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APEC Agree to Share Bird Flu Samples

...rld Health Organisation says has killed 188 people worldwide since 2003. Indonesia refused to share bird flu virus samples with foreign laboratories last December in a dispute over intellectual property rights. While Jakarta resumed virus-sharing last month, it remains concerned about the possibility that mu...

New Bird Flu Case in Hong Kong

...illed almost 200 people and ravaged poultry flocks worldwide since 2003. Migratory birds have been blamed for the global spread of the disease. Biologists believe local species of wild birds found dead with the virus could have picked it up from contact with infected flocks in mainland China, where it is bel...

Radical Idea of Implanting Tiny Electrodes to the Deaf

...le. More than 100,000 implants have been performed worldwide in the last two decades, including more than 1,000 at U-M. Like the new device, cochlear implants are small electrode arrays that receive signals from an external sound processor. They are designed to stimulate the auditory nerve and other cells to...

Vaccines On Your Plate

...ines cannot be stored at room temperature, and the worldwide cost of refrigerating them is put at between 101 million and 152 million a year. The new vaccine is said to solve both problems. In tests it was resistant to the digestive enzyme pepsin, and it remained stable at room temperature for more than 18 m...

Traders Smell Something Fishy in Tokyo Market Move

...lities and must change with the times. Despite the worldwide boom in sushi, fish consumption has been gradually declining in Japan, with a recent farm ministry study saying that meat consumption may outpace fish as more people embrace a Western-style diet. "We've already studied an option to refurbish the mark...

The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

...become dominant, everyone is at risk. The rising worldwide number of XDR-TB cases like Speaker's may herald t...mes pandemic. Last week, the WHO asked governments worldwide to pay up the $3 billion a year needed to fund existing TB programs and an additional $1 billion a ...

Jaipur Foot All Set to Launch Its Centre in Columbia

...e prosthesis that has helped thousands of disabled worldwide to walk again, is set to be launched from Colombia, its first centre on foreign soil . The Colombian government has sanctioned the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), producers of the artificial limb, to set up base in the South Americ...

Canadians Urged to Renovate Houses to Check Radon Gas Radiation

...duce the radon risk. "When you compare us to the worldwide scale, it's pretty shocking how long we went with such high levels," said Erik Stout of Fernie-based Rocky Mountain Inspections, a company that specializes in testing radon in homes. He called for greater public awareness about radon gas, noting "m...

13 Million Die Worldwide Due to Unhealthy Environment: New WHO Report

...on health, and it revealed that 13 million deaths worldwide could be prevented every year by making environments healthier. The report shows huge inequalities but also demonstrate that in every country, people's health could be improved by reducing environmental risks, including pollution, hazards in the wo...

Catholics Should Halt Amnesty Support Over Abortion Issue: Vatican

...sks to have abortions. But it will not conduct any worldwide campaign in favour of abortion or its general legalisation and "will not make any judgement on whether it is right or not." Martino meanwhile said: "Thanks be to God, there is no internationally-recognised right to abortion," before attacking "the ...

The Long Wait ... Dying for Lack of Kidneys

...n people there is a registered donor. According to worldwide data collected by AFP, kidneys far and away top the transplant wish-list, but no global statistics are available on the number of people who die waiting. In the United States last year, 6,287 transplant-seekers died (more than 96,000 are currently re...

A ‘Fit’ of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgey

...rtoma, is extremely rare affecting about 30 people worldwide each year. If the condition is left untreated, it could also cause mental retardation. This condition does not improve with medication. Dr Schneider, co-chief of the hospital's pediatric neurosurgery unit, after examining the child, took a decisio...

Asthma can Be Checked, Experts are Confident

...s chronic disease which affects almost 300 million worldwide remains the same as was prophesied by Maimonides. Asthma is perhaps the most commonly discussed respiratory disease after the common cold. The word asthma is derived from a Greek work meaning 'breathlessness or panting" both of which accurately descr...

Study Focus on Environmental Hazards Posed by IT Scraps

... 14 large-scale //power production plants must run worldwide just to provide electricity to computer centers. Then there are millions of PCs in private or corporate settings to be figured in as well. Not to mention the manufacture and disposal of the machines, all of which damage the environment. User behav...

Indonesia Struggles Against Bird Flu and the Drug Industry as Well

...ial. The bird flu has killed at least 172 people worldwide since it began its spread through Asian poultry in 2003, according to WHO. Most human deaths come from contact with infected birds, but experts fear it could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people. SRM/B...

U.K. Backs Program To Improve Drug Access in Developing Countries

...s in the pilot countries and launch the initiative worldwide by the end of next year. Source-Kaiser Family Foundation...

Single Drug Dose Cures Malaria in Mice

...s, making the development of effective new drugs a worldwide priority. Since 1992, Posner and his team, which includes collaborator Theresa Shapiro, Professor and Chair of clinical pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, have been tackling that challenge by designing a series of peroxide compo...

China Agrees to Share Bird Flu Samples

...ssible pandemic. The virus has killed 170 people worldwide since late 2003, and China, with the world's largest poultry population, millions of backyard birds, and a strained medical system, is seen as key in the fight against bird flu. Source-Generef.com/L...

HIV/AIDS- Possible Cure From Within

...s. With nearly 40 million people living with HIV worldwide and 3 million deaths last year, new approaches are urgently needed. Screening hundreds of proteins from human blood discovered the compound called Virus-Inhibitory Peptide or VIRIP. Test tube studies showed VIRIP to inhibit 60 different strains o...

Electronic Mosquito Repellents Fail to Prevent Malaria Transmission

...nder the UK Trade Description Act has not affected worldwide marketing of the devices. “This is a concern,” they write, “because it is likely to lead to consumers not using other protective methods that are proven to work.” Such personal protection includes mosquito repellents formulated as pills, ointments, l...

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