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India AIDS Cases Due to Drop, Spending Up

... tough call so you can't ever relax or it's just a matter of time before it can invade the whole country."...

Male Pheromones Build Brain Cells in Female Mice

...tion in humans or not. They say that it is still a matter of speculation whether a subconscious whiff of an alpha-male's urine could turn a woman's head. "Olfaction is a subtle and underappreciated sense. Maybe we've underestimated its importance," says Weiss....

Shambu With Bovine TB Being Prevented from Slaughter

...vet has declared Shambo thoroughly healthy. The matter then reached the House of Commons with MP Andrew Dismore tabling a motion urging the government to use its discretion to spare the animal considered sacred in Hinduism. Thousands have signed an online petition supporting Shambo and a video stream bro...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...opinion that the question of sex in space is not a matter of crew health but a behavioral issue that will ha...ers at NASA. The agency will have to address the matter sooner or later, says Paul Root Wolpe, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania who has advis...

Women Unaware of When Breast Cancer Risk is Greatest

...ven a series of ten year age bands and 'age doesnt matter from which to select their answer. Of those surveyed, 99 per cent answered incorrectly. An increased media focus on younger women who have been diagnosed with the disease - such as Kylie Minogue - and the fact that women are not routinely invited f...

Government Expels Superintendent for Not Informing Newborn Deaths

...ve-member panel of senior doctors to look into the matter and submit a report in three weeks time. Another three-member committee has also been set up to oversee the Rs.10 million modernization of the Sree Avittam Tirunal Hospital. People belonging to the lower and middle classes avail of the hospital's ...

Distance Education By All Universities

...ering programmes through distance mode and on that matter universities should be governed by their own Act and Statutes. A list of the universities including deemed universities running distance education courses is annexed. IGNOU has informed that DEC does not maintain the details of the courses offered...

Brazil Government In Contention With Merck Over Anti-AIDS Drug

...d committed to the negotiations", she added. The matter now will be referred to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's chief of staff who will decide whether to issue the compulsory license and allow Brazil to manufacture the drug or to buy generic versions while paying Merck a small royalty. Efavirenz i...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

...mall and irrelevant on a global scale - it doesn't matter whether I do something or don't." In fact, it is true that reducing carbon emissions blamed for global warming depends on changing behavior across society, but even that conviction seems to be missing, Seidl said. "Most people still don't have co...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

...Saha told IANS. He said he would soon bring the matter before the NRI community in USA and other countries as the judgement was vindictive. "Should the US government treat citizens of other countries differently and deny them their fundamental rights only because they are foreign nationals?" asked Sah...

Kerala Health Minister Charged for Infant Deaths in a Hospital

...ve-member panel of senior doctors to look into the matter and submit a report in three weeks. Another three-member committee has been set up to oversee the Rs.10 million modernisation of the hospital. People from the lower and middle classes visit the hospital due to its low treatment charges. A normal...

New Clues for Treatment of Disease That Causes Accelerated Aging

...and the severity of symptoms are linked. "It's a matter of ratios: the more abnormal protein you have, the more severe the disease," Miner says. "And apparently we don't have that far to go to tip that ratio in progeria patients' favor." Researchers at other institutions have been developing a treatment...

New Survey List Out Cities That Take Sun Protection Seriously

...d about protecting themselves from skin cancer, no matter where you live."...

Brains White Matter: More Talkative Than Once Thought

...surprise that nerves in the mammalian brains white matter do more than just ferry information between diffe...ions, but in fact process information the way gray matter cells do. The discovery in mouse cells, outlined in the cover story of the March issue of Nature N...

Estrogen May Be a Good Therapy for Women Before They Turn 65

...average of five years. "We found that it didn't matter how old the woman was when she started hormone therapy, how long or recently she took it or what kind of prior therapy she used," said study author Victor W. Henderson, MD, of Stanford University. "Further studies are needed to support these findin...

Biometric Passports For Indians

...chnical specifications of the e-passports and this matter is under examination. The cost of converting ordinary into biometric passports will be worked out on the basis of the technical specifications that are finalized. The Government has been continually taking a number of steps to bring about more tr...

Gentle, Real, Well-mannered - Kangana's Mr. Right

...ost of my films have worked for me. And it doesn't matter how 'Metro' does at the box office. For me it already works as a story. All the performances support the screenplay and characters." And she maintains that "Metro" will always remain special. "What makes 'Metro' really special is that I had so ma...

Paid Maternity Leave Pushed By Australian Rights Activists

...s unpaid leave, yet paid maternity leave remains a matter for the employer. Two-thirds of women have no access to paid maternity leave, say official figures. "Women are getting punished for the simple fact that they, genetically, are those with the function to produce the next generation," Mr. von Doussa ...

Scientists Saying Against Trees Sparks Debate

...eric chemists. Though bacteria in soil or decaying matter produce methane in anaerobic conditions, there seems to be no reason or mechanism for living plants to emit the gas in an oxygen-rich environment. The implications of the findings are worrying: on a global scale, Keppler estimated, methane emission...

Decoding Protein Structures Helps Illuminate Cause of Diabetes

...ash into flat sheets, then coil into fibers. 'No matter how fast they're moving, we can take pictures of them,' says Zanni. Without their automated method, he says, such experiments would be nearly impossible. The technique also has potential application in other human diseases that involve protein mis...

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