Scaled Composites, which conducted the flight test, is a partner of Virgin Galactic, which had planned on using SpaceShipTwo to take passengers on suborbital trips into space in the near future. Review of NTSB accident investigation findings Space flight related deaths Fatal events involving NASA ...
Tremendous technological advancement has been observed in the past few decades to combat ever increasing mortality rate in cancer therapy. It is now widely accepted that this reduction in mortality can be addressed effectively by materializing the concep
[28]. In 2008, the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar (IPM) confirmed the infection of 59 patients with RVFV, while the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) recorded 17 deaths from 418 suspected cases [29]. From 2008 to 2009, RVF cases were recorded in humans and cattle in the northern, ...
Infectious diseases caused by viruses (HIV, influenza, and hepatitis) account for nearly 8 million human deaths each year [3]. Early diagnostics are crucial to avoid the spread of viral diseases on a Sensors 2017, 17, 2316; doi:10.3390/s17102316 www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors Sensors 2017, ...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19 had led to more than 520,360 confirmed infected cases and 23,593 deaths in 198 countries by 27 March 2020. Besides the immediate tragedies of death and disease, indirect effects through fear are being felt around the world. The ...
According to a survey, unhealthy and contaminated food is associated with approximately 2 million deaths annually all over the world. In response, public health agencies all over the world are working to put forward stringent safety measures and food regulations [1,2]. The various antibiotic ...
[3] This is understandably an important topic of industrial and academic research considering that structure fires cause $6.7 billion worth of damage, 12,300 injuries, and >2500 deaths annually in the United States alone [6]. The massive California wild fires in the summer and autumn of 2018...
In the case of cervical cancer, it is relevant to note that the vast majority (>85%) of cervical cancer deaths are in women in developing countries that also lack access to routine cervical cancer screening or vaccination against HPV infection [45]. Although sophisticated diagnostic instruments ...
Zinc deficiency is proposed to contribute to about half a million maternal and child deaths annually, mostly in developing countries [83]. Zinc deficiency in pregnancy has been associated with impaired immunity, prolonged labour, preterm and post-term births, intrauterine growth retardation, LBW and ...