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An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

...ew alternative fuels, the issue of coal's place in supplying America's energy and fuel needs has taken 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 nat...

Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks

... Secunderabad-based company, has been charged with supplying expired blood test kits in West Bengal over a period of two years. Health workers fear that thousands of people across the state might have received contaminated blood, which was tested with kits whose expiry dates had been tampered with. Saha is k...

Malawi Targets 150,000 People With AIDS Drugs

Malawi has set itself a target of supplying 150,000 HIV sufferers with free anti-retroviral drugs by the end of year, the head of the national AIDS commission (NAC) said on Monday . "We are close to 110,000 people on ARVs and we hope to hit 150,000 by the end of December when we launch a mas...

$1 Million Unpaid Bills by Health Care Cheats at Waikato Hospital

...ning up at the hospital in labor, giving birth and supplying false names and addresses to avoid paying for the delivery, which costs about $2000....

Prison Healthcare Continues to Fail Despite Emergency Measures, Warns BMA

...tal health team because of confusion and delays in supplying his release details. In some areas, the waiting time for new prisoners to be assessed by a prison doctor has more than trebled. Dr Redmond Walsh, a prison doctor in London and a member of the BMAs Civil and Public Services Committee said: The ...

Artificial Trans Fat Banned in Chain Restaurant in King County

...citizens eat healthfully at restaurants, which are supplying more of Americas calories than ever before, said CSPI nutrition policy director Margo G. Wootan. The King County Board of Health is empowering restaurant patrons to make informed food choices for their kids and themselves. I hope chain restaurants re...

Gazas Basic Food Storage Will Last Only for a Few Days

...and medical equipment a day, while the WHO was now supplying only 8 tonnes daily. Some 650 Palestinians have been injured in the Gaza internecine fighting, he said, adding that he contacted Israel to allow 55 of them who were in critical condition to receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals. Israel h...

Indian Projects Win Top Ashden Awards

...ng the lives of rural communities in Karnataka, by supplying them with both dung based biogas plants for cooking and a specially designed unit that turns the slurry from the biogas plant into high quality Sarah Butler-Sloss, Executive Chair and chair of the judging panel said: "Our winners show how sustainab...

New Zealand to Ban "party Pills"

...dollars (380 US) and three months in prison. Those supplying the drug could be jailed for up to eight years. Anderton said there would be a six-month amnesty for those found in possession of the drug after the law was passed, although suppliers would be prosecuted immediately. New Zealand's Massey Universi...

New York Bans Trans Fats in Restaurants

...ant Association (NYSRA) pointed to difficulties in supplying restaurants with cooking oil alternatives, but even fast-food chains announced that they would join the movement against trans fats. And, according to city officials, 83 percent of fast-food restaurants are already using frying oils that do not con...

Singapore to Import Eggs, Fish from Andhra Pradesh

... but also production, which suits the authority by supplying quality inputs. He informed Singapore officials that Andhra Pradesh ranks first in the production of mangoes, palm oil, chillies and turmeric in the country. The state also ranks first in production of eggs, brackish water shrimp and fresh water ...

Beef Firm in US Withdraws Its Products from Markets After E. Coli Outbreak.

...f, the meat company believed to be responsible for supplying tainted stuff, withdrew nearly 117,500 pounds of beef it had shipped to eight states. The US Department of Agriculture confirmed that PM Beef Holdings LLC of Windom had voluntarily withdrawn the spoilt meat supplied to distributors and retailers in...

Stroke Risk Nearly Doubles for Siblings of People Who Have Had a Stroke

...s were either an ischemic stroke in which a vessel supplying blood to the brain is blocked, or a transient ischemic attack, often referred to as a "warning stroke" that resolves itself. Nearly 60 percent of those with strokes were Mexican American. The rest were non-Hispanic whites. All were between the ages o...

Surgeons Perform Nasal Reconstruction for War Veteran Using His Own Body Parts

...in the highly vascularized nasal tissues. Arteries supplying blood to the forehead had been slashed in Iraq, potentially compromising the suitability of the skin for subsequent transplant to the nose. The accident had also fractured Fletchers skull, blinded his left eye, and widened the gap between his eyes, s...

Sheep Offer Model for Undernourishment in Pregnant Teen Girls

...es is a change in the development of blood vessels supplying nutrients to the uterus and placenta during pregnancy. Because the changes in placental blood vessels could not be reversed by returning undernourished ewes to an optimal diet later in their pregnancy, Wallaces team pointed out the importance of ad...

Stop TB Partnership Has Provided Treatments for Ten Million People in Six Years

... late 2006, the Global Drug Facility has also been supplying countries with the second-line drugs needed to treat MDR-TB, after the Stop TB Partnership's Green Light Committee has verified that applicant countries meet its technical standards and will use the drugs correctly. "I congratulate the Stop TB Part...

Aerobic Exercise Helps Maintain Muscle in Elderly: Research

...t of thigh muscle in each of the volunteers, while supplying via the femoral artery a concentration of insulin similar to that released after a typical meal. They also took three small muscle tissue samples from each subject. Tracer techniques enabled the scientists to track amino acids (the building blocks ...

Top Iraqi Shiite Leader Returns Home

...h at the White House. Tehran has been accused of supplying weapons to both Sadr's Mahdi Army militia and Hakim's Badr Brigade, which was founded in Iran and has now infiltrated many Iraqi security force units. On February 23, Ammar al-Hakim was detained by US forces in eastern Iraq and held briefly after h...

Stress-Related Health Problems Haunts Sanjay Dutt

...r Hingora to nine years' rigorous imprisonment for supplying arms to him, and that could spell further trouble for him. According to close friends, the court's verdict is no longer the only major headache in his existence. Rumours and comparisons are making things worse. 'But yes, Sanju feels stories about...

Apollo Launches Chest Pain Clinics in Kolkata

... happens when one or more of the coronary arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle are blocked, Maini told a press conference here Friday. 'It may not be possible for a patient to reach a tertiary care centre within the golden hour period. To overcome the barrier of distance and time, we have started ass...

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