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Deluge of Haiti aid, but officials say more neededUnited Nations (AFP) Jan 15, 2010 Donors ranging from the world's richest countries to individuals sending text messages have contributed massive aid for quake-stricken Haiti, but officials said Friday much more was needed. The UN said it planned an appeal for hundreds of millions of dollars, with the deeply poor country desperate for food and medical supplies and its shattered infrastructure making distribution of assistanc ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2010International medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) struggled Wednesday to cope with a "massive influx" of survivors of the powerful earthquake in Haiti, many with severe injuries, a spokesman said. Patients with "severe traumas, head wounds, crushed limbs" have been streaming into temporary structures set up by MSF in and around Port-au-Prince, but the medical charity is only able ... more  
Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2010The swine flu epidemic in mainland France that has killed hundreds has ended, a monitoring group of doctors said on Wednesday. "It's the end of the epidemic," Thierry Blanchon, one of the doctors of the Sentinelles flu monitoring network, told AFP. The number of cases of the fever reported to doctors has "fallen below the epidemic level for the past two weeks," he said. "The virus is cer ... more  
London (AFP) Jan 12, 2010Tony Blair's former chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell fiercely denied Tuesday "sexing up" a dossier which claimed Iraq could launch chemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes ahead of the 2003 war. In a defiant appearance before a public inquiry on the conflict, Campbell said that while the highly controversial document could have been "clearer", he still defended "every single word" ... more |
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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  
London (AFP) Jan 8, 2010Europe was faced with grounded planes and axed trains Friday amid bitter winter weather and hard-hit Britain was forced to curb industrial gas usage to save dwindling supplies. Significant snowfalls in France caused major delays to train services and electricity cuts, while Germans were urged to stock up on food and medicines as they braced for up to 20 centimetres (eight inches) of snowfall ... more |
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