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China to phase out prisoner organs 'next year': researcherBeijing (AFP) Nov 2, 2012 China will start phasing out the use of executed prisoners as a source of organs for transplants next year, a researcher for the government has said, according to a World Health Organisation magazine. China will introduce a new organ donation system to "relinquish the reliance on organs from executed convicts," Wang Haibo, a senior researcher at China's Ministry of Health, told the November edition of the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation. "An organ transplantation system relying on deat ... read more |
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  Novel Technique To Produce Stem Cells from Peripheral Blood Stem cells are a valuable resource for medical and biological research, but are difficult to study due to ethical and societal barriers. However, genetically manipulated cells from adults may provid ... more | .. |
 New micropumps for hand-held medical labs produce pressures 500 times higher than car tire In an advance toward analyzing blood and urine instantly at a patient's bedside instead of waiting for results from a central laboratory, scientists are reporting development of a new micropump capa ... more | .. |
 Sandy as bad as 9/11 for New York hospitals: doctor With power outages and emergency evacuations of seriously ill patients in hurricane-strength winds, New York hospitals faced their biggest challenge this week since the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to a senior doctor. ... more | .. |
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  Switzerland lifts ban on Novartis flu vaccine Switzerland's national drug agency announced Wednesday it was lifting a ban on sales of flu vaccines made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis after documenting that concerns over impurities were unfounded. ... more | .. |
 How to make stem cells - nuclear reprogramming moves a step forward The idea of taking a mature cell and removing its identity (nuclear reprogramming) so that it can then become any kind of cell, holds great promise for repairing damaged tissue or replacing bone mar ... more | .. |
 New opportunity for rapid treatment of malaria Malaria causes up to 3 million deaths each year, predominantly afflicting vulnerable people such as children under five and pregnant women, in tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Tr ... more | .. |
 Next-generation vaccines - eliminating the use of needles Lead scientist Professor Simon Cutting, from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, has developed the jabs through the use of probiotic spores. He carried out fundamental studies into ... more |
  
US warship makes first call at Cambodia's Chinese-renovated naval base; Chinese coast guard rescues Philippine sailors in disputed waters
Japan PM says US alliance would collapse if Tokyo ignored Taiwan crisis
Russia's military chief visits troops in east Ukraine: defence ministry | .. |
 UN pinpoints climate-linked health risks Two UN agencies on Monday presented a new tool to map health risks linked to climate change and extreme weather conditions, enabling authorities to give advance warnings and act to prevent "climate-sensitive" diseases from spreading. ... more | .. |
Test allows doctors to see disease without microscope Scientists in Britain say they have developed a super-sensitive test using nano-particles to spot markers for cancer or the AIDS virus in human blood serum using the naked eye. ... more | .. |
  Why astronauts experience low blood pressure after returning to Earth from space When astronauts return to Earth, their altitude isn't the only thing that drops-their blood pressure does too. This condition, known as orthostatic hypotension, occurs in up to half of those astrona ... more | .. |
 Migratory birds' ticks can spread viral haemorrhagic fever A type of haemorrhagic fever (Crimean-Congo) that is prevalent in Africa, Asia, and the Balkans has begun to spread to new areas in southern Europe. Now Swedish researchers have shown that migratory ... more |
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 Plants provide accurate low-cost alternative for diagnosis of West Nile Virus While the United States has largely been spared the scourge of mosquito-borne diseases endemic to the developing world-including yellow fever, malaria and dengue fever-mosquito-related illnesses in ... more | .. |
 Chinese city to ban plastic surgery for minors A Chinese city is set to ban minors from having cosmetic surgery under draft rules aimed at tackling the country's growing obsession with going under the knife, an official statement said. ... more | .. |
 Novartis flu vaccine ban extends to Germany Germany became the fourth country Thursday to ban sales of flu vaccines made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, following embargoes by Italy, Switzerland and Austria. ... more | .. |
