Archive for October, 2010

‘Great leaders’

Posted on 10/14/2010 at 9:00:00 AM

Yang Hyong Sop, a senior official in the country’s ruling party, told the Associated Press news agency on Friday that North Koreans will be honoured to follow Kim Jong-un. “Our people take pride in the fact that they are blessed with great leaders from generation to generation,” Yang said.”Our people are honoured to be led [...]

Rare live broadcast

Posted on 10/14/2010 at 8:59:00 AM

The live broadcast of the parade at Kim Il-sung Plaza on North Korean state TV is also an unusual departure from broadcasting norms in the country, where any broadcasts are heavily censored.North Korea’s senior leadership had gathered on Saturday at May Day Stadium for speeches celebrating the occasion. Later in the evening, Kim Jong-il brought [...]

Experts call for comprehensive global cancer control mechanism

Posted on 10/12/2010 at 4:30:00 AM

Global health experts, in the October 2 issue of The Lancet, have called for a comprehensive cancer control mechanism on the scale of the existing measures to combat HIV and tuberculosis in low and middle income countries. The team that contributed to the policy recommendation in the journal, including K.Srinath Reddy of the Public Health [...]

‘A well- deserved honour’

Posted on 10/12/2010 at 4:30:00 AM

Professor Basil Tarlatzis, past-president of the International Federation of Fertility Societies, called it “a well- deserved honour” and said IVF had “opened new avenues of hope for millions of couples throughout the world”. But, perhaps, no one was more delighted than Louise Brown who owed her birth to the fertility treatment (in-vitro fertilisation or IVF) [...]

Nobel Prize for “test tube” baby creator

Posted on 10/12/2010 at 4:30:00 AM

Robert Edwards, the British scientist whose pioneering research with his late colleague Patrick Steptoe led to the birth of the world’s first “test tube baby” in 1978, has won this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine. The Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, which awarded the prize worth ten million Swedish Kronor, described his work as [...]

GM mosquitoes to fight dengue

Posted on 10/12/2010 at 4:30:00 AM

Malaysia’s Health Minister on Sunday said the country would carry out a landmark field trial by releasing genetically modified mosquitoes designed to combat dengue fever by the end of the year. Malaysia’s death rate from dengue fever has spiralled 53 per cent this year and the public is being urged to take action to eradicate [...]

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Posted on 10/12/2010 at 4:29:00 AM

Dr. Edwards realized from the onset that IVF research would raise many important ethical concerns that had to be addressed. He wrote, together with the lawyer David Sharpe, a visionary key paper that initiated, a debate on many of the complicated issues related to reproductive medicine, that lay ahead. They argued that research on human [...]

SEMINAL FINDING

Posted on 10/12/2010 at 4:29:00 AM

This was a seminal finding in two respects, it was the first time that in vitro activated sperm had been shown to be capable of contributing to embryo development beyond the 2-cell stage in a mammalian system and it was the first time human embryos had been shown to undergo cell divisions in vitro. Following [...]

How to sell your property

Posted on 10/9/2010 at 1:18:00 AM

Many reports say that the recent economic crisis has affected real estate business to some extent but still a huge demand for buying and selling properties is found all over the world. If you wish to sell your property have a note on the following points:• Find a real estate website to list your property [...]

Build your own website

Posted on 10/7/2010 at 11:53:00 PM

Whether we have to market a product or service, or we have to provide information or we wish to share something we are in need of the great technology internet that is widespread all over the world. This technology has also led to the situation that nowadays we can build our own website even we [...]