Washington, September 30 : Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found that working during adolescence raised the risk of a child’s taking to smoking at an earlier age.

The researchers focused their study on 14 to 18-year-old adolescents, and found that the subjects who worked more than 10 hours per week also started smoking at an earlier age than their peers.

Washington, Sept 30 : Researchers have discovered that uveitis, an inflammatory eye disease may be treated with a compound that blocks the action of aldose reductase, an enzyme essential to the production of inflammatory signaling molecules.

Uveitis, the inflammation of the uvea, a layer of tissue that lies just below the outer surface of the eyeball and includes the iris, is a condition that can be caused by both autoimmune and infectious diseases.

Washington, Sept 30 : Italian researchers have found that as many as 50 percent of overweight men and women with high blood pressure may have hypertension as a result of being overweight, and not obese.

The researchers reported the study at the American Heart Association’s 61st Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research.

Nevada, Sept.29 : The push for Gandhi monument in the state capital Carson City and Gandhi statues in Las Vegas and Reno is gaining more support among Nevada clergy.

According to Rajan Zed and Gene Savoy Jr., coordinators of Gandhi Monument Council of Nevada, this issue was discussed at the interfaith clergy luncheon held at Unity Ministry of Reno on Thursday and it received widespread support.

Washington, Sept.29 : U.S.First Lady Laura Bush has problems sleeping if she hasn't read a few pages first.

But her husband, the President, apparently has no such issues. Having made a gaffe by recently referring to children as 'childrens", the President's staff is taking great pains to plant stories in the press of how he reads while exercycling.