Twenty Years of Malaria Research: Outcomes and Perspectives
The Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), Thailand, will be hosting a scientific seminar in Mae Sot on 28 December entitled "Twenty Years of Malaria Research: Outcomes and Perspectives" attended by internationally-renowned experts and featuring talks and debates on a variety of topics related to malaria, from epidemiology to therapeutics and from immunity to socio-economics. As the Shoklo...Twenty of world's 162 grouper species threatened with extinction
The first comprehensive assessment of the world’s 162 species of grouper, a culinary favorite and important commercial fish, found that 20 are threatened with extinction unless proper management or conservation measures are introduced. Eight species previously were listed by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) as under extinction threat, and the new assessment proposes adding 12 more. A pa...Twenty ways you can tell this campaign has finally pushed you over the edge
It's been a long campaign season, and you've been poked and prodded by television ads, pollsters and even the occasional national press corps member. John Kerry drank a beer at your neighborhood bar and George W. Bush read a book at your local kindergarten. Dick Cheney was spotted more in Wisconsin in 2004 than he was seen everywhere else combined in the last four ye...Man's Memory Awakens After Twenty Years
Terry Wallis who is now 42 years old has been slightly unconscious and has recovered after a period of 20 years//. His nerves were completely sheared in a car crash and he was in a state of partial coma wherein he communicated with others by means of grunts and nods. But now his speech and movement were slowly improving. The doctors and researchers said that the tiny nerve connections...Twenty-two Chikungunya Cases Confirmed in Maharashtra
The Maharashtra health department Thursday said 22 cases of Chikungunya disease were confirmed in Kolhapur district of the sate . "Of the 20 villages in Kolhapur district from where an outbreak of the viral fever was reported, we have found 22 cases from only 12 villages, which tested positive for Chikungunya from blood samples tests conducted at Pune's National Institute of Virolog...