http://www.interndaily.com/index.html Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST en-us More than 10 days after Beijing and Washington reached a tentative agreement on his departure, Chen Guangcheng remains confined to a hospital bed as China seeks to show it controls the blind activist's fate. Analysts say Beijing will not now go back on its commitment to allow the 40-year-old legal campaigner to go to the United States with his wife and children, after telling US officials it]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST Imagine you're an astronaut exploring the surface of Mars, when suddenly you fall ill or injure yourself. As your team struggles to get you safely back to base, you become seriously dehydrated. With their trusty - and ingenious - kit, the medical officer hooks into the drinking water supply, using it to create a saline solution that they can inject directly into your blood stream for quick and s]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who faces trial in absentia in Baghdad on charges of running a death squad, has undergone "routine" medical checks in Turkey, his office said on Friday. Hashemi, who is the subject of a Red Notice issued by the international police agency Interpol, travelled from Istanbul to Ankara on Thursday for treatment at a military hospital, Turkey's private NTV ]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST Hip replacement is one of the most frequent operations carried out in Germany. Each year, doctors implant some 200,000 artificial hip joints. Often the artificial hips need to be replaced just ten years later. In the future, a new implant currently being developed using high technology materials could help prevent premature revision surgeries. Thanks to artificial hips, people with irrepar]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST Forty people were killed when a brief but violent hailstorm and torrential rain swept through a mountainous region of northwestern China, the local government said Sunday. Eighteen others remained missing in Min county, a disaster-prone area of Gansu province, while 87 had been sent to hospital, the county government said in a statement on its website. Officials said 29,300 people were e]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST International medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday that 1,500 children in a mining village in northwest Nigeria have suffered lead-poisoning and are not receiving care. "1,500 children are currently lead-poisoned but are not receiving treatment because it is impossible to deliver effective treatment while they still live in contaminated homes," the group's head of mission ]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST Changes in the speed that ice travels in more than 200 outlet glaciers indicates that Greenland's contribution to rising sea level in the 21st century might be significantly less than the upper limits some scientists thought possible, a new study shows. "So far, on average we're seeing about a 30 percent speedup in 10 years," said Twila Moon, a University of Washington doctoral student in ]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST Insurgents killed four people, including a man and his son, in two attacks in Diyala province in central Iraq on Wednesday, police and medical officials said. "Insurgents raided the house of a man working in the identity card directorate ... and assassinated him and his 18-year-old son," on the outskirts of Baquba, capital of Diyala, a police officer said on condition of anonymity. The a]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST Government critics are questioning whether a man jailed for criticizing the monarchy died in hospital because he was given inadequate medical attention. Ampon Tangnoppakul, also known as Ah Kong, died this week in a Bangkok prison hospital where he was being treated for acute stomach pains. Ampon, 61, was sentenced to 20 years in jail in November after a criminal court found him ]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST For desperate Vietnamese cancer patients ground rhinoceros horn is seen as an elixir of life - a medically unproven and illegal obsession that threatens the very survival of the world's wild rhinos. The substance, which shares the same protein found in human fingernails, sells for thousands of dollars an ounce in Vietnam. Soaring demand has led to a bloodbath in South Africa as poachers kil]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST Today's hybrid corn varieties more efficiently use nitrogen to create more grain, according to 72 years of public-sector research data reviewed by Purdue University researchers. Tony Vyn, a professor of agronomy, and doctoral student Ignacio Ciampitti looked at nitrogen use studies for corn from two periods - 1940-1990 and 1991-2011. They wanted to see whether increased yields were due to ]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST Decades of conservation efforts to save rhinos are coming undone, as surging demand for their horns in Asian traditional medicine has spawned a vast criminal trade powered by poaching. South Africa is the epicentre of the poaching battle. A conservation success story, the country is home to 70 to 80 percent of the world's rhinos. In 2007, 13 rhinos were poached. Last year the number hit ]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST The battle against rhino poaching is at a fever pitch in South Africa, the country hardest hit by the scourge, spawning scores of fundraising campaigns running from glamorous to gory. Carrying a trendy shopping bag or sporting a brightly beaded bracelet have become fashionable ways of flagging awareness of the plight of the rhino, whose horn is used in traditional Asian medicine in the false]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST New evidence proves humans are continuing to evolve and that significant natural and sexual selection is still taking place in our species in the modern world. Despite advancements in medicine and technology, as well as an increased prevalence of monogamy, research reveals humans are continuing to evolve just like other species. Scientists in an international collaboration, which includes ]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST Having a virtual copy of a patient's blood in a computer would be a boon to researchers and doctors. They could examine a simulated heart attack caused by blood clotting in a diseased coronary artery and see if a drug like aspirin would be effective in reducing the size of such a clot. Now, a team of biomedical engineers and hematologists at the University of Pennsylvania has made large-sc]]> Thu, 17 MAY 2012 14:55:25 AEST