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Richard Gere Urges Truck Drivers to Have Safe Sex

... years. Gere has been associated with the Heroes project - a three-year national initiative by him and Parmeshwar Godrej - that mainly aims at reducing stigma about HIV/AIDS by educating people and advocating for behavioural change.There are nearly five million truck drivers in India of which 40 percent ar...

Physicists Unite To Develop Anthrax Detection Method

...t easier to work with.” The significance of this project has been recognized by other researchers. “This paper is a remarkable achievement in that it makes very clever use of modern techniques for coherent control to detect molecular signals with high sensitivity. Many important practical applications ca...

Climate Change Threatens Sundarbans and World Heritage Sites

...the Sundarbans' case study it was mentioned that a project of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has evaluated the cost of building 2,200 km of protective storm and flood embankments which would supposedly provide the same level of protection as the Sundarbans mangroves. The capital investment was estimat...

Study Shows Hope for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's

...osis,” said Polikar, principal investigator on the project at Rowan. “But most people don’t have access to such facilities and instead go to community clinics and hospitals. Our methodology involves just one ‘snapshot’ that in itself is highly accurate and will be especially beneficial in these locations.” ...

Efforts Underway to Fight Alcoholism Among Tribals

...use of toddy to generate gainful employment. The project started in November 2004 in Bhavari village in Ali...sue gur-making. One reason for the failure of this project was the tribals' love for toddy. "No one wants to leave toddy," said Shankar of Khedut. But many ...

Discovery in Male Mice Gives Hope in Providing Clues to Find Infertility in Men

...r egg production. The researchers are engaged in a project to identify ultimately all the genes needed for fertility in mice and apply this information to the human situation. Source: Generef.com SRM/B...

500,000 Chinese Die of Hepatitis B Annually

... are working together to push forward an awareness project on hepatitis prevention, including 120 lectures in major cities. Source-IANS/B...

Deflecting Damage: Flexible Electronics Aid Brain Injury Research

...are part of a National Institutes of Health-funded project to develop flexible arrays of microelectrodes for brain research. Led by Barclay Morrison III, an assistant biomedical engineering professor at Columbia, members of the team will present their work at the April 9-13 conference of the Materials Resear...

Latest IPCC Report Highlights Need for Integrated Climate/human Behavior Models

...hair, Global Environmental Change and Human Health project of the Earth System Science Partnership): "I welco...ir, Global Environmental Change and Human Security project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change): "Climate change ada...

Chandigarh Councillors Tested for AIDS in Awareness Campaign

...bout medical test for AIDS. AIDS control society project director Sonia Trikha said despite the fact that no cure was available for the deadly disease, the success stories in curbing AIDS in Thailand, Uganda and other countries showed that the disease could be prevented. Source-IANS/B...

Wine You can Wear

... Cass told national broadcaster ABC. Up next is a project to polymerize the gossamer material to make it strong and stretchy. But before fashionistas beat a path to door, a knotty problem needs to be sorted out. For the dress to stay on, Cass cautions it needs to be constantly damp. Let the fabric dry out a...

Satellites Set to Play Good Samaritans in India

...rch 2005 with the launching of a primary education project in Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka. It was a joint effort of the ISRO and the Karnataka government. "Under this project, 885 satellite-receive terminals for primary schools have been set up in predominantly tribal areas," Krishnamurthy said. T...

What Causes Hayfever?

...e almost by accident. Whilst working on a separate project on plant reproduction we found that pollen was producing NO as a by-product. We realised that this might have implications for the allergic response many people have to pollen. This current study has enabled us to look closely at how the plant produc...

Cure for Cancer One Step Closer

... an ethically and scientifically approved research project with tissue, matching blood samples and full clinical data, valuable funds will be saved, which can then be applied to further their research. "There is compelling evidence that new methods for screening, diagnosis and evaluation of cancer can make...

A Project to Map the Health Care Needs of a District in Kerala

...ology of the government //of India, has taken up a project to map the health care needs of the Malappuram district in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The two-year project, in collaboration with the state government's e-literacy program - Akshaya, is expected to utilize Information and Communication T...

British Scientists Grow Part of a Human Heart from Stem Cells

...years. The team spent 10 years working on the project and included physicists, pharmacologists, clinicians and cellular scientists. Many scientists believe it should be possible to harness the cells' ability to grow into different tissues to repair damage and treat disease. Previously, scien...

A Homeopathic Cure for Cancer Under Trial in US

...al at a leading medical centre.// Those behind the project are confident that it would pass muster in the next six months. "The trials on mice to establish the effectiveness of homeopathic medicine have already begun in the United States and by August this year we should be able to establish its efficacy,"...

International Study Finds Ways to Maximize Effective Responses After Terrorism Incidents

...nd reports anything that seems suspicious. "This project provides an initial framework for learning lessons for preparing for terrorist events. However, the next steps are to identify best practices in response to a blast-incident and to develop a research agenda that will guide research priorities," Dr. L...

UF Launches Project to Bridge the Regeneration Gap

...tute of the University of Florida have initiated a project to treat human brain and other diseases by plunder...r you'll see it scurrying across your lanai," said project leader Dennis A. Steindler, Ph.D., executive director of UF's Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brai...

A Sweet Step Toward New Cancer Therapies

..., yielding valuable structural information. In a project that continues to build on this line of work, Hakansson is collaborating with U-M Health System cancer surgeon Diane Simeone to investigate sugars attached to proteins in the membranes of pancreatic cancer cells. "The work is in very early stages, ...

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