Baltimore's Ban on Sale of Single, Cheap Cigars Will Protect Kids and Health
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO ) Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Joshua Sh...Baltimore's Proposed Ban on Sale of Single, Cheap Cigars Would Protect Kids and Health
WASHINGTON, May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and Baltimore City Health Department Commissioner Dr. Joshua Sharfstein have taken an important step to protect the city's c...SKorean Scientists Develop Technology for Cheap Biosensor
South Korean scientists said Monday they had developed new technology to use transistors in devices for quick diagnosis of diseases such as diabetes. The biosensor technology was developed by a research team at the state-run Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. "We p...Scientists Boost Production of Cheap Malaria Drugs
Scientists have developed ways of increasing the artemisinin yield from the herb Artemisia annua by specifying optimal growing // conditions and improving the extraction process. The two developments could bring down the price of artemisinin-based drugs recommended by the World Heath Organizati...Russia Hit By Cheap Bootleg Vodka Epidemic
Hospital wards in some of Russia's most remote locations have been overcrowded for several days as scores of patients, almost exclusively men, have been // admitted with cases of severe alcohol poisoning as a result of drinking bootleg vodka. Hundreds have literally drunk themselves to death wi...Drug Firms Competing to Produce Cheap and Effective bird flu vaccine
With GlaxoSmithKline claiming to be able to produce far more doses of bird flu vaccine than its rivals the battle ground has been set to to create a cheap// but effective human bird flu vaccine. GSK is hoping to produce large quantities of the vaccine to challenge the H5N1 bird flu by next year...Inaccurate Counts with Cheap Pedometers – Researcher Find
A study by Belgians finds that pedometers, which are not upto the standard and cheaper does not measure every steps in an accurate manner//. Ghent university researchers have analysed nearly 1,000 pedometers involving 35 adults volunteers using 5 per day for 6 days. Automated step-count log pre...Scientists Developed Cheap Way To Assess Sleep
Scientists from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center had developed a novel way to assess sleep and diagnose sleep related problems in a very cost effective manner. They had reported in the journal Sleep that it is possible to use the information from the heartbeats// to develop the procedures that ...A Cheap Device to Stop Snoring from New Zealand
Wellington, Aug 15. A researcher in New Zealand has developed a device that can bring relief to people who snore and suffer from sleep apnoea, where breathing stops during sleep//. Sleep apnoea is related to a range of problems from high blood pressure and diabetes to depression, not to menti...Bad Air Day Alert: Outdoor Air Pollutants at High Level
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UC San Diego computer scientists are one step closer to building low cost networks of underwater sensors for real time underwater environmental monitoring. At the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop in Rome, Italy, on May 25, computer scientists from the Jacobs School of Engineering present...Substantial improvement in essential cheap solar cell process
A cheap alternative to silicon solar cells can be found in dye-sensitised solar cells. This type of cell imitates the natural conversion of sunlight into energy by, for instance, plants and light-sensitive bacteria. Annemarie Huijser has succeeded in substantially improving a process in this type ...Nanotech could make solar energy as easy and cheap as growing grass
WASHINGTON, DCScientists are working to produce cheap, sustainable solar energy by imitating nature. Nanotechnology researchers like California Institute of Technology professor Nate Lewis are exploring nanoscale materials that mimic the architecture of grass and photosynthesis to capture and stor...Cornell researcher helping develop quick, cheap HIV/AIDS test
A Cornell researcher is working to develop a quick, simple and cheap immune-system test for people in the developing world. It could help HIV/AIDS sufferers in the poorest countries get appropriate treatment to extend their lives, possibly by as much as 10 to 15 years. The work is part of an $8.6...Gear bans 'can help save reefs'
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...n the Journal of the American Chemical Society , and posted on the journal's Web site. Scientists have long been puzzled by nature's ability to use cheap and plentiful building blocks iron, nickel and sulfur to achieve the catalytic performance seen in rare and expensive metals. In particular, two enz...A genome may reduce your carbon footprint
...cently published study examined the impact of very cheap sequence data (approximately 1USD per genome) on i...ponent of natural variation is or will soon become cheap enough that it will soon be able to be incorporate...almost all breeding programs. With availability of cheap sequencing capacity, neither complete sequence ass...Muscular dystrophy diagnosis delayed almost 2.5 years in boys
... test a simple and inexpensive blood test for creatine kinase, an enzyme that leaks out of damaged muscle. "The CK test is an easily available and cheap test," said Emma Ciafaloni, M.D., associate professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center and author of the paper. "If they get...Singapore researchers first to transform carbon dioxide into methanol
...ger reaction time. They also require transition metal catalysts, which are both unstable in oxygen and expensive. Ongoing research at IBN aims to find cheap alternatives for the hydrosilane reagent so that the production of methanol can be even more cost-effective for mass industrial production. "At IB...Nanoscale dimensioning is fast, cheap with new NIST optical technique
A novel technique* under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses a relatively inexpensive optical microscope to quickly and cheaply analyze nanoscale dimensions with nanoscale measurement sensitivity. Termed Through-focus Scanning Optical Microscope (TSOM) ima...GEECF: Spectrum Launches Zero Waste Philippines and Gears Towards Cheap Green Energy
Ronald Shane Flynn, President of Spectrum Blue Steel Corporation announced through a press briefing that initially a 1200 MSW Biosphere facility shall be installed in Morong, Rizal generating about 6-700 MW of green energy per day. The generated green energy shall be sold to electric distribu...Nanotech could make solar energy as easy and cheap as growing grass
WASHINGTON, DCScientists are working to produce cheap, sustainable solar energy by imitating nature. Nanotechnology researchers like California Institute of Technology professor Nate Lewis are exploring nanoscale materials that mimic the architecture of grass and photosynthesis to capture and stor...Wisconsin identity theft law: A cheap plastic sword
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...terials scientist who led the research team. The new batteries, described in the April 2 online edition of Science , could be manufactured with a cheap and environmentally benign process: The synthesis takes place at and below room temperature and requires no harmful organic solvents, and the material...University of Alberta and NINT researchers make solar energy breakthrough
..."our team is so incredibly cross-disciplinary, with people from engineering, physics and chemistry backgrounds all working towards this common goal of cheap manufacturable solar cells. This collaboration is extremely productive because of the great team with such diverse backgrounds, [although] there is st...The IN VIVO Blog Selects First Annual 'Deal of the Year'
...when investment capital is frozen, winning biotechs are figuring out ways of non-dilutively funding their operations -- not simply by avoiding selling cheap equity but avoiding the sale of product rights as well," said Roger Longman, Managing Director, FDC-Windhover. "Alnylam has managed to monetize its te...