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. Science magazine has awarded a Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI) to Rice University's hands-on engineering education program Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) as a model for other schools. In the program's first six years, more than 10 percent of Rice undergraduates have participated in BTB and produced 58 low-cost health technologies, including two that have already been broadly distributed at a national level. http://phys.org/news254677918.html Other Sciences Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:52:25 EST news254677918 Leading virologists on Wednesday warned of censorship after a US bioterror watchdog asked scientific journals to withhold details of lab work that created a mutant strain of killer flu. http://phys.org/news243689743.html Biology Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:36:16 EST news243689743 A bill aimed at choking off US exports of technology used for Internet surveillance or censorship was introduced in the House of Representatives on Thursday. http://phys.org/news242621652.html Technology Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:10:02 EST news242621652 Already straining to host seven billion souls, Earth is set to teem with billions more, and only a revolution in the use of resources can avert an environmental crunch, experts say. http://phys.org/news238570779.html Other Sciences Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:40:06 EST news238570779 (AP) -- A new study says one of the few benefits of global warming - fewer deaths from the combination of extreme heat and cold - may eventually melt away in Europe. http://phys.org/news227881706.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:28:46 EST news227881706 Health ministers from around the world agreed Tuesday to put off setting a deadline to destroy the last known stockpiles of the smallpox virus for three more years, rejecting a U.S. plan that had called for a five-year delay. http://phys.org/news225516036.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 May 2011 04:21:28 EST news225516036 With Congress at a budget impasse, a new poll suggests the nation's leaders should look more deeply at the public's priorities, particularly regarding proposed cuts to medical, health and scientific research. Research!America urges our nation's leaders to put the public's interest and the nation's future ahead of politics and to move past polarizing budget battles and the uncertainty of continuing resolutions that resolve nothing. Americans are hungry for solutions from Washington. http://phys.org/news221314036.html Other Sciences Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:09:14 EST news221314036 Those working for healthier humans around the globe are making headway in fighting communicable diseases such as AIDS, malaria and diarrheal illness, according to research from the Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures in the University of Denver's (DU) Josef Korbel School of International Studies. http://phys.org/news219328028.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:27:57 EST news219328028 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ten guiding principles to strengthen global health strategies and outcomes have been created by a Yale School of Public Health professor and other experts. http://phys.org/news212249200.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:06:57 EST news212249200 Women are advancing further in school than at any time in recent history, a trend that is having a tremendous impact on child mortality, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. http://phys.org/news203882000.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:00:02 EST news203882000 (AP) -- Cancer is the world's top "economic killer" as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report it will present at a global cancer conference in China this week. http://phys.org/news201230564.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:00:01 EST news201230564 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 In two articles closing out the PLoS Medicine series on Global Health Diplomacy, senior diplomats offer their perspectives on how foreign policy can make a difference to global health. http://phys.org/news192817359.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 May 2010 18:20:01 EST news192817359 The lead Editorial in this week's Lancet focuses on global health within the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID)—its mixed successes and failures to date, the challenges it faces with the possible change in government following the UK general election, and the problems it faces through intragovernmental tensions with both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department of Health (DH). http://phys.org/news188154241.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:30:02 EST news188154241 Area-wide traffic calming schemes that discourage through-traffic from using residential roads are effective at reducing traffic-related injuries in high-income countries and may even reduce deaths. However, more research needs to be carried out to see whether these interventions will work in low- and middle-income countries, according to a Cochrane Systematic Review of the available evidence. http://phys.org/news174112115.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:40:01 EST news174112115 An editorial and letter, published simultaneously by the BMJ and Lancet today, warn that failure to agree radical cuts in carbon dioxide emissions at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen this December spells a global health catastrophe. http://phys.org/news172299758.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:30:01 EST news172299758 Although lead content in paint has been restricted in the United States since 1978, University of Cincinnati (UC) environmental health researchers say in major countries from three continents there is still widespread failure to acknowledge its danger and companies continue to sell consumer paints that contain dangerous levels of lead. http://phys.org/news168611086.html Medicine & Health Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:46:58 EST news168611086 Well-heeled donors, private corporations and average citizens sending money to their favorite charities are changing the landscape of global health funding, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. http://phys.org/news164595078.html Medicine & Health Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:10:08 EST news164595078 Countries and policy leaders gain new guidance today on how and when to eliminate malaria, paving the way for the potential global eradication of the deadly disease. The announcement is being made on behalf of the Malaria Elimination Group, a global body of researchers, policy experts and country program managers, by the Global Health Group of UCSF Global Health Sciences. http://phys.org/news159776879.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:29:39 EST news159776879 The World Health Organization released staggering new data about the threat of tuberculosis and the toll it takes on people with HIV/AIDS today, in recognition of World TB Day. http://phys.org/news157125569.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:00:09 EST news157125569