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New Blood Test Can Show Patient's Risk of Heart Attack or Stroke 2007-10-30 21:33:05 This week, we tell about a new test for patients with heart disease. We also tell about progress in fighting an infectious disease. And we tell about the environmental friendliness of North American colleges and universities.American researchers say they have developed a simple test that can tell if a person with heart disease is likely to suffer a heart attack. The researchers say the test measures levels of a protein in the blood. They say people with high levels of the protein are at high risk of heart attack, heart failure or stroke.Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of the University of California in San Francisco led the team of researchers. They studied almost one thousand patients with heart disease for almost four years. During that time, more than two hundred fifty of the patients suffered a heart attack, heart failure or stroke. Some of them died.The researchers tested the heart disease patients for a protein called NT-proBNP. Patients with the highest levels were nearly eight times mo ...

A Natural Way to Control a Costly Parasite in Chickens 2007-10-30 21:32:31 The chicken industry loses billions of dollars worldwide because of a disease called coccidiosis. Coccidiosis is caused by parasites. The single-cell organisms infect and destroy cells in the intestines.Infected chickens lose weight from the disease. Less body weight means economic losses for producers. The disease spreads from bird to bird through infectious droppings. Sometimes infected chickens die from the disease. The infection causes diarrhea, and infected animals may not want to eat. Other kinds of animals, including cows, also get coccidiosis.But research by Hyun Lillehoj and her team could offer a new way to reduce losses from the disease. Hyun Lillehoj is an immunologist in the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. She works in the Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland. She led a team of scientists from research centers in South Korea.She says many producers traditionally use drug treatments and live parasite vacc ...

RogueRemover FREE 1.22 2007-10-30 21:18:50 RogueRemover FREE is a utility that can remove various rogue antispyware, antivirus and hard drive cleaning utilities. Rogue applications are applications that rather than remove spyware, provide false positives, distribute malware or spyware, advertise, or provide useless uninstallers. The main point is that rogue applications are useless and eat up system resources.RogueRemover FREE has the ability to completely remove WinAntiSpyware/WinAntiVirus, SpyAxe, VirusBlast, VirusBursters and many more!Simply download RogueRemover FREE from here, unzip the file, and run the installer. Start the program and select Scan and the program will walk you through the remaining steps.Source : Malwarebytes Subscribe in a reader ...

Aging gracefully 2007-10-26 01:54:27 In HoChiMinh City, thanks to Vietnam's stunning economic growth, in addition to the demand for new cars there is now a growing demand for vintage cars, hobby generally only affordable by the most well-to-do.While many here call any secondhand auto a vintage car, few older cars can truly be afforded the label ”vintage”, says Peter Zell, a renowned historian and collector antique automobiles and a senior executive at Daimler-Chrysler Automotive Group.Zell’s definition: “Vintage cars are those whose values don’t depreciate over time. [They appreciate, like investments.] They are never considered out-of-date and many are sought with such endless passion that people wish to have them at any price.”In HoChiMinh City, cars manufactured during the 1930s still appear proudly on the streets. Among them one Tatra T87, the most famous car made by Czech Tatra Company in 1936. It was imported to Vietnam during the Second World War.The vintage car lover will be impressed by the Tatra’s ...

Higher Education in the US : Life as a Teaching Assistant 2007-10-25 21:56:40 Graduate students often work as teaching assistants while they study in the United States. Teaching assistants may get money or get to take classes for free, or both.A T.A. usually works about twenty hours each week. In some cases, the professors they assist have big undergraduate classes with hundreds of students. The professor gives one or two lectures a week, and teaching assistants lead smaller discussions at other times.They also give tests, grade work, provide laboratory assistance and meet with students who need help. And they have their own educations to think about.Labor unions have been working to organize teaching assistants who feel overworked and underpaid. Some schools have had strikes.Another issue is the language barrier. Many states have proposed to require that teaching assistants be able to speak English well enough for students to understand them. Universities have increased their efforts to deal with this problem.Our example school this week is the University of So ...

