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UPDATE 1-Roche wins wider EU label for arthritis drug

June 9, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

June 8 (Reuters) – Roche (ROG.VX) said on Tuesday the European Commission had extended the label for its drug Roactemra to reduce the rate of progression of joint damage and improve physical function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, when given in combination with the older drug methotrexate.

The move had been expected following a positive recommendation from the European Medicines Agency in April.

The drug, which is known as Actemra in the United States, is currently approved for use in combination with methotrexate to treat adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis who respond inadequately to other treatments.

The new label extension is a recognition that Roactemra can also inhibit structural damage to joints, reinforcing its effectiveness.

(Writing by Ben Hirschler)

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”Maybe later” is the phrase most hectic parents use to delay kids’ play request

May 20, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 20 (ANI): The phrase that today’s hectic parents use most often in response to their kids’ request to play with them is: “Maybe later”, revealed a new study.

Researchers found that, despite children being parents” ”main priority”, 80 per cent admit they don”t devote enough time to them.

In fact, the report found working parents spend less than an hour a day giving their kids one-to-one attention – with the average child getting just 36 minutes with their mother or father.

Children”s responses to the survey painted a similar picture, claiming parents are too preoccupied with working, tidying and checking emails to address their needs.

The study of 3,000 working parents and their children by car insurance provider Admiral found that almost eight out of ten children said they were fed up of being parked in front of the television instead of being entertained.

The trend also showed adults are parenting ”remotely” from their laptops or kitchen sink and continually promising their attention ”later”.

””The generation of ”Maybe Later” kids shows a worrying trend of parents not spending as much time as they should with their children,” the Telegraph quoted James Carnduff of Admiral, which conducted the research as part of its Family Journeys campaign, as saying.

””Parents admit their children aren”t getting enough of their attention, and children are also feeling the impact of this, desperate for their parents to spend more time with them.

””We live in ever busier times with many parents taking work home with them once they leave the office, but it seems this is having a negative effect on the relationship they have with their children.

””Parents need to remember that playing with your kids is a great way to relieve stress and forget about work.

””The responses from the children we asked show that parents can”t get away with simply sticking their children in front of the TV as that”s simply no replacement for quality time,” he added.

The research also found on top of a normal full time working week, busy parents log onto their emails as soon as they get home from work at least four nights a week.

And at least one of the two parents misses dinner twice a week due to working late.

When at home, 70 per cent of mums and dads admit they spend much of their spare time cooking and cleaning rather than playing with their children.

And 56 per cent often find themselves promising to play with their children after they have finished a bit of work, checked their emails or completed household chores.

But kids are fed up with being treated like second best.

Two thirds said mum and dad are always saying they”ll help with homework or play ”later”.

Six in ten children said they wished their parents worked less and 55 per cent wished they would leave the cleaning until after they went to bed.

Sixty eight per cent said they would like it if their parents had more time to play with them.

””Trying to balance work and home life can be difficult in modern society, but simple things like going on trips as a family can be easy and fun, and don”t need to cost a lot of money,” said Carnduff.

””We”re encouraging families to take more trips out together; these family memories are the things our kids remember from their childhood.

””Saying ”maybe later” to children needs to become a thing of the past for parents, as the results of our survey show that the nation”s children are well and truly fed up,” he added. (ANI)

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It’s official: Men lie more than women

May 18, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 18 (ANI): A new study has confirmed what many ladies already knew: Men tell more lies than women.

According to the study, on an average, a man will tell three lies a day, racking up 1,092 whoppers in a year. However, an average woman will come out with 728, fibbing just twice a day, reports The Daily Express.

The study, which was commissioned by researchers at the Science Museum in London, found that 82 per cent of females questioned said telling a lie ate away at their conscience but only 70 per cent of men confessed to suffering pangs of guilt.

“Lying may seem to be an unavoidable part of human nature but it’s an important part of social interaction,” said Katie Maggs, the museum’s associate medical curator.

“The jury is still out as to whether human quirks like lying are the result of our genes, evolution or our upbringing.”

OnePoll spoke to 3,000 adults for the survey.

The top 10 lies men tell their partners include “I had no signal”, “I’m on my way”, “I’m stuck in traffic”, “Sorry, I missed your call”, “You’ve lost weight” and “It’s just what I’ve always wanted”. (ANI)

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One in five men ‘hates doing DIY’

May 16, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 16 (ANI): One in five men hates doing DIY, according to a new study.

