International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Regional Office's Director Odeh Jayousi showed readiness to support a project of establishing a network of ecological gardens in Syria.
The argument for limiting the tax exclusion is that the tax break on health insurance encourages over-spending, so limiting it could help in the process of “bending the curve”. More generally, since we think the United States spends too much on health for not-so-good results, it makes sense where possible to pay for expanding coverage from the health sector itself. Both arguments are reasonable.
U.S. scientists say they've developed the world's first brain cancer treatment that involves directly spraying a chemotherapy agent onto the tumor.
Neurosurgeons at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center said the breaching of the blood-brain barrier has been a major obstacle in treating glioblastomas -- brain cancers -- because intravenous chemotherapy agents cannot effectively reach brain tissue from the blood stream.
The Ministry of Information, in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) launched on Saturday the Media Campaign for Family Planning and Mothers Health at Sheraton Hotel in Damascus.
In a speech, Minister of Information Dr. Mohsen Bilal stressed that the campaign is a national and moral responsibility, and that it serves as the basis for the process of family planning and changing the typical concept of large families.
Statistics show that the number of plant species available in Syria is about 3, 200 species, 900 of which are medical plants in addition to many newly introduced plant species that have adapted with the local environment and become part of the biodiversity in Syria.
Minister of State for Environment Affairs Kokab al-Daya said on Monday that Syria gives great importance to international accords on environment, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to meet sustainable development requirements.
On Saturday, December 5, at 12 pm, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Balkan Community Initiative Fund (BCIF), and the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) will organize the 2009 VIRTUS Corporate Philanthropy Award Ceremony at the National Parliament of Serbia.
GE Transportation, a unit of GE and a producer of diesel-electric locomotives, have formed a new joint venture company with CSR Qishuyan Locomotive, a unit of China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock, to develop, build and service GE's Evolution Series locomotive diesel engines in China.