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France Steps Up Vigilance After Bird Flu Outbreak

... had sealed off the pond in the Moselle department where the birds were found last week. In accordance with EU norms, a one-kilometre (0.6 mile) exclusion zone has been established around the Assenoncourt pond, as well as a wider 15-kilometre "observation" zone. France's only outbreak of H5N1 was early...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...ce Age," which conjured fears of a snowball planet where survivors eked out a troglodytic life in beaver skins. But evidence for the greenhouse effect was already trickling out. By the end of the 1970s, warming had tipped the balance over cooling in the battle for expert opinion as to which way the cli...

Wordlist for Allergies to Help Cross-border Travellers

...fer from food allergies can find help on a website where they can download a wordlist of more than 200 ingredients , from nuts and shellfish to soya and gluten, that have been translated into 30 languages. The list, available on (http: www.food-info.net/allergy.htm), can be shown in restaurants when orde...

Women's Empowerment Key to Curbing AIDS: UN

...virus are female. Piot cited the example of Kenya, where the ratio reaches 67 percent. "As an optimist, I am a firm believer that catastrophes also offer opportunities. So let's turn the paradigm upside down and make sure that the response to AIDS leverages a fatal blow to the disempowerment of women," h...

US Baby Dies of Salmonella from Pet Turtle

... The infant girl was taken to a Florida hospital, where she was in febrile and in septic shock, on February 20. She was given antibiotics but died on March 1, the CDC said in its "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report." Cultures of cerebrospinal fluid and blood samples taken from the infant found a type...

Dozens More H5N1 Bird Flu Cases in Germany

...e could have jumped the border from the Czech side where it has infected turkey and chicken farms. In Germany, the new outbreak has been restricted to swans, geese and other wild birds and has not affected poultry farms. Germany battled a widespread bird flu epidemic in 2006. It broke out on the Baltic...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

...chief said. But the capsule stuck to the freezer where it was hidden in the cafeteria of the Havana Libre (ex Hilton) Hotel and ripped open when the would-be assassin waiter went to get the poison. "That moment was the closest the CIA got to assassinating Fidel," retired state security general Fabian E...

Australian Patients Who Received Vitamin Injection Infected With Hepatitis C

...n has found Dr Daniel Hameiri's Double Bay clinic where patients receive vitamin injections was the source of the potentially fatal disease. Double Bay is a harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney. It is also reported that the State Government wants a national review of "quack" natural therapies, believ...

Snack Foods Fortified With Fiber

... cardiovascular disease and other ailments."That's where there's a big push for whole grains and fiber," he said. "There's interest in making healthier foods." Funded by a one-year, 30,000 dollars grant from the Kansas Wheat Commission, Alavi and researchers created flour enriched with varying levels of b...

New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking

...wadays recognized as a chronic, recurring disorder where relapses almost inevitably occur during and after the treatment, Karhuvaara 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 wa...

Fibrinogen may Inhibit Spinal Cord Regeneration

... such as multiple sclerosis or hemorrhagic stroke, where blood vessels break and bleed into the brain. She added that such a therapeutic approach wouldnt interfere with fibrinogens essential role in coagulation, because its blood-clotting mechanism depends on binding with a different receptor....

Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now

...zy and more private than the adult infusion center where I used to go. I can watch a movie but I usually fall asleep....

A Mechanical Prosthetic Close to the Real Thing

...ingers, creating an uncannily realistic prosthesis where it counts most: mobility, power and accuracy. In May, Didrick was awarded second prize in the History Channel's Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge, beating thousands of other entries to claim a $5,000 award. The X-Finger, which currently costs t...

Now, Fibre-enriched Tasty Snacks in the Making

...rdiovascular disease and other ailments. "That's where there's a big push for whole grains and fiber," he said. "There's interest in making healthier foods." Funded by a one-year, 30,000 dollars grant from the Kansas Wheat Commission, Alavi and researchers created flour enriched with varying levels o...

Women are the Real Bosses at Home

...udy at least suggests that the marriage is a place where women can exert some power. Whether or not it's because of changing societal roles, we don't know. But they are, at least, taking responsibility and power in these relationships. So, at least for relatively satisfied couples, women are able to take s...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...y," he says. "This is already happening in Berlin, where a small electrolyzing plant at a filling station is generating the gas from water, using 100 per cent renewable energy from a hydroelectric plant in the Alps. It produces no CO2 emissions at all." Along with using renewable energy to produce "green...

More Than a Million Expected for Spain's Famous Bull Run Festival

...g an 825-metre (yard) course leading to the arenas where bullfights are later staged. Runners are sometimes caught and either gored or trampled by the running bulls. Fourteen people have been killed in the event since 1911. On Thursday, hundreds of animal rights activists took part in a "Running of the...

Inaccuracies in Cardiac PET-CT Scanning

...r. Consequently, the images have big holes or gaps where the processing is incorrect in areas where the PET and CT data fail to match, Gould said. It looks like someone has severe disease. On discov...

Computer Games World Cup Kicks Off in Paris

... professional players, particularly in South Korea where some earn up to two million dollars (1.5 million euros) per year, said Matthieu Dallon, Games-Services president. "In Korea and in the United States there are television channels 100-percent dedicated to electronic sports," he said. Svanevik Sond...

Deep Insights into Type2 Diabetes by Wesley Researchers

...ralia-wide treatment standards for Type 2 Diabetes where patients and pharmacists work together to manage the disease....

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