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A new report on alcohol consumption has provided a rather surprising finding: most people who binge drink, or drink to excess, are not alcoholics. That’s the finding of researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who in a recent report said that 90 percent of people who binge drink are not, in […]
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A new study shows that women bosses struggle with depression more than their male counterparts. The study, which was recently published in the Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, examined just under 3,000 middle-aged women and men. The University of Texas at Austin study involved interviews with 1,300 men and 1,500 women, all of them […]
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Kissing your significant other for just a few seconds can result in the exchange of millions of germs, a new study finds. According to Dutch researchers, a ten-second kiss can result in roughly 80 million germs shifting from one person to the other. Surprisingly, this is a very new area of scientific research. “To our […]
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Researchers in the United States have found that many premature infants are being exposed to potentially dangerous chemicals contained in plastics. The most concerning substance is called phthalate, or DEHP, which is used in medical equipment. DEHP helps make plastics softer and more flexible, making it an ideal component in crafting breathing tubes, intraveneous lines, […]
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A new study shows that energy drinks can be dangerous when consumed by younger children. The study, which was recently published by the American Heart Association, says that there were more than 5,000 energy drink-related calls to poison control centers last year. Researchers found that almost half (40 per cent) of the 5,156 calls to […]
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