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A lot of different veggies are cultivated in the communal garden: potatoes, tomatoes, onions, beans,and also corn.

Tobacco use is responsible for five million or 12 per cent of all deaths of adults above the age of 30 globally each year, according to a United Nations report unveiled today, that for the first time provides estimated mortality rates attributable to tobacco for 2004, the year before the international treaty on tobacco came into force.

Jenny, 19, and her second child

Children in Al-Mazrak IDP camp in Haradh, northern Yemen.

HDAC2 levels (red) are higher in cells from the hippocampus of a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (right) than in cells from a normal mouse hippocampus (left) Image by Johannes Gräff et al, courtesy of Nature.

In a study of miners, scientists found that heavy exposure to diesel exhaust increased the risk of death from lung cancer.

Infants and toddlers who have been treated for cancer tend to reach certain developmental milestones later than do their healthy peers, say researchers at the National Institutes of Health and in Italy.

Sleep-disordered breathing in children can lead to increased hyperactivity, aggressiveness and problems in relationships with other kids.

Some 21st century technology has come to the aid of 2000-year-old religious dietary laws.

HIV-positive children older than 1 year who were treated after showing moderate HIV-related symptoms did not experience greater cognitive or behavior problems compared to peers treated when signs of their infection were still mild, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. But both groups of HIV-positive children lagged behind HIV-negative children in these areas, suggesting that the first year of life may present a critical treatment window for minimizing impairments in brain development due to HIV.