Despite traditionally being seen as a man”s job, the fear of failure puts off two out of five men, while a similar number claimed they don’t have enough time.

In the poll of 1,000 adults, a third said DIY was too time-consuming and one in five said they didn”t do it because they had no idea what they were doing. Another 21 per cent admitted they were simply too lazy.

“There was a time when almost every man would love nothing more than heading down to his shed to make something, or indulge in a spot of DIY around the home. But it seems this is no longer the case as a large number of men now see it as a chore rather than a hobby,” the Daily Mail quoted Chris Tidy, DIY expert for Bosch, as saying.

Of those who like to indulge in DIY, 45 per cent said it filled them with pride. A further 26 per cent used it to express their creativity.

More than a quarter liked the feeling they got after creating something unique.

On the other hand, it was found that one in four women actually enjoy a spot of handiwork around the home. (ANI)

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Wedding bells for Glenn McGrath, Sara Leonardi?

May 15, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Melbourne, May 15 (ANI): Aussie cricketer Glenn McGrath seems well on the way of walking down the aisle with Sara Leonardi, as he recently met his new lady love”s dad, who was visiting from Sicily.

And, according to Confidential, Leonardi’s mother is set to arrive in Australia in the coming weeks.

“We”re just really happy at the moment. We”re just two adults having a great time,” the Daily Telegraph quoted Leonardi as saying.

However, McGrath did not spill any beans regarding a possible wedding.

“There would have to be an engagement first,” he said on the subject. (ANI)

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Women wear £1K worth of clothes, jewellery every day!

May 14, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 14 (ANI): A typical woman’s day-to-day outfit involves underwear worth 26.61 pounds, a skirt at 30.46 pounds, top 22.83 pounds, knitwear 38.85 pounds, coat 64.75 pounds, tights 3.90 pounds and shoes 51.21 pounds, a study has found.

And all of this is teamed up with jewellery worth 378.82 pounds and a 76.49-pound watch.

What’s more, she accessories this with a 106.58-pound handbag with a purse containing cash, tickets and passes worth a total 146.29 pounds and a 106.06-pound mobile phone.

That means the average woman top-to-toe is worth 1,052.85 pounds on a daily basis – 93.84 pounds more than the typical man, reports The Daily Express.

Nikki Sellers, head of Sheila’s Wheels home insurance which funded the study of 3,000 adults, said: “While celebrities wouldn’t be seen without their designer clothes, this shows 1,000 pounds is enough to give most British men and women the feel-good factor.” (ANI)

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Children’s copycat behavior is universal

May 4, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Washington, May 4 (ANI): A particular kind of imitation – overimitation, in which a child copies everything an adult shows them – appears to be a universal human activity, rather than something the children of middle-class parents pick up, claims a new study.

Scientists “have been finding this odd effect where children will copy everything that they see an adult demonstrate to them, even if there are clear or obvious reasons why those actions would be irrelevant,” says psychologist Mark Nielsen, of the University of Queensland in Australia. “It”s something that we know that other primates don”t do.” If a chimpanzee is shown an irrelevant action, they won”t copy it – they”ll skip right to the action that makes something happen.

But it”s not clear that the results found in child psychology research apply to all people, Nielsen says.

This research is usually done with children who live in Western cultures, whose parents are well educated and middle to upper class. And these parents are constantly teaching their children. But parents in indigenous cultures generally don”t spend a lot of time teaching.

“They may slow what they”re doing if the child is watching, but it”s not the kind of active instruction that”s common in Western cultures,” says Nielsen.

So he teamed up with Keyan Tomaselli, an anthropologist at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, who has worked for decades in Bushman communities in southern Africa.

The study is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

For the experiments, the children were shown how to open a box – but in a complicated way, with impractical actions thrown in. For example, the adult would drag a stick across a box, then use a stick to open the box by pulling on a knob – which is a lot easier if you just use your fingers. Most of the children copied what the adults did, even if they”d been given the opportunity to play with the box first and figure out how it worked. This was just as true for Bushman children as for the Australian children.

But aren”t the children just following the rules of what appears to be a game? “That kind of is the point,” says Nielsen. “Perhaps not a game, but certainly, when I demonstrate the action, it”s purposeful. So from the mind of a child, perhaps there”s a reason why I”m doing this.” This willingness to assume that an action has some unknown purpose, and to copy it, may be part of how humans develop and share culture, he says. “Really, we see these sorts of behaviors as being a core part of developing this human cultural mind, where we”re so motivated to do things like those around us and be like those around us.” (ANI)

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Red-haired and freckly people most likely to use sunbeds

April 29, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, Apr 29 (ANI): Red-haired people with freckles are among the most likely to use sunbeds, it has been claimed.

