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U.S. Army Developing a Robot to Rescue Injured Soldiers

...r. The robots humanoid body and teddy bear-style head give it a friendly appearance, says Gary Gilbert of the US armys Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center in Frederick, Maryland, which provided the initial funding for Bears development. Congress has since added a further 1.1 million dol...

Bird Flu Reappears in Malaysia

...ea of Selangor state, said Kamarudin Mohammed Isa, head of the disease control section at the Department of Veterinary Services. "We will cull birds within a one kilometre (0.6 mile) radius from the index cases," he said, noting that authorities expected to start killing about 2,000 chickens in the vill...

China is Cracking Down on Food Safety

...roduced food and medicines. Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration was conv...s and base work' According to Li Changjiang, the head of China's main food safety agency, food safety is not only a problem related to law enforcement, bu...

Australian State Approves Therapeutic Cloning

...lzheimer's, Parkinson's and cystic fibrosis. The head of the Catholic church in Australia, Sydney Archbishop Cardinal George Pell, caused outrage after warning Catholic lawmakers they faced "consequences" if they voted in favour of the legislation. Several Catholic members of parliament, led by State ...

Brain Swelling Halts Conjoined Twin Surgery

...isk procedure to separate twin girls joined at the head because of unexpected brain swelling, doctors said... another in the face, because the top of Tatiana's head is attached to the back of her sister Anastasia's head. Their brains are connected "in a complex fas...

Warning Over Drug-resistant Diseases in EU

...easingly seek care in other countries," John Ryan, head of the Health Threats Unit at the European Commission, said. In the first report on the state of infectious diseases in the EU the ECDC analysed the 49 most important infectious diseases in 28 European countries, including 25 EU countries plus Norw...

Notion Behind Spread of Flu Epidemic may Not Hold True for the Tropics

...erstanding of influenza in tropical regions on its head and will hopefully improve control strategies," Nature quoted Mark Miller of the Fogarty International Center (FIC) for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, as saying. Miller and his colleagues looked at Brazil, expecting hi...

Five Malaysians in Hospital After Bird Flu Outbreak

...re radius of the outbreak, Kamarudin Mohammed Isa, head of disease control at the Department of Veterinary Sciences, said on Friday. "We have culled over 3,000 birds. In terms of area, we have finished one round. We have to do what we call mopping up and we may find more birds," Kamarudin told AFP. Th...

Dinos may Have Died in Agonizing Death Throes of Asphyxiation

...f many fossilized dinosaurs, with wide-open mouth, head thrown back and recurved tail, likely resulted fro... are in this posture, exhibiting a classic pose of head thrown back, jaws open, back and tail reflexed backward and limbs contracted". Dinosaurs and their...

Ukraine Struggles Against Fake Drug Trade

...em is very strong in Ukraine," said John Anderson, head of the Britain-based Global Anti-Counterfeiting Network, who travels frequently to Ukraine. "The pharmaceutical companies don't tell anyone. They're desperate not to raise alarm over possible pharmaceutical fakes in case the market for their prod...

Chinas Blue Ear Virus-no Hogwash

...e outbreak had begun last May. Says Jia Youling, head of the veterinary department of the ministry of agriculture:"The 'high-fever disease' was caused mainly by the blue-ear disease virus, but other viruses cannot be ruled out." According to Jia, the death rate from the 'high-fever disease' accounted ...

Four Malaysians in Hospital for Bird Flu Checks

...vian influenza,' he added. Kamarudin Mohammed Isa, head of disease control at the local Department of Veterinary Services, said tests had been conducted on chickens in the village of Seberang Takir, where the four people live, but no bird flu had been found. 'Only two ducks died. They also have other ch...

Sunscreen Maybe Helpful in Preventing Skin Cancer

...re out in the sun, though, you should protect your head and body with close-woven clothing such as cotton....ht before getting sunburn, explained Uwe Reinhold, head of the Bonn Medical Centre's dermatology department. 'The skin of most Europeans starts to tan or ...

To Die For: Rolls-Royce and 'green' Coffins at British Funerals

...the demand came from the clients," said John Gill, head of the Nottingham, central England-based company, which has been in business for 130 years. "Our first 'Crazy Coffin' was an airplane. Since then, we build one a month. We have lots of enquiries but it's quite expensive and building one takes some...

Neural Stem Cells Reduce Parkinsons Symptoms in Monkeys

...ods of remaining motionless known as freezing, and head and limb tremors. In this study five of eight monkeys with advanced Parkinsons were injected with human neural stem cells and three received sham injections. The monkeys were observed four months before and four months after surgery. Those inject...

US Doctors 're-evaluating' Conjoined Twin Surgery

...of surgeries on Wednesday. The top of Tatiana's head is fused to the back of her sister's head, in a rare medical disorder known as total angular craniopagus. The girls' brain tissue is connected and they share the same circulatory system. Doctors have admitted the attempt to separate the girls, who al...

Wearing Shorts, Sleeveless Clothes Could Make You Prone to Skin Cancer

... not feel complacent either," said Verma, a former head of Delhi Cancer Registry. Adding his weight to the debate, Ramesh Sarin, senior oncologist at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, said: "Though whites are more prone to skin cancer, yet repeated exposure to the sun on anybody is harmful. "The repe...

Jaipur Foot All Set to Launch Its Centre in Columbia

...s or war. Its chief patron is D.R. Mehta, a former head of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). It was only after the Afghan war in the late 1970s that the use of the limb spread outside India. Russian land mines in Afghanistan had then disabled thousands. The International Committee of ...

Exposure to Chlorinated Swimming Pools Could Increase Asthma Risk in Children

...ed swimming pools. Professor Peter van Asperen, head of respiratory medicine at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia, said parents shouldn't panic at the findings. "It is an important issue to be aware of,'' he said. "There may be potential for chemicals to affect the risk of respirator...

Laser Driven Stem Cell Surgery in Spain

...nts, Spanish news agency EFE said . Juan Duarte, head of the cardiac surgery unit at La Princesa University Hospital, said the stem cells were extracted from the bone marrow of the patients at the time of surgery, a procedure that took no longer than 10 minutes. Once the first step was completed, the...

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