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Major AIDS forum gets down to work amid surge of good newsRome (AFP) July 17, 2011 A global medical forum on AIDS got down to business on Sunday for four days of debate on powerful new weapons to combat a pandemic that in 30 years has claimed as many lives as a World War. Held every two years, the meeting is taking place in Rome amid a flurry of startlingly good news from scientific trials, prompting some veterans to talk of a watershed in the AIDS story. "This conference could well be a turnaround," Elly Katabira, president of the International AIDS Society (IAS), told a pres ... read more |
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  Lockheed Martin Delivers Nuclear Materials Tracking System to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Lockheed Martin has completed delivery of the National Source Tracking System (NSTS) to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The system is an Information Technology tool that assists in the acco ... more | .. |
 Medical breakthroughs set to buoy AIDS council of war The biggest medical forum on AIDS kicks off on Sunday to a buzz of excitement about potential strategies for curbing a pandemic that has now claimed 30 million lives in its three-decade history. ... more | .. |
  University of Kentucky-led research could be path to new energy sources A team of researchers led by University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Professor Joe Chappell is making a connection from prehistoric times to the present that could result in being able to gene ... more | .. |
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  Heatstroke cases up as Japan saves electricity Heatstroke cases in Japan have shot up in the early summer as many air-conditioners have been switched off amid an energy saving campaign following the Fukushima nuclear disaster. ... more | .. |
 AIDS: HIV drugs boost prevention hopes Heterosexuals who take daily AIDS drugs reduce the risk of being infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by nearly two-thirds, ground-breaking studies said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Baghdad chlorine gas leak causes panic Hundreds of Baghdad residents were admitted to hospital after a chlorine gas leak at a water purification plant but most had been discharged by Wednesday morning, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Licensing deal to boost HIV drug access US pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences will allow generic drug makers to copy four HIV medicines under a deal announced Tuesday to give people in poor countries access to cheaper AIDS treatment. ... more |
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New MachLab rocket test site launches UK into next phase of space engineering
Ukraine's anti-graft body says new bill restores independence
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  Singapore expertise pioneers quick and scarless surgery Patients with gastric tumours in their stomach will no longer have to suffer an eight-hour long surgery, but instead can look forward to a short day surgery which last a few minutes to an hour witho ... more | .. |
  Two injured in second China escalator accident At least two people were injured in an escalator accident at a subway station in Shenzhen in China, state media said Monday, days after a 13-year-old boy died in a similar accident in Beijing. ... more | .. |
  BRICS vow to improve access to low-cost medicine The BRICS group of emerging countries on Monday vowed to improve access to low-cost and high-quality medicine - and called on developed nations to shoulder responsibility in helping the poor. ... more | .. |
  Robotic safe zones without protective barriers The modern working world is no longer conceivable without robots. They assist humans in manufacturing, laboratories or medicine. In the future, a new projection and camera-based system will prevent ... more |
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  Frog feet could solve a sticky problem Tree frogs have specially adapted self-cleaning feet which could have practical applications for the medical industry. "Tree frog feet may provide a design for self-cleaning sticky surfaces, w ... more | .. |
India-EU deal won't hurt flow of AIDS drugs: UN India has pledged not to curb its output of life-saving generic HIV/AIDS drugs in exchange for a free-trade deal with the European Union, a leading advocate for action on AIDS has said. ... more | .. |
 Swazis question rangers' special powers in poaching battle A teenage rhino calf died of stress and hunger last week in Swaziland after poachers slaughtered its mother, the first rhino killed in the tiny kingdom in two decades. ... more | .. |
 Passer-by saves China toddler in 10-storey fall A two-year-old Chinese girl survived a fall from a 10th-floor window thanks to a passer-by who raced to catch the toddler, state media reported Sunday. ... more |
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Australia's mammal megafauna face long-term decline from extinctions and invasive species
Alien life clues may emerge from deep sea volcanic vents on Earth
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  248 women report being raped by soldiers in DR Congo in June Some 248 women said they were raped by soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Sud-Kivu province last month, local medical reports showed Monday, in a region the UN has called the world's "rape capital." ... more | .. |
  Arms to Libya were for self-defence: France France insisted Friday that weapons it supplied to rebels fighting Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi were for "self-defence" in line with a UN resolution, after Russia and others voiced concern. ... more | .. |
  Moving microscopic vision into another new dimension Scientists who pioneered a revolutionary 3-D microscope technique are now describing an extension of that technology into a new dimension that promises sweeping applications in medicine, biological ... more | .. |
  Lightning strike kills 18 children in Uganda A lightning strike at a primary school in western Uganda killed 18 students and injured 50, Ugandan police said on Wednesday. ... more |
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 Branch offices: New family of gold-based nanoparticles could serve as biomedical 'testbed' Gold nanoparticles are becoming the ... well ... gold standard for medical-use nanoparticles. A new paper* by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Natio ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Reach For The Stars To Discover New Cancer Therapy Astronomers' research on celestial bodies may have an impact on the human body. Ohio State University astronomers are working with medical physicists and radiation oncologists to develop a potential ... more | .. |
  Space research gives birth to new ultrasound tools for health care The remoteness and resource limitations of spaceflight pose a serious challenge to astronaut health care. One solution is ultrasound. Scientists with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute ... more | .. |
  Thousands stranded in Belgian rail havoc Thousands of travelers were stranded at Belgian train stations Monday in stifling heat, causing around 10 people to be hospitalised as a technical glitch disrupted service, officials said. ... more |
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  New curation tool a boon for genetic biologists With the BeeSpace Navigator, University of Illinois researchers have created both a curation tool for genetic biologists and a new approach to searching for information. The project was a coll ... more | .. |
  Researchers Break Light-Matter Coupling Strength Limit in Nanoscale Semiconductors New engineering research at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates that polaritons have increased coupling strength when confined to nanoscale semiconductors. This represents a promising advanc ... more | .. |
  Using living cells as an invisibility cloak The quest for better ways of encapsulating medicine so that it can reach diseased parts of the body has led scientists to harness - for the first time - living human cells to produce natural capsule ... more | .. | |
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