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England cricketer Yardy quits World Cup with depression

An England cricketer flew home from the World Cup with depression yesterday – as BBC pundit Geoffrey Boycott came under fire for criticising his decision. Michael Yardy returned to his wife and two children with England potentially [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Finland Enacts World’s Toughest Anti-Smoking Law

We’re no longer giving tobacco tacit approval,” says Ismo Tuominen, a Ministerial Counsellor at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The legislation seeks to make Finland smoking-free not by an outright ban on smoking, [...]

Posted On : Sep, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

World Health Day 2010 - ‘Urbanism and Healthy Living’

The bedrock for economic growth and social progress is HEALTH and despite technological advancement in all fields, including the medical field, many areas of the world still reel under health disparities especially among rich and poor na [...]

Posted On : Apr, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Depression among world's worst illnesses: study

Depression is not only emotionally debilitating - a new study has found it's more physically damaging than many chronic diseases. Researchers from the World Health Organisation (WHO) have studied data from 250,000 people in 60 countries. [...]

Posted On : Apr, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

Brits are the most fast-food obsessed people in the world

When it comes to fast food nobody likes it more than the Britons, for a new survey has revealed that they savoured ‘the taste of fast food too much to give it up’.The survey, conducted by global marketing research group Sy [...]