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...malaria can be as deadly as artillery. So when China waged a brief war against Vietnam in 1979, Beijing issued its troops a crude anti-malarial pill based on a traditional Chinese medicine?and it worked. Today, hopes are high that a similar folk-remedy-derived treatment might help wipe out the disease. Scientists at the Mekong Malaria Symposium, held last week in Cambodia, announced that early clinical trials of the new drug Artekin eradicated malaria parasites in 95% to 100% of patients tested. And Artekin costs just $1.20 per dose, one-third the price of today's treatments...
...around for eight years or less and that invest at least 15% of their budgets in research and development. A bill announced Dec. 11 by the center-right government would exempt high R and D firms from paying any corporate income tax for their first three years of operation, wipe out all social charges paid to the state for six years and give capital-gains tax exemption to investors and other shareholders. Biotech entrepreneur Philippe Pouletty, president of the Strategic Council for Innovation, says the move could double the number of "innovative" companies in France (there are about...
...loss of the sole provider in the family. Others, like Frolova, are also planning to sue. But under Russian law, terror victims are only permitted to sue the local government, while it is the federal authorities whom most of the Dubrovka victims hold responsible. "The operation was launched to wipe out the terrorists rather than to save the hostages," Frolova says, "and it was accomplished with total disregard for their lives." - By Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow See Also: Inside The Moscow Seige...
...that this line of work is without its laughs. The museum features a wall dedicated to toilet humor, including parting advice that has no doubt salvaged many a relationship. "If you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be sweet and wipe the seat." Check out sulabhtoiletmuseum.org for more information...
...joint study sought to discover whether systems primed by Higgins’ modified E. coli to wipe out invaders bearing ovalbumin would effectively protect mice from the melanoma strain tagged with that protein...