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Spam has always been a problem online but as the web evolves so do the means of spreading it. Email spam isn't going anywhere but social networks are increasingly flooded with the problem and the bigger they are, the more likely target they become. Twitter has been battling with the issue and has just launched a... |
15 October 2009
08:49 GMT |
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to draft its first sketch of a global plan of acting out against alcohol. Between now and January 2010, options will be analyzed and stitched together, providing the agency with the first-ever plan of combating the world's fifth leading cause of premature death. Th... |
15 October 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Children who experience verbal and physical abuse may be at significant risk of dying faster than peers who were not subjected to such treatments, a study finds. The paper reveals that beatings and curse words can take years of a child's life, and that those who went through six or more so-called adverse childho... |
6 October 2009
11:03 GMT |
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Healthcare experts often have a hard time identifying a person's history of abuse, and they are, at times, faced with people, mostly women, who cover up for their attackers out of fear of retribution. Because doctors are human, they can be deceived by these victims, despite their best intentions. But a new compu... |
1 October 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Apple has already implemented means of detecting if its devices have experienced liquid submersion – liquid sensors. However, through a recently published patent application, the Mac maker is now proposing a new way to let vendors know what exactly that returned device has endured. "The system may include an i... |
6 August 2009
10:03 GMT |
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Women suffering from severe mental illnesses are more likely to have suffered abuse in their early years of life, as opposed to the general population, during childhood or as teens, a new research presented by experts at King's College London Institute of Psychiatry shows. Published in the April issue of the Bri... |
1 April 2009
05:51 GMT |
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According to new study data, teenagers in the US are highly neglected when it comes to their addictions, especially those of drugs and other illicit substances. Researchers show that physicians and psychologists are ill-equipped to handle the underlying problems that lead to teenagers engaging in such behavior, and, ... |
2 March 2009
09:20 GMT |
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It is a well-known fact that childhood abuse, of all sorts, can cause life-long damage to the kid subjected to it, but on Sunday researchers managed to confirm some older theories, which stated that the changes that occurred in the victim actually influenced his or her genes. Once it's changed, the human genome ... |
24 February 2009
02:19 GMT |
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In its annual report, the United Nations' International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has established that drug consumption in the Unites States, the largest market of illicit substances in the world, has decreased, especially amongst teens, but that prescription pill abuse is on a steep rise. According to the ... |
20 February 2009
09:33 GMT |
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The content on Windows Live servers is closely monitored and filtered by Microsoft as the company is laboring to keep users of its suite of applications and services in the Cloud secure while online. Jamie Cannon, a product manager on the Windows Live team, indicated that the software giant was constantly working to ... |
6 February 2009
06:47 GMT |
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Support groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, have more than 5 million members throughout the United States, a recent Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) survey reveals. Some 50 percent of them reported giving up their bad habits after attending these meetings an... |
25 November 2008
06:07 GMT |
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A new study brings further explanations as to what causes adolescent boys to physically abuse their girlfriends. Research shows that the teenagers most prone to violence are those who grew up with violent parents or in communities and entourages where violent actions were common sights. According to their own testimo... |
15 October 2008
08:25 GMT |
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Following recently released security reports from several anti-spam/crimeware companies and projects that have outed Atrivo as a hub for cybercrime in the US, two of the company's Internet Service Providers are taking radical measures. Global Crossing and WVFiber are severing ties with Atrivo by removing peering... |
8 September 2008
06:11 GMT |
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We live in an age in which for many of us, life without a mobile phone would be inconceivable. And we're not talking about busy professionals here, who - quite understandably - need to keep in touch with their colleagues and clients. In today's world, many teenagers live in a virtual universe, in which face... |
11 June 2008
16:19 GMT |
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As funny as it may initially appear, alcoholism in women is no joke. Over the past decade, many developed countries with a solid drinking culture, such as the U.K. for example, saw the number of women dying from alcohol abuse double. In the States, an estimated 4 million women drink in a way that severely threatens t... |
4 June 2008
06:54 GMT |
