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Lee Cook-jongDr. Lee Cook-jong, the celebrated trauma surgeon from Ajou University Hospital, said Monday he would resign from his post as head of the hospital’s trauma center in Suwon, Gyeonggi. Last week, Lee revealed that he has had conflicts with the hospital over its attitude toward his trauma center and its patients. In response to Dr. Lee’s claims, Ajou University Hospital insists it is trying its best to accept the trauma center’s patients.“There is no way that I can lead the trauma center any longer as the hospital and its director oppose it,” Lee said during an interview with the JoongAng Ilbo on Monday. “The hospital has been saying that it is doing its best to cooperate with us, but that’s a lie.” Lee also objected to the hospital saying that it receives complaints about the noise from air ambulances, medically outfitted helicopters that ferry emergency patients to hospitals. “The hospital has been making excuses … [Read more...] about Surgeon wants to sever link to trauma center

HYDERABAD: The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Government of India will launch 10-balloon flights from Hyderabad for the purpose of conducting scientific studies. TIFR has also requested the public to provide information on where the parachutes with instruments will land so that scientists can come and collect them. The first balloon flight will be launched this month and continue up to April 30. The balloons filled with hydrogen gas and the scientific instruments will be launched in association with the Department of Atomic Energy and ISRO by the Balloon Facility of TIFR at ECIL in the city. The facility scientific in-charge B Suneel Kumar informed that the balloons are made of thin (polyethylene) plastic films, ranging in diameters from 50 meters to 85 meters. The balloons are normally launched between 8 pm and 6.30 am. The balloons, which carry up scientific instruments for research at high altitudes, are expected to reach heights between 30 km and 42 km depending upon … [Read more...] about 10 balloons flights to be launched from Hyderabad by TIFR for scientific studies

In particular, while the activity of a few thousand genes was altered during Scott's space station sojourn — no great surprise, given the stress placed on his body — some 7 per cent of those genes did not return to normal expression levels, even six months after landing. … [Read more...] about NASA twins Scott and Mark Kelly are not quite as identical as they used to be

"We don't know the path the hail takes through the storm to grow so big, so we're trying to collect as many of these stones a possible and look at their aerodynamics, look at their weight, and try and study the storms that produce them to better understand how we get to these extremes." … [Read more...] about Weather scientists discover one of the world’s largest hail stones

Asked if it meant that someone in Wales was walking around completely immune to cancer, Prof Sewell said, as quoted by the website, “Possibly. This immune cell could be quite rare, or it could be that lots of people have this receptor but for some reason it is not activated. We just don't know yet. … [Read more...] about This Immune Cell Can Kill Most Cancers