Greece's government Wednesday ruled out reducing a tax on heating oil despite a sharp increase in smog resulting from extensive wood-burning. "Reducing the price is not the solution (to the smog problem)," Finance Minister Yannis ...
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In two separate clinical trials, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that periodic meetings with a lactation consultant encourages women traditionally resistant to breastfeeding to do so, at ...
Does it really cost more to stick to a healthy diet? The answer is yes, but not as much as many people think, according to a new study. The research review combined the results of 27 studies from 10 different countries that compared the ...
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The number of people worldwide living with dementia could more than triple by 2050, a new report reveals. Currently, an estimated 44 million people worldwide have dementia. That number is expected to reach 76 million in 2030 and 135 ...
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In two separate clinical trials, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that periodic meetings with a lactation consultant encourages women traditionally resistant to breastfeeding to do so, at ...
Shaw Industries recently joined the Make It Right Foundation to cut the ribbon on the Foundation's latest project, the Bancroft School Apartments in Kansas City's Manheim Park neighborhood for which Shaw donated flooring including its ...
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ECO that stands for Energy Company Obligation, which is offering the free boilers scheme for the people, who are facing fuel poverty. If you fit under a certain criteria then only you are entitled to a new boiler without costing you a ...
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Rick Judson, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder and developer from Charlotte, N.C., issued a statement on Dec. 9 on a new report on rental housing released from the Harvard Joint Center for ...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reached an interim agreement that will shield public stockpiling programs for food security in developing countries from the usual limitations on governments buying food from domestic farmers at ...
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Low-income U.S. adults and those age 30 and younger -- two key groups targeted by the Affordable Care Act -- are the least familiar with it, a survey says. The new healthcare law's success will rest at least partially on young Americans' ...
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PT Asuransi Allianz Life Indonesia has debuted an assortment of three new micro-insurance policies comprising life, house and health insurance, for low-income people. Allianz Life Indonesia vice president director Handojo Kusuma was ...
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Canada Cartage partnered with the Peel Children’s Aid Foundation by providing new clothing to low income families in the area. The transport company offered its trucks to deliver roughly 10,000 articles of new clothing to a local ...
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Lower-income youth with kidney disease, even when prescribed growth hormone, are less likely to grow to a normal height, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Susan Furth, a researcher at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and lead author of the ...
It's long been known slightly more boys are born because fewer survive, but British researchers have pinpointed several reasons why boys are the weaker sex. Professor Joy Lawn, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical ...
Giving low-income adults incentives to buy fresh fruit and vegetables at local farmers markets may help reduce obesity and disease, U.S. researchers say. Suzanne Lindsay, executive director of the Institute for Public Health San Diego ...
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