Grapefruit, orange and apple juices can harm the body's ability to absorb certain medications and make the drugs less effective, said a Canadian study released Tuesday in the United States. The research showed that these juices can decrease the effectiveness of certain drugs used to treat heart disease, cancer, organ-transplant rejection and infection, "potentially wiping out their beneficial effects," it said.
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Agence France-Presse - 8/20/2008 3:24 AM GMT
Even low-level exposure to arsenic in drinking water appears to be associated with increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes, researchers said in a study published Tuesday. Millions of people across the world consume drinking water containing arsenic from inorganic sources, said the researchers in the August 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Agence France-Presse - 8/19/2008 11:54 PM GMT
Personalised, genome-based health care could help prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths caused each year by adverse drug reactions, genetics pioneer Craig Venter said Tuesday. A new era of affordable gene sequencing will also render obsolete the practice of testing drugs on various ethnic groups, he said in a commentary, published by the London-based Nature Publishing Group. Agence France-Presse - 8/19/2008 12:28 PM GMT
The number of people displaced by floods in western Africa has risen to over 200,000, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday, as it appealed for urgent international aid for the region. At least 150,000 people in Benin and 12,000 in Togo have been displaced, the WHO said. Agence France-Presse - 8/19/2008 10:03 AM GMT
About 15 percent of college students have entertained suicidal thoughts at some point, while five percent have attempted to take their life, according to a study released this week. The web-based survey of 26,000 students at 70 colleges and universities was conducted in the spring of 2006 by the National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education and written by experts at the University of Texas at Austin. Agence France-Presse - 8/19/2008 3:30 PM GMT
With 100,000 infants dying from sickle-cell anaemia anually in Nigeria, the country accounts for more than half the child deaths from the disease in Africa each year, an expert said Tuesday. "From available statistics, 100,000 infants die from sickle-cell disease in Nigeria annually, making it the number one sickle-cell endemic country in Africa," Sadiq Wali, president of the Nigeria Sickle-Cell Foundation, told AFP. AP
The Associated Press - 8/16/2008 12:10 AM GMT
Call it skateboard diplomacy. For 16 hours this week, the reclusive North Koreans opened their doors to a raucous gang of skateboarders, dot-com moguls, actors, fashion designers, Middle Eastern sheiks and a Playboy Playmate, and let them party. The Associated Press - 8/15/2008 4:49 AM GMT
Malaysia's state censors banned two books on Islam saying they gave a misleading view of the religion _ a move slammed Friday by a group of Muslim women activists who published one of them. The Home Ministry of Muslim-majority Malaysia banned the books because they might undermine people's faith, national news agency Bernama reported Friday. The Associated Press - 8/14/2008 4:06 AM GMT
On the good days, when the building across the street is full of men from around the world pummeling one another, a handful of extra customers will wander into Lu Guoli's little restaurant, a neighborhood place where the dumplings are excellent and the waiters more than a little surly. Still, given that a good chunk of the world's boxing fraternity is camped out so close, Lu is surprised that business isn't better. The Associated Press - 8/13/2008 1:40 PM GMT
On the good days, when the building across the street is full of men from around the world pummeling one another, a handful of extra customers will wander into Lu Guoli's little restaurant, a neighborhood place where the dumplings are excellent and the waiters more than a little surly. Still, given that a good chunk of the world's boxing fraternity is camped out so close, Lu is surprised that business isn't better. The Associated Press - 8/13/2008 3:27 AM GMT
A Chinese activist who applied for permission to protest against corruption during the Olympic Games has been taken away by security agents, a rights group said Wednesday, the latest in a series of detentions during the politically sensitive period. Ji Sizun came to Beijing from the southern province of Fujian and wanted to demonstrate in one of three protest zones Chinese officials have designated for the games, Human Rights Watch said in a news release. 
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew into Kabul Wednesday and met survivors of an ambush that killed 10 French troops in the deadliest attack on international forces in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Sarkozy touched down at Kabul airport with his Defence Minister Herve Morin and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and immediately took a helicopter to Camp Warehouse, the base for French troops on the outskirts of the city.
Agence France-Presse - 8/20/2008 5:47 AM GMT
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Actors Ben Kingsley, George Clooney, Peter O'Toole, directors Ethan and Joel Coen, and more star power than ever will be on hand for the upcoming 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday. The festival, which runs from September 4-13, will showcase 249 feature films and 63 shorts from 64 countries this year, including 116 world premieres.
Agence France-Presse - 8/19/2008 8:21 PM GMT
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To bust a robbery syndicate operating at the Metro Walk Strip mall in Pasig City, elements of the Eastern Police District placed a laptop as bait and waited for their quarry to make their move. After three hours of long wait, elements of the EPD's Special Operations Group arrested Richard Mangunay, 20, and Jeffrey Martinez, 23, both of De la Cruz street, Barangay 130 in Pasay City, moments after they grabbed the bait - a gray ECS Elite Group Laptop worth P30,000.
The Philippine Star - 7/23/2008 12:03 AM GMT
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew into Kabul Wednesday and met survivors of an ambush that killed 10 French troops in the deadliest attack on international forces in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Sarkozy touched down at Kabul airport with his Defence Minister Herve Morin and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and immediately took a helicopter to Camp Warehouse, the base for French troops on the outskirts of the city.
Agence France-Presse - 8/20/2008 5:48 AM GMT
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Tech-savvy South Korea now has 45 million mobile phones, equivalent to 91 percent of the total population, the Korea Communications Commission said Wednesday. The data means each of the country's 15.8 million households has almost three mobiles on average, it said.
Agence France-Presse - 8/20/2008 4:06 AM GMT
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