The Washington Post writes here on these devices to monitor diabetics: The devices from different manufacturers resemble one another. A patch worn on the abdomen carries a tiny wire that pokes through the skin to measure glucose in cellular fluid. The patch hurts a bit going on but is comfortable afterward, patients say. The patch [...]
Ever-fatter teenagers are health timebombs! Times Online reports here: Health experts fear blindness and limb loss from diabetes will follow. Nearly half of teenage girls and more than a third of teenage boys in England are overweight or obese, figures suggest. The inexorable upward trend continued in 2004, despite a plethora of government initiatives to [...]
The Associated Press reports here at the WP website: Unable to drive down high oil prices, President Bush is spending Earth Day promoting futuristic hydrogen fuel technology as a way to wean Americans from gas-guzzling vehicles. After a bike ride near his Napa Valley resort Saturday morning, Bush planned to visit the California Fuel Cell [...]
Wenyi Wang doesn’t belong in jail, the Washingtom Post writes in its editorial here today: Wenyi Wang acted rudely when she yelled and waved a banner at visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao during his White House appearance Thursday. The Secret Service was right to hustle her off the grounds. President Bush was right to apologize. [...]
Medicalnewstoday.com writes here: According to new research, couples enjoy better sex lives in countries where sex equality is best. Austria and Spain seem to have the most satisfied couples, while the Middle-East and parts of Asia have the least. The study researched into the sex lives of 27,000 people from 29 countries. Western European countries [...]
CNN writes here: To the tune of a brass band playing "Happy Birthday," a beaming Queen Elizabeth II joined throngs of loyal subjects at Britain’s Windsor Castle to celebrate as she turns 80. And from BBC News here in pictures: Queen’s birthday crowds.
Spiegel Online wites here: For the past 137 years, a mysterious wreck has emerged at low tide each day on a beach off the coast of Panama. Researchers now know that it’s the presumed lost "Sub Marine Explorer," one of the world’s first submarines that would ultimately kill its German inventor.
The Washington Post reports here: Although male prisoners have a relatively high rate of HIV infection, very few of them acquire the virus while behind bars, according to a federal study that is the largest and longest one to look at the issue. About 90 percent of HIV-positive men in Georgia’s prison system — the [...]
Spiegel Online writes here: In public, Chancellor Merkel has spoken warmly about the Bush administration and stated her intention to improve trans-Atlantic relations that suffered under her predecessor Gerhard Schröder. But lately, the chancellor hasn’t shied away from giving Washington critical advice about how to manage its foreign policy.