Scientists Create Fire-proof, Eco-friendly Plastic
... To get there we have to invent plastics that dont yet existplastics that dont burn, or burn so slowly that there is ample time for passengers to escape from an aircraft fire, he says. When something burns, it decomposes thermally; some of it becomes a gasthats what burns as flameand what doesnt burn ...Small Pox Scare Put West Bengal on High Alert
...istricts. However, Bangladesh authorities have not yet confirmed any case of small pox and said they have been investigating the situation. All hospitals and offices of the chief medical officer of health (CMOH) in West Bengal districts have also been alerted, local reports said. Smallpox is a contag...Panama Official Arrested Over Tainted Medicine Deaths of 100
.... No reports of poisoning from the toothpaste have yet surfaced....Dietary Vitamin B6, B12 and Folate, may Decrease Pancreatic Cancer Risk Among Leans
...icant finding from the study, which is the largest yet to look at these nutrients and pancreatic cancer r...but that vitamin use was associated with a higher, yet non-significant risk of developing the cancer. In this study, researchers combined four large pros...Delhi's Hottest Day at 44.1 Degrees Celsius
...on may have entered a few southern states of India yet it is pure summer in Delhi. The temperature may not slide Sunday as well," said an IMD official. "It's the hottest day of the year in the capital and as far as June 2 is concerned Saturday was the hottest June 2 in last four years," he told IANS, a...Manipur Pharmacies Shut Down Fearing Separatist Threats
... Some drugstores opened Monday although many are yet to resume business out of fear. The closure of pha...onstant medication for cancer. The government is yet to formally react to the shutdown of drug stores. Health Secretary P. Vaiphei was quoted by the loca...Intensive Psychotherapy Provides Helping Hand in Borderline Personality Disorder.
...n the personality, rather than simply on symptoms, yet also shows improvements in symptoms. The study also included dialectical behavior therapy (or DBT), which is a cognitively based therapy. Supportive therapy also has its roots in psychoanalytic methods, but differs substantially from TFP. This ...Breakthrough for Treatment of Fatal Heart Condition
... be managed, the cause of heart hypertrophy cannot yet be treated. This research provides a first step in the search for a possible treatment. says Dr Ooi. Cardiac hypertrophy is a relatively common condition often caused by high blood pressure, or can be the result of a genetic predisposition, resulti...New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance
...ing pH across two different membranes, but we dont yet know exactly how they are doing it, Roepe says. Still, knowing the pH values can help pharmacologists and chemists redesign a molecule to take advantage of these changes....Fate of France's Cheeses in Doubt as Producers Cite Health Risks
...usiness motives. And they fear the companies may yet use their commercial weight to get AOC regulators to change the rules -- placing the future of traditional Camembert in real jeopardy. "They talk about a supposed danger to health, but they know it is nonsense. Their real reason is that they wan...Cancer Experts Received Threats for Opposing Controversial Drug
...he persons responsible for sending the threats are yet to be identified. However, it is clear that the doctors public opposition to the drug, Provenge, has angered some patients with prostate cancer and their advocates, who insist the drug would provide relief to desperate patients with scarcely any al...Drugs Lure Hong Kong Youth Across China Border
...and ice, insisted she was trying to quit. Not just yet though. "I've been arrested countless times but you only need to leave a few hundred dollars on the table, they'll let you go."...Experts Stresses the Need for National Vaccination Policy
... India is among the top 10 countries that have not yet managed to end polio. Sixty cases of the disease were found in 2007 while 674 cases were reported last year....New York Legislature Highlights for Awareness of Alzheimer's Disease
...ed Assemblyman Englebright: "As a society, we have yet to really acknowledge the impact of Alzheimer's disease on both the family and individual. One important step to blunt the toll that this affliction takes in health, dignity and financial resources is early detection. That is why I'm pleased to be wo...Should Genetic Information Be Disclosed to Insurers?
...ly such people would need insurance more than most yet would be less able than most to get it. In the face of uncertainty surrounding the interpretation of genetic information, occasional discriminatory practice by individual insurers and a lack of solutions to the problem of social justice, he says, i...Titan may Produce Glucose Watches Soon
...''. The talks are in the final stages. The deal is yet to be finalized. Varadan holds the post of Director of the Centers of Nano-, Micro- and Neuro- Electronics, Sensors and Systems; High Density Electronics Center (HiDEC) and Neurosurgery Research Programme in University of Arkansas. He is with Penn ......our brains may use to rapidly distinguish similar, yet separate places and experiences. The study, conducted by University of Bristol neuroscientists working with colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), could lead to treatments for memory-related disorders, as well as for the pe...WHO Cautions Against Spread of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis.
...g-resistant tuberculosis might become.The study is yet to be published as the outcome depended on a numberof variables. ``In impoverished countries with poor public health systems lacking inlaboratory facilities, the drug resistant tuberculosis could replacestandard TB,' Raviglione warned. In these pla...Make-or-break Exams Stress China Youth
... test of her life this week, and she's not even 18 yet . Duan is one of nearly 10 million college hopefuls struggling through China's university placement exams, a pressure-packed, make-or-break ordeal that will propel her into the educated elite -- or trap her down in the faceless masses. "The press...Dartmouth Professor Makes Case for Ethically Universal Stem Cell Lines
... is the three- to five-day-old embryo that has not yet been implanted in the uterus. Since many people regard the normal human blastocyst as morally deserving of protection, the challenge is to find methods of deriving hESCs that either leave the blastocyst intact and unharmed or avoid the use of normal ...