Vaccination Campaign Cuts Measles Deaths; New Goal Set 2007-10-25 21:46:51 Measles is one of the most infectious viruses known. It spreads through the air when people infected with the disease cough or sneeze. Children in wealthier countries are usually vaccinated to protect against measles.An international campaign called the Measles Initiative was launched in two thousand one to vaccinate children in developing countries. Thaim was a fifty percent reduction in deaths related to measles by two thousand five.Last week, organizers of the Measles Initiative announced that the final numbers showed a sixty percent drop in deaths.In nineteen ninety-nine, the year used for comparison, there were eight hundred seventy-three thousand deaths. Six years later that number had dropped to three hundred forty-five thousand.The organizers say more than two million lives have been saved, mostly in Africa. Health officials report a seventy-five percent drop in deaths in Africa connected to measles.Measles itself is usually not a direct cause of death. Deaths are commonly the ...

Moving Beyond Talk on Climate Change 2007-10-25 21:41:51 One of the top issues this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was climate change. But the business and political leaders gathered for the yearly event in the Swiss Alps were not the only ones talking about the subject.President Bush, in his State of the Union message Tuesday, proposed rules to increase production of renewable fuels, like ethanol from corn. He also said new technologies are needed to deal with what he called "the serious challenge" of climate change.California recently passed rules to require industries to release less carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for trapping heat. Some companies believe it is just a question of time before the federal government could do the same. So they are positioning themselves to have a voice in the policy-making.On Monday, leaders of ten big companies proposed federal rules to limit the release of greenhouse gases. The companies are members of the United States Climate Action Partnership.One possibility for the coun ...

Good Advice From the World Bank - With Some Exceptions 2007-10-25 21:40:11 The World Bank lends money to developing countries but also considers itself a "knowledge bank." Its advice can influence government policies as well as its own future policies.The question is, how valuable is that advice? Not even the bank's chief economist, Senior Vice President Francois Bourguignon, could answer that.So he asked a group of economists, led by Angus Deaton at Princeton University, to do an independent study. They examined all research activities carried out by the World Bank between nineteen ninety-eight and two thousand five.Last September, they reported finding many valuable studies. But they also found that advice from the bank was not always balanced. They said the bank sometimes gave greater weight to information that supported its positions and ignored other findings.Professor Deaton tells us this was especially true with research on the relationship between globalization and poverty reduction. He says the bank has a right to defend its own policies. But he say ...

In the Red: Better to Be in the Black 2007-10-25 21:38:10 Now, Words and Their Stories, a VOA Special English program about American expressions. I'm Rich Kleinfeldt with some financial words and expressions used in business and the stock market.Our first expression is in the red. It is another way of saying that a business is losing money. In the past, numbers in the financial records of a company were written in red ink to show a loss.A business magazine recently published a report about a television company. The report said the company was still in the red, but was able to cut its loss from the year before.A profit by a business is written in black numbers. So a company that is in the black is making money. An international news service reported that a private health insurer in Australia announced it was back in the black with its first profit in three years.Another financial expression is run on the bank. That is what happens when many people try to withdraw all their money from a bank. A run on the bank usually happens when people belie ...

New Studies Offer Better Understanding of Babies and Intelligence 2007-10-25 21:36:07 On our program this week, we discuss recent findings about how intelligence develops in babies.Not long ago, many people believed that babies only wanted food and to be kept warm and dry. Some people thought babies were not able to learn things until they were five or six months old.Yet doctors in the United States say babies begin learning on their first day of life. The National Institute of Child Health and Development is a federal government agency. Its goal is to identify which experiences can influence healthy development in human beings.Research scientists at the institute note that babies are strongly influenced by their environment. They say a baby will smile if her mother does something the baby likes. A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to please her mother or other caregiver. This is how babies learn to connect and communicate with other humans.The American researchers say this ability to learn exists in a baby even before birth. They say newborn babies c ...

