Positive news from England
World Donors Pledge More Cash to Make Chernobyl SafeLondon, England - Leading nations pledged about $200 million on Thursday towards a cover to encase the Chernobyl power plant's fourth reactor which exploded nearly two decades ago in the world's worst civil nuclear accident. |
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Foam treatment for varicose veinsLondon, England - Injecting patients with a foam that expands in the blood vessels can successfully treat troublesome varicose veins, say doctors. |
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Vaccine ‘to bring end to cervical cancer’London - A new vaccine could wipe out cervical cancer by the end of next year, saving thousands of lives. |
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FEATURE - UK Scientist’s Bright Idea to Fight Global WarmingCambridge, England - Professor Colin Humphreys is a man who works on a very small scale but has some big, bright ideas. |
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Pioneering stem-cell surgery restores sightSussex, UK - A pioneering form of surgery has been developed that can restore the sight of patients by using stem cells to encourage damaged eyes to repair themselves. |
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Liverpool Scientist Discovers New Layer Of The EarthLiverpool, UK - A University of Liverpool scientist has discovered a new layer near the Earth's core, which will enable the internal temperature of the Earth's mantle to be measured at a much deeper level than previously possible. |
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Antimalarial drug combo cures 99% of childrenLondon, England - Using a combination of two malaria drugs could stave off an "impending malaria treatment crisis" in Africa, a new study indicates. |
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Mixing with other children ‘helps prevent leukaemia’London, England - Children with a wide social circle who pick up infections from their peers early in life have the best defence against childhood leukaemia, the commonest cancer in the young. |
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Nobel Prize winner brings DNA to the massesCambridge, UK - Until now, scientists have only been able to obtain DNA sequence information from individual samples, but with the new technology they will be able to gather information on a much larger scale and more cheaply. |
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Happiness helps people stay healthyLondon, England - People who are happier in their daily lives have healthier levels of key body chemicals than those who muster few positive feelings, a new study suggests. This means happier people may have healthier hearts and cardiovascular systems, possibly cutting their risk of diseases like diabetes. |
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UK news
- Range of brain diseases could be treated by single drug
- Share your status – and your lungs. Facebook tool promotes organ donation
- Pancreatic cancer gene discovery
- UK Men set to live as long as women, figures show
- Bright Is The New Black: New York Roofs Go Cool
- British government launches £4.2m urban tree-planting plan
- Otters back from the brink of extinction in England
- World’s Largest Offshore Wind Goes Live, Begins Feeding UK Grid
- UK Biobank ‘close to signing up 500,000 participants’
- UK hostage Peter Moore released alive in Iraq
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