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Billion dollar boost for US health research?
WASHINGTON – Health and science research would get a billion-dollar boost under the 2012 budget proposed Monday by US President Barack Obama, including a major new project to speed lab advances into cures. The increase for the National Institutes of Health stood out in the overall 3.7 trillion dollar budget…
Pneumonia vaccine launched in Kenya
NAIROBI – A vaccine against pneumonia, the leading cause of child deaths around the world, was rolled out in Kenya Monday and is expected to save hundreds of thousands of lives in coming years. Pneumococcal disease accounts for 18 percent of child deaths in developing countries, killing more than a…
Chevron sues Ecuadorians who stood up to toxic contamination
Update: Chevron ordered to pay $8 billion An Ecuadorean judge ruled Monday that Chevron must pay at least $8.2 billion for allegedly dumping oil-drilling waste. The company has pledged to appeal the ruling. Original report continues below… Chevron, accused of dumping oil-drilling waste in the Ecuadorean jungle, is facing a…
Experiment volunteers ‘walk on Mars’
KOROLEV, Russia (AFP) – A group of volunteers isolated from the outside world for eight months stepped out on a mock-up of Mars on Monday, reaching the half-way point of their experimental “voyage” to the Red Planet. Outfitted in heavy white space suits and clunky boots, the Russian and Italian…
Greenpeace urges west Africa to protect fish stocks
DAKAR — Conservation organisation Greenpeace on Friday urged west African countries to combat illegal fishing and over-fishing in their waters, in a statement released at the World Social Forum in Senegal. “We must tirelessly engage with authorities to ensure that the problems of illegal fishing and over-fishing in west Africa…
Kenya sees rise in elephant population despite poaching
TSAVO NATIONAL PARK, Kenya — Despite increased poaching and a recent severe drought, Kenya has recorded a rise in elephant population in its flagship park, wildlife authorities announced Saturday. Elephant population in the expansive Tsavo ecosystem in the south of the country rose to 12,572 from 11,696 three years ago…
US approves first 3-D mammogram
The first three-dimensional mammogram device was approved Friday by the US Food and Drug Administration, in the hopes that the new technology would improve early breast cancer detection. A doctor looks at a series of mammograms. The first three-dimensional mammogram device was approved Friday by the US Food and Drug…
US study links pesticides to Parkinson’s disease
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US researchers said Friday they have found that people who used two specific varieties of pesticide were 2.5 times as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease. The pesticides, paraquat and rotenone, are not approved for house and garden use. Previous research on animals has linked paraquat to Parkinson’s…
Raytheon offers ‘pain gun’ to troubled India
BANGALORE, India (AFP) – US defence group Raytheon says it wants to sell India a controversial “pain gun” it claims would be safer than rubber bullets in quelling unrest in the insurgency-racked country. The Silent Guardian Protection System is billed by its makers as the 21st century equivalent of tear…
IBM’s ‘Watson’ to take on Jeopardy! champs
WASHINGTON – Nearly 15 years after an IBM machine defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, the US computer pioneer is rolling out another device to challenge mankind. Watson, a supercomputer named for IBM founder Thomas Watson, is to take on two human champions of the long-running Jeopardy! television quiz show…
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