Nina Goad, from the British Association of Dermatologists, said: ””People with very pale skin will never tan through UV exposure, they will only ever burn. If you are very pale and you want a tan, you will most likely find self tan products far more effective.

””Pale skinned people are also at far higher risk of skin cancer than other groups, so it is alarming that they are the most inclined to use sunbeds. This shows the pressure on pale skinned people to tan and the lengths that people will go to for a bronzed look.””

According to the survey of 1064 adults from across the UK, conducted for the British Association of Dermatologists, only one in four people who like to tan used cosmetic products to do so, reports The Telegraph.

Around 70 percent said they sunbathed while 4 percent used sunbeds.

””It is ironic that in trying to meet an ideal of beauty, people are actually seriously damaging their skin.”” said Goad. ””The truth is, to a greater or lesser extent according to skin type, sun exposure increases the risk of premature ageing, including wrinkles and sunspots, and more importantly potentially disfiguring or life-threatening skin cancer.””(ANI)

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‘7-month’ itch a big roadblock for loved-up couples

April 29, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, Apr 29 (ANI): It takes just seven months for couples to become complacent about their relationship, claims a survey.

According to the survey of 1,000 adults by personal grooming company Remington, more than half of those who participated in the study said they made a special effort to keep well groomed in the first few months.

However, after seven months men stopped bothering about being seen unshaven and women stopped dressing to impress, reports The Daily Express.

The participants said they were less concerned about their partner seeing them do even offensive things, like farting.

But 9 in 10 women admitted letting themselves go after the honeymoon period, while 88 per cent of men confessed to making less of an effort. (ANI)

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Straight off the stove ‘Kitchen Counter’ diet cuts down eating by a third

April 27, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr 27 (ANI): Eating less can be as simple as leaving serving dishes on the stove and off the table, suggest researchers.

At Experimental Biology conference in Anaheim, Calif., researchers led by Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, shared findings of their “Serve Here; Eat There” study of 78 adults.

“We looked at whether serving foods from the kitchen counter, instead of at the table, would reduce the number of times a person refilled his or her plate,” Wansink said.

“Quite simply, it is a case of ”out of sight, out of mind,”” he continued. “When we kept the serving dishes off the table, people ate 20 percent fewer calories. Men ate close to 29 percent less.”

The same strategy can be used to help increase the consumption of healthier foods, Wansink explained.

“If fruits and vegetables are kept in plain sight, we”ll be much more likely to choose them, rather than a piece of cake hidden in the refrigerator.”

Dining environment, plate and portion size, and other hidden cues that determine what, when and how much we eat are familiar topics in Wansink”s work. (ANI)

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Have more sex to avoid illness, Brazilians told

April 27, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, Apr 27 (ANI): Engage regularly in physical exercise, and particularly in sexual intercourse, to fight off chronic illness, Brazil’s health minister has advised the general public.

“People need to be active. A weekend football game must not be the only physical activity for a Brazilian. Adults need to do exercise: walk, dance and have safe sex,” said Jose Gomes Temporao.

It was while launching a campaign to prevent high blood pressure, that the minister gave the advice, reports The Telegraph.

Temporao then defended his promotion of sexual intercourse to journalists, according to the G1 news website.

“It”s not a joke. It”s serious. Having regular physical exercises also means sex, always with protection of course,” he said.

“Dancing, having sex, keeping weight under control, changing dietary habits, doing physical exercise” all help keep blood pressure down, he said. (ANI)

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England ‘least patriotic’ country in Europe: Survey

April 20, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, Apr 20(ANI): A new survey has found that England is the least patriotic country in Europe.

According to This England magazine’s study, respondents were questioned on several aspects of national pride, with English people judging their overall level of patriotism to be 5.8 out of ten on average.

It also revealed that just one in three British people were aware that the celebration of St. George was this Friday, while forty percent did not know why he is the patron saint.

Twenty percent blamed a broken society for their lack of patriotism, while half said they had been patriotic in the past.

“We’re incredibly disappointed that English people are afraid of displaying the St. George’s Cross on our patron saint’s day,” The Sun quoted Stephen Garnett, editor of This England magazine, as saying.

