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A new study has suggested that infants who face away from their parents in buggies could suffer last
Saturday, November 22, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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LONDON: The next time you take your baby out for a stroll, avoid a forward-facing pram, for a new study has suggested that infants who face away from their parents in buggies could suffer lasting psychological harm.
Researchers at the University of Dundee have found that babies could be left 'emotionally impoverished' if being pushed in buggies facing away from their parents.
This is because,
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Dr-Suzanne-Zeedyk
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A messy neighbourhood make a difference on how people act.
Saturday, November 22, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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WASHINGTON: Does a messy neighbourhood make a difference on how people act? It sure does! Graffiti on the walls, trash in the street, bicycles chained to a fence, all resulted in a decline in how people behaved in a series of experiments.
A bit of litter or graffiti didn't lead to predatory crime, but actions ranging from littering to trespassing and minor stealing all increased when people saw
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Kees-Keizer
Netherlands
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British and Japanese researchers has shed new light on why females of many species have multiplepart
Friday, November 21, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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WASHINGTON: An international study by British and Japanese researchers has shed new light on why females of many species have multiple
partners.
The research team -- comprising of experts from the Universities of Exeter (UK), Okayama (Japan) and Liverpool (UK) -- say that "polyandry", the practice of mating with multiple male partners, could be the result of females adapting to avoid producing o
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The oldest genetically identifiable nuclear family met a violent death, according to analysis of rem
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Berlin: Graves of parents, son, daughter found in Germany.
The oldest genetically identifiable nuclear family met a violent death, according to analysis of remains from 4,600-year-old burials in Germany.
Writing in the journal PNAS, researchers say the broken bones of these stone age people show they were killed in a struggle.
Comparisons of DNA from one grave confirm it contained a mother, fat
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Wolfgang-Haak
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A new study by Australian researchers - quite contrary to weight-gain fears surrounding dairy produc
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Melbourne: Is the daily glass of fruit juice during breakfast not helping you maintain weight? Well, then swap it with skim milk and see those love handles disappearing.
A new study by Australian researchers - quite contrary to weight-gain fears surrounding dairy products - has suggested that a glass of milk with your cereal or toast is more effective at ceasing your appetite at lunchtime than a
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Dr-Emma-Dove
Australia
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Adolescents who play violent video games may become increasingly aggressive over time.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 doctor.ndtv.com
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Adolescents who play violent video games may become increasingly aggressive over time. Teens who regularly play violent video games are more likely to get into physical fights over time. The following studies lend weight to evidence that violent video games can encourage violence in some kids.
Researchers in America studied three groups of 9-to-18 year olds and followed them over several months.
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Lower blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, an increased risk of developing high blood pressure.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 doctor.ndtv.com
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Lower blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, a protein that provides a measure of vitamin D in the blood, is independently associated with an increased risk of developing high blood pressure.
Studies have shown 25(OH)D levels and skin exposure to UVB radiation are associated with lower blood pressure, but definitive studies are limited. Researchers from America conducted a studied 1,484 healthy w
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Regular exercise can reduce a woman’s risk of cancer, but the benefits may slip away if she gets too
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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WASHINGTON: Regular exercise can reduce a woman’s risk of cancer, but the benefits may slip away if she gets too little sleep, American researchers said on Monday.
The study involving 5,968 women confirmed previous findings that people who do regular physical activity are less likely to develop cancer. But when the researchers looked at the women ages 18 to 65 who were in the upper half in terms
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James-McClain
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Now classical musicians could have good reason to be worried as Japan’s Waseda University’s new robo
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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London: Now classical musicians could have good reason to be worried as Japan’s Waseda University’s new robotic flautist makes no mistakes. In fact, it plays the challenging musical score of the ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ almost flawlessly.
The Waseda Flutist No 4 Refined IV was unveiled two weeks ago at the BioRob 2008 conference in Arizona, USA, the Daily Mail reported.
Research on the musical
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The elderly with still laser sharp memory -- called “super aged” -- were somehow different than ever
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Wonder why your 90-year-old grandpa solves crossword puzzle in a jiffy every morning or why he always recalls names and faces he had known 70 years ago!
Researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine wondered if the brains of the elderly with still laser sharp memory -- called “super aged” -- were somehow different than everyone else's.
So, instead of the probing what goe
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