Miscarrying mother dies after Irish doctors refuse abortion, saying: 'This is a Catholic country'

 

•  Savita Halappanavar, 31, was found to be miscarrying when she was admitted to Galway University Hospital
•  The dentist, who was 17 weeks pregnant, was denied a medical termination despite being in 'agonising pain'
•  Mrs Halappanavar, who went on to suffer a miscarriage, developed septicaemia and died on October 28
•  Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has come under renewed pressure to legislate for abortion
•   A demonstration is due to take place outside the Irish parliament 
•   Abortion is illegal in the Republic of Ireland

United Nations declares November 10 as 'Malala Day'

The United Nations has announced to observe ‘Malala Day’ today i.e November 10 (Saturday) under its supervision across the world in the honour of child activist from Swat, Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has extended his support to the young girl and her fight for education, describing her as the “global symbol” of every girl’s right to an education.

 Ban Ki-moon’s Special Envoy for Global Education, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said November 10, a month after Malala was shot at by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan, has been declared Malala Day.

“Malala doesn’t just represent one young woman, she speaks out for all those who are denied an education purely on the basis of their gender,”

Fit, Yet Fat? A Little Exercise May Add Years to Life

Middle-aged people who walk briskly for as little as 75 minutes per week may live 1.8 years longer, even if they are overweight. If they spend more time walking, running, swimming, cycling, or sweating in aerobics class, they may boost their life expectancy by 3.4 to 4.5 years.
Steven C. Moore, PhD, from the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, and coauthors report the findings of their pooled analysis online November 6 in PLoS Medicine.
More than 100 epidemiological studies have sought to clarify the role that physical fitness plays in lowering mortality risk. Dr. Moore and colleagues went a step further by looking at gains in life expectancy associated with varying durations of physical activity during leisure hours and at varying body mass index (BMI) measurements. The analysis comes as US physical activity levels have plummeted and waistlines have bulged.
The researchers pooled 6 prospective cohort studies, including 654,827 participants aged 21 to 90 years. With such a large sample size, the researchers were able to examine years of life gained after age 40 years, according to varying activity levels and with such added granularity as mortality hazard ratios by smoking status and race. Slightly more than half (56%) of the participants in the pooled analysis were women, 96.4% were white, 2.4% were black, and the median age was 61 years. The researchers measured the energy cost of such leisure time activities as sports and exercise through their metabolic equivalent (MET). Moderate- or vigorous-intensity activities, for example, rank 3 METs, which is about the same intensity as walking briskly. 

Walk Your Way to a Longer Life, Study Says