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Bird Flu in Asia Still High Risk Says WHO Official

...n the country have with domesticated birds. It has been the worst hit nation by the deadly H5N1 virus, wit...to WHO figures. Some 250 million poultry have also been culled, or have died from bird flu....

Son Donates Part of Liver to Ailing Father, Transplant Successful

...of his liver to his father, and the transplant has been successful. David and Stephen Lomas, from Ulver...s healthy liver to his father. David said he had been told to rest for a few months but his liver should grow back to 90 per cent of its former size and r...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

...ficult to cure. Coxiella burnetii has previously been weaponized and is considered a potential terrorist...e Project reported that a Texas A&M researcher had been infected with Brucella after a February 2006 aerosol chamber mishap and that the school did not imme...

UK Army Personnel Involved in Iraqi Invasion Not at Risk from Depleted Uranium

... the urine of four different groups who would have been subject to different levels of exposure. These comprised 199 soldiers directly involved in fighting, 96 soldiers involved in other duties, 22 medical staff, and 24 people responsible for cleaning up or repairing contaminated vehicles. The staff w...

Drinking Problem Plagues 30% Americans

... the studys lead author. The rate of treatment has been at a standstill since the early 1990s, Theres a lot of knowledge about how to treat. Whatever the reason, people arent getting treatment. The research found that about 18% of adults reported abusing alcohol during their lifetime, and almost 13% sa...

Lost Sleep can Never Be Compensated for

...or of Neurobiology and Physiology, whose paper has been published in the Proceedings of the National Acade...rved that they seldom recovered the sleep they had been deprived of during the five consecutive days in the immediate past. The findings support the recen...

Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

...ans and through blood transfusions also. There has been one reported case of disease being transferred thr...weeks. Another virus, St. Louis encephalitis has been around longer but has a lower rate of infection. Only 1 out of 800 children who are bitten by a mosq...

Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming

Some of the ponds which have been around for thousands of years in High Artic are dr...glas of the University of Alberta in Edmonton have been studying about 40 ponds on Ellesmere Island in northern Canada since 1983. When they went back last...

Accused 13yr Old Admits to Stabbing Her Brother

...Youth Criminal Justice Act,, then 12, said she had been forced to knife her little brother by her adult boyfriend, who only moments earlier had slain both her parents. The girl, , told the jury in a barely audible voice that Steinke was panting and covered in her parents blood as he climbed the bedroom st...

Translating Structure into Function

...ine the knot-like structure of enzymes, but theyve been stumped trying to translate the structure into an...ermediates are unstable, scientists have until now been unable to test their fit to the enzymes active site. Once the scientists had predicted the substra...

Napoleon Love Letter Seduces Bidders at Manuscript Auction

...) at the Christie's auction in London. It had only been expected to fetch 50,000 pounds. "I send you thr...the Indian government. The Indian government had been planning to bid for the letter, written 19 days before Gandhi was shot dead on January 30, 1948 by a...

Five Killed by Methane Gas on Virginia Farm

...ated the formation of the gas. Scott Showalter had been using the grain to feed his cattle. "It rained, and some of it ran down into this holding pit, it fermented and made a toxic gas," said Bruce Good, who saw Showalter about once a week. Whether the victims suffocated from the fumes, drowned or die...

Mira Nair Takes AIDS Message to Indian Cinema Halls

..., Siddharth and South Indian idol Prabhu Deva have been cast in the films. Up and coming stars Samira Reddy, Shiney Ahuja and Reema Sen also appear in the movies. Nair said she hopes that by the end of the year, the films will be screened in cinema halls in India and elsewhere. "They can really transla...

Embryo Protection Law in Germany

...SHRE European IVF monitoring consortium, which has been gathering information on ART procedures in Europe since 1997. These new figures relate to ART in Europe in 2004 the most recent year for which data are available. The number of ART procedures has steadily increased over that time, said Prof Nyboe ...

US Traveler With Deadly TB Has Less Serious Strain

...nerally irresponsive to drug treatment. "We have been able to demonstrate he does not have XDR-TB, or ex...s to be placed in isolation. "They told me I had been put on the no-fly list and my passport was flagged," he said on his return, insisting he had no inte...

Japan's Kobayashi Might Drop Out of Hot Dog Eating Championship

.... Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Competition has been held every year at Coney Island since 1916 and is considered the blue ribbon event of the increasingly popular and lucrative competitive eating calendar. Most participants now use the "Solomon technique" patented by Kobayashi, breaking the wieners ...

Complementary Therapy may Reduce Pregnancy Chances in Women

...the effectiveness of medical interventions, as has been shown in previous research. Or it may simply be that persistent treatment failure encourages women to seek out CATs because they are more willing to try anything to get pregnant. The next step for the researchers is to study the same group over a f...

Skin Rashes Signifies Longer Survival in Cancer Patients

...rvival. This is not the first time that rash has been associated with a survival advantage with EGFR inh... had time to develop the rash or the rash may have been under-reported in these ill patients. Of the 673 patients in the lung cancer study, called BR.21, ...

Mother Donates Eggs So Daughter can Give Birth

...o them." Tan said the egg-freezing procedure has been used for cancer patients at risk of menopause when... treatment," he said, adding that 80 patients have been treated so far. "We know that this technique works," he told AFP. "We find that 85 percent of the ...

Elderberry A Natural Boost to Skin

...and that a mixture of similar food components have been shown to improve the skins structure. There is also evidence that the active components have anti-inflammatory properties, which may be important in helping people stay healthy, said UEAs Dr Peter Curtis who is leading the project. If the results o...

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