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Researchers are developing technologies that use lasers to create arterial stents and longer-lasting medical implants that could be manufactured 10 times faster and also less expensively than is now possible. New technologies will be needed to meet the huge global market for artificial hips and knees, said Yung Shin, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of Purdue's Center for ... read more 
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 13, 2009Six workers died on Sunday after plunging 20 floors down a lift shaft in Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper and the fourth tallest building in the world, police and local reports said. A police spokesman said emergency workers called to the International Commerce Centre in Kowloon's popular Tsim Sha Tsui area removed three injured workers, who were all certified dead on arrival at hospital. ... more
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Istanbul (AFP) Sept 13, 2009A Turkish textile worker whose minibus was swept away by devastating floods in Istanbul has died in hospital, raising the death toll in the disaster to 35, officials and local media said. The woman was seriously injured when her minibus was hit in the Halkali district on Wednesday. Seven other people drowned in the minibus which was deemed unfit to transport people. In the Istanbul ... more  
Paris (AFP) Sept 10, 2009Swine flu can infect cells deeper in the lungs than seasonal flu, thus helping to boost the severity of the illness, a study released on Thursday said. The paper provides the first laboratory corroboration of reports from front-line doctors that some patients with A(H1N1) virus suffer worse symptoms compared to those with run-of-the-mill seasonal flu. Influenza viruses penetrate cells by ... more 
London (AFP) Sept 10, 2009Britain is "tantalisingly close" to beating swine flu, the chief medical officer said Thursday, as figures showed the death toll had risen by five over the past week to 75. Unveiling plans to double the numbers of intensive care beds to cope with an expected surge in cases during Britain's coming autumn and winter months, Liam Donaldson said the death toll for the current pandemic was ... more |
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Port Moresby (AFP) Aug 31, 2009Twin outbreaks of a mystery flu and dysentery in a remote region of Papua New Guinea have killed 47 people and infected another 2,000 villagers, a senior medical official said Monday. And a separate eruption of cholera in the Pacific island nation has killed seven adults and sickened 73 other people, provincial health adviser Theo Likei told AFP. Twenty-seven villagers in the Menyamya ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 30, 2009Six farmers were killed in eastern China Sunday when the hut they were sheltering in during a storm was struck by lightning, state media reported. Another farmer in the hut was injured and taken to hospital, the Xinhua news agency quoted local officials in Anhui province as saying. The accident happened during a heavy rainstorm in the village of Qiaodong, around 650 kilometres(400 miles ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 26, 2009Robotics and medical experts in Japan on Wednesday unveiled the prototype of a new hi-tech electric wheelchair that resembles a scooter and promises greater mobility. Users ride astride the four-wheeled Rodem -- rather than sitting in it, as in a conventional wheelchair -- steer it with a joystick and hold onto motorbike-style handles while the knees and chest rest on cushions. ... more |
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