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Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs |
 ...Several Italian doctors have transplanted to three recipients organs that were infected by HIV. The information was provided by the hospital in Florence. The doctors from the Careggi hospital said that the liver and kidneys of an HIV-positive woman were transplanted after a laboratory biologist mistakenly wrote on a woman's medical records that she tested negative for the virus.
The chief of Careggi hospital, Edoardo M... |
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Only 13 % People Have Internet Access |
 ...eting, which took place in the Silicon Valley, California. More than 100 heads of high-tech firms and companies took part at the meeting. The meeting also housed the representatives of non-government organizations, mass media and United Nations.
The aim of Global Alliance on information technology for development is to help integrate information and communication technologies (ICT) into national policies. This will reach... |
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U.S. and Russia Found a Common Goal - Iraq |
 ... as Russia does. He wants the United States to solve the issue diplomatically, which is why the two countries need to cooperate with each other, as well as with United Nations and other international organizations.
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Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming |
 ...Summit Week, which started on Wednesday in New Hampshire to make up their mind on crucial changes in the North Pole that highlights global warming more than ever before.
Ross Virginia, one of the organizers of the Arctic Science Summit on global warming, pre-opened the summit with a speech that was to make everyone realize the problem of the environment. She asked everyone to join scientific and policy efforts around ... |
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Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men |
 ...ls of testosterone. Recently, while performing their studies on humans, scientists have found that the hazardous chemicals are linked to poor quality of semen in men. This also refers to reproductive organs in boy babies.
A group of scientists, working together with Stahlhut, launched a hypothesis that phthalates could be the cause of obesity because low testosterone seems to increase belly fat and pre-diabetes in men. ... |
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A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria |
 ... Washington and the senior author of current study, explained that there is a critical fight for iron between the alien bacteria and the human body. Thus the function of the cells defending the human organism is to keep the iron away from the bacteria, while the latter will 'try to steal' the iron from the host cells.
Iron is a very important material for growth of bacteria and without iron they wouldn't have the ability... |
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Russia questions further existence of the CIS post-soviet organization |
 ...lth of Independent States to a fall.
He said that the term 'post-soviet country' should not be used anymore, and he also implied to a soon decay of the CIS.
He said that there were times when this organization has played a great role, however the current conditions have made this role much smaller. He mentioned the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) in this context and said that it complies with all the conditions o... |
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24-hours' Demonstration in front of Congresswoman's House |
| ...Nancy Pelosi's house in San Francisco is under a peaceful siege. People numbering from 4 to 30 have organized a small demonstration on the road in front of Pelosi's house. The purpose of this demonstration is to put the U.S. House Speaker under more pressure and to make her fight more aggressively the Iraq war funding.
The protestors came in front of Pelosi's house with camps, canopies and banners on March 10 and said th... |
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Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery |
 ...y these thin batteries have a high level of charging and discharging.
According to Dr. Nishide the high charge and discharge capacity of their development is one of many advantages it has over other organic materials, as the power of the organic materials is limited to the amount of charge they get. Dr. Nishide also mentioned that it took only one minute to charge a pfilm polymer battery and that it's life cycle could be... |
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France Will not Put a Ban on Skinny Models |
 ...y in general came back on front pages of many newspapers around the world in the beginning of this week. It was caused by the news that the daughter of Donatella Versace, owner of most famous fashion organizations in Italy, suffers from the same eating disorder, the fashion world is trying to fight - anorexia.
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Red Cross donations were a fraud? |
| ...Everyone knows about the wireless program Text 2Help, which was launched about a year ago by Verizon Wireless to help gather money for the American Red Cross organization.
Today the Foundations for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights claims that the Text 2Help program was a business strategy with the mask of a charity program with a simple purpose: to make money
The customers of the cell phone companies taking part in the prog... |
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Google buys DoubleClick, Microsoft still too far from online ads |
 ... are more advanced and colorful. Not so long ago DoubleClick has also started displaying some video ads. Google also tried to conquer this niche of ad business, but didn't enjoy much success.
Dave Morgan, chairman of Tacoda, another online ad network, said that Google needed a strong partner to enter the display advertising, which the company wanted to initiate so badly. DoubleClick is probably the best partner one coul... |
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