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Researchers Use Online Crowd-Sourcing To Diagnose Malaria

Online crowd-sourcing - in which a task is presented to the public, who respond, for free, with various solutions and suggestions - has been used to evaluate potential consumer products, develop software algorithms and solve vexing research-and-development challenges... read more..

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Slaughtering animals without prior stunning should be curbed, if not banned, professor urges

The slaughter of animals for commercial meat supply without stunning them first should at the very least be curbed, if not banned, concludes a former president of the British Veterinary Association in an opinion piece in this week's Veterinary Record. read more..

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NASA's commercial crew partner boeing completes parachute test

The Boeing Company successfully completed the second parachute drop test for its Crew Space Transportation (CST) spacecraft May 2, 2012, part of its effort to develop commercial crew transportation capabilities that could ferry U.S. astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit (LEO) and the International Space Station. read more..

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Lightning signature could help reveal the solar system's origins

Every second, lightning flashes some 50 times on Earth. Together these discharges coalesce and get stronger, creating electromagnetic waves circling around Earth, to create a beating pulse between the ground and the lower ionosphere, about 60 miles up in the atmosphere. This electromagnetic signature, known as Schumann Resonance, had only been observed from Earth's surface until, in 2011, scientists discovered they could also detect it using NASA's Vector Electric Field Instrument (VEFI) aboard the U.S. Air Force's Communications/Navigation Outage Forecast System (C/NOFS) satellite. In a new paper, researchers describe how this new technique could be used to study other planets in the solar system as well, and even shed light on how the solar system formed. read more..

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Dr. Robert C Gallo Interview: HIV Research at a Crossroad?

hiv-reservoir.net (Jan. 13, 2011): "Alain Lafeuillade: it looks like the terms ‘HIV sterilizing cure’ and ‘HIV functional cure’ are no longer ‘dirty’ words for scientists. What is the main gap in our knowledge about HIV persistence that should be resolved before we can envision new strategies to reach these goals?"Robert C. Gallo:  The answer is clearly demonstrating the precise cell types that are the source of persisting HIV.  This means cells that go beyond the common memory T cells that currently are chiefly studied, and demonstrating that by so-called “purging” these cells by activation mechanisms will lead to death of these cells.  At the moment this is the assumption." read more..

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Africa: Sustainable Development Means Tackling Childbirth Rates - Report

[SciDev.Net] London - Least developed countries (LDCs) must improve women's access to education and family planning if they are to achieve sustainable development, according to recommendations in a Royal Society report, People and the Planet, launched this week (26 April). read more..

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Ethiopia: Meles Vests Honorary Citizenship on Dr. Catherine Hamlin

[ENA] Addis Ababa - Prime Minister Meles Zenawi vested an honorary citizenship of Ethiopia on Founder and Owner of the Fistula Hospital, Dr Catherine Hamlin in recognition of her outstanding humanitarian services she provided to fistula patients. read more..

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Avanafil: Do We Need Another Viagra?

The Erectile Dysfunction marketplace could get its first new entry in almost a decade with the experimental drug Avanafil, a faster-acting pill in the same class as Viagra, Levitra and Cialis, reportedly with fewer side effects. But do we really need another Viagra? “No, we don’t... read more..

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Africa: MDG 5 - Africa Makes Haste Slowly On Maternal Health

[Vanguard] ANOTHER woman just died in Childbirth. Sentenced to death by Pregnancy! One dies every 10 minutes. For each maternal death in the world's most populous black nation, there are at least two dozen survivors, but they suffer from short or long-term disabilities including obstetric fistulae, ruptured uterus and paralysis and other physical damage caused by complications of pregnancy or childbirth. Each year, millions of children are left motherless. Over the next two years, these children are three to 10 times read more..

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Infant Behavior, Cry And Sleep Clinic: Research Shows Efficacy Of Treatment Model

Having a new baby brings much joy to a new Family.But for a family whose baby cries for hours on end, fusses through feedings, or has difficulty sleeping, the joy may be overshadowed by feelings of helplessness and frustration.The treatment of that infant - and that family - will impact the parent-child relationship for years to come... read more..

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In Rare, Often Undiagnosed Form Of Encephalitis, Early Treatment Improves Outcomes

A mysterious, difficult-to-diagnose, and potentially Deadly Disease that was only recently discovered can be controlled most effectively if treatment is started within the first month that symptoms occur, according to a new report by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania... read more..

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