Italy, Switzerland, Austria freeze sales of Novartis flu vaccines Italian, Swiss and Austrian authorities on Wednesday halted the sale of flu vaccines made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis. ... more |
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World not ready for rise in extreme heat, scientists say
US monster storm kills 30
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 Mexico overcomes bird flu outbreak Mexico declared Wednesday that it has overcome a bird flu outbreak in the west of the country that had triggered the slaughter of 22 million hens since June. ... more | .. |
 Japan hopes medical tourists immune to China row As relations between Tokyo and Beijing appear increasingly in need of major surgery, officials in the far north of Japan are hoping the infant industry of medical tourism can thrive unscathed. ... more | .. |
 Sanctions affecting 6 million patients in Iran: report Some six million patients in Iran are affected by Western economic sanctions as import of medicine is becoming increasingly difficult, a governmental paper reported Sunday quoting a health official. ... more | .. |
 Cell Mechanism Findings Could One Day be Used to Engineer Organs Biologists have teamed up with mechanical engineers from the The University of Texas at Dallas to conduct cell research that provides information that may one day be used to engineer organs. T ... more |
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 Preventing infection on long flights The cabin of a spacecraft halfway to Mars would be the least convenient place - one cannot say "on earth" - for a Salmonella or Pneumococcus outbreak, but a wide-ranging new paper suggests that micr ... more | .. |
 The Future of Cancer Treatment: First-of-its-kind Self-Assembled Nanoparticle for Targeted and Triggered Thermo-Chemotherapy Excitement around the potential for targeted nanoparticles (NPs) that can be controlled by stimulus outside of the body for cancer therapy has been growing over the past few years. More specifically ... more | .. |
  University of Florida chemists pioneer new technique for nanostructure assembly A team of researchers from the University of Florida department of chemistry has developed a new technique for growing new materials from nanorods. Materials with enhanced properties engineere ... more | .. |
Cold viruses point the way to new cancer therapies Cold viruses generally get a bad rap - which they've certainly earned - but new findings by a team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies suggest that these viruses might also be ... more |
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Quantum collapse models point to subtle limits in timekeeping accuracy
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 ISS and space flight gravity influence immune system development New research findings recently published in The FASEB Journal, show that immune system development is affected by gravity changes, as reported by researchers from the University of Lorraine and Univ ... more | .. |
Concern as HIV cases rise 8% in Australia Research on Wednesday showed HIV infections in Australia jumped eight percent last year and 50 percent in the past decade, which health activists said was a "call to action". ... more | .. |
 New HIV prevention technology shows promise CONRAD researchers, in collaboration with engineers at the University of Utah, have designed a 90-day intravaginal ring that can be used by women to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV. A study o ... more | .. |
 Ebola antibody treatment, produced in plants, protects monkeys from lethal disease A new Ebola virus study resulting from a widespread scientific collaboration has shown promising preliminary results, preventing disease in infected nonhuman primates using monoclonal antibodies. ... more |
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 Cholera 'under control' in Iraqi Kurdistan: minister Authorities in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said on Sunday that a fresh outbreak of cholera that left four people dead, the second in five years, has been brought under control. ... more | .. |
 India fights to protect its traditional home remedies For centuries, Indian housewives have used homemade remedies based on cow's milk to cure constipation - but in 2009 Swiss giant Nestle applied for a patent to protect a similar product of its own. ... more | .. |
International groups urge Francophone nations to fight AIDS About 50 non-governmental organisations on Friday urged the French-speaking nations holding a summit in Kinshasa at the weekend to "make concrete commitments" to fight AIDS in Africa. ... more | .. |
 Filming bacterial life in multicolor as a new diagnostic and antibiotic discovery tool An international team of scientists led by Indiana University chemist Michael S. VanNieuwenhze and biologist Yves Brun has discovered a revolutionary new method for coloring the cell wall of bacteri ... more |
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