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Beijing Says Food Safe for Olympic Athletes, Tourists

...centre. However the official assurances fall far short of satisfying Zhou Qin, a Beijing dissident and author of a 2006 book that revealed serious food safety problems in China. "During the Olympics, it will be difficult to keep Beijing's food safe," he told AFP. "They might be able to provide safe f...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...be soon forgotten. They have produced more than 60 short films, 30 public service announcements featuring stars such as Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz, and a book, The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook by David de Rothschild, that will be published in Britain this week....

Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

... swollen lymph glands. While the illness can be as short as a few days, even healthy people have reported being sick for several weeks. Another virus, St. Louis encephalitis has been around longer but has a lower rate of infection. Only 1 out of 800 children who are bitten by a mosquito with the St. Loui...

Mira Nair Takes AIDS Message to Indian Cinema Halls

... joined India's top directors in a project to show short films on the impact of the Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) before the screening of Bollywood blockbusters. Nair said she got the idea of this collaboration of filmmakers to raise awareness about the disease from the Bill and Melinda Gate...

Cognitive Test Takers and Score Variation

...nctioning. It appears that repeating tests over a short period may give a more accurate range of scores, i...n several parallel assessments within a relatively short period. Results gained in this manner are likely to be more stable, offering a better basis for cali...

A Drug That Helps Cut Alcohol Craving

...He insisted that focusing on harm reduction in the short term is often much more feasible than complete abstinence....

Genetic Mutation That Makes Common Cancers Resistant to Drugs Identified

...ug development efforts. This discovery adds to the short but growing list of molecular features that may help guide both current and future cancer drug development," said Dr. John Carpten, Senior Investigator and Director of TGen's Integrated Cancer Genomics Division and the study's lead author. "The ne...

New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking

...huvaara said. So focusing on harm reduction in the short term is often much more feasible than complete abstinence, he added. Karhuvaara is a physician and health researcher who was once an employee of Biotie Therapies Corp., the manufacturer of nalmefene. The drug maker supported the new study. There ...

Mira Nair Launches AIDS Awareness Project

...IDS and its impact. It will involve the showing of short films on the impact of the disease during movie screenings. The internationally acclaimed filmmaker said that she had proposed the idea to get the message across to people. "I proposed that I would get together the most cutting-edge, commercial, ...

Scientists Destroy Cancer Cells Using Electric Pulses

...eversibly opening tumour cells through a series of short intense electric pulses from small electrodes placed in or around the body," said Davalos, who is the 2006 recipient of the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award for Most Promising Engineer or Scientist. "This application creates permanent ...

Former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar Died of Cancer

...er House. Besides being the Prime Minister for a short span, Chandra Shekhar was the Union Minster for various departments during 1989 to 1991. Even being a member of the Central Election Committee and Working Committee of All India Congress Committee (Indira). (A.I.C.C.(I)), he was arrested under ...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

...ily said, though now she leaves once a day to take short walks to the beach. Her illness, she said, served as a wake-up call to family members, who are now very cautious and make sure to use insect repellent before going outside. Still, her 9-year-old granddaughter is afraid of the outdoors after seeing ...

Delay in Cancer Diagnosis for Children

... delays in the diagnosis of cancer in children are short and attributable to clinical presentation and heal... and found that delays in diagnosis were generally short but the range of the data included much longer time delays. Because of the small number of studies...

Air Pollution in India Causes 527,700 Deaths a Year

... The total number of Chinese whose lives are cut short by pollution-triggered diseases aligns closely with the figures that were reportedly left out of a recent World Bank study. China's State Environmental Protection Agency engineered the removal of the statistics, the Financial Times reported, becau...

Penguins Altered Diet When Humans Began Hunting Whales and Seals

...he birds can capture lots of high-energy prey in a short time," says Emslie. Ernslie and Patterson analysed over 220 fossilised eggshells, ranging from 100 to 38,000 years old, and compared them with samples from modern nests. By comparing the proportion of certain forms of carbon and nitrogen in the ...

Americas Best Hospital Reduced Heart Attack Rates

...dance about the performance on outcomes, they fall short of identifying all the top hospitals with respect to 30-day survival after admission for acute myocardial infarction and include a few hospitals that are actually in the lowest quartile of performance. (Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(13):1345-1351. Ava...

Britains Free Fruit -And -Vegetable -Scheme Falls Flat

...take but also to sustain changes that occur in the short term."The findings of this evaluation showed a short-term increase in fruit intake can be achieved in young children who remain in the scheme - however, further interventions may be needed to prevent the waning of this effect."...

Study Confirms No HRT Benefit for Older Women

...ut the authors support the view that HRT is a safe short term treatment for younger women in early menopause to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life. In 2002, the Womens Health Initiative (WHI) trial found that postmenopausal women taking HRT had more heart attacks and strokes than non-HRT users....

A New Monoclonal Antibody Kills Cancer Cells

... originates and spreads. Most patients live only a short time after diagnosis. Based on previous studies showing that some pathways that were previously thought to be active only during fetal liver development, particularly the class III receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) family pathway, became highly active ...

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

...eams -- The new sewage plants sit idle at times, short of waste, while homes and shops that have sprouted unplanned around them send their domestic waste into storm drains that go directly to the river. The pipes that do lead to the plants are falling apart -- a third are in urgent need of repair -- so...

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