News tagged with northern ireland


N.Irish sextuplets mum ignored advice to abort

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

A mother who gave birth to sextuplets told a British Sunday newspaper that she rejected doctors' advice to abort several of the foetuses because her children were a "gift from God".





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Cutting greenhouse gases could grow the economy

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Over £14 ($23) billion more in products and services could be produced in Northern Ireland's economy each year if greenhouse gas producing resources were used as efficiently as they are in the rest of the UK, a research group ...


Gene with possible link to schizophrenia identified

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 27, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have identified a gene associated with schizophrenia that could provide further insight about the functional changes that occur on the molecular level in individuals who suffer ...


Survival rates for cancer rise across Ireland

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survival rates for cancer are continuing to rise even though the number of cases being diagnosed is increasing, an all-Ireland report launched today reveals.


Cell-phone germ scare in Northern Ireland

Other Sciences /

created Feb 10, 2006 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A Northern Ireland newspaper Friday called for a ban on cell phones in hospitals due to the germs they can carry.


Caesarean babies more likely to develop diabetes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Babies delivered by Caesarean section have a 20 per cent higher risk than normal deliveries of developing the most common type of diabetes in childhood, according to a study led by Queen's University Belfast.


Roaming a headache along Irish border

Technology /

created Sep 13, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ireland has given mobile-phone operators three months to solve problems involving unexpected roaming charges in border areas.


Young women warned of lung cancer risks

Young women warned of lung cancer risks

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Seventeen people are still dying from lung cancer each week in Northern Ireland despite a small improvement in survival rates for the disease.


Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (17) | comments 7

In the film, 'The Day After Tomorrow' the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows that this scenario may not be so far from the truth after all.


Ancient bodies found in Irish bog

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created Jan 12, 2006 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers in Ireland and Britain are revealing details about two 2-millennia-old bodies found in Irish peat bogs.


Binge drinking youths find getting old a drag

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Young men who believe that happiness declines with age are more likely to engage in risky health behaviors such as binge drinking. Their misguided negative view of the aging process may act as a disincentive to behave 'sensibly' ...



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