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Repeated exposure to dental X-rays ups thyroid cancer risk

June 4, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, June 4 (ANI): Repeated exposure to dental X-rays increases thyroid cancer risk, a new study has revealed.

Analysing 313 cancer patients, scientists from Brighton, Cambridge and Kuwait found the chances of developing cancer rose with increasing numbers of dental X-rays.

“The public health and clinical implications of these findings are particularly relevant in the light of increases in the incidence of thyroid cancer in many countries over the past 30 years,” the Telegraph quoted Dr Anjum Memon, of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, as saying.

However, Dr Memon was quick to add that the increasing use of sensitive diagnostic techniques does not necessarily account for the entire increase and that other causes warrant investigation. (ANI)

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Popular schools would take more students: ALP

March 17, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Labor has promised to spend $60 million to expand four popular Adelaide secondary schools.

Its proposed expansion would create up to 800 extra student places at Marryatville, Glenunga, Brighton and Adelaide High.

During the election campaign, the Opposition has promised it would build a second Adelaide High School campus to help meet growing demand.

Education Minister Jane Lomax-Smith says the school community favours its plan over the Liberal one.

“We’ve listened to their requests. They don’t want a split campus, they don’t want a school of over 2,100 children as proposed by the Liberals and they don’t want to be split over two sites,” she said.

“The school community want a modest expansion of 250 children, they want it on site and they particularly want it to fit with the parklands setting and the heritage buildings.”

Labor also says it will build six centres to deal with problem students if it is re-elected in Saturday’s election.

The behaviour centres would hold up to 20 problem students at a time.

Dr Lomax-Smith says they would be put at existing schools.

“Of the six new centres, two will be in regional South Australia and we’ve committed to working with school communities to work out where there’s the greatest need in order to locate these centres in schools that want to host them and that negotiation will occur over the next few months,” she said.

Liberal education spokesman David Pisoni says it copies a West Australian idea and he argues more funding would be needed for such centres to work properly.

“Based on the thousand placements that was mentioned by the minister, they’re looking at an average stay of eight days per student,” he said.

“The West Australian experience tells us that we need anything from a term or a year to make a difference for these badly-behaved children.”

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Aboriginal artefacts could move bypass

March 16, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Tasmania’s Department of Infrastructure is considering re-routing the Brighton bypass around an aboriginal heritage site.

A preliminary report has found a three and a half hectare area in the path of the proposed route contains artefacts and evidence of habitation that could be of world significance.

The Department was considering expanding the planned bridge over the site to preseve the remains – but is now considering an alternative proposal put forward by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre which would circumvent the site.

The Department’s Norm McIlfatrick says the proposal would follow an existing rail corridor, involving significant adjustments to the existing plans.

“Obviously we can’t put a kink in a large bypass,” he said.

“So a re-route would mean a significant sweeping of the bypass in an alternative route.”

The Department has previously said diverting the road was unlikely to be viable.

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Jordan set for boxing match against cage-fighter boyfriend Alex Reid

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 9 (ANI): Former model Katie Price, a.k.a. Jordan, is set for a showdown with her cage-fighter boyfriend Alex Reid, and will be facing him in a boxing match.

Jordan, 31, will be fighting Reid in an “extreme sports” combat bout.

“She’s got all the moves – Alex will have to watch out,” the Daily Star quoted Jordan’s boxing trainer Sol Gilbert as saying.

“She can deliver some really special right hooks,” he added.

She will be joined at the White Air festival in Brighton next week by pal Michelle Heaton, 30, who will also glove up to take shots against her man Hugh Hanley, also 30. (ANI)

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Mirren to star in big-screen remake of Graham Greene’s novel Brighton Rock

August 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug 28 (ANI): Actress Dame Helen Mirren is set to star in new film Brighton Rock, adapted from Graham Greene’s classic 1939 novel of the same title.

The Oscar winner will play amateur detective Ida Arnold in the movie.

The plot revolves around teenager Pinkie, who seduces a young waitress after she stumbles on evidence linking him and his gang to a revenge killing committed by Pinkie.

