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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Science &amp; Health</title>
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		<title>China kids know the logos used for smokes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly nine in 10 children in China can identify a cigarette logo, according to a U.S. study out Monday that measured tobacco recognition among typical 5- and 6-year-olds in various countries. The study in the journal Pediatrics covered six nations &#8212; Brazil, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia and China &#8212; where adult smoking rates are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China doctor builds new nose on man&#8217;s forehead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A surgeon in China says he has constructed an extra nose out of a man&#8217;s rib cartilage and implanted it under the skin of his forehead to prepare for a transplant in probably the first operation of its kind. Surgeon Guo Zhihui at Fujian Medical University Union Hospital in China&#8217;s southeastern province of Fujian spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian researchers unveil &#8216;attention-powered&#8217; car</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[accidents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian road safety researchers Wednesday unveiled a pioneering &#8220;attention-powered&#8221; car that uses a headset to monitor brain activity and slow acceleration during periods of distraction. The car, commissioned by the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia, is about to depart on an awareness-raising road trip of Western Australia &#8212; a sprawling west coast state accounting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milk scare was false alarm: N.Z.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A botulism scare that sparked global recalls of Fonterra milk products was a false alarm and there was never any danger to consumers, New Zealand officials said Wednesday after new tests. The crisis led to infant formula being taken off shelves from China to Saudi Arabia earlier this month and damaged New Zealand&#8217;s &#8220;clean, green&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Model predicts arsenic pollution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[European and Chinese researchers have built a model to predict the presence of arsenic groundwater contamination in China and elsewhere where millions are at risk, according to work published Thursday. The technique can be applied to any region where the problem affects large populations and can also be applied to other pollutants, according to research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian cancer patients sleeping rough</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With just a patchwork of colorful plastic sheets to shield patients from the heavy monsoon rains, a Mumbai street close to one of India&#8217;s top cancer treatment centers acts as a kind of unofficial ward. Every year, the Tata Memorial Hospital draws tens of thousands of cancer sufferers thanks to its heavily subsidized medical care. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honeybee sting acupuncture creates a buzz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patients in China are swarming to acupuncture clinics to be given bee stings to treat or ward off life-threatening illness, practitioners say. More than 27,000 people have undergone the painful technique &#8212; each session can involve dozens of punctures &#8212; at Wang Menglin&#8217;s clinic in Beijing, said the bee acupuncturist, who makes his living from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S. Korea tests &#8216;electric road&#8217; for buses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 12:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A South Korean city has begun testing an &#8220;electrified road&#8221; that allows public buses to recharge from buried cables as they travel, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology said Thursday. The institute, which developed the system, said it would be tested over the next four months on a 24-km route in the city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New dose of old Chinese medicine keeps Hong Kong residents healthy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The young woman pours a pack of brown powder into a glass of hot water, stirs it well and downs the murky mixture, hoping the traditional Chinese medicine will cure her feverish cold. Sofie Lau may work as a pediatric nurse and she may live in the modern, fast-paced city of Hong Kong &#8212; but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts cite diet, villagers cite alcohol as secret of long lives on China&#8217;s Hainan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The elderly residents of one Chinese county have endured invasion, civil war and famine, and many live in unheated concrete shacks on only a few dollars a day. But they are apparently among the longest-lived people on Earth. Chengmai, a string of villages dotted with orange plantations in the tropical island province of Hainan, claims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jakarta sends in choppers to seed clouds, fight fires</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indonesia on Friday dispatched helicopters to create artificial rain in a desperate bid to fight raging fires that are choking Singapore with record-breaking levels of smog that is threatening people&#8217;s lives. At a late-night emergency meeting, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered disaster officials to &#8220;immediately mobilize all the country&#8217;s resources&#8221; to extinguish the fires on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.Z. emerges as guinea pig for global tech firms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Google chose New Zealand to unveil secret plans for a balloon-driven Wi-Fi network last weekend, it cemented the country&#8217;s reputation as a trial site for global tech companies looking to test their latest innovations. Industry experts said New Zealand, tucked away deep in the Southern Hemisphere, offers a tech-savvy, English-speaking population where firms such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aussie develops French accent after head injury</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Australian woman who now speaks with a French-sounding accent after a head injury eight years ago has revealed the experience has left her feeling frustrated and reclusive. Leanne Rowe, born and raised on the southern Australian island of Tasmania, was in a serious car crash that left her with a broken back and jaw. