If you haven’t seen Winding Road's video catalog (the unofficial home of all of our Quick Drive and POV videos), then you might notice that they take place on the roads of southeastern Michigan. It's no secret that Michigan is a state that is seriously lacking in twisting roads. That’s precisely...
A study by Queen Mary, University of London researchers has shown the scale of the challenge facing those in charge of delivering the Olympic legacy. In three London boroughs they have found that, overall, as many as one in ten of the local population has a high risk of developing type 2...
The Lancet Infectious Diseases Series' sixth and final paper on mass gatherings (MGs) calls for action to set out and accomplish the public health benefits that can be achieved by confronting the health security and other health risks at mass gatherings (MGs). Several research priorities are...
Fungi may be unexpected allies in our efforts to keep hazardous lead under control. That's based on the unexpected discovery that fungi can transform lead into its most stable mineral form. The findings reported online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, suggest that this interaction...
I have been trying to learn iPhone app development for a long time, so i bought a book, which is very old and doesn't describe the new xcode version 3. Then i found a new book in amazon called
More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3 (Beginning) by Jeff LaMarche and David Mark
So i...
Iron deficiency is a major global health problem affecting over one billion people and increasing the risk of death for pregnant women. Dr Sant-Rayn Pasricha has just conducted a major field study of anaemia in children in rural India and his findings have recently been published. He is now...
Distinct populations of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that preferentially generate specific types of blood cells can be identified based on abundance of a single surface protein, according to a study published online on April 26 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The concept that HSCs...
Distinct populations of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that preferentially generate specific types of blood cells can be identified based on abundance of a single surface protein, according to a study published online on April 26 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The concept that HSCs...
The University of Minnesota Medical School today announced the details of a $3.8 million grant by the National Institutes of Health's National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) for research focused on minority recruitment and retention in cancer clinical trials. Although...
Responding to Sir Michael Marmot's health inequalities review, NHS Confederation chair Bryan Stoten said improving access and working with other organisations so people do not fall into, and remain in, ill health, are the keys to tackling this issues. Commenting on today's Marmot Review, NHS...
The New York Times explores efforts across the U.S. to craft and implement affordable solutions to infrastructure problems around the world. It also looks at programs geared toward supporting the work of local entrepreneurs to build solutions to the problems on the ground. "Containers to...
Local NHS services to tackle tuberculosis (TB) in England are improving, but worryingly nearly 1 in 5 (18%) TB 'hot spot' areas, and 6 in 10 (60%) areas overall, still don't have a strategy in place to tackle the disease - according to a new report launched yesterday (Thursday 3rd December 2009)...