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100,000 feared dead in horrific Haiti quakePort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 13, 2010 More than 100,000 people were feared dead in Haiti Wednesday after a calamitous earthquake razed homes, hotels, and hospitals, leaving the capital in ruins and bodies strewn in the streets. Schools collapsed, trapping the dead inside, and the cries of desperate victims escaped from flattened buildings in the center of the capital Port-au-Prince, which an AFP correspondent said was "mostly ." A massive aid operation swung into action, with rescue teams set to fly in from across the globe to try to pull victims from the debris, bringing desperately-needed medicines and food, as a humanitarian crisis unfolded. ... read more |
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Las Cruces NM (SPX) Jan 12, 2010New Mexico State University's fledgling, but rapidly growing aerospace engineering program, gained approval in December to begin offering master's and doctoral degrees. The graduate program will accept its first students in fall 2010. On Dec. 15, the New Mexico State Board of Finance awarded final approval for the program to move ahead, successfully closing a three-year approval process. ... more  
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jan 12, 2010Chinese researchers have become the world's fifth most prolific contributors to peer-reviewed scientific literature on clock-reversing regenerative medicine even as a skeptical international research community condemns the practice of Chinese clinics administering unproven stem cell therapies to domestic and foreign patients. According to a study by the Canadian-based McLaughlin-Rotman ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2010The HHS Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is awarding nine contracts for the advanced research and development of more effective tests and devices to determine the level of radiation a person has absorbed after a nuclear or radiological incident. The contracts total $35 million for the initial phase and up to $400 million over five years. The contracts are awar ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2010A new kind of brain scan seems to be better at detecting early signs of change related to the onset of Alzheimer's disease, new research published Wednesday in the online issue of Neurology found. The scan, called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), could prove important to earlier detection and in turn better treatment. "As better medicines for Alzheimer's disease become available, it will ... more  
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Jan 6, 2009 Uncertainty over the health of Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua -- hospitalized in Saudi Arabia for more than a month -- and a ferment of political intrigue caused by his absence are stoking fears that a fragile truce in a conflict over the nation's oil wealth will soon unravel altogether. In the southern Niger Delta, the country's oil-producing center, militants who have observed a ... more  
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 05, 2010Faster sequencing of DNA holds enormous potential for biology and medicine, particularly for personalized diagnosis and customized treatment based on each individual's genomic makeup. At present however, sequencing technology remains cumbersome and cost prohibitive for most clinical applications, though this may be changing, thanks to a range of innovative new techniques. In the current is ... more |
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