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Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs |
 ...es for those that are on a waiting list for a transplant.
The earlier reports made by the media regarding "malasanita" - malpractice, poor hygiene as well as poor safety standards in the national health system of Italy, prompted an inspection made last month nationwide to inspect all hospitals in the country. Despite this fact at least once a week the media reports on another case of "malasanita".
A month ago anoth... |
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Happiness Might Appear Before Fortunate Events Occur, Study Says |
 ... in their life.
Latest psychological studies have found that the feeling of happiness is not related to outside circumstances or turning points of one's life. This means that prosperity, marriage or health do not determine our subjective well being.
This theory has proved to be basically true, but only for some changes concerning the character of the event. Though most people can adapt to variety of negative and distur... |
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To live or die - computer will decide |
 ... a computer? Researches say that a new computer program can make life-or-death decisions for disabled people better than their closest relatives.
A new research conducted by National Institute of Health (NIH) introduced a software program that can calculate all the pros and contras for further treatment of the seriously ill patients based on the mathematical formula. The decisions made by computer calculations are cla... |
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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.
Experts conducted a new all-compassing research with the government top advisory committee involved to make a shocking conclusion on the harm of regular tobacco and alcohol.
A modern classification of drugs doesn't reflect the real situatio... |
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France Will not Put a Ban on Skinny Models |
 ...French Health Ministry has reviewed the issue of skinny models on the French catwalks and suggested that such models need special attention, but they will not be banned from the podiums, as the French Health Ministry officials said on Friday.
After two Latin American models died in 2006 of anorexia, designers, model agencies and the entire fashion industry have been massively attacked by the publicity for promoting such ... |
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New chocolate can save the planet |
 ...concern to the consumers is the fact that many chocolate companies use excessive amount of vegetable fat and sugar, substituting natural milk by factory farmed milk.
Now almost everyone knows the health benefits of cacao: it contains more than 300 chemicals among which are antioxidants, proteins, calcium, and many other vitamins. And now those who know what pure chocolate tastes like have an opportunity not only to en... |
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Can You Distinguish a Fake? |
 ...litative fake watches, a package is not the guarantee of the watch's authentic nature.
Certificate: While buying a Swiss watch, ask a shop-assistant to show you the certificate of conformance and health certificate. These documents are processed by the importer only in case of authentic timepieces.
Catalog: Take your time to consult the watch catalog. Find and compare the model you like with its analog in the cata... |
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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.
The finding can revolutionize medicine as it means there will be no lack of blood supplies. The study conducted by experts from University of Copenhagen published their results in Nature Biotechnology journal, where it is stated that O blood group can be a source for all the other blood types (A, ... |
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Timeline of the events in Tallinn, Estonia |
| ... of cyber-attacks against sites of Estonian organizations and political structures. The excavations are over.
May 2, 2007 - Reports come that the deceased young man did not receive a corresponding health care during an hour. People start collecting financial support for Dmitri Ganin's (the deceased young man) mother. Another cyber-attack - this time against an Estonian newspaper's web-page. Estonian ambassador in Mosco... |
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Fake Products – a Trifle or Economic Crunch? |
 ...0 seizures worth approximately $155 million.
As stated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, counterfeiting has resulted in over 750,000 Americans losing their jobs.
As estimated by the World Health Organization, 10 percent of all medications worldwide are fake.
In April 2007 only in Chicago police confiscated about 13,000 pairs of fake Nike shoes - their total value is $1.1 million.
Most people buying a rep... |
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Chinese Products - to Buy or not to Buy? |
| ...Following numerous health scares reported worldwide, China moved to relieve global anxiety over its exports' safety on Monday. Just recently, U.S. consumers have been alarmed that a lot of pets died after eating Chinese tainted wheat gluten and rice protein. There have also been reports of toxins and disease in other goods exported from China.
Li Chuanqing, a vice-minister of the General Administration of Quality Supe... |
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New students forced to take pregnancy tests |
 ...ears the college hold the right to test new students for pregnancy. Those that showed positive results were asked to leave. According to one of the college's officials the institution provides yearly health checks of the new students and the test on pregnancy is also included in the check.
It is worth mentioning that the technical college gatheres all the girls into a hall in order to pass urine samples on to doctors.... |
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Rare Cancer After Collapsing Twin Towers 9/11 Tragedy |
| ...t 70 % of workers had respiratory diseases.
It will be hard to estimate the risk of the new-found cancer for decades. All the workers will be monitored for about 20 years by a New York City-based health registry.
Experts are revising all the cancer cases that were found by doctors of Medical Monitoring Program. Earlier, the workers of the September 11 tragedy were found to suffer from chronic coughs, chronic lung ... |
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Violence in US Costs $70 Billion |
 ...s can compete even with federal education spendings, which are about $67.2 billion, as well as the spendings regarding damages caused by Katrina estimated at $80 billion.
The lead author of study, health economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Phaedra Corso, who is also an associate professor of health policy at the University of Georgia College of Public Health together with her colleagues at the ... |
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