Washington, March 13 : Health experts in the U. S. have successful integrated eastern and western medicine to treat traumatized Tibetan refugee monks who fled violent religious persecution.

The achievement was recently made by experts at the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights (BCRHHR) at Boston Medical Center.

The refugee monks they treated arrived in Boston suffering from symptoms of traumatic stress, interfering with their meditative practice.

The experts revealed that the monks were diagnosed by their traditional healers as having srog-rLung, a life-wind imbalance.

Washington, Mar 13 : The long tails sported by male birds in the tropics are often considered a distinct disadvantage because they lead to as much as a 50 percent greater energy loss when flying. Now, however, a new study has shown that they exact only a minimal cost in speed or energy.

University of California, Berkeley biologists have found long tails exact leads to a minimal cost in speed or energy - at least in hummingbirds.

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Washington, Mar. 13 : Several Pakistani-American organizations have urged President Obama to support their call for an independent judiciary and other constitutional reforms in Pakistan.

Members of Pakistan American National Alliance gathered at Capitol Hill on Wednesday to voice support for the national protest, The Nation reports.

Washington, Mar 13 : Researchers at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands, have shed light on the roots of dyslexia, a learning disability that affects four to ten percent of the population.

The findings support the notion that the reading and spelling deficit, characterized by an inability to break words down into the separate sounds that comprise them, stems in part from a failure to properly integrate letters with their speech sounds.

Washington, Mar 13 : Although recession has bitten people's pockets worldwide, it will most likely do nothing to reduce tobacco use, says a new report.

The third edition of The Tobacco Atlas, co-authored by Michael Eriksen, director of Georgia State University Institute of Public Health was launched here at the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health this week.

The atlas lays out a comprehensive picture of global tobacco use, regulations, financial costs and health tolls.

In an economic downturn, products seen as giving comfort in the midst of stress tend to sell very well. Tobacco is no exception.