http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Developing countries often lack the official government structure needed to collect taxes efficiently. This lack of systematic tax collection limits the ability of those countries to provide public services that aid growth, such as roads, sanitation and access to water. http://phys.org/news225541456.html Other Sciences Wed, 25 May 2011 11:25:55 EST news225541456 Counterfeiting of drugs is a huge industry with an annual turnover of more than SEK 500 billion. In Africa the situation is extremely serious. Half of the malaria medication sold there could be ineffective or even harmful. Researchers from Lund and the UK have now developed a technique that could resolve the situation. http://phys.org/news202561022.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:10:06 EST news202561022 Once thought to be a problem primarily in the developed world, cancer is now a leading cause of death and disability in poorer countries. Almost two-thirds of the 7.6 million cancer deaths in the world occur in low- and middle-income countries. http://phys.org/news201149503.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:30:01 EST news201149503 The survival of HIV patients in sub-Saharan Africa in the first year of antiretroviral therapy (ART) can now be predicted using either of two new risk models, developed by Matthias Egger from the University of Bern in Switzerland and Dr Margaret May, University of Bristol, UK, and international colleagues, and published in an Article Online First and in this week's edition of The Lancet. http://phys.org/news198403743.html Medicine & Health Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:30:01 EST news198403743 (AP) -- The number of wireless service subscriptions worldwide passed 5 billion this week, according to an estimate by LM Ericsson AB, the Swedish maker of wireless equipment. http://phys.org/news197906632.html Technology Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:06:46 EST news197906632 Vaccine manufacturers in India and other developing countries may be able to produce a lower-cost HPV vaccine in spite of the complicated array of patent protections on the technology, say researchers at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. At a cost of at least $300 for the three-dose regimen, the blockbuster HPV vaccines, including Gardasil from Merck and Cervarix from GlaxoSmithKline, are some of the most expensive ever introduced. http://phys.org/news197903804.html Biology Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:17:07 EST news197903804 The incidence of strokes in rural Tanzania is similar to that reported in developed countries, but rates in urban Tanzania are almost three times higher. These findings highlight the urgent need for community-level health screening and improved prevention measures to reduce stroke incidence in urban areas, concludes the first study in sub-Saharan Africa to include community-based identification of strokes published Online first and in the August edition of the Lancet Neurology. http://phys.org/news197545677.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:30:03 EST news197545677 Since higher education is booming in developing countries, so is e-learning. A new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows how culture can shape quality in higher education in general and in e-learning in particular. http://phys.org/news196343555.html Other Sciences Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:50:01 EST news196343555 (AP) -- The World Health Organization says people make a total of 93 million blood donations worldwide every year, but the rate of donation in poor countries is far too low. http://phys.org/news195461539.html Medicine & Health Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:52:33 EST news195461539 Cancer could claim 13.3 million lives a year by 2030, the World Health Organisation's cancer research agency said Tuesday, almost double the 7.6 million deaths from the illness in 2008. http://phys.org/news194621396.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:00:09 EST news194621396 (AP) -- Last December, an international conference on climate change approved global plans prevent deforestation. But those plans have not been implemented, and now a smaller meeting of nations in Oslo will try Thursday to find ways to start to put them in place - even if on a smaller scale. http://phys.org/news194158100.html Space & Earth Thu, 27 May 2010 05:48:35 EST news194158100 A new study shows that saving rainforests and protecting land in national parks and reserves reduced poverty in two developing countries, according to research by a Georgia State University professor. http://phys.org/news194002311.html Space & Earth Tue, 25 May 2010 11:10:01 EST news194002311 (PhysOrg.com) -- Climate scientists can predict weather trends months, even years in advance, but this vital information often is never seen by engineers and professionals who manage water supplies in developing countries, says Casey M. Brown, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. http://phys.org/news193592465.html Space & Earth Thu, 20 May 2010 16:41:14 EST news193592465 Electronics in the U.S. are being recycled in record numbers as more states require it and more companies collect and even pay for discarded items, but the gains come with controversy. http://phys.org/news193046990.html Technology Fri, 14 May 2010 09:40:02 EST news193046990 The availability of more affordable drugs, vaccines and diagnostics that would help countless people worldwide is the foremost benefit expected from a growing number of collaborations between biotech firms in developing countries, according to a study to be published Mon. May 12 in the UK journal Nature Biotechnology. http://phys.org/news192713959.html Biology Mon, 10 May 2010 14:00:02 EST news192713959 A simple salad spinner will save lives this summer, if everything goes as planned by two Rice University undergraduates. The spinner has been turned, so to speak, into a rudimentary centrifuge that medical clinics in developing countries can use to separate blood without electricity. http://phys.org/news192112558.html Technology Mon, 03 May 2010 13:36:39 EST news192112558 Developing countries will be producing at least twice as much electronic waste (e-waste) as developed countries within the next 6-8 years, according to a new study published in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology. It foresees in 2030 developing countries discarding 400 million - 700 million obsolete personal computers per year compared to 200 million - 300 million in developed countries. http://phys.org/news191674848.