Starting Out Right From the time we start preparing a room for a new baby, we are making choices about the child's environment. Many people get ready for a new child by painting, papering, and carpeting a baby's room with conventional ...
No doubt, with the invention different medical instruments, devices, equipments, & machines, medical professionals can easily discover and treat different diseases. But, today there are most of the people who ignore their health problems ...
“The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food,” an article by Michael Moss in the New York Times, lights up a lot of dark corners of the junk food industry and offers some genuinely fascinating angles on how Dr. Pepper, ...
Tags: Junk Food, food industry, US
A new study conducted by researchers at Duke University Medical Centre in Durham, North Carolina has revealed that environmental exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) may suppress a gene important to nerve cell function and to the development of ...
Tags: Packaging, plastic water bottles, metal cans
Despite politicians promoted in last year's government reshuffle quickly grasping the key issues in food and drink, MPs are still using the sector as a "whipping boy" over public health issues, say its bosses. Too often politicans ...
Tags: Food Industry, MPs, Whipping Boy
Mintel has launched Mintel Futures—a unique approach to trend forecasting enabling a longer term, strategic outlook—from the global analyst team at Mintel. Stemming from a set of six key trends, Mintel has identified the ...
Tags: Packaging Opportunities, packaging, packaging industry
According to one survey on electronic cigarette conducted by German federal health education center, electronic cigarettes contain a large number of propylene glycol, which stimulates respiratory tract and can lead to acute symptoms. Thus, ...
With the release of its Mini Keyboard, Penclic, the Swedish company best known for its ergonomic re-think of the computer mouse, goes on to address the second most important cause for computer-related injuries: poor keyboard design. ...
Tags: Mini Keyboard, Penclic, computer mouse, poor keyboard design
Healthcare technology company Ambio Health is showcasing its wireless health monitor at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Digital Health Summit, which is being held from 9-10 January 2013. Monitoring weight, blood ...
Tags: Healthcare technology, Ambio Health, wireless health monitor, CES
The Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare IT has published the final set of criteria that healthcare providers must meet in order to demonstrate that they have reached Stage 2 of "meaningful use" of electronic health records ...
Tags: Feds, health records, electronic, Computer Products
Not for profit Australian health and well-being agency beyondblue, has launched three new online programs to help Australians understand and tackle depression and anxiety in the workplace. beyondblue CEO Kate Carnell said while millions of ...
Tags: Workplace Stress, Australian, online programs, beyondblue
The National Consumers League(NCL),the nation's oldest consumer advocacy organization founded in 1899 to protect and promote the rights of consumers and workers,has sent a letter to David Sunflower Seeds,a subsidiary of ...
Tags: NCL, Sunflower Seeds, FDA, labels
The officials in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo have halted the planned expansion of paraxylene (PX) production plant, owned by China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., known as Sinopec Group, after protests over the weekend. The ...
Tags: Sinopec, expansion of paraxylene, protests
Concerned about the increasing number of people working in swank glass facade buildings suffering from various health problems,the municipal corporation has decided to appoint a microbiologist as an infection control officer. The ...
Tags: Health, Microbiologist, Infection, Control
In a June 2006 report,the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that"excessive exposure to mold-contaminated materials can cause adverse health effects in susceptible persons regardless of the type of mold or the extent of ...