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UK hospital opens internet rehab clinic for "screenagers"

03/18/2010
UK hospital opens internet rehab clinic for "screenagers"

Britain's first dedicated technology addiction clinic offers help to youngsters who are hooked on computer games, the internet and mobile phones.

Experiment turns contestants to torturers in French TV show

Game show contestants turn torturers in a new psychological experiment for French television, which aims to find out whether television could push people to outrageous lengths.

Israel to launch pioneering "organ for organ" donation programme

Israel is launching a pioneering "organ for organ" donation programme: Sign a donor card, and you and your family move up in line for a transplant if one is needed. The new law is aimed at boosting organ supply in the country.

Health experts: Fake Ugg boots are 'crippling' young women

British health experts have slammed cheap copycat versions of Ugg boots as disastrous and warn they might cause backache and pains in feet, knees and hips.

American women are more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than women in 40 other countries

According to a new report by Amnesty International on pregnancy and childbirth care in the U.S., American women are at greater risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes than women in 40 other countries.

All-black pinguin discovered on an island near Atlantica

A rare all-black pinguin has been discovered on the island of South Georgia near Atlantica. According to biologists, the animal has lost control of its pigmentation, which is an extremely rare mutation.

Doctors warn 3D TV screens might cause headaches, visual disturbance

Doctors say viewers of 3D television sets could experience health problems while watching the screens.

Brain scan can read people's thought patterns

British scientists from University College London revealed they could differentiate brain activity linked to different memories and thereby identify thought patterns by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

1 in 6 Americans infected with genital herpes; 80 percent unaware of infection

About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, and more than 80 percent are unaware of the infection, U.S. health officials said.


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