DoctorFightsCervicalCancerinDevelopingCountries Cervical cancer is the second deadliest cancer - after breast cancer - among women in developing countries. Eight hundred women die of cervical cancer every day, nearly 300,000 each year worldwide. Cali...
Scientists Try to Develop Safer Sleeping Sickness Cure Researchers say they've developed a safer way to treat sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease that is fatal if not treated. Sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis, is a chronic medical problem in...
BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Firefighters who worked in the wreckage of the World Trade Center in 2001 were 19 percent more likely to develop cancer than those who were not there, according to a study. The study, published Thursday in the British...
Scientists Closer to Developing Meningitis Vaccine Scientists may be on track to develop a vaccine for the most common strain of meningitis, which has so far resisted an effective vaccine. Meningitis is a serious disease caused by an inflammation of...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Developing the First Atomic Bombs STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. (MUSIC) World War Two ended with an action that was never taken befor...
HARBIN, March 2 (Xinhua) -- A therapeutic(治疗的) apparatus to treat Parkinson's disease has been developed in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, according to the provincial science and technology department. It is a worldwide breakthrough i...
英语作文 Directions: In this part, you are to write an essay of about 200 words within 40 minutes. Your essay should be based on the OUTLINE below. 1. 目前的状况 2. 发展旅游业的好处 3. 由此而产生的问题 4. 我的看法 旅游业----无烟的工业----正在中国迅...
Kenya is joining a long list of countries planning to produce diesel fuel from the poisonous-but-oil-rich seeds of the jatropha tree, a plant indigenous to South America. The tree is at the heart of a five-year strategy to develop a bio-fuel industr...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 10 March 2008 With more than three months remaining in the peak meningitis season, outbreaks in Burkina Faso and Central African Republic have already taken hundreds of lives. But the World Health Organization says a new, low-c...
By Jessica Berman Washington 24 January 2008 Researchers say they have improved the accuracy of automatic face recognition systems, which are being used more and more by crime prevention and national security agencies. The investigators have created...