“It was quite shocking to see some of the results, particularly the amount of people that don’t fly the flag because of fear of being judged. It just shows what political correctness has done to the English people over the years,” he added.

The survey, which questioned 5,820 adults in nine European countries including Scotland, Wales and The Republic of Ireland, found that The Netherlands was the most patriotic European country.

The Dutch people ranked their patriotism at 7.18 out of ten, followed by Scottish at 7.1, the Welsh at 7.06 and the Irish at 6.72. (ANI)

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Eight of ten Americans trust in big government near historic low

April 20, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr. 19 (ANI): Eight out of ten Americans say they can”t trust Washington and they have little faith that the massive federal bureaucracy can solve the nation”s ills.

According to a Pew Research Center survey, the poll released Sunday illustrates an ominous situation facing President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party as they struggle to maintain their comfortable congressional majorities in this fall”s elections.

The survey found that just 22 percent of those questioned say they can trust Washington almost always or most of the time and just 19 percent say they are basically content with it. Nearly half say the government negatively effects their daily lives, a sentiment that”s grown over the past dozen years.

Majorities in the survey call Washington too big and too powerful, and say it”s interfering too much in state and local matters.

The public is split over whether the government should be responsible for dealing with critical problems or scaled back to reduce its power, presumably in favor of personal responsibility.

About half say they want a smaller government with fewer services, compared with roughly 40 percent who want a bigger government providing more.

The public was evenly divided on those questions long before Obama was elected.

The poll was based on four surveys done from March 11 to April 11 on landline and cell phones. The largest survey, of 2,500 adults, has a margin of sampling error of 2.5 percentage points; the others, of about 1,000 adults each, has a margin of sampling error of 4 percentage points. (ANI)

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One in four Oz adults finds partner online

April 20, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Sydney, April 19 (ANI): A survey has found that online dating is fast becoming popular in Australia, with one in four adults admitting to using the Internet to find a partner.

RSVP.com (owned by Fairfax Media, the publisher of the Herald) commissioned Nielsen to conduct the first comprehensive survey of online dating habits.

The Nielsen poll showed that 37 percent, many of whom are presumed to be in a relationship, said they would never go online to meet someone, while 38 percent said they are considering using online dating.

The poll also found that of the adults who had used dating sites, 33.6 percent reported a short-term relationship, 16.2 percent said they had a long-term relationship, 8.9 percent said they had married or were in a defacto relationship, and 2.7 per cent had children.

The initial results suggest that online dating is now part of the mainstream.

The survey showed that:

Of those who had used online dating, 62 percent had dated someone they met online, and that men were slightly more likely than women to use online dating services.

Most of those polled (72 percent) were seeking a serious relationship, but many were looking for friendship or just sex.

Nielsen polled 3057 people online in November and 3764 in January, with the data weighted to the general population.

The full results of the survey will be released later this year but NSW and Victorian data so far shows that while there were fewer NSW online daters (57.5 percent had tried online dating, compared with 64 percent in Victoria), they appeared to be more successful.

Almost 20 percent of NSW online daters had a serious long-term relationship, compared with 16.6 percent in Victoria, and 8.5 percent had married, compared with 5 percent in Victoria.

Almost a third of both Victorian and NSW online daters made a good friend whom they remained in contact with.

Asked what kind of relationship they were seeking (multiple responses were accepted), 72.7 percent nationwide said a serious, long-term relationship, 39 percent friendship, 18.5 percent marriage and 27 percent casual relationships.

Of those who had used online dating, almost half had a profile and were monitoring it. Another 19 percent had a profile but didn”t check it often and 31percent had removed a profile.

The Fairfax Digital group-marketing director, Lija Jarvis, said when she began working on RSVP four years ago, online dating was still something that was vaguely embarrassing.

“That stigma has definitely dropped because people are advocating for it, talking with their friends, sharing stories with families,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted her as saying.

Since RSVP began tracking marriages in 2003 more than 8000 members have contacted them to report they had married someone they met online.

The poll showed that the biggest group dating online were those had been single for five or more years (38.4 percent), followed by those who had been single for one to two years (26.7 percent).

Those who had been single for less than six months (17.6 percent) and those who had been single for seven to 12 months (16.5 per cent) also used online dating services.

The most popular dating websites among those polled were RSVP (54 percent), Adult Match Maker (21 percent), eHarmony (20 percent) and Oasis Active (19 percent). (ANI)

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One in four Oz adults finds partner online

April 19, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment