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BY KEITH NUTHALL

DESPITE the binge drinking, fatty fast food, appalling public transport and bad weather, Britons have less medical hypertension than Italians, despite their sunshine, excellent diet, red wine and general supposed joie de vivre. That is the verdict of a European Union (EU)-funded research project IMMIDIET.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) consumer protection information network RAPEX has warned of two more safety bans on cosmetics products in Europe. Sweden has banned the sale of South Africa’s Tura England skin lightening cream for containing banned methyldibromo glutaronitrile; and Austria has banned the US-made MAXI-TONE skin lightening lotion with shea butter for containing more than 2% of hydroquinone, both breaking the EU cosmetics directive.…

By Keith Nuthall

In a sign that the credit crunch is not demolishing all long term thinking in the financial sector, France’s AXA insurance group has continued rolling out funding from a five-year Euro 100 million programme into innovative research exploring risk.…

BY JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN

THE ACCOUNTANCY profession in the United States might think its day of reckoning came and went in 2002. But those who thought that the Sarbanes Oxley Act was the final word in regulation for the accounting profession may be in for a rude surprise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AUSTRALIAN health officials have successfully attacked an outbreak of abalone viral ganglioneuritis which was discovered in a commercial processing plant in Mornington, near Hobart, Tasmania. The discovery prompted the closure of a 229 square kilometre fishing area, with the seabed in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel between Port Esperance and Southport being closed to commercial and recreational abalone harvesting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MAKING a living in the Canadian Arctic is never easy in commercial terms, given the restrictions imposed by the weather, the distances to populous markets and extremely undeveloped transport: there are no roads to and from the territory of Nunavut.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

Australian researchers are investigating the best ways to help people with

mental illness quit smoking. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients are

more than three times more likely to smoke than other Australians.

Researchers from the University of Newcastle and Hunter New England Health

have received funding from the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund

(ARHRF) to test a new programme to help mental health inpatients give up

cigarettes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned that British beaches became dirtier in 2007, with a major increase in the number of bathing water sites failing to meet European Union (EU) hygiene standard. These numbered 20 last year, up from just two in 2006, and 10 in 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ANGLO-Canadian research team has found microbes living in dried oil tar can be provoked into digesting this petroleum well residue, turning it into natural gas. Scientists from England’s University of Newcastle and Canada’s University of Calgary found the microbes could be provoked into a tar feeding frenzy by supplying them with additional nutrients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BRITISH government has warned the Aquatic Animals Commission (of the Office International des Épizooties – OIE) that future Bonamia ostreae outbreaks are to be expected in UK oysters. This follows cases of the disease in Whitstable, north Kent, southeast England; and West Loch Tarbert, a sea loch off the Mull of Kintyre, western Scotland.…