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The Australian Education Union (AEU) is defending a decision to pay a private recruitment company $500 for each new union member.
Victorian secretary Brian Henderson says the union outsources recruitment through the company Work Partners, to boost numbers.
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) national Secretary, Paul Howes and other union officials have criticised the practice.
But Mr Henderson [...]

Islamabad, Aug.25 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Advisor Rehman Malik has rejected reports about Hakeemullah Mehsud being appointed as the new chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

In an interview with the state television, Malik said reports about Hakeemullah taking over the TTP’s command were merely [...]

Washington, August 20 (ANI): In an animal study, researchers at the University of Missouri (MU) found gene therapy with a proven “longevity” gene to energize during exercise.

Writing about their study in the Public Library of Science – ONE, the researchers expressed the hope that their findings might be applicable to humans in future, and shed [...]

Washington, Aug 9 (ANI): An eminent obesity expert has said that parents can help to prevent obesity in children by helping them with their eating habits and building a healthy body image.

According to Edward Abramson, PhD and professor emeritus at California State University, parents can [...]

Washington, July 11 (ANI): Scientists from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified an enzyme that plays a crucial role in the process of aging.

Lead researcher Dr. Abbe de Vallejo, associate professor of Paediatrics and Immunology, has found that eliminating pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPPA) enzyme increases the lifespan of study mice.

The researcher revealed [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): Substantially cutting calories from the diet could slow the ageing process and increase life expectancy, according to a decades-long study of monkeys.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center and the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital have found that a nutritious but reduced-calorie diet blunts aging [...]

London, July 9 (ANI): An anti-aging pill may just have come one step closer to reality, with researchers finding that a drug, commonly used in humans to prevent transplanted organs from being rejected, helps extend the expected lifespan of mice by up to 14 per cent.

The study was led by three different US institutions, namely [...]

Washington, July 4 (ANI): Just like humans, cockroaches too can get fat on an unhealthy diet, says a British researcher.

Patricia Moore, of the University of Exeter, came to this conclusion after studying how female cockroaches change their mating behaviour in response to their diet, specifically what they eat when they are young, as part [...]

Washington, July 3 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California-San Francisco (UNSF) say that they have identified a particular region of genes on human chromosome eight that is linked to perfect pitch, the rare ability to recognize and name musical notes without any reference pitch for comparison, at least in people of European ancestry.

Reporting their [...]

London, June 25 (ANI): Scientists have long known that a restricted diet extends life. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified two enzymes that provide a new molecular explanation for how eating less leads to living longer.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Andrew Dillin and colleagues identified two proteins, WWP-1 and [...]

Washington, May 29 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California, San Diego claim to have identified a mechanism of oxidative stress that prevents cellular damage.

“We may drink pomegranate juice to protect our bodies from so-called ‘free radicals’ or look [...]

Washington, May 28 (ANI): Humans are genetically programmed to care about the long-term future, say researchers.

Lead researcher Dr Peter Sozou, of the University of Warwick’s Medical School and the London School of Economics and Political Science, revealed that individuals might have an innate tendency to care [...]

Washington, May 22 (ANI): An Indian-origin researcher says that studying a protein that plays a key role in tumour formation, oxygen metabolism, and inflammation may help understand the anti-aging and anti-cancer benefits of dietary restriction, say researchers.

Dr. Pankaj Kapahi, of the [...]

Washington, May 16 (ANI): An inexpensive plastic used to manufacture CDs and DVDs will one day soon be put to use in improving the integrity of electronics in aircraft, computers and iPhones.

Thanks to a pair of grants from the [...]

Washington, May 16 (ANI): Astronauts have managed to repair gyroscopes in the Hubble, the most critical repair to the giant space telescope, despite facing significant glitches in the process.

According to a report by BBC News, in a second spacewalk, mission [...]

Washington, May 13 (ANI): Majority of adults are inactive over their lifespan and don’t exercise enough during their leisure time, a 22-year study has found.

After following a group of more than 800 healthy Canadians between 1981 and 2003, the researchers found that almost 56 percent were consistently inactive and only 12 percent of participants remained [...]

Washington, May 04 (ANI): If women in your family give birth at older ages, you may well have a chance of living longer than you would otherwise, a new study has found.

The study confirmed a previous finding that women who have babies naturally in their 40s or 50s tend to live longer than other [...]

Washington, May 1 (ANI): Dengue fever is a viral disease blighting many of the world’s tropical regions. Now, a group of researchers has made a major finding which may help fight the terrible disease.

Carried by mosquitoes, such as Aedes aegypti, 40 percent of the world’s population is believed to be at risk from the infection. [...]

New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) A panel formed by the Supreme Court to probe the ragging and subsequent death of a Himachal Pradesh medical college student Monday blamed ‘rampant alcoholism’ for the spurt of ragging in educational institutions.
‘One of main reasons for violence (ragging) on the campus is rampant alcoholism, and it is recommended that [...]

Washington, Apr 12 (ANI): For people considering weight loss surgery, the operation can offer significant health benefits ranging from reversal of Type 2 diabetes to improving fertility and increasing an individual’s lifespan, says an expert.

Dr Nick Nicholson, weight loss surgeon on the medical staff at Baylor Regional Medical Centre at Plano revealed how the surgery [...]