In Britain, people from low socio-economic positions still eat more salt than those from higher socio-economic positions, irrespective of where they live. A paper published in the iBMJ Open/i journal and led by Warwick Medical School suggests social inequalities in salt intake have hardly changed in the period from 2000-01 to 2011. This is despite a national average salt reduction over this time.This paper is the first to monitor social inequalities following ...
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Across the UK and in the north of England in particular, pizzas spiked with chemicals that can get people high is becoming a trend, say sources. 'Legal high', which mimic the effects of illegal narcotics such as cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy, are untested and unclassified drugs that could have serious and unpredictable effects on users, the Daily star reported. A drug misuse worker has said that there is one pizzeria in central Newcastle that has ...
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A new study has revealed that rise in sea-level around the coast of Antarctica is caused by fresh water from melting glaciers. The study conducted by the University of Southampton explored that the sea-level around the coast of Antarctica rose 2cm more than the global average of 6cm. Craig Rye, lead author of the study, said that freshwater was less dense than salt water and they expected a localized rise in sea levels in regions where an excess of freshwater ...
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Respiratory infection control measures - which have been adopted by most health agencies to deal with the Ebola epidemic - are unnecessary, and may heighten panic among the public in west Africa. This is according to the authors of a new letter, published in iThe Lancet/i, and written by Professor Jose M. Martin-Moreno from the University of Valencia in Spain, and colleagues. Ebola virus is primarily transmitted through contact with infected patients' ...
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Science has become increasingly about data - how to gather it, organize it and analyze it as technology advances. The creation of key databases to analyze and share data lies at the heart of ibioinformatics/i, or the collection, classification, storage and analysis of biochemical and biological information using computers and software. The tools and methods used in bioinformatics have been instrumental in the development of fields such as molecular genetics ...
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