Mirren will have the task cut out to find the truth behind the killing.

Rowan Joffe has written the script and will direct the film too.

And he intends to make it look as contemporary as possible.

“We’re making Brighton Rock as contemporary as we possibly can because the story feels ‘modern’. It’s too alive, too vibrant and too relevant to be contained in the late 1930s,” the BBC News quoted him as saying.

Also starring in the film, set in 1964, is Sam Riley, who will play the lead character Pinkie Brown apart from Pete Postlethwaite and Happy Go Lucky’s Andrea Riseborough.

Shooting is scheduled to start in October this year. (ANI)

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Peter Andre ‘gets legal advice to deal with Jordan’s lover’

August 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug 27 (ANI): Singer Peter Andre is concerned about his children’s association with estranged wife Katie Price’s new lover Alex Reid and so he’s taking legal advice to deal with him, sources say.

The ‘Mysterious Girl’ hitmaker is apparently unhappy that the two kids- Junior, four, and Princess, two, are spending time with the cagefighter.

“As great as Alex may be with the children, he is not their father and never will be. As far as Peter is concerned, he is not an ideal father figure and shouldn’t be responsible for another man’s children – it’s not fair on anyone,” the Mirror quoted a source as saying.

The insider added: “The kids are going through a hard enough time as it is, trying to get to grips with why mummy and daddy no longer live under one roof. Peter simply wanted to make sure his lawyers were fully briefed on the situation, and are looking out solely for the children.”

There are also rumors that Reid is starring in a new porn film, which he insists is just a gangster flick.

The source said: “Pete’s number one concern is the welfare of his kids. He has nothing against Alex, but Peter has been rocked by the ongoing sordid revelations about Alex’s private life, and now his career.

“But the crux of the matter is that he and Kate only split up three months ago and she’s been dating Alex for a matter of weeks.”

While Peter arranged an emergency meeting with his legal team, Alex was busy playing happy families in Brighton with Peter’s four-year-old son, Junior. (ANI)

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Recession triggering boom in cybercrime

August 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug 19 (ANI): The economic slowdown is adding to a boom in cybercrime because computer-literate criminals in developing countries are increasingly trying their hands at electronic scams, according to British researchers.

The study by The University of Brighton team also found that the growth of social networking websites were offering cybercriminals with fresh areas to exploit as well as new areas for recruitment.

Led by Professor Howard Rush, the researchers said that detection and prevention had been boosted, but continuous data breaches, mainly due to human error, were exposing personal information on a large scale.

They also said that the UK needed urgent action to crack down on cybercrime to avert what they said was the potential for “international embarrassment” ahead of the London 2012 Olympics.

Rush said that the growth in credit card fraud and identity theft was due to communications technology reaching parts of the world, where many unemployed people with IT skills lived.

“Criminals there can take advantage of cybercrime opportunities, and the current global recession will likely increase this trend still further,” the Telegraph quoted Rush as saying.

And they warned that the capabilities of cybercriminals, especially without a global counter-strategy, will likely increase in the future.

The report stated: “Law enforcement agencies are struggling to respond, especially in places where legislative frameworks are weak or non-existent.”

“The growth of cybercrime in Russia, India, China and Brazil is of particular concern.

“As cyberspace develops further, so new opportunities will open up for organised crime groups. Crimes such as electronic theft and fraud will occur more rapidly, reducing the likelihood of offenders being caught in the act.

“Information about how to compromise a system will be available more quickly and to more people, which means that opportunistic criminals linked into networks of organised criminals will come to dominate and define the world of cybercrime.

“The ability of criminals to use new technology will also have a major impact on the sort of crime we see. In cyberspace, we can expect this to be further magnified,” it added.

However, the researchers urged a plan of action, saying: “Given that so many cybercrime operations take place in developing countries, aid agencies need to be persuaded to build on their policy reform work to help address cybercrime.” (ANI)

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Shane Watson’s injury casts shadow over his Ashes chances

June 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, June 23 (ANI): The Ashes prospects of injury-plagued Australian all rounder Shane Watson have become bleak after he was too sore to train with the team in England today.

