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Bush Isolated on Climate Change Heading into G8

...issile threats from rogue nations such as Iran and poses no threat to Russia. Moscow has rejected the assurances and tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile in reply. Bush visits Rome next Saturday for his first audience with Pope Benedict XVI, telling reporters he looks forward "to hearing this ...

Environment Groups Appeal for Ban on Cleaning Chemicals

...release of nonylphenol and nonylphenol ethoxylates poses an unreasonable risk to the environment," the grou...d the unrestricted manufacture and release of NPEs poses serious threat to the environment and sought more research into its adverse health effects particula...

Export of Herbal Products to Reach Rs.120 Billion by 2012: Study

...d, stem and the whole plant in case of herbs. This poses a definite threat to the genetic stocks and to the diversity of medicinal plants if biodiversity is not sustainably used." The chamber, besides suggesting the establishment of EPZs, has also suggested a multi pronged and multi dimensional strategy...

Hong Kong Warning on 'unsafe' Toothpaste

...s used in anti-freeze and as a solvent. It says it poses a "low but meaningful" risk to children and people with kidney or liver disease. An official here said the customs department tested the toothpaste after hearing the reports from Panama, which China has said it is investigating. The safety fears co...

Tritium Risks at New Heights

...to the Great Lakes by Ontario nuclear power plants poses a public health threat, Premier Dalton McGuinty said on Tuesday despite a new study which shows such emissions could put people at risk for genetic mutation and cancer. Canadian-style Candu reactors are among the world's largest sources of tritium,...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...ent with other studies, which have shown valproate poses an increased risk for fetal death and birth defect.” Yet, Ingrid Burns of the British Epilepsy Association adopts a middle path: "We believe there should be a balance struck between the potential effects of seizures on the developing brain of fetus...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...esire between astronauts? Deep space exploration poses more than its share of ethical and practical questions. Yet, if not at one go, NASA doctors and scientists, with help from outside bioethicists and medical experts, hope to answer many of these questions. Says Dr. Richard Williams, NASA's chief he...

Queensland- Sunny Side Up Please

... is well known that depression that goes untreated poses a grave risk for suicide. In 2004, there were 580 cases of suicide reported in Queensland. /...

Robotic Surgeon to Team Up With Doctors, Astronauts on NASA Mission

...ed with a wireless transmitter. The NASA mission poses new challenges. Researchers shrank the computers and power supplies that support the robot so they can be carried in dive bags by technical scuba divers and fit into the limited space. Most importantly, the engineers wrote an instructional manual so ...

Software System to Improve the Function of Retinal Implants

...f each individual speaks a different dialect; this poses a difficulty for the translator function. For this reason, the computer- and neural scientist developed the "Retina Encoder" together with his graduate students Oliver Baruth and Rolf Schatten. At the Hanover Fair he is looking for commercial partner...

Anti-wrinkle Compound Causes Pathological Reaction in Skin Cells

...in serious research to determine whether or not it poses a health risk." DMAE is not a unique case in the world of beauty products, continues the researcher. "Several compounds found in cosmetics are just as complex as medication—they are absorbed through the skin, flow through the bloodstream, are expel...

Statins Linked to Lower Risk of Infection

...g to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. It also poses serious risk for kidney patients undergoing regular dialysis treatments. The Hopkins researchers cautioned that kidney dialysis patients should not necessarily ask their doctors to put them on statins until more studies are done to verify their fin...

Root Beer - Safe Soft Drink

...d counterparts. 'Drinking any type of soft drink poses risk to the health of your teeth,' says AGD spokesperson Kenton Ross, DMD, FAGD. Dr. Ross recommends that patients consume fewer soft drinks by limiting their intake to meals. He also advises patients to drink with a straw, which will reduce soda's c...

GMO Corn Causes Liver, Kidney Problems in Rats: Study

...ays the technology offers vast potential benefits, poses no health risk and has never been shown to contaminate other crops. "All the experts agree that the maize in question is as safe as traditional maize," Yann Fichet, director external relations for Monsanto France told France's TF1 television. He ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine Trustees Support Smoking Ban In Public Spaces

...ns has an obligation to speak out on an issue that poses an imminent health danger not only for smokers but for the innocent bystanders exposed to this smoke.' Johns Hopkins Medicine, with a total of 26,676 employees - including a medical staff of 4,797 and 4,613 registered nurses - is a collaboration of...

India, China Trying to Fight Disease With Nanotechnology

...attention be paid to possible risks nanotechnology poses for human health and the environment." Source-IANS...

Researchers Urge Regulators to Rethink Strategies for Soot Emission

...l engineering and chemistry. Particulate matter poses a serious health problem. Fifty thousand Americans are thought to die prematurely each year due to particle exposure, and almost 70 million Americans live in areas that violate the federal standard. That standard was strengthened in September after s...

Rare Mutation Causes Early Heart Disease and Metabolic Syndrome

...ave identified a rare defect in a single gene that poses a substantial risk for metabolic syndrome and early heart disease, the leading// cause of death worldwide. The international study, led by Arya Mani, M.D., assistant professor of cardiology, and Richard Lifton, M.D., chair of genetics at Yale, iden...

Rajasthan Gears Up for Bird Flu

...through wild birds is not ruled out. This has also poses a threat to India. Every year in winter, the desert state receives thousands of birds from all over the world. The Keoladeo bird sanctuary - once the royal hunting preserve of the princes of Bharatpur - usually gets 400 species of water birds. How...

DNA-based Detection of Heavy Metals

...st soluble species of uranium ion and the one that poses the greatest threat to human life. To search for the unique sequence of DNA that could distinguish uranyl from other metal ions, the researchers used a combinatorial approach called in vitro selection. Simple and cost-effective, the selection proc...

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