Around four million Chinese youngsters are addicted to the Internet, mainly attracted by "unhealthy" online games, state media reported Friday, citing a top legislator. Children’s Health |
Ten thousand copies of a food magazine were recalled in Sweden after a mistake in one of its recipes left four people poisoned, the magazine said Thursday. Other |
The Department of Health (DOH) announced yesterday Taiwan's first case of indigenous measles this year, saying that the patient was a 10-month old baby girl who had been infected by a family member who recently returned from an overseas trip. Infectious Diseases |
No discount chain stores or seafood companies have yet filed for permits for the import of hairy crabs from China so far this year, the Cabinet-level Department of Health (DOH) reported yesterday. Other |
Friday, August 29, 2008
Researchers studying people with a rare genetic disorder have identified a brain chemical that may play a role in appetite and obesity, a finding they say could lead to new drugs to help some obese people. Nutrition & Fitness |
Researchers working on mice have regrown the tiny hairs in the inner ear that are crucial to hearing, and said on Wednesday their findings might lead to ways to restore hearing loss in humans. Other |
U.S government regulators on Wednesday cleared the way for broader use of a blood test that can spare heart transplant patients the ordeal of repeated biopsies to check if their bodies are rejecting the new organ. Heart |
Headaches associated with air travel appear to be a "huge and painful problem," Israeli researchers report. Arthritis / Pains |
Injury prevention programs for teens that evoke a strong emotional response and involve learning through experience, rather than classroom instruction, are more likely to get results, Canadian researchers say. Other |
The use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) or another assisted fertility technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) to conceive appears to increase the odds of Y-chromosome defects or "microdeletions" in male offspring, Chinese researchers report. Other |