Medical staff is monitoring Watson closely, after he complained of general stiffness and was confined to the team rooms during a training session at Brighton.

“I pulled up a little bit stiff from training yesterday so I sat out of today’s training. We are just monitoring things – that’s the way it has been with me for the last couple of years,” Watson said.

While the latest injury concern may not prove to be serious, it is a major concern that Watson was sidelined today less than three weeks before the first Ashes Test in Cardiff starting on July 8, The Australian reports.

Watson had only recently returned from back stress fractures, before breaking down with a groin strain during Australia’s one-day series against Pakistan in the Middle-East.

The 27-year-old only returned to the bowling crease during Australia’s ill-fated Twenty20 World Cup campaign in England.

The latest setback is the last thing he needed, as he tries to win his baggy green cap back from incumbent all rounder Andrew McDonald.

Australia will fine-tune its Ashes preparations when it plays a four-day tour match against Sussex starting in Brighton tomorrow. (ANI)

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World’s oldest man owes his longevity to ‘cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women’

June 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, June 20 (ANI): World’s oldest man Henry Allingham attributes his longevity to “cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women”.

The Brit who has spent 113 years and 14 days on this earth, is presently living at St Dunstan’s care home for blind ex-service personnel, in Ovingdean, near Brighton.

The supercentenarian-who has seen three different centuries, six monarchs, two world wars-is the last surviving founder of the Royal Air Force.

Before him, a Japanese retired civil engineer named Tomoji Tanabe, who had died peacefully in his sleep overnight, was the world’s oldest man. He was 113 years’ and 274 days’ old and had more than 50 great-grandchildren.

However, unlike Allingham, Tanabe had foregone alcohol and cigarettes all his life.

A St Dunstan’s spokesman said that Allingham greeted the news that he had become the oldest man on Earth by simply returning to bed after breakfast for a celebratory nap.

He reportedly dislikes taking about wars.

According to the Independent, he expresses his abhorrence for conflicts by saying: “War’s stupid. Nobody wins.”

He said in a recent interview: “Like so many, I have tried to forget my time in the war. In the last few years I have met other veterans, and we never spoke one word of the war, not one.”

Regarding the key to a long and prosperous existence, Allingham says: “I don’t know if there is a secret, but keeping within your capacity is vital.”

Allingham was born on 6 June 1896 in Clacton, east London, and his father died when he was a baby.

One-hundred-and-thirteen years later his dynasty includes six grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, 14 great-great-grandchildren and one great-great-great-grandchild. (ANI)

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Music fan finds sex photos in second-hand iPod bought in London

May 30, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 30 (ANI): A second-hand iPod bought by a music fan in South London was found to contain raunchy pictures of its former owner’s wife and lovers.

It was from a used goods store that Kristian Towell, 27, had bought the gadget.

The files containing the sex pictures were named Wifey and Chicks.

“When I got it home it was full of terrible music but then I saw the photos.

The Wifey ones are pretty decent, and the Chicks files is quite raunchy,” the Sun quoted Kristian, of Brighton, East Sussex, as saying.

A source at CeX in Croydon said that store usually cleared iPods before selling them.

The source added: “It’s embarrassing. We’ll look into it.” (ANI)

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Jordan ‘shuts home doors on Peter Andre’

May 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 21 (ANI): Katie Price a.k.a Jordan has reportedly banned estranged hubby Peter Andre from stepping into their 3-million pound mansion in Surrey.

Aussie singer Peter is said to be house hunting after his TV reality star- wife trashed any hopes of reconciliation and even reset the code on the security alarm.

“They have both tried to keep the break-up as civilised as they can, but with emotions running so high, this has proven nigh-on impossible,” the Mirror quoted a friend as saying.

“Pete’s main priority now is to see his children, and spend some much-needed time with them. Aside from this, he is house-hunting, looking for a place to rent with an option on it to buy.

