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Patients Find Healthy Vein in Old Austrian Mine

...a bumpy 20-minute ride, they arrive in one of four stations at the "Heilstollen," or "health mine," in the heart of Radhausberg mountain south of Salzburg -- a brief trip to the "tropics" while never leaving Europe. Once there, they undress, lie down on camping beds and take a cure that has drawn millions o...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...ugs the country's southern coast. Eventually these stations will form a 360-mile long "hydrogen highway" stretching from Stavanger to Oslo. "The goal is that by 2009 it will be possible to drive a hydrogen-powered car along the entire route," says Anders Hermansen from Statoil, Norway's biggest oil company ...

Traffic Control Boxes to Help Road Monitoring

...d. He wants to help states leverage those detector stations and keep costs down. He and former graduate stud...center, which then pinged the neighboring detector stations to perform a kind of triangulation to locate the incident that was affecting traffic. The engineer...

Concerns Raised Over Risks for Patients and Staff in Australian Hospital

...compliant systems. OUTDATED design means nursing stations are "completely dysfunctional". PATIENT rooms and consulting rooms are "grossly undersized" and wards and consulting spaces have no provision for disabled patients. The report raises three options for redevelopment but recommends the most expensi...

Radical Change in the Lifestyle Might Bring a Greener Future for Brits

...authors do not suggest building more nuclear power stations because of the cost and targets they provide to terrorists. Duncan McLaren, chief executive of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said "The solutions put forward in this report could slash carbon emissions. There would need to be a major step change i...

Brits Need to Change Lifestyle to Have a Greener Future: Report

...authors do not suggest building more nuclear power stations because of the cost and targets they provide to terrorists. Duncan McLaren, chief executive of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said "The solutions put forward in this report could slash carbon emissions. There would need to be a major step change i...

Paris Set for Pedal Power Revolution

... pick up a form from bakeries, newsagents or metro stations citywide. The stylishly-designed bike docking stations, spaced 300 metres (yards) apart, form a dense grid across the city, and cyclists can use the Internet or a mobile phone to check on bike availability at any one. Each dock has a panel that g...

Indian Government at the Crossroads in Implementing Anti-smoking

...ldings, any restaurants, hotels, airports or train stations or anywhere where employees are present, will be smoke free." Ramadoss said 40 percent of all health problems in India were due to tobacco with one million deaths recorded annually as a result of tobacco-related illnesses. He has also proposed a ...

China Cannot Be Blamed for Rising CO2 Emissions: Britain Official

...It is a fact China is now building about two power stations every week". However, he went on to say that it was pointless pillorying China for this, reports news agency WAM. "We need to convince China that they don't have to make a choice between prosperity and protecting the climate. We need to help them t...

Being Employed on the Moon can Cause Depression

...ments of tomorrow - or, for that matter, the space stations of today - carry long-term implications for the mental health of employees working in isolation for extended periods. Depression and anxiety will reach new levels among those employees, creating mental and cardiovascular health problems as well as a ...

Oman to Launch First Bio-refinery in Gulf Region

... also plans to set up a string of bio-fuel filling stations in Oman and aims to cut carbon monoxide emission by up to 20 percent by 2020, Al Harthy added....

China's Three Gorges Dam Changing Local Weather: Scientists

...archers combined satellite data and ground weather stations to create a computer climate simulation, which they then compared to what has already happened in recent years. More recently, other NASA satellites have been watching the weather changes, said Wu. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) pro...

Fast Food Chains Face Ban from Malaysian Children's Television

...s of ringgit in advertising revenue for television stations and affect multinational fast-food companies but the health of its citizens came first. Chua, who is also a medical doctor said the ban and label requirements were in line with the government's efforts to reduce health problems such as heart disease...

Charity Slot Machines a Thing of the Past in Norway

...ir machines from bars, supermarkets, airports, gas stations and other locations. "There has been such an explosion of slot machine gambling in recent years that we had to do something to curb the social problems it causes," Halvard Ingebrigtsen, undersecretary of state at the ministry of culture and religiou...

Chhattisgarh to Launch Polio Campaign for Laborers Kids

...m fixed centers besides public places like railway stations and bus stands. On the last two days, they will make door-to-door visits to ensure that not a single kid below five years is left out. The government has sought help from locally elected representatives and NGOs to make the drive a success....

Researchers Find Estrogen Governs Genes That Affect Aggression

... receptor beta. The two receptors are like docking stations that send signals from the estrogen molecules into the cells. It was found that both the alpha-receptor and the beta-receptor played a key role in increasing aggression in short days and decreasing aggression in long days. In another study, the r...

Coca Cola To Distribute HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria Prevention Playing Cards Among Chinese Migrant Workers

...workers employed at construction sites and railway stations in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hangzhou. Coca Cola also will work with the Chinese Foundation for the Prevention of STDs and AIDS to distribute HIV prevention cards in Henan, Guizhou and Yunnan. Coco Cola staff also will be given access to the...

Royal College of Physicians Exams Now in India

... The SRU medical college has 25 specialist skill stations and has made available seven of these for the MRCP examination. The first examination was held this week over three days with about 45 examinees attending. The candidates included one from Britain, one from Australia and another one from Pakistan. ...

Disaster Balloons can Be Used to Keep Communication Intact During Calamities

...unication transmitters - similar to cellphone base stations will then be automatically launched to ensure communication channels remain open....

Bengal to Ban Low-grade Plastic Production

...alities, district administrations and local police stations to make the ban effective from June 6. "We have already talked to Indian Plastic Federation (IPF) for implementing the restriction on production of low-grade plastic products in our state," Sarkar said. Pointing out a number of environmental thre...

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