Archive for March, 2009

A Prevention For Blood Clots?

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

A new report has revealed that people could reduce their risk of developing life threatening blood clots like deep-vein thrombosis, by taking statins - a group of drugs commonly used to lower cholesterol and fight heart disease.

Yesterday a conference was held at the American College of Cardiology, where researchers presented their findings showing a 43 [...]

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Pizza Vending Machine To Be Rolled Out In Italy

Monday, March 30th, 2009

The revolution is here! Those clever Italians have come up with the invention to rival all inventions - a machine that can produce and deliver delicious pizza in three minutes. It will make its debut throughout  humdrum offices and factories across Italy starting next week.

The highly intelligent machine is designed in a tomato red shade [...]

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Eat Your Fruit And Veg To Fight Cancer, Say Doctors

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Scientists have said we should be eating more organically produced fruit and vegetables in order to build up better defences against cancer and heart disease, and doing so could be as effective as taking a small amount of aspirin each day.

The vital component of aspirin is salicylate - an anti-inflammatory - which also exists in [...]

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Girls To Be Able To Text For The Morning-After Pill

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

A new proposal will start later in the year, whereby schoolgirls will have the ability to send a text message to their school nurse in order to obtain the morning-after pill.

Due to the high pregnancy rate in teenagers in Oxfordshire, six schools in the county will pilot the scheme.
All the girls at the four schools [...]

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Blood Smeared Walls And Mouse Droppings… In An NHS Hospital

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Reports have been revealed today of mouse droppings being discovered in an operating theatre in a West Midlands hospital, sparking new fears about the standards of hygiene across the NHS.

In addition to the findings, a surgeon and a hospital worker have approached Michael Fabricant, who is the Conservative MP for Lichfield, showing him pictures of [...]

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Cadbury Still Using E-Numbers

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Reports have come to light, of how despite a ruling from the Food Standards Agency last year to refrain from adding artificial colours responsible for increased hyperactivity in children, Cadbury’s are still adding to them to their Creme Eggs amongst other sweets.

In addition to Creme Eggs, the Food Commission - an independent body of health [...]

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Will You Grow Your Own This Year?

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

A growing section of gardeners and allotment owners are producing their own strawberries amongst other summer fruits in order to cut down on costs. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) took a survey and discovered that 66 per cent of the people who took part admitted to viewing melons, strawberries and raspberries as too costly to [...]

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Government Launches Study To Prove GM Food Safe

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

It seems the public are still having a lot of difficulty swallowing the positive spins put on GM food - so much so that the Government have called in Scientific reinforcements to try and convince Britain it’s safe to eat it. The plan is for studies to take place in order to disprove all the [...]

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Cousins Having Children Together Could Cause Disease Epidemic

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

A new report has revealed that children born to parents whom are first or second cousins to each other, have a higher chance of catching an infectious disease.

In the study it was discovered that cousins who breed together were unknowingly creating a damaged genetic blueprint within their children, which has the potential to spread rapidly [...]

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Walkers Brings Out New Brand Of Posh Crisps

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Crisps giant Walkers have decided to up their game by introducing a new brand of crisps for the more discerning taste, to be named, Red Sky.

The new selection of posh snacks will come in four gourmet flavours, including roasted peppers peppers & lime, Anglesey sea salt, sour cream and green herbs and West Country bacon [...]

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