“Kate’s made it clear he can’t go back to their current home and as they sold their old place in Brighton, Pete is technically homeless. He’s distraught and this is the last thing he needs.

“He’ll be moving his stuff out piecemeal over the next few days, and has enlisted his brothers to help him choose a new pad. It must be within a 30-minute drive of his kids,” the friend added. (ANI)

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Heather Mills demonstrates her cooking skills in Sussex

May 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 18 (ANI): Charity campaigner Heather Mills recently demonstrated her cooking skills on a weekend at Sussex.

“I’ll be coming in on Sundays, making my speciality of all the roast potatoes, parsnips, all the veg and gravy,” the Daily Express quoted her as saying.

The former wife of Paul McCartney-dressed in apron, trousers, and atop tottering wedge heels-confidently displayed her cooking skills.

Heather prepared a meat-free “beefy” stir-fry, “chicken” curry, and sweet-corn chowder on a stage at a food festival in Brighton.

She looked calm and confident even when a member of the audience shouted out that he could smell her stir-fry burning.

She just retorted by saying: “Not true”. (ANI)

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Heather Mills demonstrates her cooking skills in Sussex

May 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 18 (ANI): Charity campaigner Heather Mills recently demonstrated her cooking skills on a weekend at Sussex.

“I’ll be coming in on Sundays, making my speciality of all the roast potatoes, parsnips, all the veg and gravy,” the Daily Express quoted her as saying.

The former wife of Paul McCartney-dressed in apron, trousers, and atop tottering wedge heels-confidently displayed her cooking skills.

Heather prepared a meat-free “beefy” stir-fry, “chicken” curry, and sweet-corn chowder on a stage at a food festival in Brighton.

She looked calm and confident even when a member of the audience shouted out that he could smell her stir-fry burning.

She just retorted by saying: “Not true”. (ANI)

Yorkshire lasses are Britain’s Bustiest Babes

May 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 14 (ANI): A new survey has revealed that girls from Yorkshire are the bustiest babes in Britain, with 35 per cent needing DD cups or larger.

The study, conducted by MBT, who makes footwear for those with posture problems, revealed that girls from Newcastle were next, with the lasses from Bristol not lagging far behind, reports the Sun.

But London’s women were nowhere near the competition, after the survey revealed they had the smallest boobs in the country, with only 21 per cent a DD size or more.

It was also revealed that many of the big girls viewed their assets differently, with four in ten saying they make it harder to find a fella, while two thirds reckon they cannot keep fit.

Ten per cent say they are too embarrassed to dance or chat to men, and 22 per cent have at least considered breast reduction surgery.

The survey was conducted on one thousand women, and the results, showing percentage in each city with DD cup size or above, were as follows:

Leeds/Sheffield 35; Newcastle 35; Leicester 31; Bristol 30; Birmingham 29; Belfast 29; Glasgow 28; Cardiff 26; Brighton 26; Norwich 24; Manchester 22; London 21. (ANI)

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Money troubles leave ‘millionaire’ boxer Eubank homeless, alone

April 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Apr 12 (ANI): Fallen millionaire boxer Chris Eubank’s money troubles have left him homeless and alone.

The once swaggering former world middleweight champion has been forced to swap his lavish ways for a sad, lonely life in a hotel room, News of the World reported.

The 42-year-old dandy-who earned more than 35million pounds from the ring-has lived at the hotel in Brighton for four months because he has no other place to stay.

Hotel Staff says that he is a loner who sips lime and sodas in the hotel bar, then surfs the internet in his room at night.

Lisping Eubank was a hero to millions of British boxing fans in the 1990s. But the Inland Revenue delivered him a knockout blow in 2005, when he was declared bankrupt owing 1.3 million pounds in unpaid taxes.

Once so rich he used Evian water to wash his hands at petrol stations, Eubank now treats himself to sweets from Tesco’s across the street from his 149 pounds-a-night MyHotel pad in the Sussex town.

