Brian Godfrey: “I gradually got rid of foods that were causing the problem” Eating a diet high in processed food increases the risk of depression, research suggests. What is more, people who ate plenty of vegetables, fruit and fish actually had a lower risk of depression, the University College London team found. Data on diet [...]
A screening technique can double the chance of IVF success, giving hope to tens of thousands of women struggling to have children, say experts. Doctors at an annual US fertility meeting heard for the second year running of the merits of a test that screens embryos for genetic faults. So far more than 20 [...]
Seriously now, all guys over here, you know that Smoking is “Haram” in the law of Islam, and so is Alcohol. Let’s talk serious stuff right over here! First, a smoke rehabilitation centre can be built to help people to quit smoking, that will greatly reduce the number of smokers. Besides that, smoking can really [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Tuesday, September 15, the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, will host a Capitol Hill citizens’ hearing on mobilizing Muslim support for health care reform. DATE: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 PLACE: Rayburn Building, Room 2203, Capitol Hill, Washington, D. [...]
The fact that children raised in homes without a dad have sex earlier is down to their genes, say US researchers. The study tested for genetic influences as well as factors such as poverty, educational opportunities and religion. The more genes the children shared, the more similar their ages of first intercourse regardless of whether [...]
An injectable hydrogel could aid recovery from brain injury by helping stimulate tissue growth at the site of the wound, researchers say. Research on rats suggests the gel, made from synthetic and natural sources, may spur growth of stem cells in the brain. The gel has been developed by Dr Ning Zhang at Clemson University, [...]
The genetics underpinning a smoker’s risk of developing lung cancer have been further unpicked by UK scientists. Three areas of DNA were found to be linked with lung cancer risk in smokers – two of them influencing the type of cancer which develops. It supports previous studies which have suggested a family link, even after [...]
By Muhammad al-Jibaly Introduction Discovery Of Tobacco Tobacco was discovered by the Spanish sailors on the American shores at about 1500 CE (900 AH). Since its discovery, the epidemic of smoking has continued to spread all over the world. In our times, one seldom finds a house not afflicted by it. As early as the [...]
Malaria parasites ‘resist drugs’ International scientists say they have found the first evidence of resistance to the world’s most effective drug for treating malaria. They say the trend in western Cambodia has to be urgently contained because full-blown resistance would be a global health catastrophe. Drugs are taking longer to clear blood of malaria parasites [...]
Insufficient cheaper alternatives and a large former refugee population are fuelling tree-felling and dependence on charcoal in the self-declared republic of Somaliland, adversely affecting the environment, say analysts. Most urban households use charcoal for everyday cooking. “We use a sack of charcoal every four days because our family is large,” said Zahra Omar, a mother [...]