Archive for April, 2008
Gateshead Firm Fined £10,500 After Worker Is Left Blind In One Eye, UK
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning employers about the need to properly maintain machinery and supply adequate training after a Gateshead company was fined £10,500 following an incident that left a worker blind in one eye.
Weldex UK Ltd pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Provisi…
Memory Manipulation Questioned By Moral Philosopher
Is medicated memory manipulation ethically sound? And perhaps more importantly, who should be charged with the decision to deliver such a treatment: patient or physician? Elisa Hurley, a philosophy professor, is seeking answers to these questions in her research currently underway at The University …
Breastfeeding Reduces The Risk Of Cot Death
The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) announces its latest advice that breastfeeding your baby can reduce the risk of cot death. The advice, released to launch FSID’s cot death awareness drive Save a Baby Month which runs from 1-31 May, is based on research which showed that bab…
Explaining The Syndrome Of Absinthism
A new study may end the century-old controversy by what ingredient in absinthe caused the exotic green aperitif’s supposed mind-altering effects and toxic side-effects when consumed to excess. In the most comprehensive analysis of old bottles of original absinthe - once quaffed by the likes of…
Chronic Lung Disease In Premature Babies Could Be Reduced By New Treatment
A less traumatic way of delivering surfactant, a lung lubricant that premature babies need to help them breathe, could reduce the incidence of respiratory problems they’ll have later, Medical College of Georgia physicians say.
The problem is that while surfactant keeps the tiny air sacs insid…
Comprehensive Study On The Health And Lifestyle Behaviours Of The Irish Population Published
The Minister for Health Promotion and Food Safety, Mr Pat The manage Gallagher, T.D. published the results from the latest National Health and Lifestyle Survey (SLÃN 2007).
Key results emerging from the Survey
The survey contains a wealth of details on lifestyle behaviours of the Irish adult pop…
Cancer Experts Issue Seasonal Warning On Grilling — With An urgent Research Update
This year, as Americans construct ready to fire up millions of backyard grills, there’s a new scientific wrinkle: according to an exhaustive analysis of worldly research on diet and cancer, it’s day to start looking for an alternative to the humble hot dog.
Experts at the American Insti…
