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ACRUS broadens contraceptive spray strategy
Acrux (ASX: ACR), the Australian company with patient-preferred technology for delivering drugs across the skin, today announced that it has reached agreement with Population Council, Inc., to amend the Licence Agreement signed in February 2006.   view more (2006-08-11)

Fishing for the Origins of Genome Complexity
Biologists at Georgia Tech have provided scientific support for a controversial hypothesis that has divided the fields of evolutionary genomics and evolutionary developmental biology, popularly known as evo devo, for two years.   view more (2005-12-16)

Wildfires result in loss of forests reserved by Northwest Forest Plan
Although the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) significantly reduced cutting of old-growth forests on federal land, forests in the driest regions are now at greater risk of being lost to wildfire than to logging.   view more (2008-11-07)

What caused westward expansion in the United States?
Western Expansion during the nineteenth century was an important determinant of geographic distribution and economic activity in the United States today. However, while explanations abound for why the migration occurred- from the low price of land to a pioneering spirit - little empirical work has been done to determine which specific market... view more... (2008-02-29)

Data on Life Expectancy Show Many Countries Clustered in High Mortality Traps
Growing recognition of the importance of health as a contributing factor to economic development and societal change has prompted the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) to add a new subsection in Sustainable Health to its existing section on Sustainable Development.   view more (2007-10-11)

Antarctic ice loss
Increasing amounts of ice mass have been lost from West Antarctica and the Antarctic peninsula over the past ten years, according to research from the University of Bristol and published online this week in Nature Geoscience.   view more (2008-01-14)

Commercial fishing causes dangerous fluctuations in fish populations
Commercial fishing causes serious fluctuations in fish populations leaving them in danger of total collapse, says new research published today.   view more (2006-10-19)

Distance from London holds Back Spread of Fast Food Outlets in UK
New research by University of Warwick Professor Michael Waterson, to be presented at the Royal Economic Society's Annual Conference on Tuesday 8 April, examines the changing face of fast food retailing in the UK and in particular what motivates the spread of fast food outlets. The study explores influences on the spread of fast food outlets for... view more... (2003-04-03)

Blacks hit hardest by HIV infection among nation's young adults
HIV infection is significantly more common among non-Hispanic blacks than it is among any other young adult racial or ethnic group in the United States, according to the first study drawn from the nation's general youth population.   view more (2006-06-06)

The song doesn't remain the same in fragmented bird populations
The song of passerine birds is a conspicuous and exaggerated display shaped by sexual selection in the context of male-male competition or mate attraction. At the level of the individual, song is considered an indicator of male 'quality'.   view more (2008-03-19)

Childhood cancer survivors at increased risk of sarcoma
Survivors of childhood cancers have a ninefold increased risk of developing a secondary sarcoma—a cancer of connective or supportive tissue such as bone, fat, or muscle—compared with the general population.   view more (2007-02-21)

Prevalence of US osteoprotic hip fracture hospitalizations declines despite an aging population
The prevalence of hospitalisations for osteoporotic (non-traumatic) hip fractures in the USA declined significantly from 1988 to 2005, despite an increase in all-cause hospitalisations over the same period and a general ageing of the population, according to research presented today at EULAR 2008, the Annual Congress of the European League Against... view more... (2008-06-13)

UA scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos
Chaotic behavior is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics.   view more (2009-10-08)

A possible ancient origin for tuberculoses in Casablanca
Each year tuberculosis kills about three million people in the world. In particular it is responsible for the death of more than one-third of HIV- infected people, who prove particularly susceptible owing to a decline in immune defences. The agent responsible is a bacterium of the species Mycobacterium tuberculosis, also termed Koch's bacillus,... view more... (2004-11-23)

Microbiological Food Safety for Children and Vulnerable Groups
Young children, the elderly and other vulnerable people are more susceptible to food poisoning than the rest of the population. Here we outline who are the vulnerable groups and the precautions that should be taken, including   view more (1998-10-12)

Population movement can be critical factor in dengue's spread
Human movement is a key factor of dengue virus inflow in Rio de Janeiro, according to results from researchers based at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil.   view more (2009-11-10)

Keeping slim is good for the planet, say scientists
Maintaining a healthy body weight is good news for the environment, according to a study which appears today in the International Journal of Epidemiology.   view more (2009-04-20)

Geographer designs computer model to predict crowd behavior
Patterns of human behavior and movement in crowded cities - the tipping point at which agitated crowds become anti-social mobs, the configuration of civic areas as defensible spaces that also promote free speech, the design of retail space that fosters active walking - are at the core of an immersive 3-D computational model under development by an... view more... (2007-05-22)

Scotland's economy challenged by population trends
Scotland's population is changing in ways that could transform the face of the country. While the latest figures show a recent upswing in births and migration to Scotland and a projected rise in the population over the next 25 years, in the long term Scotland's population (in common with many other developed nations) is predicted to decline and... view more... (2007-12-07)

HIV's impact in Zimbabwe explored in new research
The impact of HIV in Zimbabwe since the early 1980s is explored in new research published this week in the journal PNAS.   view more (2007-08-28)
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