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BBC News - 100,000 older people missing thyroid treatment - study
Hypothyroidism is caused by an underactive thyroid gland Underactive thyroid results in a condition called hypothyroidism, which can result in symptoms including depression and forgetfulness as well as tiredness and weight gain. These symptoms are often mistaken for general signs of ageing - and the disease can therefore be either misdiagnosed or undiagnosed for some years. The authors of the study believe that women over 50 and men over 65 should be screened for hypothyroidism. They say that if this were done, 100,000 people could benefit from a thyroid treatment called thyroxine. Professor Sir Nicholas Wald, Director of the Wolfson Institute said screening would result in a better quality of life:
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Stop the Internet Blacklist! Just the other day, President Obama urged other countries to stop censoring the Internet. But now the United States Congress is trying to censor the Internet here at home.
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BBC News - Google releases censorship tools
The map contains no data from China Earlier this year, Google released details about how often countries around the world ask it to hand over user data or to censor information. The new map and tools follows on from that and allows users to click an individual country to see how many removal requests were fully or partially complied with, as well as which Google services were affected. In the US, for example, there were seven court orders to remove content from YouTube from July 2009 to the end of the year.
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China is a psychology non-fiction book on brainwashing and mind control by Robert Jay Lifton . The book was published in multiple editions, in 1956 (hardcover) [ dubious ] , 1961, 1962 (hardcover), 1963 (paperback), and 1989 (paperback). The 1989 reprint edition was published by University of North Carolina Press . Lifton is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice , City University of New York . Milieu Control .
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On October 31, a young female worker was left to die on the assembly line at the Nokia factory in southern India after her head and neck got trapped and crushed inside a robotic loading machine. The horrifying incident exposed conditions that prevail in most of the country’s factories, where human life and limb are subordinated to the drive to reap profits off of cheap labor. Nokia, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile telephones, employs around 7,000 workers at its Sriperumbudur plant, 40 kilometers from Chennai, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Seventy percent of the workers are female. Based in Finland, Nokia has over 123,000 employees in 120 countries, sales in more than 150 countries, global annual revenue of €41 billion and operating profit of €1.2 billion as of 2009.
Indian worker left to die on Nokia assembly line
