…nc deficiency is rife. Scientists studied 352 children with severe pneumonia who were all being treated with antibiotics. Half the children were given additional therapy in the form of 10 milligram or 20 milligram zinc supplements, depending on age. The researchers found no difference between the two groups in the time it took to recover from infection. But the risk of dying was very different. Ju…
…nyan court ruled he should not be charged. After years as a senior member in the long-dominant Kanu party, George Saitoti joined the current president Mwai Kibaki’s National Alliance of Kenya in 2002. As Internal Security Minister under Mwai Kibaki, he was a leading government voice against the Somali militant group al-Shabab. Kenyan troops have been fighting al-Shabab in Somalia since they…
…unsanitary conditions where the risk of disease is high. Their families are struggling for food as shortages send prices beyond the reach of poorer families. Their education has been disrupted as some 2,000 schools have either been damaged by the fighting or become temporary shelters for displaced people. Syria’s children are the conflict’s “forgotten victims – facing death…
Jerry Sandusky’s wife, Dorothy, has been absent from the analysis of who knew what about the former Penn State coach alleged sexual abuse of eight boys over a 15-year period. Now, Dorothy “Dottie” Gross Sandusky does make an appearance in the 23-page Grand Jury indictment which graphically details the charges against her husband. Dorothy Sandusky, 68, attempted to call one of the vict…
Barnes & Noble has apologized to Dr. Omar Amin who was kicked out of one of its stores for browsing the children’s section on his own. Dr. Omar Amin, 73, from Scottsdale, Arizona, said he was asked to leave after a female shopper told a worker she felt uneasy about his presence. Dr. Omar Amin, who is a world-renowned researcher of infectious diseases, said he was buying books for his tw…
…ses and how these preconceptions form at a very early age Interestingly enough, these differences became even more exaggerated as the children grew older. The researchers conducted the same study with 10-year-old children, and in both groups, the children overwhelmingly said that people with Northern accents were “smarter” and “in charge”, while those with Southern accents were “nicer”. But what w…
r shot her children and then she killed herself during a seven-hour standoff with police, after she was denied for food stamps. Ramie Grimmer’s Facebook profile had been updated to read “may die 2day” just hours before the shootings. The Texas Department of Health and Human Services says the agency rejected Rachelle Grimmer’s application because she did not submit enough information. R…
…pplicable to all racial or ethnic groups. “The population in 1976 and 1982 was mostly white/Caucasian here in Minnesota,” said Dr. Juraj Sprung. A previous research published in Pediatrics in November 2011, suggested an association between early multiple anesthesia exposures and learning disabilities in language, reading, and math. The study was performed by the same team. There were animal studie…
…ffects were also impressive. In the week-long study, eight people with diabetes had three ketone drinks a day as well as their normal diet. As with the rats, their weight dropped (an average of nearly 2% of their body weight), but so did their glucose levels, cholesterol and the amount of fat in the blood. The amount of exercise they did went up as they had more energy. However, the study was smal…
…ersistence of snoring and behavior in pre-school children. Persistent, loud snoring occurs in about one in ten children. In the study published online in the medical journal Pediatrics, the mothers of 249 young children were questioned about their sleep and behavior. A new study has found that children who snore loudly at least twice a week are more likely to misbehave The study found children wh…
…the statement accused John Branca and John McClain of a “relentless” negative media campaign and said that they were barred from visiting their 82-year-old mother or Jackson’s children, Prince, 15, Paris, 14, and Blanket, 10. “The effect of that notice not only is to damage fundamental family relationships, it is also to isolate Katherine Jackson from anyone questioning the validity of Mich…
A new report by UK’s Pets at Home on the beneficial effects of pet ownership suggests that owning a pet may in fact help children with their homework. The survey of 1,000 pet-owning children, aged between 5-16 years old, revealed that the vast majority (79%) believe their pet friends have a positive effect on their homework and schoolwork in general. Children with rats or mice are the most likely…
…her-in-law has revealed According to Zakaria al-Sadah, who was recently reunited with his sister, Osama Bin Laden’s children have been left traumatized by the raid carried out by US Navy Seals on May 2 last year. The children were discovered hiding in Osama Bin Laden’s compound in the Pakistan city of Abbottabad. Zakaria al-Sadah, a 24-year-old journalism student, says the children will not…
…satisfied as they stood by and watched Lena Fokina treat their babies, usually above a gravel floor. Each day at 8:00 a.m., parents would bring their tots to the Mirage Village Hotel in Dahab. Around 20 parents had signed up for Lena Fokina’s latest 12-day seminar, which costs $400 per family. Parents smiled and chatted as the infants were left dangling for long periods by their arms or legs. But…
…ts to rest I think they should come here.” The latest feud between the Jacksons is said to have been stemmed from a dispute over Michael Jackson’s $500 million will. Michael Jackson died in June 2009 at age 50 and left his estate to care for his mother and three children. He left nothing to his father or siblings, who have repeatedly tried to intervene in the estate. Several have expressed d…
