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Rains bring new misery to China mudslide townZhouqu, China (AFP) Aug 12, 2010 Heavy rains on Thursday compounded the misery of a Chinese town devastated by mudslides that have killed 1,144 people, with new floods hampering relief efforts and the stench of death pervasive. Thousands of soldiers and rescuers battled to clear roads blocked by cascades of mud and sludge unleashed by storms overnight, complicating the task of getting food, water and medicine to people in desperate need. Six hundred residents are still missing after the disaster in Zhouqu, a remote town in the ... read more |
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Hong Kong (AFP) July 21, 2010Hong Kong's billionaire tycoons enjoy a status close to royalty in Asia's wealth-obsessed financial hub. The city's richest man Li Ka-shing has the fame of a movie star, while the court case involving the will of eccentric pig-tailed billionaire Nina Wang last year enthralled Hong Kong with its brew of sex, money and power. But Wang's death in 2007 and the hospitalisation last year of ca ... more  
Chicago (UPI) Jul 19, 2010 Some U.S. hospitals say they are changing their food menus to feature antibiotic-free meats - for the health of patients and the health of the environment. Amid concerns about drug-resistant pathogens, medical professionals are urging more use of grass-fed, antibiotic-free beef on hospital patient menus, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday. Hospital administrators say they hope ... more  
Bozeman MT (SPX) Jul 16, 2010Research by a Montana State University doctoral student and one of the nation's top paleontologists is upending more than 100 years of thought regarding the dinosaurs known as Triceratops and Torosaurus. Since the late 1800s, scientists have believed that Triceratops and Torosaurus were two different types of dinosaurs. Triceratops had a three-horned skull with a rather short frill, wherea ... more |
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Waterborne infections cost US over 500 million a year: CDCWashington (AFP) July 14, 2010 Three waterborne diseases account for hospitalizations that cost the US health care system around 539 million dollars a year, the Centers for Disease Control said Wednesday. The CDC said relatively small expenditures to improve water systems and keep swimming pools clean could dramatically reduce the incidence of the three diseases: Legionnaire's disease, cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis. The average cost of treating one patient hospitalized with Legionnaire's disease was more than 34,000 dollar ... read more |
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