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The healthy diners saving Nepal's vulturesKathmandu (AFP) Oct 27, 2011 Nepal's vultures - decimated by medicine fed to the livestock they call dinner - are making a comeback thanks to their own chain of healthy-eating restaurants. The drug-free diners have been set up across the country over the last four years to counter the use of diclofenac, a painkiller commonly administered to the cattle that are a mainstay of the scavengers' diet. The latest, launched last year near the Annapurna mountain range in central Nepal, has led to a five-fold increase in the local ... read more |
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  Death toll in Senegal clash over biofuels land rises to two A disputed biofuels project in northern Senegal which triggered violent clashes between villagers claimed its second victim Thursday after a man died from his injuries. ... more | .. |
  Iraq attacks kill at least six Attacks in Baghdad mainly targeting Iraqi traffic police killed at least four people on Monday and two others were shot dead in northern Iraq, security and medical officials said. ... more | .. |
  Study proves new technology kills bacteria Results from a comprehensive multi-site clinical trial demonstrated that the use of antimicrobial copper surfaces in intensive care unit rooms reduced the amount of bacteria in the rooms by 97 perce ... more | .. |
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  Chinese hit and run toddler dies A Chinese toddler who was ignored by at least 18 passers-by as she lay bleeding and unconscious in the street, has died, the hospital treating her said Friday, in an incident that has shocked the nation. ... more | .. |
  Brazil's C295s achieve milestone Brazil's fleet of C295 aircraft, made by Spain's Airbus Military, has reached 25.000 flight hours after six years of successful operation. ... more | .. |
  US rivers and streams saturated with carbon Rivers and streams in the United States are releasing enough carbon into the atmosphere to fuel 3.4 million car trips to the moon, according to Yale researchers in Nature Geoscience. Their findings ... more | .. |
  Ultrasound 2: Taking Space Imaging to the Next Level Every year there are strides made in medical technology that improve research capabilities and the quality of care for patients. The decade-old ultrasound on the International Space Station, for ins ... more |
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China, India should work towards 'win-win' cooperation: Chinese FM
US delays Patriot arms deliveries to Switzerland in switch to Ukraine
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  Sudden winter weather causes Bulgarian mayhem A sudden onset of harsh winter conditions caused transport chaos in Bulgaria on Tuesday, with one man freezing to death, eight people missing in mountains, 600 villages without power and schools closed. ... more | .. |
  EU court bans stem cell patents if embryo destroyed Europe's top court banned on Tuesday patents of stem cells when their extraction causes the destruction of a human embryo, a ruling that could have repercussions on medical research. ... more | .. |
 Swiss university creates cardiac issues detector Swiss technological university EPFL said Tuesday it created an electronic system that detects cardiac problems instantly and passes on the data through a mobile phone to medical personnel. ... more | .. |
Canada moves to update Chinese medicine rules Federal health authorities in Canada have met with practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine as a first step towards modifying regulations covering the sale of imported Chinese herbal remedies. ... more |
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 Steps towards the use of adult stem cells for gene therapy This research, published on Oct. 12 on the Nature review website, provides evidence of a major concept could pave the way for the future use of these stem cells to treat humans, through perspective ... more | .. |
  Hospital superbug debugged An international team of scientists led by Monash University researchers has uncovered how a common hospital bacterium becomes a deadly superbug that kills increasing numbers of hospital patients wo ... more | .. |
 Nicaragua swine flu outbreak infects 32 At least 32 people have been infected in a flare-up of the H1N1 swine flu virus in Nicaragua over the last week, according to the health ministry. ... more | .. |
  Research shows how life might have survived 'snowball Earth' "Under those frigid conditions, there are not a lot of places where you would expect liquid water and light to occur in the same area, and you need both of those things for photosynthetic algae to s ... more |
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New deep sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure
Lightning strikes kill 33 people in eastern India
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 Scripps Research scientists find stem cell reprogramming technique is safer than previously thought Stem cells made by reprogramming patients' own cells might one day be used as therapies for a host of diseases, but scientists have feared that dangerous mutations within these cells might be caused ... more | .. |
 Bird flu kills two in Indonesia: hospital Two children have died of bird flu in Indonesia, the first deaths there from the virus in several months, hospital staff said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Twelve dead in China construction site accident At least 12 workers who were building an underground parking lot in northeastern China were killed when a concrete ceiling collapsed onto them, local authorities and state media said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Cholera epidemic spreads in Central African Republic A cholera epidemic in the Central African Republic has claimed 16 victims, a health ministry spokesman said Saturday, as another source said it had reached the capital. ... more |
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 Japan nuclear plant worker dies A worker at Japan's disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant died Thursday, its operator said, adding that the death was not necessarily related to radioactive leaks. ... more | .. |
Finland vows care for narcolepsy kids who had swine flu shot The Finnish government and major insurance companies announced Wednesday they will pay for lifetime medical care for children diagnosed with narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccine. ... more | .. |
  Nobel winner sees insect research helping humans Nobel laureate Jules Hoffmann, whose father helped foster his study of bugs, said his decades of research into the immunity of insects could enable scientists to find a cure for human disorders. ... more | .. |
  13 killed in China mine explosion At least 13 workers were killed after an explosion in a coal mine in southwestern China on Tuesday, state media said, in the latest mining accident to hit the country. ... more |
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One billion Africans being harmed by cooking pollution
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  Aid rushed to Philippine flood victims Philippine authorities rushed aid Monday to thousands of people marooned in their flooded homes for nearly a week after deadly typhoons, but said the worst appeared over with waters receding. ... more | .. |
 Illusion of Plenty Masking Collapse of Two Key Southern California Fisheries The two most important recreational fisheries off Southern California have collapsed, according to a new study led by a researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Scr ... more | .. | .. | ||
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