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:10:08 EST news191674848 A common virus that causes wheezing and pneumonia claims the lives of up to two hundred thousand children worldwide each year, a study has found. http://phys.org/news190579794.html Medicine & Health Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:50:01 EST news190579794 (AP) -- A global group funding the battle against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in impoverished nations worldwide is urging donors to keep paying for the fight even as the economic crisis forces budget cuts. http://phys.org/news188638582.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:00:01 EST news188638582 Sitting with Sunny Mahant at a neighborhood coffeehouse near his San Francisco home -- the home that serves as his office and a funding source for his startup -- it's hard not to root for him. http://phys.org/news188046460.html Technology Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:20:01 EST news188046460 Two papers published this week in PLoS Medicine by Margaret Kruk and colleagues investigate surgical provision in eight district hospitals in three sub-Saharan African countries. The authors, from the USA and Africa, show low levels of surgical care provision, a lack of specialist surgeons and anaesthetists, and low expenditure on surgical provision. http://phys.org/news187331075.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:28:27 EST news187331075 A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution finds that over a third of carbon dioxide emissions associated with consumption of goods and services in many developed countries are actually emitted outside their borders. Some countries, such as Switzerland, "outsource" over half of their carbon dioxide emissions, primarily to developing countries. The study finds that, per person, about 2.5 tons of carbon dioxide are consumed in the U.S. but produced somewhere else. For Europeans, the figure can exceed four tons per person. Most of these emissions are outsourced to developing countries, especially China. http://phys.org/news187282192.html Space & Earth Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:00:12 EST news187282192 Sales of electronic products in countries like China and India and across continents such as Africa and Latin America are set to rise sharply in the next 10 years. http://phys.org/news186040516.html Space & Earth Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:55:44 EST news186040516 In developing countries, where millions of babies die in the womb or soon after birth, research has shown that providing training in newborn care and resuscitation to birth attendants significantly increases the likelihood of a baby's survival. http://phys.org/news185653995.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:00:02 EST news185653995 Increased aid from developed countries, earmarked specifically for sustainable seafood infrastructure in developing countries, could improve global food security, according to a policy paper by an international working group of 20 economists, marine scientists and seafood experts in the Feb. 12 issue of Science. http://phys.org/news185123847.html Space & Earth Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:20:01 EST news185123847 (AP) -- The World Health Organization plans to start shipping swine flu vaccine to Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Mongolia in the next few weeks, flu chief Keiji Fukuda said Thursday. http://phys.org/news180265690.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:49:00 EST news180265690 There's a storm brewing -- a storm of information, that is, in climate and environmental research. People are wading through the turbulence, trying to make sense of it all. http://phys.org/news180119747.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:00:01 EST news180119747 "Development cooperation can play an important role in ensuring that the poorest countries will benefit from climate change funding," says Olof Drakenberg, policy analyst at the Environmental Economics Unit at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. http://phys.org/news180096118.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:00:02 EST news180096118 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Jonna Mazet (University of California, Davis) and colleagues describe their work in the Tanzania-based HALI Project, which adopts the "One Health" approach to address emerging zoonoses, recognizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. http://phys.org/news180087890.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:25:17 EST news180087890 Overseas development charities are highly dependent on donations from individuals. In this new study, researchers from the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Cass Business School examined how the level of donations to overseas development charities has changed over time, what kind of people give money to such charities and their reasons for giving, and how government policy affects people's willingness to donate. http://phys.org/news179932602.html Other Sciences Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:17:21 EST news179932602