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South Africa Notes Signs of First-ever Decline in HIV Infection Rates

... heaviest caseload of HIV/AIDS, behind India, with about 5.5 million in a population of 48 million infected, as well as one of the world's highest rates of teenage pregnancy....

Furore Over Spa Planned on Active Philippines Volcano

...y and Seismology have expressed grave reservations about the project. "Building a structure at the permanent danger zone (around the crater) should be prohibited because this will endanger lives," the institute's director, Renato Solidum, said at a recent public hearing on the project. He said volcanic...

Diabetics Risking Health by Using Alternative Medications Without Consultation

...ht be impossible for Western medicine to learn all about complementary and alternative therapies, healthcar...rofessionals do need to be included in discussions about them so we can document their use and be aware of any potential problems for our patients," she adde...

EU Aims to Shake Up Wine Industry With Root-and-branch Reform

...nsumption is falling and imports are increasing by about 10 percent," Fischer-Boel told journalists. With 500 million euros currently spent each year getting rid of unsold wine, her proposed solution focused on abolishing measures used to dispose of excess wine and paying farmers to uproot uncompetitive ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

...mericans, but that is false. The growing awareness about climate change across America has been incredible,...ike Schwarzenegger, they were not making decisions about which industries need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and by how much. The Democrats have consi...

American Bests Japanese Hot Dog Eating Champion, Sets Record

...006 with 52 hot dogs, but this year felt confident about the competition after breaking Kobayashi's world r... For an average summer season, Americans consume about seven billion hot dogs, or 818 wieners per second....

Will Seven Be the Lucky Number for Las Vegas Newlyweds?

...g Las Vegas later that day, anyway. "We've joked about getting married on this day, but it's definitely g... "It's kind of neat, especially with all the hype about this date. When I go to work on Monday, everybody will make a big deal out of it." The couple plan...

New Oncogene for Brain Cancer

...therapy to treat gliomas, Zhang says. Gliomas kill about 13,000 people in the United States annually. The possibilities are not limited to brain cancer, Fuller notes, because of the pervasive overexpression of IGFBP2 documented in other cancer types. The gene is expressed only at low levels in normal cel...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

...lb circuitry, raising a fascinating basic question about neuronal replacement: Why are so many different types of neurons, with such diverse origins, required for olfactory function?" "The implication for cell-based therapies might be that it isn't sufficient to replace one neuron," he says. "You might h...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...obal cooling. This was the notion that Earth was about to be plunged into a deep freeze, as shifts in its...e progressively more emphatic -- call it gloomy -- about the nature and severity of climate change. They have also become profoundly influential, forcing s...

US Baby Dies of Salmonella from Pet Turtle

...man Salmonella infections occur each year, causing about 15,000 hospitalizations and 400 deaths, it said....

SKorean Online Dogmeat Retailer Closes Site Amid Uproar

... its website after media reports sparked an uproar about the traditional but controversial cuisine. The ...animal rights activists, since local media reports about it Tuesday. "We're too exhausted by the controversy to speak. We no longer run the website. We era...

New Asthma Gene Identified

...that we have discovered something new and exciting about childhood asthma," said Dr. Miriam Moffatt of the National Heath and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, and one of the first authors of the study. "These novel findings do not explain completely how asthma is caused, but they do provide a fu...

Snack Foods Fortified With Fiber

...to the foods we love without changing what we like about our favorite snacks. Sajid Alavi is an assistant professor of grain science and industry at K-State's College of Agriculture. His expertise is in extrusion processing, which is used to make products from cheese puffs to pet food. Alavi is researc...

More Indian Doctors Questioned in Australia as UK Terror Plot Inquiry Widens

...ng the further inquiries," he said. "This is not about doctors. These are people who are of similar natio...ritain. He urged Australians not to be concerned about the medical profession."What we want to do is just reassure people this is not an investigation into...

Autophagy may Lead to Heart Disease

...s not completely understood and even less is known about its function in disease, he said. The autophagic response may also differ in distinct kinds of heart failure, highlighting the need for further study of autophagy in other forms of heart disease....

Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars

...uction, leading to ever-increasing traffic. "And about 70 percent of the city's air pollution is caused by exhaust fumes," he said. Shenzhen was a tiny fishing village in 1979 when it was singled out by China's leader Deng Xiaoping for reform as a "Special Economic Zone" to lure much-needed foreign inv...

Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now

...ot to let the disease derail their lives. She says about her patients, Theyre amazing. Dubinsky, a pediatric gastroenterologist, and her colleagues at Cedars-Sinai currently treat more than 400 children from 2 to 21 years of age with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis...

An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

...nconvenient Truth" to heated Congressional debates about federal tax incentives for new alternative fuels, ...o make it from oil shale, coal or both. We have about equal amounts of reserves of oil shale and coal, at the current rate of usage, to be able to generat...

Boyfriend Bites Off Lip and Ear of 3-year-old Daughter of His Girlfriend

...edia reports had generated 'an awful lot of calls' about the couple's whereabouts and police learned they w...ontinued for several months. Police learned May 17 about the abuse to the child. The mother brought the child into a medical facility and the child was ref...

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