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Bat Virus Renamed After Protests from Malaysia State

...paper. "We may name it according to the (actual) place where the patient infected with the virus is from," he said. The virus was discovered after a soldier, his wife and two children who developed respiratory illness and fever a week after a bat flew into their home in Bemban village. The entire famil...

Beijing Says Food Safe for Olympic Athletes, Tourists

...scandals, as many safety measures are being put in place for the Games, city officials said. International alarm over Chinese food exports has been building for weeks amid reports of toxic produce endangering lives in the United States and other countries. China's own food inspectors announced last we...

Robbie Donates 1.5 Million Pounds to Help His Native People Beat Addiction

... be more active in and around Stoke-on-Trent - the place I love and where I'll eventually return to," he said. Williams, who currently puts up in LA has donated 3 million pounds to the charity till now, by raising cash from selling platinum discs and hand-written lyrics, including hit Angels, which got 2...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...ck music featuring various artists planned to take place on Saturday July 7, 2007 to promote action to confront the global warming crisis. The concerts have the intent of bringing together 150 of the world's most popular music acts and drawing a worldwide audience of 2 billion people, making it one of t...

Son Donates Part of Liver to Ailing Father, Transplant Successful

...t since Mr Lomas and his son's surgery, which took place in adjoining theatres with city's four liver transplant surgeons present. The surgeons believe the technique will offer new hope to the 300 plus people on the liver transplant waiting list at any one time. More than 600 patients have liver transpla...

Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

...at to people or pets - only to mosquitoes. In some place larvicide is being used. Larvicide kills newly hatched mosquitoes by suffocating them beneath a thin film spread across the surface of a body of water, where mosquitoes breed. In Canada health officials said the first human case of West Nile virus ...

Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming

...ts behind. That same evaporation process is taking place with these ponds, he said. So there is a rise in the concentration of salt in the remaining water. Weather records show there has been no decline in rain and snowfall in the region but Environment Canada has reported that Arctic temperatures have be...

Test-tube Babies: Mood Swings are Key to Fertility Choice

... Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), taking place in this southeastern French city. Newton said he next planned to see whether giving women full and accurate information about risk influenced their decision on how many embryos should be transferred. 'If infertility patients were to gain a better...

Embryo Protection Law in Germany

...Europe, with France and the UK in second and third place respectively. However, in 2004 France performed the most ART procedures (nearly 70,000), followed by Germany (just over 60,000), Spain (nearly 41,000) and the UK (just over 40,000). There were 370,963 cycles in the 29 European countries reporting t...

China Fears Show Food Export Quality Key: WHO Official

...id. Omi urged manufacturers and producers not to place profits above health. "Global trade brings a lot of benefits. It also brings risks like this. We cannot be talking about money only. If we do ... the economy and the people will suffer."...

Stray Kerala Dogs Face Keyhole Surgery to Control Birth Rate

...post recovery period, the dogs are released at the place from where they were caught. Dogs are kept in cells for a day before surgery and three days after surgery. The Kochi unit of the Society for Prevention of Cruelties to Animals (SPCA) is spreading this message among the masses even a year after its...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

... doctors. The employers said the checks already in place are extensive. The vetting, at the moment, focuses on medical qualifications, identity and the applicant's criminal record. There is little scope for picking up radicalisation, militancy or revolutionary tendencies. The NHS Employers said in a s...

Pete Doherty Gets a Rehab or Jail Ultimatum

...en he is due to be sentenced. "If you go to this place to have detox and take advantage of it then we will see what sentence is appropriate when you next come. But if you do not I can tell you now that you will go into custody," The Sun quoted District Judge Davinder Lachhar, as stating in the courtroom....

In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash

...and saving princesses in distress . It all takes place in cyberspace, where earning credits for online gamers who are too busy to do it themselves has become a handy source of extra income for the 21-year-old -- and a full-time job for thousands of other Chinese. Zhao, a third-year student at Beijing's...

Same-sex Marriage: Shahzina Tariq Vows to Live With groom

...bducted by anyone, adding that their marriage took place with mutual consent. I called Shumail and wished to be his life partner and he responded to my proposal positively, the Dawn quoted her, as saying. She went on to say that after release, she would not join her parents owing to life threats and wo...

Pfizer Says Nigerian Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Hear Drug Case

...sation for the victims of the drug test which took place 11 years ago. "This court has no jurisdiction to entertain this case ... I want this court to strike out this case", Pfizer's lawyer Anthony Idigbe told the court. Kano government's lawyer Aliyu Umar asked for more time to enable him prepare his ...

India's Share in Global Diabetes Research is One Percent

...tion in Philadelphia, India was ranked at the 22nd place as far as research papers were concerned during the decade 1991-2001. The number of research papers was only 943 as compared to the US with over 100,000 articles on diabetes. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Diabetes Res...

American Bests Japanese Hot Dog Eating Champion, Sets Record

...ock his mouth with his hands and settle for second place -- disqualification follows if vomit spills out of the mouth. Chestnut, a 23-year-old student from California, won the mustard-yellow championship belt and a prize of 10,000 dollars, but above all he basked in the glory of having beaten 16 rivals and...

NHSs Golden Handshake Shocks People

...s part of the organizational change process put in place to manage the reduction in the number of PCTs. "H... pay was in line with the NHS redundancy scheme in place during the restructuring programme. "Mr. Town was employed by Peterborough PCT, not Cambridgeshire ...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

...vised by the CIA to discredit Castro was a plan to place chemical powders on his boots that would cause his beard to fall out when he was in New York to speak at the United Nations in 1960. When that failed, the CIA planned to slip him a box of cigars tainted with LSD so that he would burst into fits of ...

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