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google experiment uses balloons to beam Internet down to Earthlings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google revealed top-secret plans Saturday to send balloons to the edge of space with the lofty aim of bringing Internet to the two-thirds of the global population currently without web access. Scientists from the technology giant Saturday released up to 30 helium-filled test balloons flying 20 km above Christchurch in New Zealand, carrying antennae linked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish with abs &#8212; oldest fossil muscles surprisingly similar to land animals&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paleontologists have made the surprising evolutionary discovery that ancient Australian fish may have had abdominal muscles, previously thought to have only developed in land animals. Researchers mapping the oldest fossilized vertebrate muscles ever seen &#8212; in gogo fish 380 million years old &#8212; worked out the position of the muscles and the orientation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Przewalski&#8217;s horses roam China&#8217;s plains again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the harsh desert steppe of far northwestern China, five prehistoric-looking Przewalski&#8217;s horses, once classified as extinct in the wild, emerge from the endless plains. The horses &#8212; named after a Russian officer and explorer who spotted them around 1880 &#8212; bear a striking resemblance to those depicted in European cave paintings, with short necks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China astronauts blast off on 15-day mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China successfully launched its longest-ever manned space mission — 15 days — on Tuesday, with the nation&#8217;s second female astronaut among the crew, in the next step for the ambitious space program, a symbol of the country&#8217;s growing might. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived at the Jiuquan launch center in the Gobi Desert to watch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey finds many Indian smokers unfazed by health risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over three-quarters of smokers surveyed in India believe that cigarette smoking does not have health consequences, according to the results of a survey by an insurance company released Friday. The results of the survey by ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co., the country&#8217;s largest private sector general insurance company, were released to coincide with World No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic surgery craze takes dangerous turn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 15:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Korea&#8217;s obsession with plastic surgery is shifting from standard eye and nose jobs to embrace a radical surgical procedure that requires months of often painful recovery. A stream of celebrities boast on TV shows how it gave them a &#8220;new life,&#8221; while advertisements extolling its cosmetic benefits are everywhere from street billboards to subway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka sexes up Ceylon tea&#8217;s image</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hot cup of Ceylon tea is better known as being soothing and relaxing, but Sri Lanka is now marketing its most profitable export as a luxury boost for the libido. The tea industry is increasingly plugging Ceylon&#8217;s supposed aphrodisiac qualities in a bid to radically change perceptions of the brew, which manufacturers say can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate shift, not migrating humans, killed Australia&#8217;s giant beasts: study</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gigantic animals that once roamed Australia were mostly extinct by the time humans arrived, according to a new study that suggests climate change played the key role in their demise. For decades, debate has centered on what wiped out megafauna such as the rhinoceros-size, wombatlike Diprotodon, the largest known lizard, and kangaroos so big that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aussie settlers numbered 1,000-3,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia was first settled by between 1,000 and 3,000 humans around 50,000 years ago, but the population crashed during the Ice Age before recovering to a peak of some 1.2 million people five centuries ago, a study said Wednesday. Estimating the early population of Australia is a source of debate in anthropology, partly because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;No frills&#8217; clinic set to offer $800 heart surgery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if hospitals were run like a mix of Wal-Mart and a low-cost airline? The result might be something like the chain of &#8220;no-frills&#8221; Narayana Hrudayalaya clinics in southern India. Using prefabricated buildings, stripping out air conditioning and even training visitors to help with postoperative care, the group believes it can cut the cost of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian baby with swollen head &#8216;doing well,&#8217; surgeon says</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 15-month-old Indian girl whose head has swollen to nearly double its normal size is &#8220;doing well,&#8221; a doctor said Friday, but treatment could be complicated by the extreme nature of her case. Roona Begum, who suffers from hydrocephalus, a rare disorder that causes fluid to build up on the brain, was discovered earlier this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.N. probes China bird flu clusters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a cluster of cases among relatives, experts from the U.N. health agency are examining whether the H7N9 bird flu virus is spreading among humans but downplayed fears of a pandemic Friday. &#8220;What we don&#8217;t know is the size of the iceberg under this tip,&#8221; said Michael O&#8217;Leary, the World Health Organization&#8217;s representative in China, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australians smoking, drinking less, but getting heftier, more anxious</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australians are smoking and drinking less than they were five years ago but are fatter and more anxious, according to a new survey profiling the nation&#8217;s health launched Tuesday. The Wellness Index, compiled by polling firm Roy Morgan Research and an initiative of health company Alere, has surveyed the well-being of 50,000 Australians since 2007 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No proof bird flu spreading among humans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization said Monday there is no evidence China&#8217;s bird flu is spreading among humans, but jitters over the outbreak that has killed six people so far has also seen airline and tourism shares slump. China announced just over a week ago that H7N9 avian influenza had been found in humans for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aussie-led study IDs gene tied to epilepsy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Australia-led study has identified a gene associated with a common form of epilepsy that could lead to earlier diagnosis, a researcher said. Melbourne University academic Ingrid Scheffer said a number of genes linked to epilepsy are known to scientists, but these relate to rare families in which a large number of members have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers track blue whales by their songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Australian-led group of scientists has for the first time tracked down and tagged Antarctic blue whales by using acoustic technology to follow their songs, the government said Wednesday. The blue whale, the largest animal on the planet, is rarely spotted in the Antarctic Ocean but a group of intrepid researchers were able to locate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great white sharks bite off far more than believed: new study</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great white sharks, the world&#8217;s largest predatory fish, eat three to four times more food than previously thought, an Australian study shows. U.S. research from the 1980s estimated a 30 kg meal of mammal blubber could sustain a 1-ton shark for more than six weeks. That perpetuated assumptions that large sharks could survive long periods [...]]]></description>
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