'Workplace wellness' fails bottom line, waistlines: report
A long-awaited report on workplace wellness programs, which has still not been publicly released, delivers a blow to the increasingly popular efforts, Reuters has learned, casting doubt on a pillar of the Affordable Care Act and a favourite of the business community.
Most gym-goers wash their clothes once every third workout: survey
When it comes to keeping gym clothes clean, a new survey finds that most people wash their clothes only after every third workout. Women are the worst offenders, the survey said, with just 21% washing their gym clothes after each and every workout.
Obesity weighs down on top soda guzzler Mexico
Artemio Martinez balanced his corpulent frame on a stool in a Mexico City street taco stand, downing a sweet soda and eating a final pork-filled corn tortilla.
Less-stressed women are more attractive to men: study
Researchers found that women who have higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol are rated as having less attractive faces by men than their more relaxed counterparts.
Hairdo deployed in Brazil's fight against racism
Nothing like a good hairdo to fight deeply entrenched racism in one of the world’s emerging economic giants.
Annotated first edition 'Harry Potter' auctions for $227 421
A unique first edition of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ annotated by author J.K. Rowling has sold for a record 150 000 pounds ($227 421) at a London charity auction, Sotheby’s said on Tuesday.
'Beardvertising' uses magnificent beards as ad space
A US-based advertising agency has developed a concept that sees people’s beards being used as mini billboards, according to a report.
Sharp rise in number Afghan women in prison for 'moral crimes'
About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost twelve years ago.
Parents petition to save daughter from underage lesbian sex charge
Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then 14-year-old schoolmate, was another girl.Health
Pfizer takes its shot at a vaccine for evasive superbug
Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4 billion a year pneumonia and meningitis vaccine Prevnar 13 for Pfizer.
British scramble to vaccinate children against measles
More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the spectre of autism.
One yellow fever shot is enough, says WHO
The World Health Organisation says a yellow fever booster vaccination given 10 years after the initial shot isn't necessary.
Schools empty as villagers harvest 'Himalayan Viagra'
The annual rush to the hills by villagers keen to harvest a rare aphrodisiac fungus dubbed "Himalayan Viagra" has emptied rural schools in Nepal and forced them to shut, a local official said.
