March 3rd, 2009 
Malvika Sampat 
A flu shot is prepared in Chicago, Illinois. US President Barack Obama has vowed to fight for his budget proposals that include investments in clean energy and healthcare as he faces a tough battle moving the measures through Congress. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Boyle)From Yahoo News/Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Virtually all cases of the most common strain of flu circulating in the United States now resist the main drug used to treat it, the U.S.…
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Comments Off February 24th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
From Yahoo News/Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A mission carrying a climate satellite into orbit failed on Tuesday when the satellite was not able to separate from the rocket, NASA said.
“The vehicle … landed just sort of Antarctica in the ocean,” John Brunschwyler of Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp, which made the rocket told a news conference.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Antarctica, Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere, Climate, Co2, Crashes, Failure Times, Launch Yahoo, Nasa, Nasa Launch, Nasa Satellite, News Conference, Observatory, Orbital Sciences Corp, Reuters Washington, Satellite Launch, Satellite News, Satellite Orbit, Yahoo, Yahoo News Comments Off December 30th, 2008 Tushar Mathur 
Policemen in Seattle wearing masks made by the Red Cross, during the influenza epidemic in a National Archives photo dated December 1918. (National Archives/Handout/Reuters)From Yahoo News/Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly — a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia.…
Posted in Science News Tags: 1918 Influenza, Cause Pneumonia, Ferrets, Flu Drugs, Flu Pandemic, Influenza, Influenza Epidemic, Influenza Strain, Kobe, Mutations, National Academy Of Sciences, National Archives, National Archives Photo, Pneumonia, Policemen, Proceedings Of The National Academy, Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, Reuters Washington, Wearing Masks, Yahoo News Comments Off December 16th, 2008 Malvika Sampat 
From Reuters:
WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Heat is more likely to kill an American than an earthquake, and thunderstorms kill more people than hurricanes do, according to a U.S. “death map” published on Tuesday.
Researchers who compiled the county-by-county look at what natural disasters kill Americans said they hope their study will help emergency preparedness officials plan better.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Biomed Central, Borden, Deaths, Drought, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Emergency Preparedness, Hurricanes, International Journal Of Health Geographics, Life And Limb, Map, Myths, Natural Disasters, Natural Hazards, Reuters Washington, Summer Thunderstorms, Susan Cutter, University Of South Carolina, Wildfires, Winter Weather Comments Off
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