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Cuba is Exporting Healthcare Now

...onary than the right to health care for all is the idea that an investment in health -- or in clean water, adequate food or housing -- could be more powerful, more effective at building security than bombers and aircraft carriers....

New Findings in Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein

...sion at the mRNA stability level, Huang added. The idea is to find the mechanisms underlying the function of FMRP so in the future, we can develop more effective interventions. Huang said future studies will look more closely at how FMRP works with NXF2 to regulate its targets. She said, We expect to id...

Radical Idea of Implanting Tiny Electrodes to the Deaf

Scientists pursued the idea of implanting tiny electronic hearing devices in t...chigan Kresge Hearing Research Institute. If the idea pans out in further animal and human studies, profoundly and severely deaf people would have another...

Chandigarh to Become India's First Smoke-free City

...tourism," said a senior government official. The idea to make the city a 'smoke-free' zone was first mooted by Burning Brain Society, a NGO that pounded the administration and Punjab and Haryana governments with 293 petitions under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, seeking the status of the implementa...

Scientists Develop Liquid Body Armour

...etts Institute of Technology (MIT) have said. The idea is to fill an armoured vest or helmet with shear-thickening liquid and surround it with an array of piezoelectric transducers, they say. Normally, the protective garment would be soft and flexible, giving the wearer maximum freedom of movement. ...

New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

...kshda environmental group. Agarwal first got the idea for what he calls the Mokshda Green Cremation System after an unpleasant experience in 1992 at Haridwar on the banks of the river Ganges. While attending a funeral in the northern Indian city, considered holy by Hindus, Agarwal said he saw a poor fam...

Selection of Best X Chromosome in Women

...fic location on the chromosome but they had little idea as to why this should happen randomly to one X chr...observations also seem to run counter to the usual idea that the biological mechanisms evolve in ways that allow a "best" choice to be made between things r...

Ancient Healing Technique Gains New Popularity in Iraq

...stress of the country's unending bloodshed. The idea behind cupping, which was promoted by ancient Greek physician Galen and medieval Islamic philosopher Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in the West), is to stimulate the skin and muscles to release toxins and improve blood and lymph circulation. The process...

Researchers Cracking the Human Genome Function

...orking. In the beginning we only had the vaguest idea how the various functional data sets might fit together, said Noble. Because of that, the researchers had to build their computational tools from scratch, which required several years of work. The group used the Internet to help rapidly disseminate a...

Sea Massage for French Wines

...rmer restaurateur and the one who came up with the idea in the first place.In 2002, the three friends, after deciding during a wine tasting that what united them was "wine and passion for the sea," decided to plunge bottles into the Saint Malo bay, known for some of the biggest tides in Europe. "The aging...

Look Out for ICE in Emergency Situations

...ld be contacted at during emergency as ICE. The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when ...call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose. Following a disaster in London, the E...

Bio-latrine Cleans Up Kenyan Slum and the Environment

...llers. "At first I thought it was a very strange idea - that my own waste could be used for something - but now I'm used to it," said Kutilo, 22, stopping by the latrine to fill a basin with hot water she can then use for bathing, washing clothes or cooking. Energy for heating is hard to come by in Ki...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

...stract nature of the concept - climate - dwarf any idea that an individual could have an impact through hi...s, but most continue on their current paths. The idea of climate is very "abstract" - despite efforts by environmentalists and the media to portray the ur...

UN Agency’s Checklist on Health Care Erro

... could kill or harm us, so, this isn't some remote idea that affects people who are patients in other parts of the world that we never hear about day-to-day. They could affect any one of us in this room, and that's really what this program is about, trying to reduce risk for health care everywhere for eve...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...weighed against mission success,' Wolpe says. 'The idea that we will always choose a person's well-being over mission success, it sounds good, but it doesn't really turn out to be necessarily the way decisions always will be made.' For now, astronauts and cosmonauts who become critically sick or injured...

World’s First Attempt To Restore Sight Using Gene Therap

...y's leading position in gene therapy in Europe.The idea of using gene therapy to fix diseases caused by ge... long appealed to scientists, although getting the idea to work in practice has proved the tricky part. Some gene therapy approaches have helped patients....

‘Condom Bar’ to Create Awareness Among Youngstes

...e condoms in lieu of loose change. That this new idea is being implemented by a semi-government organisa...e NGOs working for HIV and AIDS and that's how the idea to have a condom bar came up. "We want to target youngsters looking at the ground realities of to...

Cricket Science and Medicine Congress in Barbados

...before the bowler releases the ball'. This novel idea was put to effective practice by the legendary Sir Donald Bradman and he said something similar in 1958. On doing an Electro-encephalogram (EEG) on batsmen it was found: * Skilled batsmen were very calm during the run-up of the bowler and all t...

Arcoxia Slammed –Nothing Better Than Vioxx Says FD

...onsumer representative on the advisory panel: “The idea should not be that we need new drugs. The idea should be that we need better drugs.” ANN/...

New Mechanism Identified for Resistance to Targeted Lung Cancer Drugs

...arger number of resistant samples to get a clearer idea of the frequency of this resistance mechanism. Source-Eurekalert/M...

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