News tagged with western
East views the world differently to West
Cultural differences between the West and East are well documented, but a study shows that concrete differences also exist in how British and Chinese people recognise people and the world around them. Easterners really do ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Researchers: Societal control of sugar essential to ease public health burden
Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million ...
Feb 01, 2012 |
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NASA sees development of tropical storm 09S in southern Indian Ocean
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the low pressure system called System 97S on Jan. 24 and observed a large area of strong thunderstorms around its center that hinted at further development. On Jan. 25, the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Food fried in olive or sunflower oil is not linked to heart disease
Eating food fried in olive or sunflower oil is not linked to heart disease or premature death, finds a paper published in the British Medical Journal today.
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Neanderthals and their contemporaries engineered stone tools
(PhysOrg.com) -- New published research from anthropologists at the University of Kent has scientifically supported for the first time the long held theory that early human ancestors across Africa, Western ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 24, 2012 |
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French breast implant scare reaches around the world
Hundreds of thousands of women in more than 65 countries, mainly in South America and western Europe, have received breast implants that are at the centre of a health scare.
Jan 06, 2012 |
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A new wild ginger discovered from the evergreen forest of Western Ghats of South India
Intensive botanical explorations for taxonomic studies on the members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) in India by V.P. Thomas and M. Sabu of the University of Calicut, have resulted in the discovery of ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
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How poor maternal diet can increase risk of diabetes -- new mechanism discovered
Researchers have shown one way in which poor nutrition in the womb can put a person at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes and other age-related diseases in later life. This finding could lead to new ways of identifying ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Milk consumption in adolescence may increase prostate cancer risk
(Medical Xpress) -- While people have been told for years about the importance of milk in a diet for children, a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology says that milk consumption in large quantities in ado ...
Jan 02, 2012 |
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Breast implant maker used non-approved gels: lawyer
The founder of the French firm that made breast implants feared to be at risk of rupturing has admitted using non-approved but non-toxic silicone gels, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Dec 27, 2011 |
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Research may hold key to a happy marriage
With every third marriage in Australia ending in divorce, the secrets to a happy marriage continue to elude many couples. But not for much longer with University of Queensland researchers on the case.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Herbal amphetamine increases risk of death and stroke in those with heart disease
Chewing the natural stimulant khat increases the risk of death and stroke in patients with heart disease compared to those who are not users, according to new research in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Mistaken identity: New report highlights the global impact of medical misdiagnosis
Researchers have discovered that over a million people worldwide diagnosed with TB go on to develop an incurable but manageable fungal infection which is usually left untreated because it is mistaken for a recurrence of the ...
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Interactions between classical, African and Middle Eastern cultures explored
Academics from the Universities of Oxford and Warwick have shed new light on the history of interactions between the classical world, Africa and the Middle East.
Nov 25, 2011 |
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Thai floods ripple through global supply chain
Thailand's worst floods in decades may gradually be subsiding but ripples will be felt by companies and consumers for months to come, analysts say, underlining the fragility of the global supply chain.
Nov 18, 2011 |
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