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India Invests In A Cleaner Ganges

India is planning on investing around $3 billion in cleaning the river Ganges, which flows through northern India and Bangladesh. Currently, around 50 percent of Delhi's raw sewage flows straigt into the Ganges. ...

Video Games Used To Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Researchers are seeing positive results after experimenting veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder with video game therapy. A realistic video game, Virtual Iraq, is being tested in the United States to see if it can help veterans feel more comfortable with...

Alcohol Might Help In Brain Injury Recovery

A new study conducts alcohol may help people survive trauma to the head, and should perhaps be considered as a treatment method for patients with brain injuries in the future. The study, published in the Archives of Surgery, compared the outcome of patients who had been...

Halo Reach Beta Available Through Halo 3 ODST

Halo: Reach, a multiplayer game exclusively developed for Xbox 360, is now available to gamers who buy the game Halo 3: ODST. Halo 3: ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Troopers) is available for purchase today. It's a prequel to the massively popular Halo 3, released in 2007. Halo 3:...

Burt Reynolds Checks into Rehab for Prescription Addiction

Actor Burt Reynolds checks in to rehab today to battle a prescription medication addiciton. His manager made a statement earlier: ""After a recent back surgery, Mr. Reynolds felt like he was going through hell and after a while, realized he was a prisoner of prescription...

How Brain Cancer Kills, Should T Kennedy Have Left Office?

Ted Kennedy died with brain cancer, should he have left office for treatment? The type of brain tumor he had was called "glioblastoma multiflora". "Brain cancer has a wide variety of symptoms including seizures,...

Hormonal Acne Treatment

Hormonal acne, is the typical acne problem, that any adolescent or adult would go through. Hormonal changes sometimes lead to chemical imbalances in the system, giving rise to acne. For a very long time it was...

No excuse for anti-Tamil policies

National Post, a new paper that was "broadly sympathetic to the Sri Lankan government's goal of confronting and subduing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam", posted an opinion that "there is no excuse for anti-Tamil policies. "Sri Lanka must now be judged by the...

Son of leading scientist dies in jail.

"Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi run in the streets during protests in Tehran, Iran, June 16, 2009. Photograph: Getty Images/Getty Images Fears are mounting over the...

McDonalds Worker Had Hepatitis A, May Have Infected 10,000 People

A McDonald's worker in Rock Island, Illinois was diagnosed with Hepatitis A on June 17, but state health officials did not know about it until July 13th, and the worker came to work at McDonalds for 7 days during...

Ottawa rips Sri Lanka for deporting ‘security threat’ Bob Rae

The government of Canada has formally registered its "dismay and displeasure" regarding unacceptable treatment of Hon. Bob Rae. and deporing him for Sri Lankan national security threat. " “It is absurd to suggest...

Genes From Canines may help cure Brain Cancer

Pinpointing the genes involved in human brain cancer can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, and sometimes the needle you find may not be the right one. By comparing human and canine genomes, researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that a gene...

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired - Addiction can be Treated

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Sharks to be trained like dolphins at Sea Life

" SHARKS are to be trained like dolphins to feed from keepers and even roll over and have their tummies tickled.Brave keepers at British aquariums will use the techniques after research showed the predators responded well to tuition. Experts hope the training...

FDA Slams Green Tea! Have They Done Enough Research?

The Orientals have credited Green tea with miracle healing powers for Centuries. Among the powers that were mentioned were such effects as Green Tea’s ability to work as a stimulant, its ability to eliminate indigestion, prevent fatigue, and improve both the urinary...

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