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...fuzzy math aside, the good news is that malaria control efforts are working. The 2008 World Malaria Report singles out Eritrea, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, and the Tanzanian region of Zanzibar for their remarkable improvements in cutting malaria illness and death. Since 2000, all of them have managed a greater than 50% drop in both rates, and all of them have done it through a combination of familiar methods: using long-lasting insecticidal bed nets to prevent mosquito bites; treating the disease with the newer, more effective artemisinin-based combination drug therapy; and spraying homes with insecticide. In these...
...programs are underway across much of Africa, and so malaria workers are newly optimistic. "When the coverage of the malaria interventions - the nets, the medicines and the spraying - was high, cases came right down and deaths came down as well," says Otten. With luck, for the next World Malaria Report, global figures will be more accurate still - and they'll be falling because real people are really healthier...
...getting to your brain. And so what happens is that within about 10 sec., brain activity ceases -as you would imagine. Yet paradoxically, 10% or 20% of people who are then brought back to life from that period, which may be a few minutes or over an hour, will report having consciousness. So the key thing here is, Are these real, or is it some sort of illusion? So the only way to tell is to have pictures only visible from the ceiling and nowhere else, because they claim they can see everything from the ceiling. So if we then...
...ignoring all of this research.' FREDERICK VOM SAAL, a University of Missouri professor, on a report that links high levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a compound used in plastics, with diabetes and heart disease...
...drugs and the Bush Administration officials once again in cahoots with Big Oil.' CHUCK SCHUMER, New York Senator, on a report charging that federal employees used drugs, had sex and exchanged improper gifts with energy-industry representatives...