Advice on vitamins intake
IT used to be "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."
Atlas from father of ET donated
DAUGHTER-in-law of Dr Rupert Turnbull, considered the father of enterostomal therapy (ET), recently presented the China Ostomy Museum inside Shanghai Second Military Medical University's Shanghai Hospital with her father-in-law's original atlas of intestinal stoma.
Death from hypertension varies with geography
BOSTON-- Death rates from coronary heart disease vary widely in different parts of the world, even when different population groups have the same blood pressure levels, according to a study in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Collector of 'magic pebbles'
A CHINESE folk song says exquisite stones can sing you songs if you use your heart and soul to listen.
From bags to riches -- The meteoric rise of denim
Fashion trends in jeans:
Zinc can reduce child pneumonia, diarrhoea
WASHINGTON -- Zinc supplements can prevent children from contracting diarrhoea and pneumonia, the two leading causes of death among the young in developing countries, researchers reported recently. Robert Black and Sunil Sazawal, of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, suggested in the Journal of Paediatrics lives could be saved by giving children zinc tablets or by adding zinc to basic foods such as bread. Black and Sazawal analyzed 10 different studies on zinc supplements and found that adding the mineral to a child's diet for as short a period as two weeks could reduce pneumonia episodes by 41 per cent and diarrhoea by 25 per cent. "This effect is greater than that estimated for any other intervention to prevent pneumonia," they wrote in their report in the journal. (Agencies via Xinhua)
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