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Brain-filled Harvard freezer fails, setting autism research back a decade
A malfunctioning freezer at Harvard-affiliated MacLean Hospital has led to the loss of one of the largest brain archives in the world and set autism research back at least ten years, according to the Boston Globe. The freezer, which was supposed to be backed up by two alarms, failed in…
Scientists: China’s soil pollution could be a bigger long-term problem than air or water
Nowhere is the global push to restore degraded land likely to be more important, complex and expensive than in China, where vast swaths of the soil are contaminated by arsenic and heavy metals from mines and factories. Scientists told the Guardian that this is likely to prove a bigger long-term…
Study: Breast cancer reoccurs in 22.6 percent of patients within 10 years
Almost one in four women who develop breast cancer will see the disease return within 10 years, according to the first British study of how many sufferers confront the UK’s commonest cancer twice. Research into 1,000 women who were first diagnosed with the disease between January 1999 and March 2002…
Athens HIV infections rise 1,450 percent after authorities canceled needle exchange program
The head of Médecins sans Frontières Greece has accused the Athens authorities of pursuing a wrong and dangerous public health strategy that ignores the root causes of disease outbreaks and penalises those most at risk. Reveka Papadopoulou, the general director of the medical aid charity’s Greek branch, said cases of…
Iran confirms agreement on nuclear talks content
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator on Tuesday confirmed an agreement had been struck with the EU official representing world powers negotiating with Tehran on the content of upcoming talks inMoscow. Saeed Jalili, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton had a telephone conversation late on Monday,…
Greenpeace slams crucial EU fishing policy talks
The European Union, the world’s third fishing power, came under sharp pressure from green groups and the EU executive to save the oceans from overfishing at key talks Tuesday to overhaul the sector. Angry Greenpeace activists waving giant fish bones and banners reading “Stop Overfishing” delayed the start of a much-awaited ministerial…
Breast cancer recurs in almost one in four patients
Almost one in four women who develop breast cancer will see the disease return within 10 years, according to the first British study of how many sufferers confront the UK’s commonest cancer twice. Research into 1,000 women who were first diagnosed with the disease between January 1999 and March 2002…
Cervical cancer find solves decades-long mystery
WASHINGTON — A scientific discovery about where and how cervical cancer takes root in the body has resolved a decades-long mystery and could lead to even better prevention in the future, experts say. Doctors have identified a peculiar population of stem-like cells in a part of the cervix that when…
Global investment in renewable energy at record high
Global investment in renewable energy surged to a new high last year, despite the widespread recession. But experts warned that the rate of growth was showing signs of slowing, and would need to speed up if the world’s economies are to be transformed on to a low-carbon footing. Last year,…
Greenish-yellow smog covers Chinese city of Wuhan
Young and old residents of the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan were advised to stay indoors on Monday after a thick haze blanketed the city of nine million people, official media said. Described by residents as opaque with yellowish and greenish tinges, the fog descended suddenly in the morning, prompting people…
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