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Take heart, even weekend exercise helps
NEW YORK: Cramming in the recommended weekly amount of exercise into the weekend appears to offer some health benefits for otherwise healthy men, new research reports.
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11:11:20 PM Saturday, October 09, 2004
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 Greenpeace activists, stand by
a makeshift inflatable giant nuclear bomb at a road checkpoint in
Equeurdreville, outside Cherbourg harbour, Normandy, to protest the imminent
arrival of a shipment of plutonium from U.S.for recycling in southern France.(AP
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HIV virus deliberately created: Wangari Maathai
NAIROBI: Wangari Maathai this years Nobel Peace Prize winner on Saturday reiterated her claim that the AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent.
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10:26:50 PM Saturday, October 09, 2004
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A quantum computer with atomic memory!
LONDON: Scientists at the University of Bonn in Germany have reportedly built the fundamental memory component of a computer called a "register", using caesium atoms, by trapping it inside a laser beam.
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Mentally ill face higher brain cancer risks
WASHINGTON: Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have suggested that men and women with mental disorders have higher odds of being diagnosed with brain tumors and lung cancer.
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Lithium can prevent radiation linked memory loss
WASHINGTON: Patients who undergo radiation for treatment of brain tumors might survive their cancer only to have lasting memory and learning deficiencies, the impact of which can be particularly devastating on children.
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Steroids are bad news for injured heads
LONDON: Anti-inflammatory drugs that have been used for 30 years to treat serious head injuries are harming rather than helping patients, researchers said.
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06:30:00 AM Saturday, October 09, 2004
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Now, pulsating pants to jumpstart hearts
RASHMEE Z AHMED
LONDON: Britain, heart disease capital of the world, is offering patients suffering from chest pain or angina an unusual cure - a pair of vibrating trousers that work like a pump to increase the blood flow to the heart.
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03:47:33 AM Friday, October 08, 2004
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Herbal drug out of bounds for diabetics
KALPANA JAIN
NEW DELHI: World's largest diabetes epidemic is threatening India, however, a herbal product, Vijaysar - obtained from the bark of a tree, is yet to reach the patients.
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03:28:25 AM Friday, October 08, 2004
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Akram bats for the cause of diabetes
RAJESH KORDE
PUNE: What is common between Wasim Akram and Craig McMillan? Apart from being cricketers, they both are diabetics.
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09:30:05 PM Thursday, October 07, 2004
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Male sex hormone helps heal strokes
WASHINGTON: A new study, conducted by neurologists at St Louis University, suggests that testosterone, the hormone responsible for a man's sex drive, may help in recovery from strokes.
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