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Chinese officials accused of covering up killer virus Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2008 
Local authorities in eastern China tried to cover up an outbreak of a highly contagious virus that has killed 20 children and left more than 1,500 others ill, Chinese press reports said Tuesday. The China Youth Daily, the official organ of the Communist Youth League, compared the situation in Anhui province to the cover-up by Chinese officials of the SARS crisis in 2003. "SARS has alread ... read more |
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Tornado rips through Virginia, 200 injured: officials
Washington (AFP) April 28, 2008A tornado ripped through southeastern Virginia on Monday, causing about 200 injuries and damaging homes, authorities said. "Suffolk looks to be hardest hit," said Bob Spieldenner, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, referring to the city in the southeast corner of the state. "They are estimating somewhere around 200 injuries." A local hospital was also hit ... more Canadian Expert Joins Australian e-Health Centre 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 30, 2008A joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government, the Australian e-Health Research Centre is a leading national research facility for health care innovations in ICT. The Centre's CEO, CSIRO's Gary Morgan, says much of Canada's success in becoming a world leader in the implementation of health information technologies can be attributed to Mr Alvarez who is currently the President and ... more Dawn Of Human Matrilineal Diversity 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 29, 2008A team of Genographic researchers and their collaborators have published the most extensive survey to date of African mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Over 600 complete mtDNA genomes from indigenous populations across the continent were analyzed by the scientists, led by Doron Behar, Genographic Associate Researcher, based at Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, and Saharon Rosset of IBM T.J. Watson Research ... more 70 dead in China train crash: state media 
Zibo, China (AFP) April 28, 2008Seventy people were killed and 420 injured early Monday when a passenger train from Beijing careered off the rails and slammed into another train in eastern China, state media reported. Ruling out terrorism, the official Xinhua news agency said preliminary investigations found human error was to blame, without elaborating. The first train was travelling to Qingdao -- the coastal city ... more Geometry Shapes Sound Of Music 
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Apr 28, 2008Through the ages, the sound of music in myriad incarnations has captivated human beings and made them sing along, and as scholars have suspected for centuries, the mysterious force that shapes the melodies that catch the ear and lead the voice is none other than math. It's geometry, to be more precise, and now, a trio of 21st-century music professors from Florida State University, Yale Uni ... more |
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Chicago, April 22, 2008 U.S. cardiologists say they've developed a transcatheter heart valve replacement procedure for congenital heart disease that eliminates open-chest surgery. The interventional cardiologists from the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago -- one of three sites participating in the study of minimally invasive pulmonic valve replacement -- said they successfully implanted the first three ... more Contaminated blood thinner from China is in 11 countries: report 
New York (AFP) April 22, 2008A contaminated blood thinner from China linked to 81 deaths in the United States is present in drug supplies in 11 countries, the New York Times said Tuesday, citing federal regulators. The US Food and Drug Administration Monday sent a warning letter to Changzhou SPL, the Chinese plant identified as the source of contaminated heparin sold by Baxter International in the United States, the ... more Analysis: Indonesian-U.S. bird flu sharing 
Washington, April 22, 2008 A row involving Indonesia, the United States and the World Health Organization over the sharing of bird flu virus samples is jeopardizing the global early warning system for a potential influenza pandemic and putting lives at risk, say experts and officials. The row centers on the issue of profits made by multinational pharmaceutical companies from vaccines developed using the samples. ... more 'Sims' creator lets people play god in new computer game 
Emeryville, CA (AFP) April 20, 2008Computer buff Will Wright created a multi-billion-dollar franchise with "The Sims" video games that let people play at real life affairs such as dating, working and raising children. Now from September, Wright will let people play god with his latest brainchild "Spore." "The big hook with 'Spore' is that practically the entire game is user created," said Shane Satterfield, editor-in-chief ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 12, 2008China has rejected a study which found a probable case of human-to-human bird flu transmission in the country, state media reported. The study, published in British medical magazine The Lancet this week, said a 24-year-old man was likely to have infected his father with H5N1 before dying, raising the spectre of a feared flu pandemic. But health ministry spokesman Mao Qun'an said there ... more Scientists Find A Fingerprint Of Evolution Across The Human Genome 
Cold Spring Harbor NY (SPX) Apr 10, 2008The Human Genome Project revealed that only a small fraction of the 3 billion "letter" DNA code actually instructs cells to manufacture proteins, the workhorses of most life processes. This has raised the question of what the remaining part of the human genome does. How much of the rest performs other biological functions, and how much is merely residue of prior genetic events? Scientists ... more Plan Brokered By UCLA, USC Archaeologists Would Remove Roadblock To Mideast Peace 
San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2008Israelis and Palestinians may not be able to agree right now on their present or future, but, if a pair of Los Angeles archaeologists have their way, they soon will see eye to eye on their past. Working tirelessly for the past five years, Ran Boytner, a University of California, Los Angeles archaeologist and Lynn Swartz Dodd, an archaeologist at the University of Southern California, have ... more The Voyage To America 
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 09, 2008Professor Eske Willerslev was surprised by the results of the DNA tests conducted by himself and his colleagues on samples of what turned out to be fossilised human faeces found in deep caves in the Oregon desert. The oldest of the droppings have been carbon-dated to be approximately 14,340 years old. Willerslev's faeces samples clearly contain two main genetic types of Asian origin that are uni ... more
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