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London, Mar 15(ANI): Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has found that Asian and Black teenagers accused of crime in Britain face discrimination under the country’s criminal justice system.

A comprehensive study of youth justice, the EHRC’s report said: “Differences in the treatment between black and mixed-race youths and white youths could not be accounted [...]

New South Wales Fisheries has welcomed the two-month jail sentence handed down to a man for abalone poaching on the New South Wales far south coast.
The 33-year-old from Batemans Bay was found at Narooma with almost 400 abalone, amounting to around 32kg of shellfish meat.
The department’s operations manager, Tony Andrews, says the case proves there [...]

London, March 5 (ANI): Diabetic retinopathy could be associated with poorer memory and diminished brain power in people with Type 2 diabetes, according to a new research.
For the study, researchers at Edinburgh University looked at 1,066 people with type 2 diabetes aged between 60 and 75.
Participants in the study completed seven tests focusing on memory, [...]

Washington, Sept 9 (ANI): Scientists from University of California have identified a gene in anthrax-causing bacteria that could be used as a potential therapeutic target for the deadly disease.

The ClpX gene in bacterium Bacillus anthracis not only contributes to the severity of the anthrax disease but also makes it more difficult for a patient’s immune [...]

Washington, Sep 4 (ANI): Kudzu, the nuisance vine that has overgrown almost 10 million acres in the southeastern United States, can be used as a dietary supplement for metabolic syndrome.

Scientists in Alabama and Iowa have [...]

London, Aug 29 (ANI): Researchers have developed a new tool that would help predict a patient’s risk of dying from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

What’s more, it would also help determine the effective level of treatment.

Boffins have come up with an ADO index that can help physicians assess the severity of the illness.

Presently, the BODE [...]

London, Aug 28 (ANI): A new study by researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands has suggested that a soluble fibre supplement called psyllium should be the first line of attack in treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

In the study, researchers compared adding bran, psyllium and a [...]

Washington, Aug 26 (ANI): Tamoxifen drug, commonly used for treating breast cancer, can actually increase the severity of the disease, finds a new study.

The researchers showed that long-term tamoxifen use increases risk of an aggressive, hard to treat type of second breast cancer.

Lead researcher Dr Christopher Li at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre compared the [...]

London, Aug 24 (ANI): University of Bristol scientists have made a major breakthrough in reducing the severity of multiple sclerosis (MS).

In the study carried out on mice and human brain tissue, the researchers found that neuropeptide ‘galanin’ was resistant to the MS-like disease, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE).

“The results were really remarkable, rarely do you see [...]

Washington, August 21 (ANI): A new study has found that young muskoxen conserve heat almost as well as adults, a finding that runs contrary to a longstanding assumption among scientists that young animals should be more vulnerable in extreme cold.

Biologist Adam Munn from the University of Sydney, Australia, carried out the study.

Surviving freezing winters is [...]

Mumbai, Aug 18 (ANI): The death of a seven-month-old girl due to H1N1 virus in Mumbai on Tuesday, pushed the country’s swine flu death toll to 29.

The girl’s death due to swine flu has risen the total number of deaths in Mumbai to three.

“The girl Modia [...]

Washington, Aug 18 (ANI): Peripheral arterial disease patients with negative, inhibited personality type are at an increased risk of dying within four years, say researchers.

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) occurs when plaque builds up in arteries that supply blood to body areas other than the heart and brain, such as the extremities.

However, patients with PAD [...]

Washington, July 7 (ANI): Researchers from Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy (IGSP) have revealed that family history can play a vital role in predicting the severity of mental disorder.

They suggest that just 30 minutes or less of [...]

Washington, July 7 (ANI): A new study has suggested that an online insomnia intervention based on established face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy techniques could help patients get a good night’s sleep.

Cognitive behavioral therapy-a psychological treatment focusing on the behaviours and dysfunctional thoughts that contribute to sleep problems-is one of the most effective treatments for insomnia.

“Unfortunately, [...]

Washington, July 4 (ANI): Queen’s University biologists have revealed that insight into the locust’s brain may offer a novel way to manipulate human brain to stave off diseases like migraines, stroke, and epilepsy.

The researchers said that a similarity in brain disturbance between the insect and human sufferers of migraines, stroke, and epilepsy could open pathways [...]

Mexico City (Mexico), July 3 (ANI): World Health Organization head Margaret Chan has warned a forum in Mexico that the swine flu virus worldwide is now unstoppable.

The WHO says most H1N1 cases are mild, with many people recovering unaided.

As the summit opened, the UK alone was projecting more than 100,000 new cases of H1N1 [...]

London, July 3 (ANI): British Health Minister Andy Burnham has told the House of Commons here that the swine flu pandemic is so out of control, that there could be more than 100,000 new cases each day by the end of next month.

UK infections, he said, were already doubling every week and overworked doctors [...]

Washington, July 2 (ANI): A new research, which has reconstructed the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice in 800 years as there is now.

Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark conducted the [...]

London, July 1 (ANI): Texas billionaire businessman and alleged fraudster, Sir Allen Stanford, is a “serious flight risk” and must stay in jail pending trial, a judge has ruled.

The cricket entrepreneur has been charged with seven counts of wire fraud, ten counts of mail fraud and [...]

Washington, June 29 (ANI): Dutch researchers say that complications early in pregnancy or in previous pregnancies can help predict further risk in current or subsequent pregnancies.

Dr Robbert van Oppenraaij, a medical doctor and PhD student in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Erasmus MC University Medical Centre (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), believes that the new [...]