For Older Adults, Many Chances to Make Learning a Lifelong Activity 2007-10-25 21:34:03 We continue our series about ways older Americans are keeping mentally active. Today, we tell about lifelong learning programs.Older Americans who are either retired or reaching retirement age are concerned about keeping active when they leave their jobs. They know that staying physically and mentally active is necessary for good health.It is easy for an individual to get exercise by walking, swimming or bicycling. But keeping mentally active is easier in a group. So, many programs have been created for aging Americans where they can continue to learn and experience new things.There are many education programs in communities across the United States. More than three hundred fifty of these learning programs belong to the Elderhostel Institute Network. It is part of Elderhostel, an organization that provides travel and learning experiences for hundreds of thousands of older Americans every year.Programs in the Elderhostel Institute Network are connected with the colleges and universities ...

VOA Special English 2007-10-25 01:34:12 Learn American English and Much More - FREE !!!The Roots of Special EnglishOn October 19, 1959, the Voice of America broadcast the first Special English program. It was an experiment. The goal was to communicate by radio in clear and simple English with people whose native language was not English. Special English programs quickly became some of the most popular on VOA. They still are. Special English continues to communicate with people who are not fluent in English. Over the years, its role has expanded. It helps people learn American English while they learn about American life and stay informed about world news and developments in science. It provides listeners with information they cannot find elsewhere.Three Elements Make Special English UniqueIt has a core vocabulary of 1500 words. Most are simple words that describe objects, actions or emotions. Some words are more difficult. They are used for reporting world events and describing discoveries in medicine and science. S ...

Progress Reported in AIDS Campaign for Children 2007-10-25 01:29:58 Our subject this week is children and AIDS.The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has just released a report on a campaign launched in October of two thousand five. UNICEF, the U.N. AIDS program and other groups wanted to bring greater attention to the needs of children affected by AIDS.The report on the "Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS" campaign says there are signs of progress.One of the biggest problems is the spread of HIV from mothers to children. Mother-to-child transmission was the main cause of the estimated half-million new infections last year in children under the age of fifteen.UNICEF reports that several countries in eastern and southern Africa have made what it calls breakthroughs. It says they greatly increased the number of mothers who receive antiretroviral drugs. These medicines can prevent mother-to-child transmission.For example, the report says Namibia increased coverage from six percent of mothers to twenty-nine percent. That was between two thousand ... Children

Coming to America as a Fulbrighter 2007-10-25 01:27:24 We come to the twentieth week of our series on higher education in the United States. Today we answer two e-mails from Thailand. A refugee from Burma and another listener in Thailand both want to know more about the Fulbright Program.The Fulbright Program gives Americans a chance to study, teach or do research in other countries. And it gives people in other countries a chance to do the same in America.Fulbright grants are given to graduate students, scholars and professionals. There is also a Fulbright exchange program just for teachers and administrators.Each year about six thousand people receive Fulbright grants. The United States government pays most of the costs. Foreign governments and schools help by sharing costs and providing other support.The Fulbright Program operates in about one hundred fifty countries. Around two hundred seventy thousand Fulbrighters have taken part over the years.Legislation by Senator William Fulbright established the program in nineteen forty-six. He ... America

Baseball Writers Honor the Iron Man, Mr. Padre for a Job Well Done 2007-10-24 22:22:36 This week on our show : Getting ready for the newest members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. A question from Nigeria about the Sears Tower in Chicago... And a report on how "tweens" are helping to drive sales in the pop music industry.Baseball Hall of FameLast week, the Baseball Writers' Association of America elected Cal Ripken Junior and Tony Gwynn to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Their careers were unusual in Major League baseball today. Barbara Klein explains why.Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Junior played all their years in the major leagues with just one team.Cal Ripken played for the Baltimore Orioles from nineteen eighty-one to two thousand one. He played shortstop for most of his career and later moved to third base.He played in nineteen All-Star Games and was named the most valuable player in two of them. Also, he was the American League's most valuable player in nineteen eighty-three when Baltimore won the World Series.But baseball history may best remember him for playing two thou ... Baseball