Superbug gonorrhoea found in Japan - health - 13 July 2011 An untreatable strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea, resistant to all existing antibiotics, has been identified in Japan. The news follows warnings last week from the US Centers for Disease Control that it is only a matter of time before invincible strains of Neisseria gonorrhoea emerge in the US. The Japanese superbug, called H041, was isolated by Magnus Unemo at the Örebro University Hospital in Sweden, and reported this week at the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Disease Research meeting in Quebec, Canada. Unemo, who found the bug in strains from Kyoto, says that it could go global in 10 to 20 years. The CDC reports that some gonorrhoea strains in the US can now only be killed with one class of antibiotics – the cephalosporins.
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Womb with a View: Labor inside an MRI Scanner Reveals the Mechanics of Childbirth: Scientific American Gallery In 2010 a woman in Germany became the first person to give birth inside a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. The results, published May 2 in European Radiology, provide an extraordinary view of what exactly happens as a baby moves through the birth canal. The study details how the researchers adapted a regular MRI machine to hold the mother-to-be and her accoutrements.
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Silky scheme for vaccine storage without refrigeration - health - 09 July 2012 Silkworms may provide a novel way to store vaccines. Preventable infections kill millions of children in poor countries, partly because reliable refrigeration for vaccines isn't always available. Vaccines are refrigerated to slow the rate at which the biological molecules they contain gradually degrade, largely due to contact with water. Extend the Web with Dropbox – Web.AppStorm A web tool and a desktop application all rolled into one utility, Dropbox appears to have addressed an issue that has long plagued computer users — synchronization. Developers from many of the big names in this industry have tried and failed at synchronization. In a way, it has been the holy grail of mobile computing, And yet, none of the big names were able to give users an acceptable solution.
Flu vaccines for all children 25 July 2012Last updated at 04:31 ET Nasally introduced flu vaccine All two to 17-year-olds in the UK are to be offered annual flu vaccinations. If 30% take up the offer, there will be 11,000 fewer hospitalisations and 2,000 fewer deaths each year, the chief medical officer for England says. The children will be immunised using a nasal spray rather than an injection, starting in 2014 at the earliest.
Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome People hate IE6; they’ve made that abundantly clear on the web. Unfortunately, plenty of people are still stuck using it for reasons such as their work not letting them upgrade. So Google is doing something about it. Chrome Frame is a new browser plug-in developed by Google to give you a Chrome browsing experience inside of Internet Explorer.