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Study: Thyme, cinnamon oils highly effective against drug-resistant bacteria
April 17, 2010By Jessica Berman Researchers say oils distilled from plants are highly effective against drug-resistant bacterial infections and could prove to be an inexpensive way to combat super-bugs found in hospital settings. For hundreds of years, different...
Study: Acupuncture helps fight depression during pregnancy
March 04, 2010By Philip L. Graitcer Researchers at Stanford University in California say acupuncture can be an effective weapon against depression in pregnant women. Depression can pose serious health risks to mother and baby, according to Rachel Manber, a Stanford...
Plan would eliminate AIDS/HIV within 30 years
February 24, 2010By Jessica Berman Researchers suggest focusing on anti-retroviral drugs to render HIV-positive cases non-infectious Researchers at this week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have suggested a way to virtually wipe...
Young researchers from Moldova to get scholarships at the Scientists' World Federation
March 05, 2008Young researchers from the Republic of Moldova will be provided 7-10 excellence scholarships offered by the Scientists' World Federation (SWF) in the academic year 2008-2009, DECA-press transmits. The scholarships are proposed for 15 prior domans...
Cambodian dengue education called poor
December 05, 2007Medical researchers say Cambodian education regarding prevention, diagnosis and treatment of dengue fever is insufficient, underfunded and irregular. Scientists say dengue fever, caused by a mosquito-transmitted virus, has become a significant public...
Gigapixels obtained from ordinary cameras
September 28, 2007U.S. researchers have created a publicly accessible robotic system that can produce ultra high-resolution panoramas using ordinary digital cameras. The panoramas are called GigaPans because they are comprised of billions of pixels, or picture elements...
Smithsonian identifies old corpse
September 21, 2007Smithsonian researchers have identified a corpse uncovered in 2005 by a Washington construction crew as that of a teenage orphan who lived in the 1800s. It took experts at the National Museum of Natural History two years to determine the well-preserved...