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An abused child does not have only an impaired behavior, but also a structurally different brain. That happens because early child abuse appears to permanently change gene expression in the brain, as pointed by a postmortem investigation of suicide victims, recently published in the Nature Neuroscience journal. It is... |
8 May 2008
03:36 GMT |
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This is the name of the most incomprehensible crime: pedophilia. A new research made at the University of Missouri has analyzed how these predators entrap their victims. "Our children are our greatest gift and our greatest responsibility. The fact that they could be abused in any way, shape or form is horrific - both... |
18 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Public opinion has no mercy when it comes to this crime. And results of the fight against child sexual abuse can be seen: a 5% decline from 2005 to 2006, summing an over 50% decrease in 14 years, as revealed by an analysis released by the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire and ... |
17 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Pedophilia has always been a problem and, even if authorities from all over the world struggled to eradicate this phenomenon. As you may have heard, there were several arrests around the world after long investigations which took from a few months to multiple years. Because pedophilia is still an important problem, t... |
17 April 2008
06:55 GMT |
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It has been proved that abused children turn into tomorrow's aggressors. But children who are neglected before turning two years old may display increased levels of aggressive behavior between ages 4 to 8, as revealed by a study made at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and published in the journa... |
14 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Naomi Campbell is not just an out-of-control abuser, she's also a shameless racist. That might sound strange coming from a someone who, in the course of her groundbreaking modeling career, was the first black cover girl for Vogue Paris and first black model to appear on the cover of Vogue UK and Nippon, plus Tim... |
9 April 2008
09:56 GMT |
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The physical trauma inflicted to women by their husbands goes far beyond the momentary contusions and bruised eyes. The new study made by a team of the World Health Organization (WHO), led by Claudia Garcia-Moreno and published in the journal The Lancet, relies on data about domestic violence collected from 10 countr... |
4 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Heather Mills has managed to do something I thought she could never do again: impress us all with another striking revelation. And the fact is, I'm not even sure if I'm being ironic or not, because with this determined lady you never know what to expect. But if she's really telling the truth (and that... |
12 November 2007
08:36 GMT |
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More than a quarter of the adult American population experiences either physical or sexual abuse along their lifetime. And age does not count: about 25 % of the women older than 65 have been the victims of physical, sexual or psychological violence inside their couple.There is a powerful link between an array of gast... |
2 November 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Naomi Campbell should marry Collin Farrel and we'd have a match made in heaven. And believe me, I've used the word "match" intentionally here, seeing that the tantrum-throwing model needs someone equally expert at disrupting the happy, peaceful lives of the people around them with ego-inflated scandals. Or ... |
26 October 2007
10:30 GMT |
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Drinking is chic, drinking is sexy. You get rid of inhibitions, and as America is a nation without inhibitions, over 30 % of Americans suffer from alcohol abuse, as a new research found: 17.8% of them have alcohol abuse problems, and 12.5 % are alcohol-dependent."At some time in a person's life, 30 % of the popu... |
4 July 2007
09:16 GMT |
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Some may feel offended if called alcoholics. And for good reason, as a new research made at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) established a first classification of the alcoholic people in US, resulting five distinct subtypes of the condition. "Our findings should help dispel the popular n... |
2 July 2007
06:13 GMT |
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The movie "reality" has been transposed to real-life. For about a decade, a lot of legal cases were re-opened, accusing people, which were often convicted, on the basis of "recovered memories." These memories, a recollection of childhood abuse, are ripped off many years after the event occurred, during intensive psyc... |
14 June 2007
10:51 GMT |
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The traditional family is nowadays out of fashion and the number of mothers raising their kids alone is increasing (the same goes for lone fathers raising children). But there are many risks involved in this situation. A new research at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine points out the fact tha... |
13 March 2007
05:23 GMT |
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We use to say young and restless, but the numbers can contradict us: about one quarter of the women older than 65 have been the victim of physical, sexual or psychological violence inside their couple.Roughly 3.5 % of the subjects had experienced violence in the past five years, and 2.2 % in the past year. "Intimate... |
6 March 2007
07:05 GMT |
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