Nick Ashford (Nickolas Ashford), famous songwriter of Motown, died on Monday, August 22, in a New York hospital. Ashford has been suffering from throat cancer for years and was undergoing radiation therapy. His wife, Valerie Simpson and their daughters were with him when he died on Monday afternoon, said Liz Rosenberg, publicist and friend of Nick Ashford. Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson were in…
…, and how it affects your health . . . The reason you hate healthy veg Up to a quarter of us are what’s known as supertasters. They have more tastebuds – more than 10,000 rather than the average 2,000. As a result they taste food far more intensely. This can be a bonus. Many chefs and wine tasters are supertasters, able to differentiate flavor more readily than the rest of us. But you can be…
stood outside screaming “Let me in! Let me in!”. Maryrose Kristopik has been hailed a “hero” by parents after herding the children to safety in a closet and barricading the door to prevent Adam Lanza, 20, from entering. An unnamed mother, in her 40s, whose 9-year-old son was among the children said: “I want to thank her. She saved their lives. “The shooter kept banging on the door screaming: <…
Russian cities introduced for the first time the anonymous baby drop boxes, where unwanted children could be left. The Krasnodar Territory in south Russia bought five of the so-called baby drop boxes in the beginning of November so mothers could drop off unwanted children anonymously. The first three boxes were installed in Sochi, Novorossiysk and Armavir, and by the end of the month one child ha…
How Michael Jackson’s family preyed on his wealth and took it by the vanload after his death. In the late summer of 2001, Michael Jackson’s family were after him again. It was two days before his scheduled departure for New York, where his 30th Anniversary concerts were to be staged at Madison Square Garden. Performers would include Destiny’s Child, Ray Charles and Whitney Houston, and frie…
On Monday, August 29, a knife attack, with eight children stabbed, occurred at a daycare center for migrants in suburban Minhang district of Shanghai. The children stabbed at a daycare center in eastern China were taken to the hospital The children were taken to the hospital for medical care. One was relatively severely injured and four had mild wounds, but none of the children suffered life-thre…
…ic condition in which huge amounts of DNA damage cause cells to quickly age and die. As a result, children rapidly grow old and frail before dying of “old age” between the age of eight and 21. Prof. Chris Hutchison used N-acetyl cysteine to slow the ageing of cells taken from children with Hutchinson Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) Hayley Okines, from Bexhill, East Sussex, is known f…
…ven, with boys more commonly affected. Many people with ADHD also have learning difficulties and sleep disorders. For the new study, the researchers followed 788 children born in Massachusetts between 1993 and 1998. They used hair samples taken from the mothers after delivery to test their mercury levels, and food diaries to see how much fish they had eaten. Then, once the children were about eigh…
Alice in Wonderland fans have been marking the 150th anniversary of the fateful boat trip that saw the genesis of the children’s tale. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is, on one level at least, the story of a girl who disappears down a rabbit hole to a fantastic place full of bizarre adventures. Charles Dodgson, a mathematician at Christ Church, Oxford, first told his surreal story t…
…g the 49 smoking journeys, the driver smoked up to four cigarettes. The levels of fine particles averaged 85 micrograms (mcg) per cubic meter, while the World Health Organization recommends a limit of 25 mcg for safe indoor air. Levels averaged only 7.4 mcg during the 34 smoke-free journeys. Even if the driver smoked only one cigarette and had the window wide open, particulate matter levels still…
John Lennon guitar sells for $408,000 at Julien's AuctionsA guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles has sold for $408,000 at auction. The custom-made instrument, built in 1966 by the VOX company, was bought…
Arne Svenson: TriBeCa residents threaten to sue artist for secretly photographed them in their own apartmentsResidents at a luxury TriBeCa apartment block in Lower Manhattan are very furious after discovering that artist Arne Svenson, who is their neighbor at a nearby building, has…
Monika Pon-su-san: The Chinese Girl in Vladimir Tretchikoff's paintingEarlier this year Vladimir Tretchikoff's portrait Chinese Girl, often referred to as The Green Lady, was sold for almost £1 million ($1.5 million) at auction in…
Bob Brozman suicide: Guitarist and ethnomusicologist found dead aged 59 at his Santa Cruz homeGuitarist and ethnomusicologist Bob Brozman was found dead aged 59 at his home in Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz County, CA, on April 23. Bob Brozman’s death was ruled a suicide,…
Harper Lee sues literary agent Samuel Pinkus over To Kill A Mockingbird copyrightHarper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, has sued literary agent Samuel Pinkus, who she says tricked her into assigning him the copyright on the Pulitzer Prize-winning…
1913 Liberty Head nickel sells for $3.17 million at Heritage auction in ChicagoA century-old US five-cent coin, once branded a fake, has been sold for $3.17 million at a Heritage auction in Chicago. The 1913 Liberty Head nickel, one of only five such…
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