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		<title><![CDATA[Young adults need to cultivate healthy eating habits]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As adolescents grow into young adults, time constraints imposed by school or work can begin to affect their eating habits in an unhealthy way.
In a study, researchers observed that while young adults enjoy and value time spent eating with others, 35...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Time out in the sun can halt onset of myopia]]></title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a24885.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Just spending two to three hours outdoors daily is a great way of halting short sightedness or myopia, which is fast spreading among urban children worldwide.
Myopia affects over 1.6 billion people worldwide, is spreading rapidly among city...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fading vision forces senior drivers off the road]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fading vision is forcing senior drivers off the roads, since they feel they can no longer navigate safely.
Salisbury Eye Evaluation and Driving Study (SEEDS), conducted by researchers affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, looked at changes in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:01:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fresh outbreak of bird flu in Darjeeling]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fresh outbreak of bird flu was reported in Darjeeling Wednesday prompting the authorities to restart culling operations, an official said.
"We have started culling operations at Rangli Ranglikot area of Darjeeling. This time a total of 7,000...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Old gastrointestinal drug slows down aging]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An 80-year-old drug once used to treat diarrhoea and other gastrointestinal disorders, can reverse the progression of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, according to recent animal studies.
Scientists, however, had a variety of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:32:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[India needs gender specific drugs, says expert]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a need to manufacture drugs based on the different needs of males and females, says an expert.
"Most of the drugs available in the market are made by keeping in focus the needs of men and in the whole process of manufacturing, we ignore the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:32:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Medicines worth Rs.10 mn found dumped on road]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life-saving drugs worth Rs.10 million have been found dumped on an isolated stretch of road in Orissa, police said Wednesday.
The medicines are suspected to have been offloaded from a truck near Kutra village in Sundergarh district, 350 km from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:17:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Transferring toxic genes to other microbes, bacteria gain in virulence]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have identified a new way whereby bacteria transmit toxic genes to other unrelated bacterial species and gain greater virulence.
They also suspect that such exchanges may be more common than previously imagined. 
New York University (NYU)...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:02:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ban lifted on use of mobile phones in England hospitals]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has lifted the ban on use of mobile phones in hospitals in England, though they will continue to be restricted in intensive care units, the chemotherapy and children's wards.
Health minister Ben Bradshaw said the health trusts should...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:01:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama picks Sanjay Gupta as US surgeon general]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general of the United States to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, an Indian American neurosurgeon and health affairs correspondent for CNN and CBS, media reports said.
Gupta has told administration...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:33:01 +0530</pubDate>
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