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Chinese AIDS activist jailed for criminal damageBeijing (AFP) Feb 12, 2011 A Chinese AIDS activist has been jailed for a year for criminal damage at the hospital where he believes he was infected as a child, his lawyer said Saturday. Tian Xi, 24, was arrested in August 2010 in central China's Xincai district and accused of smashing up equipment in the hospital where he says he received transfusions of tainted blood. "The verdict was announced yesterday by the Xincai County Court," Liang Xiaojun told AFP. Tian rejected the sentence, "considering that the court has ... read more |
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  Mars 500: Landing On The Simulated Red Planet 'Half-time' for Mars 500; on 12 February 2011, after a 250-day simulated flight to Mars, three crewmembers will land on the Red Planet. They will climb out of their isolation pod two days later at t ... more | .. |
  First French 'designer baby' born French doctors have announced the birth of a baby selected by genetic sampling who may offer a cure for a sibling affected by an incurable hereditary disease. ... more | .. |
  Future Surgeons May Use Robotic Nurse Surgeons of the future might use a system that recognizes hand gestures as commands to control a robotic scrub nurse or tell a computer to display medical images of the patient during an operation. ... more | .. |
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  Myanmar set for ex-general as president The next Myanmar president looks set to be another general after the new Parliament elected two former military men as vice presidents. ... more | .. |
'Tsunami' of obesity worldwide: study A "tsunami of obesity" is unfurling across the world, resulting in a near-doubling of the numbers of dangerously overweight adults since 1980, doctors warned on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Spanish doctors unveil promising AIDS vaccine Spanish researchers announced Tuesday they have developed an AIDS vaccine which cuts the viral load by a significant amount in most patients although they cautioned it is still not enough as a treatment. ... more | .. |
  Study Finds Common Ground For Ecosystems And Fishing In Northwest Mexico Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have completed a new study on the geography of commercial fisheries in Northwest Mexico and the results could have far-ranging impl ... more |
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Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
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 Southeast Asia facing new 'health crisis' Southeast Asia's 600 million people are facing a raft of new health challenges as the disaster-prone region undergoes some of the world's fastest social change, medical papers published Tuesday said. ... more | .. |
  Areva to begin US trial of cancer-fighting isotope A subsidiary of the French nuclear giant Areva said Monday it had received US clearance to begin a clinical trial of an isotope that targets cancer cells. ... more | .. |
  ISS Resupply From Four Corners Of Globe A quick succession of international space supply trucks will arrive on the International Space Station's loading docks early in 2011, dropping off more than 11 tons (10,000 kilograms) of food, compu ... more | .. |
 Space crew to simulate Mars walk next month Three men will simulate walking on Mars next month as part of a project that has seen a multinational crew locked up inside a mock Moscow spaceship since June, the head of the project said Friday. ... more |
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 Two critical with swine flu in Hong Kong Two people were in critical condition in a Hong Kong hospital suffering from swine flu, health officials said Friday, a year and a half after an outbreak killed more than 80 people in the city. ... more | .. |
 World Bank aims grant at Haiti's cholera epidemic The World Bank's board of directors on Tuesday approved a $15 million grant to help Haiti fight the cholera epidemic ravaging the impoverished country, the development lender said. ... more | .. |
  Steve Jobs surrenders reins as Apple thrives Legendary Apple Inc. chief Steve Jobs stepped aside on a high note as the company he saved from ruin raked in a blockbuster $6-billion profit amid unrelenting demand for iPhones and iPads. ... more | .. |
 Apple's Asian partners and rivals eye Jobs' health As Apple's legendary boss Steve Jobs goes on another medical leave of absence, analysts say his company's myriad Asian partners could suffer - but rivals such as Samsung and Sony might cash in. ... more |
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  Discovery Mission Specialist Injured But OK STS-133 Mission Specialist Tim Kopra was injured Saturday in a bicycle accident, but he will be OK. However, there could be an impact to his duties for shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission to the Int ... more | .. |
 Lake Erie Hypoxic Zone Doesn't Affect All Fish The Same Large hypoxic zones low in oxygen long have been thought to have negative influences on aquatic life, but a Purdue University study shows that while these so-called dead zones have an adverse affect ... more | .. |
 Robotic Surgery Of 'Tremendous Benefit' To Patients Robot-assisted surgery dramatically improves outcomes in patients with uterine, endometrial, and cervical cancer, said researchers at the Jewish General Hospital's Lady Davis Institute for Medical R ... more | .. | |
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