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Sharon Stone to Raise AIDS Awareness in Dubai

...ise funds for AIDS victims and the actress and the project amfAR hopes top raise maximum money from the pockets of rich nobles in the Gulf emirate known for its discrimination towards HIV patients, as well as gay people. According to a report prepared by the US state department, 'government officials disc...

Insilico Studies on Chlorine Eating Bacteria

...models of the inner workings of the bacterium. The project is funded by a three-year, $381,000 grant from the Department of Defense, which has some 6,000 toxic-dump sites of its own to clean up. Richardson explained that in the field "the bacteria sometimes start and then stop. We might improve conditions ...

Vietnam Plans Human Trial of Bird Flu Vaccine

...he capacity for rapid mass production." The NIHE project is one of Vietnam's three research drives for a bi...looking favourably" at a request to grant the IVAC project up to 2.5 million dollars. Avian influenza has so far tended to infect people in close contact wit...

Roshan Announces Launch of Afghanistan's First Telemedicine Project

...ation and digital image transfer, the Telemedicine project will provide hospitals in Afghanistan with real-ti...iers to launch the project. The first phase of the project has already linked FMIC in Kabul, Afghanistan to AKUH in Karachi Pakistan, enabling access to a broa...

A New Milestone in Stem Cell Research

... the BHF, said: We hope that this exciting Bristol project will provide information taking us a step nearer to the day when stem cells can be used routinely to help repair damaged hearts. In a heart attack, part of the heart muscle loses its blood supply (usually due to furring up of the arteries with fatt...

Now, It's Possible to Trace Marijuana to Its Roots

... than being imported from the low latitudes. The project has potential to help police on multiple levels, according to investigator Stephen Goetz at the UAF Police Department. From an evidentiary standpoint, it could tie a growing operation to marijuana seized on the street, he said, and offer evidence o...

Oman to Launch First Bio-refinery in Gulf Region

...GEC was quoted as saying. "The uniqueness of the project is that cellulose, which will be converted into ethanol, would be extracted from the date palms without cutting a single tree," Al Harthy said. Eighty percent of the output will be exported to Europe, China and India where the demand for alternativ...

US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers

...estimates. It's much higher in this war. A pilot project at Walter Reed in 2003 to screen 155 patients returning from Iraq found that 62 percent had a brain injury....

China's Three Gorges Dam Changing Local Weather: Scientists

China's massive Three Gorges Dam project across the Yangtze River will take another two years to complete, but the world's largest dam is already changing the local weather, claim scientists. Both modeling and actual meteorological data suggest that the reservoir is cooling the Yangtze V...

Two MSU Professors Spearhead International Water Project

...r Tarabara and Tom Voice, are leading an ambitious project to purify the worlds waters . Tarabara and Voice ...d separate on the basis of chemistry and size. Our project is looking at developing new types of membranes and membrane systems that perform better in water tr...

Potentially Violent Individuals can Be Identified by STAMP System

...nt and social services. The five-month research project was carried out in a 33-bedded emergency department in a public hospital serving a large rural, remote and metropolitan community in Australia. It serves a multi-cultural community, which includes a high number of tourists and seasonal workers as ...

The International Diabetes Federation Launches US$ 10 Million Grant to Improve Diabetes Care

...Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) was a multi-site project implemented throughout the United States whose fin...Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a translational research project is being facilitated where people in urban communities with high risk for diabetes are using the DPP...

Galapagos on UN Endangered List

...dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2,800 tons a year. The project has come up with the help of The Ecuador governmen...They are sharing the projects $10 million tab. The project also plants a seed for a more sustainable future on the Galapagos....

Personal Disclosure by Physician may Harm Patients

...e trained to portray specific patient roles. The project produced 193 recorded first-time patient visits to primary care physicians. For the self-disclosure investigation, four recordings were eliminated for poor technical quality and 76 were excluded because the physician suspected the patient was not a t...

Thrombosis Risk in Travel Lasting Over Four Hours is Higher: WHO

...d clot formation in veins. One study within the project examining flights in particular found that those t...revent blood stagnation. Phase I of the research project concludes that there is a need for travellers to be given appropriate information regarding the risk...

Chilean President's Cousin Successfully Tests Allergy 'Knockout' Technique on Mice

...han two months. Termed RECEPTRA, the pioneering project presents a novel therapeutic strategy for acute and chronic allergic diseases, and is currently being licensed through Yissum, the Hebrew University's technology transfer company, to pharmaceutical companies for further development and eventual clini...

Now, a Diet Pill That's as Filling as a Plate of Spaghetti!

... "The idea came to us while we were working on a project to design a lining for nappies," he said. "One of my PhD students came across this particular compound, with incredibly high absorption rates. At the time, scientists were trying to battle obesity with balloons inside the stomach, so we thought thi...

DNA Transplant Brings Creation of Artificial Life a Step Closer

...s that the technique works," Dr Venter said. The project has drawn criticism from groups concerned that it ... scrutiny at every stage, and even interrupted the project for 18 months while a bioethics panel was convened to review it. "I don't think there has ever be...

Digital Music Project Aims to Save Tibetan Folk Songs from Extinction

...ational team of anthropologists have embarked on a project to save Tibetan folk songs from extinction. Led...d on the project. "It is hard to imagine such a project even 20 years ago," he said. Tibetan music first went on the decline during the Cultural Revoluti...

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

...delines Applied in Practice Myocardial Infarction project sponsored by the American College of Cardiology, which has improved heart attack care at dozens of Michigan hospitals and provided a model for hospitals nationwide. He recently received the Raymond Bahr award from the American Society for Chest Pain ...

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