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Teenagers set shining example in daily battle against diabetes

November 14 - 20, 2007
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Mujthaba Mahdi Al Mansoor, 16, and Nouf Mohammed Shaheen, 14, from Hamad Town have been suffering from Type 1 diabetes for more than five years and have always been treated at the Paediatric Diabetes Centre at Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC).





Saved by a whisker!

November 14 - 20, 2007
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What a week it has been! From student council meetings, to getting proposals for my school's carnival event, to getting in late submissions of the Youth Talk articles to the editor and getting nearly crushed and run over by a school bus recently.





Magic moments

November 14 - 20, 2007
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A talented teenage trickster spending his gap-year in Bahrain has been amazing friends and acquaintances with his magic tricks.





Mad Science a hit with young

November 14 - 20, 2007
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Science may not sound like the kind of thing that could get children squealing with delight at birthday parties, but thanks to two science-loving ex-pat women, chemistry, physics and biology have become the coolest after-school and birthday party activities.





Early detection can help control disease

November 14 - 20, 2007
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Up to 20 per cent of Bahrain's population could contract Type 2 diabetes as a result of obesity and bad food habits, with children most at risk, specialists at Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) have revealed.





Holy duck! Look what's happening to our veggies

November 14 - 20, 2007
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Aubergines with noses, cucumbers shaped like the Loch Ness monster, carrots that look like body parts and turnips shaped like deities. But a potato that looks like a duck?





WHAT IS IT EXACTLY...

November 14 - 20, 2007
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DR Wiam Hussein, a consultant endocrinologist at the Joslin Diabetes Centre, Manama, explains what diabetes is.





Royal kiss of inspiration is keeping Munira's spirits alive

November 14 - 20, 2007
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Bahraini Munira Bin Hindi has many things in her life to be proud of.