by Research Team | Aug 15, 2015 | Health News
The Labor Department says its Producer Price Index, which measures inflation pressures before they reach the consumer, increased 0.2 percent in July compared to June when prices had risen 0.4 percent. Food costs fell 0.1 percent in July.
by Research Team | Aug 15, 2015 | Health News
A terminally ill man who called for changes to the UK law on assisted dying has ended his life at a Swiss clinic. Bob Cole, 68, died at the Dignitas euthanasia unit surrounded by four of his closest friends, just 18 months after watching his wife Ann Hall take her...
by Research Team | Aug 15, 2015 | Health News
Unusually brainy mice could hold the key to developing treatments for conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder , scientists have found. Researchers have created mice with an altered gene to inhibit an enzyme that...
by Research Team | Aug 15, 2015 | Health News
Indiana’s health commissioner has approved a needle-exchange program for a third Indiana county to help officials there combat a hepatitis C epidemic. Dr. Jerome Adams declared a public health emergency Friday for Fayette County that allows the eastern Indiana...
by Research Team | Aug 14, 2015 | Health News
The ban on smoking in public should be extended to pub gardens, school gates, parks and outdoor areas of restaurants, a new report has said. The Royal Society for Public Health said the ban, introduced in 2007, had “de-normalised” smoking and creating...
by Research Team | Aug 14, 2015 | Health News
The research suggests that almost 1,500 stillbirths and newborn deaths were averted in the first four years after the smoking ban was introduced in England in 2007 A team led by Edinburgh University looked at information on more than 10 million births in England...
