News tagged with world


The utility of EUS and CEH-EUS in the diagnosis of small pancreatic tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is a highly sensitive diagnostic method for the detection of small pancreatic carcinomas. Recently, there have been some reports describing the utility of contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS (CEH-EUS) ...


Are manometric findings different between the patients with erosive and nonerosive disease?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is defined as the pathological retrograde movement of gastric contents into the esophagus. Various esophageal motility disturbances which may be important in reflux are observed in patients ...


UN: 2000-2009 likely warmest decade on record (AP)

Leaked document stirs anger at climate summit

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 25

(AP) -- A leaked Danish document at the U.N. climate conference provoked angry criticism Tuesday from developing countries who feared it would shift more of the burden to curb greenhouse gases on poorer countries.


Movies promote smoking among Mexican-American adolescents

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The more movie scenes of smoking they watch, the more likely Mexican-American youths are to experiment with smoking, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and Dartmouth College report in the ...


Sony signs 3-D video deal for 2010 World Cup (AP)

Sony signs 3-D video deal for 2010 World Cup

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- The 2010 World Cup is going 3-D. Sony Corp. said Friday it has signed a deal with FIFA, the international football governing body, to record up to 25 World Cup games in 3-D - a technology that gives ...


New data show breakthrough microRNA-targeted therapy holds promise as new treatment for hepatitis C

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study published online in this week's Science shows that SPC3649, a breakthrough microRNA-targeted therapy developed by Santaris Pharma A/S, holds promise as a novel treatment for patients infected with the Hepatitis C viru ...


Netherlands reports mutant swine flu death

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dutch authorities said Thursday a patient infected by a mutant strain of the swine flu virus had died, but added that this was not the cause of death.


WHO approves Glaxo's swine flu shot

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline says one of its swine flu vaccines has been certified by the World Health Organization, making it available for donors to buy for developing countries.


LHC sets new world record

Large Hadron Collider sets new power world record

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- CERN's Large Hadron Collider has today become the world's highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the ...


Building real security with virtual worlds

Building real security with virtual worlds

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore ...


WHO says Tamiflu still works against swine flu

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The World Health Organization says isolated cases of drug-resistant swine flu in Britain and the United States have not changed the agency's assessment of the disease.


Heparanase-specific shRNA: A novel therapeutic strategy in human gastric cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Previous studies have indicated that the heparanase (HPA) is correlated with histopathological parameters and poor prognosis of gastric cancers. Although their efficiencies in inhibiting the expression of HPA, the traditional ...


Etiologic factors of gastric cardiac adenocarcinoma among men in Taiwan

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The gastric cardiac adenocarcinoma (GCA) is a very rare disease. In recent decades, however, the incidence of the GCA has increased dramatically in many Western countries. An increasing trend in GCA is also observed in municipal ...


China reports 8 cases of mutated swine flu virus

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- China has detected eight people infected with mutated forms of the swine flu virus, a health official said Wednesday, but flu drugs and vaccines still work against it.


High salt intake directly linked to stroke and cardiovascular disease

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

High salt intake is associated with significantly greater risk of both stroke and cardiovascular disease, concludes a study published in the BMJ today.