SUNDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Medications can reduce the level of the AIDS virus in the blood to zero, but HIV doesn't disappear and often roars back when patients stop taking their pills. Now, research is giving scientists new insight into how the virus manages to hide and avoid the killing powers of medicine.
Prof. Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Health Ministry's Environment and Preventative Medicine Department has warned that the A/H1N1 epidemic on humans is at high risk of recurence due to the public’s poor awareness of the fatal disease.
Protesters have poured blood at the Thai government's administrative building and governing party headquarters in a gesture calling for the government to resign. The National Human Rights Commission is in talks between the protesters and government in bid to open a dialogue and negotiation.
Opera recommitted to Android in significant fashion today by launching Opera Mini 5 in beta. The new version brings Speed Dial over from the desktop and lets users visually jump to one of nine favorite sites from the home screen. Tabbed browsing is similarly new and uses a relatively uncommon approach that shows tabs visually without disrupting the main page.
The prize for best film at this year's Oscars, has been a won by a film about American troops in Iraq, The Hurt Locker. Its main rival, the multi-billion dollar blockbuster, Avatar, didn't pick up any of the major awards.
MONDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) — In a life-and-death situation, how much time people have to react has a lot to do with whether they behave selfishly or selflessly, if a new critique of the infamous Titanic and Lusitania ocean liner disasters is any indication.
Plans for a massive anti-government demonstration later this week have business leaders worried about potential economic damage. Tourism is particularly vulnerable.
Google announced a new feature called Gesture Search, which allows users to search through files on their Google Android smartphones by tracing a letter like "A" or "H" on their screen
The circle of wolves moved closer. Once again the old Indian saw the picture of the moose as it struggled before the end came. He dropped his head to his knees. What did it matter after all? Isn’t this the law of life?
WE WERE IN A BRIGHTLY LIT, UNREMARKABLE HALLWAY. The walls were off-white, the floor carpeted in industrial gray. Common rectangular fluorescent lights were spaced evenly along the ceiling. It was warmer here, for which I was grateful. This hall seemed very benign after the gloom of the ghoulish stone sewers. Edward didn't seem to agree with my assessment. He glowered darkly down the long hallway, toward the slight, black shrouded figure at the end, standing by an elevator.