Health & Fitness

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	New Saliva Test to Save 1,000 Unborn Babies Each Year
Scientists from UK are currently working on a simple saliva test that could easily and more effectively spot a deadly pregnancy complication, that kills hundreds of unborn babies each year.
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	HIV blood killed haemophilia patients
The first hearing began on the case of contaminated blood that was used for treatment of haemophilia patients in Britain.
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	No PowerPoint, please!
PowerPoint is not very healthy - state Australian scientists from the University of New South Wales from Australia.
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	Now one blood group fits everyone
A new discovery was made by international scientific team who established a way to convert one blood group into another.
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	France Will not Put a Ban on Skinny Models
After the death of 2 Latin American models, caused by anorexia, the fashion industry started paying more attention to young women with eating disorders. However France would not ban skinny model from the catwalk, it would rather call for a voluntary agreement.
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	Alcohol kills faster than ecstasy
A new drug list was revised by Britain's drug experts to reveal that alcohol and tobacco put your health at greater risk than such dangerous drugs as LSD, cannabis and ecstasy.
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	A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria
A joint project of three teams of researchers from three different US universities (University of Washington, Iowa and Cincinnati) have selected a different approach at fighting bacteria in people with cystic fibrosis. This team of scientists will investigate the possibility of substituting iron with another metal with similar properties to attract the bacteria to it.
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	Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking
Sleeping pills strangely influence people who take them. After waking up these men and women do not remember doing something, like eating, but they see traces of eating all over the place. The drugs' manufacturers will have to comply with a series of criteria, set by the F.D.A. to be able to stay on the market of sleeping pills.
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