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ACNE, BLACKHEADS, AND PIMPLES: * Dab a small amount of toothpaste (paste, not gel) on pimples before bed; this helps dry out the pimples. * Mix equal amounts of lemon juice and rose water, apply to face with a cotton ball, and allow to sit for 30 minutes before rinsing. 15-20 days of this...

kavya Shivashankar Winner Of National Spelling Bee Cool and collected, Kavya Shivashankar wrote out every word on her palm and always ended with a smile. The 13-year-old Kansas girl saved the biggest smile for last, when she rattled off the letters to “Laodicean” to become the nation’s...

Lemon is one of those super foods with a myriad health and cosmetic benefits. There are a few persons for whom it is an allergen, so make sure you are not allergic to this natural product, before you start enjoying the many benefits. 25 Health Benefits of Lemons 1. Lemon being a citrus...

Natural Weight-Loss Foods: Pineapple If you need something really sweet, and not just any old fruit will do, reach for fresh pineapple. It is one of the sweetest fruits around, and has much less caloric value than a sugary, flour-filled, processed dessert. Although pineapples from Puerto...

6 Healthy Reasons To Eat Watermelon Big or small, seedless or not, red or yellow, nothing says summer like a big, juicy watermelon (or a seed-spitting contest off the deck). But there is a lot more to this melon than water. Turns out it's packed with phytonutrients, vitamins A, C, and a good...

Home Remedies Drinking two glasses of Gatorade can relieve headache pain almost immediately -- without the unpleasant side effects caused by traditional "pain relievers." Did you know that Colgate Toothpaste makes an excellent salve for burns? Before you head to the...

Quran Explorer Link: http://www.quranexplorer.com/quran/ An amazing site. It is an electronic Quran complete with meanings & with sound. You can access any chapter & any Sura from the drop down menus & also hear the recitation.

Indian-American kids hot contenders for Spelling Bee Three Indian American kids are the top favourites to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee title after last year's spelling champion, 14-year-old Sameer Mishra, son of an Indian immigrant couple from Madhya Pradesh...

Paediatrician creates easier way to identify high BP in kids Paediatricians now have a simpler way to diagnose a serious problem facing children, hypertension. David Kaelber, paediatrician, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine, and his team found...

Reliance MF to launch Islamic fund in Malaysia soon Reliance Mutual Fund will shortly launch an Islamic fund in Malaysia, a top company official said. "We have set up a subsidiary and it is launching an Islamic fund in Malaysia shortly," Reliance Capital Asset...

Overnight dialysis a good option for kidney patients Dialysis ties up hours of a kidney patient's time several days a week, so why not do it at night during sleep? A new study has found that it is a viable alternative for patients with irreversible kidney disease...

Nutrition for Older Adults Each and every person of the present generation is nutrition conscious. They always prefer healthy food rich in nutrients. Not only the children, the older adults should also be made nutrition conscious. They often suffer from shortsightedness...

Bet dieting takes hold in the UK A new method of losing weight by betting on your own success is gaining popularity in the UK. Bet dieters join a website and make a commitment to lose a certain amount of weight over a defined period of time. Then, if they fail to...

'World needs global leadership, new multilateralism' UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a special brand of "global leadership" and a new "multilateralism" to deal with complex challenges like poverty, illiteracy and terrorism, facing the world today. In...

Researchers have identified a critical molecular mechanism that allows the flu virus to evade the body's immune response system. "We have found a mechanism that the influenza virus uses to inhibit the body's immune response," said Jae Jung, professor in molecular microbiology at University...

Quick surgery not helpful after mild heart attack : Does rushing a patient to hospital after a mild heart attack improve his or her chances of survival? It doesn't help much, says a new Canadian study led by Indian-origin professor Shamir Mehta at McMaster University in...

Schizophrenia doesn't raise violent crime risk The notion that people with schizophrenia are more violent than those without the condition is not true, say researchers. A new study from Swedish Medical university Karolinska Institutet and the University of Oxford has...

Diabetes drug lowers amputation risk : Doctors who gave diabetics, a drug originally intended to lower patients' cholesterol found it reduced their risk of so-called minor amputation by 36 per cent, a new analysis of research says. Researchers in Australia, Finland and...

Drop in World Infant Mortality, says WHO report Infant mortality under five has fallen 30% since 1990, which shows how stronger health systems have performed, a World Health Organisation report has said. This reduction shows the validity of a better health care, use of...

Why are cell phones insulated from viral attacks? A major reason why mobile phones have been relatively free of virus attacks is that the market is widely split, unlike in computer software, where one firm controls a large chunk of the market, scientists point out. If...