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Annual Tobacco-related Deaths to Reach 8.3 Million by 2030

...ent of the world trade in cigarettes, or about 600 billion out of the estimated 5,767 billion cigarettes sold in 2006. The protocol, which would take more than three years to discuss and ratif...

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

...r music acts and drawing a worldwide audience of 2 billion people, making it one of the largest global events...00 concerts a year. We're doing 10, but touching 2 billion people about what I think is the biggest issue that's ever faced humanity.' Steve Howard of the env...

FDA Extends GRAS Approval Listex to All Food Products

... Fresh water and seawater can contain as many as 1 billion phages per ml, while in fresh and processed meat and meat products, more than 100 million viable phages per gram are often present. Phages are harmless to humans, animals and plants, and target only bacterial cells. They are extremely specific in reg...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

...rdiovascular disorders, and neurosciences. S$1.5 billion has been set aside for the second phase of the Biomedical Sciences Initiative, which aims to position Singapore as a leader in scientific and medical research....

Nutrition Education Has Proved to Be Futile

... But the government is planning to spend over a billion dollars on its nutrition program this year too. ...d reports that the government will fork out over a billion dollars this year to help insure that Americans eat properly. One would just have to take a look at ...

Pfizer Says Nigerian Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Hear Drug Case

...in Kano, Nigeria's largest state, are seeking 2.75 billion dollars from Pfizer in compensation for the victim...imilar lawsuit on June 4 in Abuja for almost seven billion dollars (5.2 billion euros) in damages against the US drug firm. But the government's case suffere...

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

...hat the European Union's annual wine budget of 1.3 billion euros (1.8 billion dollars) was currently spent in "a very inefficient way" despite huge challenges facing the sector. ...

American Bests Japanese Hot Dog Eating Champion, Sets Record

...erage summer season, Americans consume about seven billion hot dogs, or 818 wieners per second....

Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars

... By 2006, its factories produced exports worth 136 billion dollars, the highest of any Chinese city for the 14th straight year, according to official figures. Many cities across China are experiencing similar traffic problems to Shenzhen. In Beijing, officials announced this week that one million of the ...

Functional Food What is That, Ask First

...the international functional foods market is a $40 billion industry. Functional foods include: * Margarines that lower bad cholesterol (LDL). * Probiotic yoghurts - laced with cultures of bacteria that promote healthy digestion. * Omega3-enriched muffins, bread and dairy products - for cardiovascular...

Traffic Control Boxes to Help Road Monitoring

...ban congestion in the United States to be over $63 billion in 2003, almost double the cost of 10 years earlier. The average American also loses 47 hours to traffic delays every year. More than half of those costs -- both in time and money -- were found to be due to roadway incidents such as accidents. Coif...

Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too

...aft. Analysts say U.S. sales alone would top $1 billion US a year, assuming Gardasil becomes covered by pr...overnment programs. That number could jump to $4 billion a year if Merck comes out with a similar, perhaps identical, vaccine for young men, which it is acti...

Drug Firm on the Threshold of Developing Dengue Vaccine

...tephenne estimates that between $500 million to $1 billion will have been spent on research and development....

Tobacco Firm's Research Funds Spark Protest in SKorea

... he said, adding they would receive a total of one billion won (1.08 million dollars) from the US company for the research. Jang said the "basic research" aimed at identifying what harmful factors affect smokers compared to non-smokers. An anti-smoking group urged the hospitals to withdraw from what it c...

Americans Bloated On Happy Pills

...sease Control and Prevention (CDC), looked at 2.4 billion drugs prescribed in visits to doctors and hospitals in 2005. Of those, 118 million were for antidepressants. High blood pressure drugs followed with 113 million prescriptions. The study claims that the use of antidepressants and other psychotropic...

Indian Boffins to Fight Wrinkles With Camels' Milk

...in the beauty industry, currently worth around 180 billion rupees (400 million dollars) annually....

Alcohol Does Not Destroy Brain Cells

... an inbuilt repair kit, replenishing more than 100 billion cells in our brain every day of our lives. Researchers also found that in moderation, alcohol has also been found to have positive benefits for blood vessel health and stroke prevention....

MIT's Green Nano-factories to Produce Eco-friendly Batteries

...ts, corporations, and venture capitalists spent 12 billion dollars on nano-technology research and development worldwide. Nano-technology promises to change just about everything-our medical care, energy sources, communications and food. It is leading us to what many in government and industry are calling 'T...

Air Pollution in India Causes 527,700 Deaths a Year

...nrest. The World Bank has committed roughly 40 billion dollars, along with expert advice, to projects ranging from rural poverty alleviation to promoting sustainable development. Yet Internet access to certain World Bank reports on China is now being blocked in Beijing. An official said the World B...

IFC to Invest About Rs.3 Billion in Max Healthcare

...ld Bank, Monday announced its plans to invest Rs.3 billion in India's Max Healthcare Institute for its expansion plans. Max Healthcare Institute is a subsidiary of Max India, a multi-business company with interests in life insurance, health care, clinical research, and specialty plastics. "While the gov...

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