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![]() Tehran (AFP) July 21, 2010 A 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook southern Iran early Wednesday, killing one person, injuring dozens and damaging houses in four villages near the town of Lamerd, media reports said. State television's website reported that "an 80-year-old woman, who was injured in the earthquake, died of internal bleeding after she was taken to hospital in Lamerd." The tremor just after midnight was followed by 11 aftershocks and 30 percent of buildings in the four villages, on the border of the southern provinc ... read more |
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New Medical Weapons To Protect Against Anthrax Attacks![]() The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States are fostering development of a new generation of vaccines, antibiotics, and other medications to protect people against the potentially deadly bacteria in any future bioterrorist incident. That's the conclusion of a sweeping overview of scientific research on medical technology to combat the anthrax threat. It appears in ACS' bi-weekly Journal ... more Chinese military buys traditional medicine ![]() Renhuang Pharmaceuticals, a Chinese developer of biopharmaceuticals and traditional Chinese medicines, has won a 1-year contract to supply Chinese military hospitals. The contract is worth an expected $600,000 this year, rising to around $1.2 million for 2011, a company statement said. Renhuang will supply the Guangzhou Military District with plant-based shengmai granules, Tianma ... more India unveils new 280-mln-dollar Bhopal disaster response ![]() India unveiled a new 280-million-dollar package to tackle the legacy of the Bhopal gas disaster Thursday and will renew efforts to prosecute the American ex-boss of the group blamed for the accident. The government said it would fund a clean up of the still-polluted site of the catastrophe, increase compensation for victims, improve medical facilities and try to extract more compensation fro ... more |
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![]() San Diego (UPI) Jun 22, 2010 U.S. medical investigators say a drug under development by Pfizer Inc. is showing promising results in reducing lung cancer tumors during clinical trials. Researchers at the University of California-San Diego's Moores Cancer Center said the drug, crizotinib, may be of benefit to patients with a specific kind of lung cancer. "The results of the first two trials have been very encouraging," said Dr. Lyudmila Bazhenova, an assistant clinical professor who led the study. "The Phase III clini ... read more |
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