“We don’t think of him as a guest any more, he lives here. He’ll talk to fans and sign autographs. But we never see him taking a woman up to his room. Sometimes he’ll get a massage in the hotel spa. Other than that, he keeps to himself.”

Eubank was attracted by the hotel’s New Age theme. It has a feng shui design to “refresh your soul” and rooms have a decor of crystals and lotus flowers.

He was forced to move there after selling his 4million pounds Brighton mansion and another 850,000 pounds former home in nearby Hove to pay off his debts.

Last year ex-wife Karron, 43, told how Chris had begun globetrotting to exotic spots. But now he has been deserted by his circle of hangers-on and is having to watch every penny. (ANI)

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Racing games ‘lead to aggressive behaviour’

April 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, April 12 (ANI): Console driving games leave you feeling more aggressive than violent shoot ‘em ups, says a new study.

Previous studies have linked violence in video games to aggression. However, the new study has suggested that video games don’t have to be violent to trigger an emotional response.

It found that driving games could activate more brain regions involved in emotional processing than shoot ‘em ups.

For the study, Simon Goodson and Sarah Pearson of the University of Huddersfield in the UK recruited 30 adults aged between 18 and 45 to play either a competitive driving game, a shoot ‘em up or virtual table tennis against computer-generated competitors.

Brain activity, heart rate and breathing were all monitored during the game, and a questionnaire afterwards assessed their levels of anger, hostility and aggression.

The volunteers scored normally for aggression after playing the driving and shoot ‘em up games, while those playing the table tennis game scored as slightly less aggressive than the average for the volunteers.

However, when it came to brain activity, the driving game caused a significant increase in the temporal lobe, an area of the brain linked to emotional processing.

“It cannot be assumed that aggression is solely related to violent content,” New Scientist quoted Goodson, as saying.

The study was presented at a British Psychological Society meeting in Brighton last week. (ANI)

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Easter Weekend: Travel Chaos Underway

April 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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Major routes have already become congested, particularly on the M25 around Heathrow and on the Birmingham M6 toll road.

Heavy traffic has also hit the picturesque A303 through Wiltshire and the A66 in Cumbria.

With forecasters predicting temperatures could reach 19C (66F) in parts of southern England, travellers are keen to make the most of the bank holiday.

The RAC predicts that 33% more people intended to take short trips by road this year than last, and is expecting congestion on the M25, M1 and M6.

The AA said resorts such as Brighton and Bournemouth could be busy as well as historic cities such as Cambridge and Edinburgh.

More than 30 sets of roadworks are in place across the country whilst 51 have been suspended until the end of Easter Monday.

The Highways Agency, which is responsible for England’s motorways and major roads, said it had completed 37 sets of roadworks in time for Easter.

On the railways, passengers on a number of routes face service suspensions while a £55m programme of engineering work goes ahead.

P and O Ferries will carry 132,000 passengers on its Dover-Calais route from Good Friday to Easter Monday – an increase on the 98,000 figure last Easter.

A total of 200,000 passengers will travel with the Channel Tunnel high-speed Eurostar train company in the period from today until Easter Tuesday.

Those travelling by rail will have to contend with the closure of the West Coast Main Line between Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire and Rugby in the West Midlands from Easter Saturday until 12 noon on Easter Monday.

Services in and out of London’s Liverpool Street and Waterloo stations will also be disrupted by engineering work, although 64,000 train services will run over the holiday period (today to Monday) which is around 5,000 more than last Easter.

The most popular destinations for Brits travelling abroad this Easter include Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia.

British Airways said its top long-haul destinations for the holiday period were New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong.

Follow our live traffic updates from the Highways Agency and your reports.

Twitter Users: If you see anything on the road, please tweet a message with #eastertravel when you pull over. To follow our live travel updates please follow: skytravelupdate.

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Secret to playing golf – lack of concentration

April 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Apr 4 (ANI): Want to be good at golf? Well, try not to concentrate too much on the game, suggests a new study.

Researchers have found that the secret to a good putt is to stop worrying about stance, distances and the lie of the green and simply hit the ball.

