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Deep-sea Mining can Damage Marine Ecosystem

...rwater mine cutters and a hydraulic pump system to transfer roughly two million tons of ore per year to the surface. These strips would be located approximately 500 meters to two kilometres from the active vents, but the cutting and pumping process will disgorge considerable amounts of fine sediment into the ...

Bali Bombings Helped Improve Trauma Care

...taff that treated the victims or prepared them for transfer to hospitals in their home states. The experience in 2005 was very different. Twenty people were killed and 129 wounded in the bombings in October 2005. Four Australians died and 19 were injured. On this occasion shrapnel rather than burns caused...

Surgeons Perform Nasal Reconstruction for War Veteran Using His Own Body Parts

...ear. One of the more complex procedures involved transfer of soft skin from the underside of Fletchers arm to create an inside nasal lining. Arteries in his neck had to be rerouted to keep sufficient blood flowing to this part of the nose. Weeks before the first operation, the surgical team fully mapped ...

Experts to Develop New Weapons Against Food Poisoning

...Gen. This is part of the University's programme to transfer technology from academia into the commercial world...control of food-safety hazards associated with the transfer of pathogenic bacteria from animal production to consumers. The work on a phage product for the co...

More Than 270 Medicines in Testing for Heart Disease and Stroke

...le to promote 'good' cholesterol by preventing the transfer of 'good' cholesterol to 'bad' cholesterol....

Urgent Need for Guidance on Mobile Phone Use in Clinical Care

... so international as well as national agreement on transfer of data is required. Specifically this must cover the status of consultations when clinician and patient are in different countries. At present a UK clinician may provide a consultation using a registered patients mobile phone unaware that the patien...

New Platform for Regulating Expression of Therapeutic Genes Unveiled

...gene and cell therapy. For many applications, gene transfer is being employed to engineer cells for therapeutic factor production, expansion, selection of a desired cell type and even fail-safe suicide. These applications often require precise regulation in order to ensure gene expression in the correct tissu...

US Climate Plan Must Not Substitute UN Treaties: China

...owth. It also emphasizes technology innovation and transfer in combating climate change. China is ready to strengthen cooperation with the US on handling climate change to achieve a win-win situation in the principle of seeking common interests and shelving differences, the minister said at the official lau...

Now a Drug to Stop the Feeling of Hunger

...ts from Yissum, the Hebrew University's technology transfer company, and is currently working towards creating a commercial anti-obesity drug. The findings of the study were presented during the 70th meeting of the Hebrew University Board of Governors....

Prison Healthcare Under Strain as Overcrowding Crisis Worsens, Warns BMA

...hat there are few efficient mechanisms in place to transfer health information or records. In the short term this bleak picture places vulnerable prisoners at risk from serious complications because their conditions are not being assessed immediately and treated adequately. In the long term, the prison syst...

India to Propose Global Fund for Clean Energy Technologies

...ble with. These are on equity, energy security and transfer of clean technology," a senior Indian official said. "The rich countries have to show some flexibility," he said, adding: "We cannot allow climate change and development pulling in the opposite direction." India's position paper says technologies...

Single Embryo IVF Increase Chances of Having Child Sans Risky Multiple Births

..., rather than the practised three days, before its transfer to the womb. The extra time makes the embryos t... start a family. It is a myth that single embryo transfer has to lower the success rate, he said. If you select the right patients, and use blastocyst transfe...

A Boon to Hearing Impaired-Gene Transfer

...of Virginia Health System have discovered a way to transfer genes, which they hope will restore hearing, into diseased tissue of the human inner ear . This important step brings scientists closer to curing genetic or acquired hearing loss. Dr. Jeffrey Holt, associate professor of neuroscience and otolaryngo...

New Therapeutic Approach for Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases

... treat cells with retinoic acid in a test tube and transfer them to the organism to suppress inflammation in vivo, said Dr. Cheroutre. This may offer an important new avenue for treatment of autoimmune diseases like colitis and rheumatoid arthritis or other inflammatory diseases, as well as potentially provid...

National Institute Of Health & Family Welfare To Commercialize Its Products

...tional Research Development Corporation (NRDC) for transfer of technology developed by the NIHFW in the fields of Thermo Stable Elisa Kits and Laboratory Kits for Testing Sperm Functions. The up scaling of technologies developed by the Institute will be taken up by NRDC for commercialization. Prof. Deoki Nan...

WHOs Plan of Global Stockpile of Bird Flu Vaccine Gathers Momentum

...ion capacity, including research and promoting the transfer of technology to developing countries....

Ladder-related Injuries on the Rise in U.S

...percent of injuries resulted in hospitalization or transfer to another hospital, approximately twice the admission rate of consumer product-related injuries overall. Of the cases for which location of injury was recorded, nearly all (97 percent) occurred in non-occupational settings, such as homes and farms. ...

Local Councils Should Be Responsible for Tackling Health Inequalities

... care. Local councils would then decide whether to transfer it back to the NHS or to use it, for example, to cut the local waiting list for social housing or to improve school meals. Whatever it did, it would have to be mindful of its health inequality targets, which would now lie clearly with the local cou...

Research Uncovers the Significant Benefits of Remote Monitoring

...phone support or telemonitoring) to electronically transfer a patients' physiological data such as blood pressure, weight and ECG and oxygen details, to their healthcare provider has increased in prevalence over the past years. According to research recently published in The British Medical Journal, remote mo...

Indian Court Refers Novartis Plea for Patent on Anti-cancer Drug to a Separate Board

...southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has decided to transfer the Novartis AG’s appeal against the rejection of its patent// plea for the anti-cancer drug Glivec to the Intellectual Property Appellate Board. The decision could be considered a temporary setback to the pharma multinational. For it cannot hope...

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