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Side-effects of the addiction have also vastly increased her chances of developing cancer: "I'll have permanent side-effects. If I have more children I'll need blood transfusions because of blood clotting trouble. And I'm prone to miscarriages."

That is nearly a whole day's salt limit for an adult and more than the maximum recommended for children. Research shows high salt consumption over a number of years can lead to raised blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks and premature death.

A mysterious Syrian military facility that was reportedly the target of an attack by Israeli jets last month has been razed, according to a new satellite image that shows only a vacant lot in the place where Syria was recently constructing what some U.S. officials believe was a nuclear reactor.

With dental implants, a patient can turn back the clock, and live their life with "teeth" again. For people with dentures 29% eat only soft or mashed food, 50% avoid many foods and 17% claim they eat more efficiently without their teeth.

Rising temperatures could wipe out more than half of the earth's species in the next few centuries, according to researchers who published a study on Wednesday linking climate change to past mass extinctions.

When do I start to bring my child to the dentist for an appointment? When do they start getting teeth as infants? How many teeth will they have? When do children start brushing?

The exhibit is made up of real human bodies and organs that have undergone a process called "plastination." The process turns organic tissue into plastic while preserving it so precisely - below the cellular level - that it can be used for research.

Microsoft, Walt Disney, Viacom and Rupert Murdoch's Fox Networks have pledged to use hi-tech filtering software to block uploads of any movies, television clips and music which are restricted by copyright. The popular video-sharing websites Dailymotion and Veoh are signatories, as are MySpace, CBS and NBC. All have agreed that to keep personal details for 60 days of everyone uploading content to their sites.

Many patients were left tangled up in an apparent dental deception with no teeth, and big loans to pay off. Hundreds of patients have been left high and dry by a chain of clinics called Rosewood Dental.

The clinical trial will compare an ultrasonic scalpel with the traditional technique, called electrocautery, in which surgeons send a current of electricity through the tissues being cut. The tissues heat up because of their resistance to the current, and the heat collapses and seals blood vessels to prevent bleeding.

Netherlands university student David Levy, who recently completed his PhD on the subject of human-robot relationships, told LiveScience that robots will become so human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them.

The Department of Health pledged yesterday to step up inspections to prevent the illegal use of materials made from cattle bone in dental implant surgery, amid fears that such material may have been imported from regions affected by mad cow disease.

The prevalence of overweight among children in the United States has tripled in recent decades

Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday, his 71st birthday, for work that has become invaluable to the modern chemical industry and helped the fight to fix the ozone hole

At the time, Cavlan's lawyer said his client had collected the animal, named "Cannonball," for a Dublin friend and didn't realize the dog -- which had several scars -- was being abused in illegal fights. He was fined the equivalent of C$1,350 and ordered not to keep terrier breeds.

According to the American Obesity Association, 30.4 percent of children ages 12 to 19 are considered overweight, 15.5 percent are classified as obese and the prevalence of obesity within this age group has more than doubled over the past 25 years. Yet, there is hope.

Am slowly adjusting to my new look and the physical and emotional changes that have come with it. After all, it is exactly what I asked for, and I do look more sophisticated. So I guess the old adage is true. Blondes do have more fun, but brunettes get help carrying their books

Russian design bureaus are currently working on the development of UAVs to be used for a variety of purposes e.g. reconnaissance systems for target detection and recognition to relay targeting coordinates to manned reconnaissance and strike aircraft. Various types of UAVs including unmanned helicopters are being developed. The systems capable of flying independently up to 10-12 hours will be either air-launched or deployed into aircraft-type flight.

According to experts at Sophos, the affected websites contain many posts that attempt to entice readers to various child pornography sites. The majority of the pages are on legitimate websites and one is even on a website designed for children. The posts are all found on message boards within these websites. All contain offensive words and hidden links to the pornography sites.

In a statement, Antonio Hill, Oxfam's senior advisor on climate change said by 2020, yields from rain-fed agriculture in some countries could decrease by as much as 50 per cent exacerbating malnutrition and food insecurity.

The Japanese are trying to create a robot that will take over childminding and care of the elderly from human beings. The Koreans are working on a robot sentry that can distinguish the movement of people and shoot them on sight. The US military have commissioned a robot helicopter with a recoil-less rifle capable of tracking and killing a particular individual ...So are these machines a threat?

Veterinarian Dr. Matt Humason says, "We began asking questions...we found the dogs all ate the same food from the same store at the same time... so we sent a sample to get it tested and it came back positive with melamine."

Teenagers are filming crimes including arson and car crime and posting footage on the internet, a BBC Wales investigation has found.

The incident occurred on the evening of May 1, when the broadcast of a popular singing contest on Guangzhou Satellite Cable Television was blacked out for up to 90 minutes, the Southern Metropolitan Daily reported.

This impressive large-scale projects can only be accomplished using Russia's Soyuz (Zond) launch vehicles and DM transfer stages, Faranetta said.