John Toner, from University College, Dublin, who carried out the research, said: “When people feel under pressure they start to focus more on their technique, but this study shows that is exactly what they should not do.

“They should certainly not try to adjust their technique at all and should stick to what they know.”

He said: “One trick that people can certainly try is to try to distract your external focus. Make sure that your focus is on the hole or on a spot on the green and do not think about your technique or how your limbs are moving.”

To reach the conclusion, researchers asked 18 experienced golfers, who played off an average handicap of two, to concentrate on how they were playing as they did putting practice, reports The Telegraph.

The results were compared to how the players had performed when asked just to putt normally, according to the findings presented at the British Psychological Society annual conference in Brighton.

From analysis, researchers found that golfers who focused too much on their technique lost consistency in their game and tended to hit the ball more slowly while putting. (ANI)

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Sisters spread joy while brothers breed distress

April 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Apr 2 (ANI): You might hate your sister for keeping the telephone busy all day and irking you with her ‘beauty treatments’, but a new study has found that girls in the family spread happiness.

However, when it comes to boys, they are not such a big treat, says the study, which claims that brothers breed distress.

According to a research of 571 families, which comprised of brothers, sisters, a mixture of both and only children, having a sister in the home leads to siblings of either sex scoring more highly on a range of standard tests for good mental health.

Also, they are better at coping with setbacks, more highly motivated and have a better social life than those who grow up with just brothers, the study by psychologists at De Montfort University and the University of Ulster found.

Liz Wright, research fellow at De Montfort, said the study began after a previous project showed that girls with sisters appeared to suffer less distress when they encountered trouble in their lives.

“We wanted to see if the positive impact of sisters went further than just girls and found that it did. One of the most interesting findings was the impact of female siblings when parents split up,” The Times quoted her, as saying.

“It seems their natural inclination was to express themselves, talk about the separation and encourage other family members to do so as well. It seems to help keep family relationships going. Their was markedly less distress in broken homes with a sister,” she added.

Scientists have long reckoned that “emotional expression” at times of upheaval, is fundamental to good psychological health.

“Sisters appear to encourage that. However, brothers seemed to have the opposite effect, perhaps discouraging others to talk,” Wright said.

The study comprised of tests, which used a standard scoring method and covered how much social support people felt they had, how much control over their lives they felt they had, levels of optimism, achievement motivation, or drive, and ability to cope with setbacks.

The researchers said the difference when a sister was in the home were “significant”.

The research will be presented at the British Psychological Society’s annual conference in Brighton. (ANI)

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Botox jabs can help beat the blues

April 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Apr 1 (ANI): By stopping the face from frowning, Botox jabs, which smooth out facial lines by partially freezing muscles, make patients feel happier, a new study suggests.

The treatment has been used by many celebrities including Queen of Pop.

Now, after studying 25 people, psychologists have found that Botox anti-wrinkle treatment can help beat the blues.

In the volunteer group, 12 had Botox injections to the forehead, while the rest had fillers, peals or cosmetic treatments.

All the participants completed a mood questionnaire at least two weeks later, reports The Telegraph.

Patients who received Botox treatment were found to be significantly less depressed, anxious and irritable than those who did not.

Study leader Dr Michael Lewis, from the University of Cardiff, said: “Both groups had some form of cosmetic treatment, and there was no difference in how effective they thought their treatment had been.

“So this result is most likely due to the effects of Botox specifically.”

Presenting the research at the British Psychological Society’s annual meeting in Brighton, Dr Lewis added: “This research may help the development of a new treatment for depressive illnesses.

“Unlike other treatments for depression, which have significant negative side effects, the main side effect of a Botox-based treatment would be a younger-looking face.

Dr Lewis explained that by blocking frowning, Botox prevents expressions of negative emotion, resulting in a happier mood.

“But as the cosmetic effect of Botox is temporary, so will be the emotional effect. As the effect of the Botox wears off, one’s mood is likely to return to normal levels,” Dr Lewis said. (ANI)

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