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Ninth HIV-infected Child Dies in Kazakhstan

... an AIDS centre said. The death came as a court began reading a verdict in a suit against 21 officials accused in the case for negligence, corruption and fraud. If sentenced they could face between four and nine years in prison. The accused have all denied the charges over the infections at hospitals ...

Babys Poop is of Interest for Researchers

...microbes establish flourishing communities in what began as a sterile environment. Their findings will be published in the July issue of Public Library of Science-Biology. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine are as interested in a baby's poop as doting parents are, and for good rea...

K-Fed Thinks Britney is 'mentally Unstable'!

...tney," the source said. After the 'Toxic' singer began her free-fall in the early months of this year, with boozy nights and pantyless partying and shaving her head, K-Fed was the one to step in demand that she enter rehab. He also threatened to take away the kids if she didn't get professional help. F...

Boffins a Step Closer to Solving Puzzle of Lou Gehrig's Disease

...vestigation by researchers. When Valentine first began working on copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, she was not a biochemist but a biological inorganic chemist and hardly knew what ALS was. She was interested in the enzyme, which is unique in that it has copper and zinc so close together. Her laborator...

Canadian Mountain Bikers Hit by Bacterial Infection

... sick. Online mountain bike forums like NSMB.com began buzzing with participants reporting similar symptoms. "I may as well have lived on the toilet the last three days," posted Spaz. "Not sure what hit me (felt like a truck)," posted Shorelocal. The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority says 18 partici...

Smoke-free Workplace, Non-smoking Spouse Help Quitters Stay Off the Butt

... of the natural history of cigarette smoking which began in 1980. Of the participants, 219 did not take u...uch as the number of quit attempts or age when one began smoking; acquisition of adult roles, such as having children; and smoking in the social environment,...

Anxiety Disorders Show in Tiny Tots

... have taken part in the eight-week course since it began in November last year. The programme, called Study Without Stress, has been developed for senior high school students. It teaches cognitive and behavioural skills to help students understand their stress, teaches them anxiety management skills, ho...

Australian Grape Glut Dries Up as Drought Bites

... impact of global warming on the region which only began seriously producing wine in the late 1980s. "But what we do know is that by 2030-2050 we will be six degrees warmer than it is. If we go up by six degrees, your vines are going to need more water. "What's going to happen in time is that vines are...

Uttar Pradesh Struggles to Contain Japanese Encephalitis

...g that my child is suffering from Encephalitis. It began with vomiting and high fever. The symptoms of Japanese Encephalitis virus are seemingly mild, but the disease can cause meningitis and inflammation of the heart in newborn babies. India's worst encephalitis outbreak in 2005 claimed over 1500 live...

Indian Researcher Finds Human Urine Grows Better Fish Food

...revealed that young plankton reared in human urine began reproducing at least four days earlier than those in other tanks. They also lived longer and produced more offspring. According to the researchers human urine contains high concentrations of nitrogen compounds that degrade rapidly to release amino ...

Digital Music Project Aims to Save Tibetan Folk Songs from Extinction

... "After we got electricity ten years ago, people began buying tape recorders, radios, and TVs, and then they began losing interest in traditional things," Drolma said of her remote village in Gansu province. She ...

RNA Play a Vital Role in Gene Activity

...ll's assembly factories. But cracks in this theory began to appear when it became evident that many RNA molecules aren't capable of making protein. While more recent research has shown that small bits of RNA can silence individual genes by interfering with their expression - a la Stanford professor Andre...

Hundreds of Thousands Attend Madrid Gay Pride Parade

...s there hoped Saturday's Europride, an event which began in London in 1993, will help countries where gays are still discriminated against to usher in similar legislation. Homosexual rights are "still regularly flouted in Russia and Poland," said Antonio Poveda, president of the Spanish Federation of Les...

Workers Compelled to Stay in Shape to Avoid Pay Cuts

...ded on an iPod. Community Health Network, which began mandatory health screenings in 2005 for all employees receiving health benefits, said its program has been a success, especially in fighting obesity. Some small and mid-sized companies also have stepped up wellness programs, tying participation ...

Survivors of Rare Ovarian Cancer may Retain Menstrual Function and Reproductive Ability

...ultaneously in the 1970s, gynaecologic oncologists began to realize that fertility-sparing surgery could be performed safely and without compromising a woman's curability," says Dr. Gershenson. During the study, the researchers surveyed 132 germ cell tumour survivors formally enrolled in M. D. Anderson o...

Brazil Government In Contention With Merck Over Anti-AIDS Drug

...iations between Merck and the Brazilian government began last November. Last week the government declared the drug a public interest one. This means that Merck has just a few days to make the best out of a sticky situation. It will have to settle for a lower price of the drug or else face the chances of th...

American Cancer Society Launches Major New Study

...m a series of American Cancer Society studies that began in the 1950s and involved hundreds of thousands of...rate from colon cancer. The current study, CPS-II, began in 1982 and is still ongoing. But changes in lifestyle and in the understanding of cancer in the mor...

Johns Hopkins Medicine Honors U.A.E. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan

...lar and Critical Care Tower, on which construction began in 2007, is expected in December, 2010. This gift ...es. Last year, for example, Johns Hopkins Medicine began managerial oversight of healthcare systems in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, including those at the prest...

Experts Call for Warning Lables on Fruit Juice to Save Kids' Teeth

... work done," Ms MacNevin said. As a result, she began taking her youngest child, Jasper, to the dentist when he was two. Last week, he had a filling put in one of his front teeth. "I'd encourage all parents to start taking their children to the dentist when they're very young," Ms MacNevin said....

Disease Outbreak Claims Trout From Idaho Hatchery

...usceptible to the parasite. The outbreak, which began in January, was made public only this week because the state agency is trying to manage remaining stocks of 6- to 8-inch fish at its five other hatcheries. This is in order to make certain lakes and streams still get enough fish to satisfy anglers. ...

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