All News from Tue, 26 Oct 2010
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Aspirin may boost prostate cancer treatment – study
Prostate cancer patients who had been treated with either surgery or radiation, and who took aspirin or other anticoagulant drugs such as warfarin, were far less likely to die of cancer, new research shows Read more…
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UK animal rights activists jailed for intimidation
Five members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty involved in a long campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences Read more…
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Southern bluefin catch cut 25 per cent
Environmentalists slam Australian decision to agree to a 4015 tonne catch over the next two years Read more…
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German electric car sets new record
The Audi A2 completed the 600km journey from Munich to Berlin in seven hours without recharging Read more…
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Forestry takes centre-stage at UN talks on nature
Japan talks focus on REDD scheme to help developing nations save tropical forests Read more…
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Excessive pesticides found in bok choy, twice
Growers treated the vegetable as a brassica when applying chemicals, rather than a leafy vegetable - NZSFA Read more…
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China panda baby boom aids against extinction
Record births in captivity due to better nutrition, artificial insemination, genetics and creating a more natural habitat for the pandas to thrive in - Wolong researchers Read more…
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Spectacular species found in Amazon
New discoveries reported in WWF's Living Amazon Initiative report include an anaconda as long as a limousine, a monkey-eating giant catfish and a blue fanged spider Read more…
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Double polio vaccine proves most effective in study
Impact of bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) already being seen in India and Nigeria, experts say Read more…
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Conception is a rare event, study shows
Two new US fertility studies show fewer than 8 percent of all tries at making a baby in a lab dish will succeed; men with a high saturated fat diet produce fewer sperm Read more…
