Bt cotton in China fails to reap profit after seven years
Although Chinese cotton growers were among the first farmers worldwide to plant genetically modified (GM) cotton to resist bollworms, the substantial profits they have reaped for several years by saving on pesticides have now been eroded. The reason, as reported by Cornell University researchers at the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting in Long Beach, Calif.,...US infant mortality rate fails to improve
Nearly 28,000 babies died before their first birthday, according to new infant mortality statistics for 2003 released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). In 2003, the infant mortality rate was 6.8 deaths for every 1,000 live births, which wa...Emergency contraception fails to halt abortions
Easy availability of emergency contraception does not have a notable effect on rates of pregnancy and abortion, according to an editorial in this week's BMJ. The usefulness of emergency contraception is questioned by Professor Anna Glasier, director of family planning and well woman services of Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust, Edinburgh, who says it does help some women some of the time, w...Early HIV treatment fails to restore memory T cells
Most of the body’s memory T cells vanish within weeks after a person is infected with the HIV virus. In a study from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and the Bernard-Nocht Institute appearing in the international open-access journal PLoS Medicine, researchers report that these memory T cells, mostly found in the digestive tract, tend not to return to normal even after years of treatment for...FailSafe PCR System w/choice of 8 PreMix Tubes from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies
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Description:1, 2 or 8 PreMixes are included as part of the FailSafe PCR System....Rote education fails the Information Age
For the most part, they are teaching the classical three Rs. I am not talking about reading, writing and `rithmetic; I am talking about rote, repetition, a...Merge fails to file quarterly financial report
warning that the company remains subject to delisting after missing another opportu...Alcoholism Drug Fails To Prevent Drinking Relapses
The Food and Drug Administration approved naltrexone for the treatment of alcoholism in 1994. At that time, the only other drug therapy available was disulfiram, or Antabuse, which provokes a sickening reaction to alcohol.// A new study casts sobering doubts on earlier claims that an alcoholism drug can truly treat the addiction. The government is sponsoring a large trial comparing na...Tamiflu Fails To Save Two Lives
Two Vietnamese patients who were infected with the H5N1 bird flu died in spite of having been treated with the new Roche drug, Tamiflu. The virus appears to have developed a resistance // to the drug which is causing considerable concern among medical circles. The virus was seen to mutate in the patients, becoming more aggressive and killing the patients. The 274Y resistant strains were s...Himachal Pradesh Fails To Become Health Tourism Center
The Indian State of Himachal Pradesh's plans to become a flourishing health tourism center has not proved to be a success. There were plans to take advantage of its sylvan settings and its 'panchkarma' ayurvedic cure system // and establish a healthcare hub similar to that which came into being in yet another Indian state, namely Kerala. Four years ago, the Central Health Ministry sa...Budhia's Medical Report Fails to Address Long Term Health Issues
The panel of doctors examining Budhia Singh has suggested that he goes ‘slow’ and should not be allowed to run - at least for sometime//. A warrant-cum-authorization letter from the Khurda district welfare committee helped Police on Wednesday to take the boy to hospital. The medical panel headed by the chief medical officer of Capital Hospital, Sugat Kar, found the boy’s s..."Daydreaming" Network Fails In Autism
A study by researchers at the University of California, appearing in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that people// with autism never "daydream" The researchers arrived at this conclusion after comparing the brain scans of people having autism and those not affected by the disease. During the resting period of the brain, emotions and thoughts ar...Cholesterol Drug Fails to Slow Progression of Coronary Disease, Cleveland Clinic Study Reports
NEW ORLEANS, March 26, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleveland Clinicresearchers today report that the drug torcetrapib, despite raisinghigh density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) or the "good"cholesterol by more than 60%, did not slow the progression ofplaque buildup in the coronary arteries as measured using anultrasound probe. Steven Nissen, M.D., Chairman of Cardiovascular Medicine atCl...