain banned food additives, including colour and sweeteners, that could cause harmful side-effects, researchers said.
Foods and drinks for children under three years in Britain are not allowed to have colours or... More |
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 | With school examinations going on, ayurvedic medicines claiming to enhance memory have become big business in Madhya Pradesh and chemists stocking the drugs expect a cumulative sale of Rs.250 million this season.
Chemists term the final... More |
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 | Highlighting a problem that has been long overlooked, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Thursday said that the national capital is home to 2,500 mentally ill women who have no home.
"While mental illness for women itself is severe enough not only for... More |
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While Australian diva Kylie Minogue's battle with cancer made the headlines, few know about the fight against the dreaded disease being waged by Nepal's Oscar phenomenon, a yak herder who has provided the plot for the only Nepali film to have been... More |
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India born novelist Kiran Desai has bagged the National Book Critics Circle fiction award for her bestseller "The Inheritance of Loss".
Desai got the award at a glittering ceremony here Thursday.
"The Inheritance of Loss" has already won... More |
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Thai scientists announced the birth of the kingdom's first artificially inseminated elephant, a healthy 100 kg male.
The baby pachyderm was born at 9.30 p.m. Wednesday at the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre in Lamphang, 500 km north of... More |
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 | Want to de-stress, tone up your body or build your confidence? How about all of that sprinkled with some fun? Listen to your doctor and step on the dance floor.
"I tried going to the gym to tone up my body but it didn't work. Then I started... More |
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 | Kids living near green spaces such as park and lawns in their neighbourhoods in urban areas are less likely to be overweight, said a US study.
Researchers studied 7,334 children, ages three to 18, in Marion County in the US and used body mass... More |
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 | Women who have just given birth should not worry about getting their bodies back into shape immediately, a leading Germany health insurer said.
"A woman's body has enough to do after a baby arrives," said Waltraud Pfarrer, listing milk... More |
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 | Doctors of Indian origin obtained an unprecedented emergency injunction Sunday against a new criteria laid down by the Department of Health that potentially restricted the employment chances of several non-European doctors in the current round of... More |
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