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An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

...on added importance in recent months. A research institute at the University of Kentucky, though, has been exploring ways to increase the efficiency of converting coal to liquid fuel well in advance of national discussions of the process. At the UK Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER), Burt Davis is r...

Functional Food What is That, Ask First

... Canada had banned the sale of those products, the institute report said. Dr Savage said cholesterol-lowering margarines were one of the best examples of a functional food with effective health benefits - lowering the risk of heart attacks. Food products from larger, well-known companies would have undergo...

Folicacid Fortification Very Beneficial

...when many countries are debating whether or not to institute or enhance folic acid fortification, Mason and colleagues urge caution and debate. We must examine the effects of folic acid fortification on the population as a whole, which includes better defining the nature of the relationship between folic ac...

New Understanding on Growth of Human Stem Cells

...nding by philanthropist Michael G. DeGroote. The institute has a research focus on the molecular determinants of cancer and tissue repair and is building scientific momentum. This discovery of a new fundamental understanding about how human stem cells develop is the kind of scientific work which has alread...

Meth Users Involved in Violence, Sexual Risk-Taking: Study

...on, is a national nonprofit public health research institute with centers in eight U.S. cities that is supported primarily by federal and state research and program funds....

New Technology Transforming Life for the Deaf

..." said Amparo Minguet, director of training at the institute for the deaf in the eastern city of Valencia. Minguet finds her little multi-function phone a godsend and like other participants at the congress of the World Federation of the Deaf under way in Madrid, finds new technology a boon bolstering face-t...

AIIMS Fined Rs 5 Lakhs for Negligence

...negligence has been registered against the premier institute of medicine AIIMS and has been asked to pay a fine...nt Justice J D Kapoor, holding the premier medical institute guilty of carelessness. Giving concession to the pitfalls in the procedure of detecting cancer (th...

New Technology Makes Diagnosis of Abnormal Pregnancy Cheaper

... two years. NIHFW director Deoki Nandan said the institute has transferred the technology to the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), a wing of the Ministry of Science and Technology. "It will now be the responsibility of NRDC to make it available on a large scale." Somenath Ghosh, NRDC chairm...

Even Pre-diabetes can Kill, Australian Study Says

...o try to divert the full impact in advance,'' said institute director Professor Paul Zimmet. One in five Australians have pre-diabetes, which means they have trouble metabolizing sugar. Prof Zimmet and his team studied 10,429 Australians age 25 or older for five years as part of the world's largest diabetes ...

Madhya Pradesh may Ban Sale of Vibrating Condom

...ey become sex toys. "Some students from a Bhopal institute complained to me a week ago about the abundant availability of sex toys. I have taken up the matter with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan urging him to take steps to ban the sale of such products," Vijayvargiya told IANS. The minister, however,...

Minister from MP Urges to Ban the Sale of Sex Toys

...ey become sex toys. "Some students from a Bhopal institute complained to me a week ago about the abundant availability of sex toys. I have taken up the matter with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, urging him to take steps to ban the sale of such products," Vijayvargiya told IANS. The minister, howeve...

Protein Targets for Carcinogenesis

...ecular Cell Prof. Ivan Dikic and his team from the institute of biochemistry II at the University of Frankfurt ...ised, explains Prof. Mller-Esterl, director of the institute of biochemistry and vice president of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University. Virtually every proce...

Six Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed in Germany

...ed of the feared H5N1 strain of bird flu, a German institute said on Sunday. Six out of a total of 14 birds t...ain of the virus, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute institute said. A health official, Katja Guenther, said earlier that tests carried out by the same institute ...

It is Men, and Not Women, to Be Blamed for Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

... Misro said the technology developed by him in the institute not only keeps track of sperm mobility and its count (20 million per millilitre) but is also capable of testing three other aspects. "Along with mobility and sperm count it allows three tests - hypo osmotic swelling, Acrosome status and nuclear chr...

Italy's Divorce Rate Jumps 74 Percent in 10 Years

...5 and 2005, a new study by the national statistics institute said Tuesday. The study said separations has also increased 57 percent during the same decade. There were 82,291 separations in 2005 and 47,036 divorces, the study said. Marital break-ups and separations were commoner in the more industrialise...

Leading Hospital in Andhra Plans Expansion

...ju said. Care Hospital, which started as a heart institute with 100 beds in Hyderabad in 1997, has expanded to the neighbouring states. The hospital presently has 1,000 beds at 10 branches in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Orissa....

Inhaled Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes Shows Mixed Results

...the best approaches to improving patient care. The institute produces systematic reviews on medical devices, drugs, biotechnologies, procedures, and health services. Jonathan Treadwell, Ph.D., senior research analyst at ECRI Institute, led a team of investigators who analyzed eight studies encompassing 1,881 ...

X-ray Mammography Aids in Breast Cancer Detection

...the best approaches to improving patient care. The institute produces systematic reviews on medical devices, drugs, biotechnologies, procedures and health services. Lead author Wendy Bruening, a senior research analyst at ECRI Institute, said she was not surprised that her analysis of the evidence showed tha...

New Health DrinkCoffee

...ician Chiara Trombetti, of the Humanitas Gavazzeni institute in the northern Italian town of Bergamo says Coffee can be good for you and the stronger, the better. But drinking too much coffee is also not advised. Too much of it can cause stomach cancer and leukemia. At times in some people it can increase ...

Reddy Asks Stanford University to Open Hyderabad Campus

...icals. McMurtry agreed in principle to set up an institute in the state and assured to provide affordable healthcare to the poor, said a statement from the chief minister's office in Hyderabad. Satyam Computers' chairman B. Ramalinga Raju was also present. Under the MoU, Stanford University, one of the w...

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