KIDS who sleep with the light on could risk leukaemia, parents were
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Scientists have found the body needs darkness to produce a chemicalTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。8 m6 O+ Y: I/ \% o% H, _, i& s, F
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melatonin being made, they say.
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University Prof Russell Reiter, who led the research, said: 'Once you
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Rates of childhood leukaemia have doubled in the past 40 years.
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About 500 youngsters under 15 are diagnosed with the disease each year and around 100 die. A conference on childhood leukaemia in London yesterday
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This suppressed the production of melatonin which normally happens between 9pm and 8am.
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Blind people, who are not vulnerable to fluctuations of melatonin, have
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