Ninety-five percent of blood collected through donors here comes from Bahrainis, while foreign workers contribute only 5 percent. The low blood donations among foreign workers has led to a national campaign being launched in different languages by the Ministry of Health.

Fakhriya Al Darwish, in charge of the blood bank at the state-run Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC), told AHN, " We want non-Bahrainis to come forward and donate blood as presently Bahrainis are the major donors. The bank receives on an average 1,000 donors monthly of which 900 are citizens while the rest 100 are foreigners

For the 13-year period between 1992 to 2005, sports attracted fewer Canadian children, particularly those from large cities and families with lower incomes and educational levels.

According to a Statistics Canada study, in 1992, 57 percent of school children reported regularly taking part in an organized sport, while in 2005 only 51 percent did

The close of 2007 witnessed almost 3 million people in developing nations receiving anti-retroviral (ART) treatment, but nearly twice that number still require life-saving medicines, a United Nations study said.

Almost one-third of the estimated 9.7 million people in need of ART received it by the end of 2007, leaving nearly 7 million without access, The study report, entitled "Towards Universal Access: Scaling Up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health Sector," added

Low-birth weight children and children born prematurely are at a greater risk of developing autism than their healthier counterparts, new research shows.

The risk was especially pronounced among low birth-weight girls, said the authors of the study, which was published in the June issue of Pediatrics. Baby girls weighing less than 2.5 kilograms, or about 5.5 pounds, had 3.5 times increased risk of autism. Baby girls born more than seven weeks early had a 5.4 times increased risk

Researchers have linked fertility problems in men to their exposure to certain paint chemicals.

Based on a United Kingdom study on more than 2,000 men undertaking fertility clinics, men working with glycol solvents turned out to be 250 percent more likely to lose ability to produce "healthy" sperms