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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INSTITUTE for Energy, (part of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre), has signed a deal with the EuropeAid Cooperation Office to help implement large scale on-site modernisation projects at Russian and Ukrainian nuclear power plants, that include making improvements to design safety.…

MONICA DOBIEl
AMERICAN research has suggested that having a strong sweet tooth may indicate an increased risk of developing alcoholism. A study performed by doctors from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, found college students’ whose fathers were alcoholics, preferred super sweet drinks and strongly disliked drinks with lower sugar, in contrast to students who had no family history of substance abuse.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union funded research project has developed a sensitive method of measuring airborne gamma particles, which it says allows for the first time accurate comparisons to be made with ground-based sampling. The Euratom ECCOMAGS project “resulted in the collection of an unrivalled set of contemporary airborne gamma spectrometry, in-situ and ground based measurements,” it claims.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN research has suggested having a strong sweet tooth may indicate an increased risk of developing alcoholism. A study by doctors from Mount Sinai School of Medicine found college students’ whose fathers were alcoholics, preferred super sweet drinks and strongly disliked drinks with lower sugar.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN research has suggested that having a strong sweet tooth may indicate an increased risk of developing alcoholism. A study performed by doctors from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, found college students’ whose fathers were alcoholics, showed an unusually strong preference for sugary tastes, compared with students with no family history of substance abuse.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNOLOGY being developed by a European Commission funded research project should allow curators to effectively monitor environmental pollution that can damage ancient treasures in museums and galleries. The MIMIC (microclimate indoor monitoring in cultural heritage preservation) project is using a range of sophisticated devices to deduce the effect of changes in humidity, temperature, light and pollutant levels (nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrous acid and ozone).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SUB-PAR job performance due to pain, rather than absenteeism, costs US employers more than US$60 billion per year in lost productivity, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Headaches were the most frequently cited medical condition causing problems at work, followed by back pain, foot pain, arthritis and other joint and muscle aches.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA realizes by now that it has a collective weight problem. Newspaper articles have been coming out at an ever increasing rate to remind them that 64 per cent of the population is overweight or obese, that the fastest rising group of overweight Americans is children and that the medical toll obesity exacts is estimated at US$100 billion (GBPounds 59 billion) a year.…

BY PHILIP FINE

SWEET drinks are helping to increase daily caloric averages, according to a study published in the USA’s Obesity Research. The research found average world consumption up by 74 calories a day, with sugar making up a larger proportion of that increase.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN OVERWHELMING majority of Canadians are displeased with their private motor insurance schemes and believe their provincial governments should step in to regulate the industry, according to a recent public opinion poll.

Of the 1,017 respondents interviewed, 75 per cent said these regional authorities should use their constitutional powers on insurance to impose limits on premium increases, and an equal number say that they should not exceed the inflation rate for people with clean driving records.…