A new test for tubercolosis can bring results within two hours according to a new study. The test can also check for drug resistant forms of the disease and is faster than any other test available.
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New test can give tuberculosis results in two hours
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on September 2nd, 2010
Posted in World News 
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Comments OffSeven dead from riots over bread prices in Mozambique
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on September 2nd, 2010
Mozambique is a country where 70 percent of the population is below the poverty line. So when food prices increase it really hurts, hurts enough to riot.
Posted in World News Tags: Barricades, Bread Prices, City Streets, Deaf Ear, Election Time, Food Prices, Food Security, Grievances, Matola, Mozambique, Outskirts, Poverty Line, Protestors, Protests, Public Transport, Reuters, Riot, Rioters, Riots, Suburb, Teofilo, Water Tariffs Comments OffThe Coming Food Crisis
Posted by War News Updates Editor on September 2nd, 2010
Demonstrators burned barricades and tyres during protests over soaring prices in Maputo [Reuters]
The New Rules: The Changing Food Security Equation — World Politics Review
While the world doesn’t yet face a food crisis on par with the summer of 2008, it’s clear that the drought currently affecting the Black Sea trio of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan — all big-time global exporters of wheat and barley — has suddenly made food inflation a primary threat to the somewhat fragile and decidedly uneven global economic recovery.
Posted in World News Tags: Barley, Barricades, Big Time, Black Sea, Demonstrators, Drought, Economic Recovery, Food Aid, Food Crisis, Food Markets, Food Price, Food Security, Food Shortages, Global Exporters, Global Food, Gordon Brown, Maputo, Reuters, World Doesn, World Politics Comments OffNew study warns of drug costs to those in poverty
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on September 1st, 2010
A new study says that people who are slightly above the poverty line could be pulled below it simply by buying common medicines.
Posted in World News Tags: Amoxicillin, Atenolol, Beta Blockers, Broad Spectrum Antibiotic, Daonil, Diabetes Drug, Dutch Researchers, effects on health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Generic Drugs, Generic Equivalent, High Blood Pressure, Medicine Journal, Plos Medicine, Poor Countries, Poverty Indicators, Poverty Line, Public Library Of Science, Reuters, Salbutamol, Sanofi Aventis Comments OffMajor Arrest In Mexico’s Drug Cartel Wars
Posted by War News Updates Editor on August 31st, 2010
Edgar Valdez, a US citizen also known as Barbie, was arrested in central Mexico after police tracked his movements for more than a year. 
Posted in World News Tags: Additional Details, Ajc, Central Mexico, Christian Science Monitor, Cnn, Crime Writer, Drug Cartel, Drug Lord, Drug War, Edgar Valdez Villareal, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, Mexican Drug Kingpin, Mexican Police, Mexicans, Mexico City, mexico drug cartel war, New York Times, News Reporters, Police Arrest, Reuters, Tuesday Morning Comments Off
