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1in 6 mobile phones contaminated with fecal bacteria

One in six mobile phones in Britain is contaminated with faecal matter, ScienceDaily reported Saturday. According to new research released ahead of Global Handwashing Day, the most likely reason for the potentially harmful bacteria festering on so many gadgets is people failing to wash their hands p

Oct. 16, 2011

1in 6 mobile phones contaminated with fecal bacteria

New iPhone launch turns into remembrance for Jobs

NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn't just the latest iPhone that drew people to Apple stores Friday.Many consumers waited in lines for hours — sometimes enduring chilly temperatures and overnight thunderstorms — to remember Steve Jobs, Apple's visionary who died last week.The company's first

Oct. 15, 2011

New iPhone launch turns into remembrance for Jobs

Apple scoffs at Samsung’s mobile patent infringement claim

SEOUL (Yonhap) -- A lawyer for Apple Inc. said Friday that Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile patent lacks novelty and was not invented by the Korean firm, the iPhone maker’s latest attempt to counter the accusation that it is using its rival’s technology without permission. The latest court showdown

Oct. 14, 2011

Google said to seek rights from record labels for online store

Google Inc. is seeking agreements with record companies by the end of the month to start a music store that will compete with Apple Inc.'s iTunes, three people with knowledge of the talks said. Google is seeking permission to sell downloads and to stream purchased music to its customers' devices, sa

Oct. 14, 2011

‘Premature birth needs 35 weeks’

A group of doctors here say it is safer for Korean women to give birth at 35 weeks or later, even should premature labor be required, suggesting a different view from U.S. obstetricians’ 34 week theory. Thirty-five weeks is the minimum period of time for the fetus to be able to protect itself from v

Oct. 13, 2011

NCC lung cancer survival rate exceeds 50%

Thirty-nine out of 81 lung cancer patients who underwent surgery to remove tumors in 2001 at the National Cancer Center have lived till now, the hospital said Wednesday. Moreover, the hospital’s five-year survival rate marked 65 percent. Among them, two out of every three survivors were declared “he

Oct. 13, 2011

Autumn season hair care

Human hair usually has a growth cycle. It is made up of three periods: growth season; catagen season and telogen season.The growth phase of hair is about three years, catagen phase is about three weeks and then there is a pause for about three months. This is continually repeated. In contrast to ani

Oct. 13, 2011

Obese population growing in Korea, with estimated 70,000 serious cases

Being fat used to represent wealth in the old days, when life was hard.But nowadays, it has emerged as a social issue for a very different reason: it is not healthy. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, about 31.3 percent of adults are likely to become overweight once in their lifetime a

Oct. 13, 2011

Obese population growing in Korea, with estimated 70,000 serious cases

Pancreatic cancer 4th most deadly

Death of Apple founder Jobs, Steinman highlights cancer with few treatmentsPancreatic cancer is notoriously lethal ― there are almost as many deaths from it each year as there are new cases. The deaths this week of Apple founder Steve Jobs and Nobel laureate Ralph Steinman have brought more attentio

Oct. 13, 2011

Panel advises against prostate cancer screening

WASHINGTON (AP) ― No major medical group recommends routine PSA blood tests to check men for prostate cancer, and now a government panel is saying they do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive the tests as part of routine cancer screening.The panel’s guidelines had long advise

Oct. 13, 2011

Deadly Black Death bug hasn't changed, but we have

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists have cracked the genetic code of the Black Death, one of history's worst plagues, and found that its modern day bacterial descendants haven't changed much over 600 years.Luckily, we have.The evolution of society and medicine _ and our own bodies _ has far outpaced

Oct. 13, 2011

Deadly Black Death bug hasn't changed, but we have

Apple wins ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales in Australia

SYDNEY, Oct 13, 2011 (AFP) - US technology giant Apple on Thursday won a temporary ban on Samsung selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia after launching legal action on the grounds that it copied Apple's top-selling iPad.The Federal Court handed down its long-awaited judgement in Sydney but said t

Oct. 13, 2011

80 percent of US boys use condoms the first time

CHICAGO (AP) _ A surprising 80 percent of teenage boys say they are using condoms the first time they have sex, a government survey found in a powerful sign that decades of efforts to change young people's sexual behavior are taking hold.But another promising trend _ a drop since the 1980s in the nu

Oct. 13, 2011

BlackBerry outages spread to North America

NEW YORK (AP) _ Sporadic outages of BlackBerry messaging and email service spread to the U.S. and Canada on Wednesday, as problems stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.Research In Motion Ltd., the Canadian company that makes the phones, said users in the Americas `

Oct. 12, 2011

Samsung replaces smartphone feature to bypass Dutch ban

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's No. 2 mobile phone maker, said Wednesday that it has replaced a feature in its Galaxy smartphones to avoid a sales ban in the Netherlands.The company, which is locked in a series of legal battles with Apple Inc. over mobile patents and design, faced a sales ban i

Oct. 12, 2011

Samsung replaces smartphone feature to bypass Dutch ban

Breast cancer pinkwashing questioned

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) ― The country is awash in pink for breast cancer awareness month, and some women are sick of it.While no one is questioning the need to fight the deadly disease, some breast cancer activists are starting to ask whether one of the most successful charity campaigns in rec

Oct. 12, 2011

BlackBerry woes caused by 'core switch failure'

LONDON (AP) — Email and messaging glitches that have plagued BlackBerry users around the world for a second day were caused by a core switch failure, the smartphone's maker said Tuesday.Research in Motion Ltd. said the disruptions — which affected users from Europe to Latin America &mdas

Oct. 12, 2011

BlackBerry woes caused by 'core switch failure'

Vitamin E pills linked with prostate cancer risk

CHICAGO (AP) — There is more evidence that taking vitamin E pills can be risky. A study that followed up on men who took high doses of the vitamin for about five years found they had a slightly increased risk of prostate cancer — even after they quit taking the pills.Doctors say it's ano

Oct. 12, 2011

BlackBerry services hit in Latin America, India

LONDON (AP) -- BlackBerry's woes spread on Tuesday as the smartphone's maker reported service disruptions for a second straight day in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and fresh problems in Latin America and India.Research in Motion Ltd., which makes BlackBerry devices, acknowledged there were ong

Oct. 12, 2011

Mega beats Mimi for world's biggest virus

PARIS (AFP) - A virus found in the sea off Chile is the biggest in the world, harbouring more than 1,000 genes, surprised scientists reported on Monday.The genome of Megavirus chilensis is 6.5 percent bigger than the DNA code of the previous virus record-holder, Mimivirus, isolated in 2003.Viruses d

Oct. 11, 2011

Mega beats Mimi for world's biggest virus