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Ancient Ancestors Might Have Had a Clue to HIV

Scientist believe that humans distant ancestors won the battle against the now extinct virus 4 million years ago but it left the human species vulnerable to HIV today. AIDs one of the most dangerous diseases of the present century and one of the most researched one still leaves many questions unansw...

Indian Projects Win Top Ashden Awards

...wer" Harish Hande from SELCO, based in Bangalore won the Outstanding Achievement Award(15,000 pounds) a...e said. Vidya Sagar from SKG Sangha in Karnataka won the second prize promoting food security. The award carries a grant of 10,000 pounds and is used fo...

Thai Separatists Burn School, Kill Four

.... Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, who has won international praise for his conciliatory approach to the conflict, admitted Monday that the policy had failed to improve the situation, which has in fact "deteriorated" in recent months. The deep south was an independent Islamic sultanate known as...

Robot Hosts South Korean Wedding

...duties, Tiro -- whose value was put at 200 million won (some 215,000 dollars) -- would be upgraded to perform various other functions, according to Hanool officials. Small other robots were also at the ceremony to guide guests or give performances. South Korean robots have also been given harder tasks ...

Pregnant Women's Contest to Curb Infant Mortality

...vanshi, 26, a past winner of the contest, said: "I won it, beating 20 other pregnant women. As per the advice of a doctor, I kept a strict record of my iron tablet intake, went for check-ups every three months and ate plenty of green vegetables. "I went to the hospital to deliver my baby and the baby b...

Scottish Engineer Devises Versatile Hand

...icial skin, the one-size-fits-all hand has already won the approval of patients on both sizes of the Atlantic, including Iraq war veterans. Father-of-two Juan Arrendondo, was a sergeant in the US army when he lost his hand to a roadside bomb in 2004. He tried several other artificial hands before sett...

Rorting Health Practioners Busted

...tage. The recommendations cited in the report have won cautious approval from the Australian Medical Association....

Haneefs SIM Card Not Recovered from the Burning Jeep

...e piece, it's an inconsistency. Court cases aren't won on one inconsistency and battles aren't won in the courts on that," he said. "Court cases are fairly complex issues and this one is particular...

Alcohol may Help You to Be Cool

... a shock varying in intensity. Likewise, when they won a round they gave their opponent a shock. The idea was to see how alcohol affected the mens belligerence, as measured by the kinds of shocks they chose to hand out. In the next part of the study, the researchers required 120 men, some drinkers, som...

The Queen Of All Contraceptives Released

...igured prominently among the reasons. Once women won the right to vote in 1920, the menstruation-equals-inadequacy debate waned for a while. In fact, two decades later, new proof arrived that women were perfectly fit and capable (even when bleeding) and therefore should step right up and join the war ...

Double Amputee Finishes Last, but Still Looks Forward to Beijing Olympics

...heetah. At the Paralympics in 2004 in Athens, he won the 100, 200 and 400 meters. At the 400 tune-up in...Italian runners. In South Africa and elsewhere, he won the nickname "Blade Runner" and the plaudit "fastest man with no legs." After the Sheffield race, ...

Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse

...ly hailing from Kosovo and now settled in US. He won his asylum case on the ground that as a gay he was...groups in several major U.S. cities said they have won dozens of cases. Homosexuality, once a de facto condition for barring foreigners from entering the...

First Brain Cancer Vaccine Approved in Switzerland

...cs, a US-based biotech company, said Monday it had won approval for commercial use of the world's first vaccine against brain cancer in Switzerland . The company, which is listed in London, intends to begin making DCVax-Brain available to patients before the end of September, according to a statement. ...

Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns

...ess situations," Dr Ford said. In 2002, the ACCC won an action against three obstetricians in Rockhampton, Queensland, who had agreed on higher fees if they treated the others' patients. The action resulted in one of the doctors leaving Rockhampton, reducing obstetrics services in the region. The...

Africa's Men Urged to Step Up AIDS Fight

...Saharan Africa. "The response to HIV will not be won if men do not come on board since they are equally affected or infected," she said; South Africa had emphasised men's role in AIDS campaigns by organising men as activists," she said. Several women living with the virus told the conference of the...

Tobacco Firm's Research Funds Spark Protest in SKorea

..., adding they would receive a total of one billion won (1.08 million dollars) from the US company for the research. Jang said the "basic research" aimed at identifying what harmful factors affect smokers compared to non-smokers. An anti-smoking group urged the hospitals to withdraw from what it calle...

Bangladeshi Wins America's Junior Miss Contest

...en crowned America's Junior Miss 2007. Nora, 17, won the final competition, held in Alabama Saturday, by bagging prize money of more than $60,000, The Daily Star said Wednesday, quoting website wcco.com. "I just want to start a business and maybe even start a bio-medical company with my elder sister ...

American Bests Japanese Hot Dog Eating Champion, Sets Record

.... Chestnut, a 23-year-old student from California, won the mustard-yellow championship belt and a prize of 10,000 dollars, but above all he basked in the glory of having beaten 16 rivals and broken Kobayashi's seemingly endless run. The 70-kilo (154-pound) Kobayashi had caused a sensation by winning th...

EU Aims to Shake Up Wine Industry With Root-and-branch Reform

...rm, which still has to be backed by member states, won a mixed reaction from the wine sector, with farmers up in arms and traders pleased with the shake-up. "The Commission's reform wants to introduce the New World's agro-industry model in the EU and do away with the age-old European model of tradition...

Furore Over Spa Planned on Active Philippines Volcano

...(148,200-acre) protected area of the volcano. It won the backing of the Talisay municipal council and the project was launched in November 2006. Taal has erupted 33 times in the last 400 years, the last one being in 1977, and government experts at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismolog...

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