Worldwide, more than one billion people lack access to an improved water source, such as a rainwater collection or dug well, and two billion still need access to basic sanitation facilities, such as a latrine.By 2015, the international community hopes to reduce by half the number of people without s...
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Human society remains dependent on environmental ingredients in order to produce food, fiber, and energy. These "ecosystem services" are the conditions and processes that sustain human life and provide the basis for meeting the challenges of a growing global human population. The public policy commu...
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Members of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) say they've noticed a significant increase in traumatic foot and ankle injuries among patients who survived auto accidents. The reason? Air bags. In 1998, the federal government started requiring dual front air bags in passenger cars...
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Psychoanalytic therapies have been in professional use for over a century, but a new study from physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is the first to show that a classic psychoanalytic talk therapy is efficacious in treating panic disorder. Panic disorder...
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Pope Benedict XVI in a 130-page "apostolic exhortation" released on Tuesday wrote that "values" such as opposition to abortion, euthanasia and gay marriage are "non-negotiable," and that Roman Catholic politicians are "especially" obligated to defend the church's beliefs on the issues, the New York ...
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The distribution of the four nucleotides along the DNA sequence encodes the genetic information in living systems. However, do nucleic acids possess other attributes that contribute to their biological functions? Recent work of a team led by Stoyno Stoynov, working at the Bulgarian Academy of Scienc...
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The European Medicines Agency has adopted a positive opinion recommending the granting of a Community authorisation for a third avian influenza vaccine for use in birds. The vaccine, Nobilis Influenza H7N1, from Intervet International BV, is an inactivated, adjuvanted avian influenza vaccine for adm...
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