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Maruti Alto retained its number one position on the list of 10 top selling automobile models in India for the year 2009-10. Alto has been reported to be No. 1 for the sixth year consecutive year. Alto has captured the first spot replacing Maruti 800 for the first time in the year 2004.

On the other hand, the most popular brand of India, Maruti 800 has seen a drastic fall in the list. It was launched in the year 1983 and since then, it was the first time when Maruti 800 has fallen off the list.

Some 40 percent of chronically ill adults live alone, often with children living 10 miles away, making caregiving a greater challenge, U. S. researchers have found.

Patients of age 51 or older with chronic health problems who participated in the 2006 Health and Retirement were looked at by study Researchers at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

It was found by them that 93 percent of the chronically ill older adults had adult children, but for half of them, the children lived more than 10 miles away.

It has been suggested by U. S. researchers that if Britain banned trans fats thousands of heart attacks could be prevented.

Trans fat bans in Denmark and New York City may reduce heart health risk without reducing food availability, taste or affordability, researchers at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston wrote in the British Medical Journal.

Researchers in Australia have found that older male teens, who, played a video game before going to bed, had their sleep delayed just a few minutes.

The study involved 13 male students, ages 14-18 who usually took less than 15 minutes to fall asleep, Michael Gradisar, a senior lecturer in clinical child psychology at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, said.

Researchers have found that a California study showed that when the number of preventable medical errors declined, so did the number of malpractice lawsuits.

Approximately 365,000 preventable medical errors such as post-surgical infections and hospital-acquired infections were analyzed by lead author Michael Greenberg, a behavioral scientist at the Rand Corp. They also analyzed approximately 27,000 malpractice claims from 2001 to 2005.

Researchers at the University of California have said that an ingredient found in human breast milk and coconut oil shows promise as a cure for acne.

The British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph has said that Dissaya Pornpattananangkul, a postgraduate researcher at the University of California San Diego, reported on the findings at a conference there on Thursday.