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Annual Tobacco-related Deaths to Reach 8.3 Million by 2030

...ll undeveloped market and transnational crime that takes advantage of smuggling opportunities, said Bettcher. But the WHO is convinced that tighter laws on the tobacco industry could save 200 million lives by 2050, he said. Bettcher was one of several tobacco industry experts attending an international...

Boeing Unveils 'green' Dreamliner Passenger Jet

...7 will go into service after Airbus's mammoth A380 takes to the skies. The first units of the double-decker superjumbo -- capable of seating up to 800 passengers -- will be delivered to Singapore Airlines in October. Analysts say the Dreamliner and the A380 reflect the different strategies of Boeing and ...

In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash

... orcs and saving princesses in distress . It all takes place in cyberspace, where earning credits for online gamers who are too busy to do it themselves has become a handy source of extra income for the 21-year-old -- and a full-time job for thousands of other Chinese. Zhao, a third-year student at Bei...

Anti-depressants Do Not Increase the Overall Risk of Most Birth Defects

...h consumers, and keep monitoring for as long as it takes to get good data on risks to mothers and babies, Dr. Katz added. The March of Dimes recommends women discuss the potential risks and benefits of taking SSRIs during pregnancy with their doctors. Women, who are taking an antidepressant should not ...

New Diagnostic Test for Mad Cow Disease Developed

... "While this method, due to the length of time it takes to carry out, is unlikely to produce a rapid screening test that could be implemented in blood donation centres, it may well be suitable as a confirmatory test that could be conducted at a national centre," the Scotsman quoted Professor James Ironsid...

New Oncogene for Brain Cancer

...poor prognosis for glioma patients. The PNAS paper takes it beyond this biomarker status. Zhang, Fuller and colleagues employed a viral gene transfer delivery agent known as RCAS, which is loaded with the gene, or genes, of interest and injected into the mouse brain. The viral particles infect only glial...

New Device to Treat Snoring and Sleep Apnea

...uch that it closes. In the new procedure - which takes just 15 minutes - surgeons make a tiny incision in the side of the neck and then implant a small metal anchor-shaped device, about one millimetre long, in the base of the tongue in the throat. Another metal anchor is implanted into the lower jawbone,...

NanoSensors Provides Update on Its Biosensor to Detect E.coli and Salmonella

...counts to determine the level of contamination and takes up to four days. No assurances can be given that the Company will be able to locate a third party with which to pursue the commercialization of its biosensor, that any negotiations with a third party will result in the consummation of a strategic tra...

US Teens Charged With Gang Raping a Woman

...d as adults. "Any rape case is horrible but this takes it to another level, something you can't think of even in your worst dreams," police spokesman Ted White said. According to the police report, a man knocked on the woman's door at about 9 p.m. and told her he had a flat tire. The mother and son, wh...

New Heart Disease Risk Score Will Help Minimise Health Inequalities

...rom primary care data for use in primary care, and takes account of social deprivation to better identify patients most at most risk of heart disease and stroke who are most likely to benefit from treatment. We thank the many thousands of doctors who have enabled this research by freely contributing anon...

Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too

...$360 US for a course of three treatments, Gardasil takes its place as the most costly vaccine on the planet. For manufacturer Merck & Co., the giant drug-maker that is still reeling from the recall of its once celebrated painkiller Vioxx, Gardasil is seen as something of a corporate life raft. Analyst...

An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk

...rom primary care data for use in primary care, and takes account of social deprivation to better identify patients most at most risk of heart disease and stroke who are most likely to benefit from treatment. We thank the many thousands of doctors who have enabled this research by freely contributing anonym...

Vegas Couples Hope Sevens Will Be Lucky Wedding Day

... place to be married if you choose a location that takes marriage seriously," Foote said. "There are great prices, great hotels, restaurants and shopping and it is very easy to get the marriage license." And the significance of the triple sevens date? "I personally feel that it will (be) much more impo...

Significant Advances in VCJD Prion Detection

...d: While this method, due to the length of time it takes to carry out, is unlikely to produce a rapid screening test that could be implemented in blood donation centres it may well be suitable as a confirmatory test that could be conducted at a national centre. Work is currently ongoing to develop a scre...

Efforts on to Tackle Health Problems Faced by US Truck Drivers

...ng up their own efforts at improving health. "It takes a while to undo years and years and years of unhea...e cabin of her semi, too, while her partner driver takes the wheel. She gave up smoking three years ago and now is trying to lose 30 pounds. "It's real eas...

30 Dead as Dengue Fever Epidemic Hits Myanmar: Report

... with the virus last year. Dengue fever normally takes its greatest toll in Myanmar in the second half of the year, after the rainy season begins in June. The disease is especially dangerous in children and the elderly. Myanmar's health system has suffered from decades of economic mismanagement, and th...

Scientists Find New Way to Kill Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria

...the National Academy of Science. When a person takes an antibiotic, any bug having a protective mutation against the drug survives. These drug-resistant microbes quickly accumulate useful mutations, and share them with other bacteria through conjugation. The researchers analysed the enzyme relaxase ...

Teens Seems to Be Smoking Less

...ngham said. "Smoking is an addictive scourge that takes root during adolescence," said Dr. David L. Katz, an associate professor of public health, and director of the Prevention Research Center, at Yale University School of Medicine. "Efforts to curtail the initiation of smoking in adolescence are deserv...

Simple Blood Test May Predict Alzheimers Disease

... is not only very upsetting for patients, but also takes up to a year for a diagnosis and only spots the disease once its symptoms have set in. Says Research director Professor Simon Lovestone: "There are hundreds of drugs in development but the costs, even for large pharmaceutical companies, are immense ...

Understanding the Mechanism Underlying Embryo Development

...This process of subdivision into compartments also takes place during the formation of the vertebrate central nervous system, and the genes and signalling pathways involved are conserved in both Drosophila and vertebrate species. Although biologists already had an intuitive idea of how the limit or border...

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