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New rules and training will be announced by New Hampshire Department of Safety officials in an attempt to permit more law enforcement personnel to administer life-saving doses of Narcan in people who overindulge in heroin and other opioids.

On Thursday, the new rules will be announced by officials. The use of Naloxone has been examined by a task force. Naloxone is usually known by its trademark Narcan. At present, only EMTs can administer Narcan under state law.

According to Health and Human Services officials, the department would make efforts and spend more federal money. They said that it will also make attempts to distribute naloxone to first responders and family members.

The Beijing Institute of Biotechnology and the Tianjin CanSino Biotechnology have developed an experimental vaccine. It has been found to be safe in the first phase-one trial.

The vaccine improves an immune system response in recipients. Study's lead researcher Fengcai Zhu from the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control in China said that on the basis of their findings, the newly developed Ebola vaccine has good scope.

"A significant advantage of this type of vaccine is that stable and much easier to store or transport in tropical areas with inadequate cold-chain capacity, such as Africa", said Zhu. All the tested Ebola virus vaccines are based on the virus strain from the Zaire outbreak in 1976.

On Wednesday, the North Museum Science & Engineering Fair was organized. In the fair, Mayo Rao, the Hempfield High School senior, has received an award for developing a system, which is able to measure bacteria in a water sample.

In order to develop a system, Rao has used an old iPod case and some raw materials. As per data, around 840,000 people lose their lives every year due to water-related diseases. The number is equivalent to the complete population of San Francisco.

There is no doubt that significant advancements have been made with regard to bacteria testing. However, then also the known diagnostic methods are too expensive and they take time to produce results.

Although Russia and America can be fighting over the Ukraine issue, but far away from earth at the International Space Station (ISS) both Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts are still working together side by side.

The ISS is one of the rare areas of US-Russian cooperation that so far has not been affected by the Ukraine crisis.

In a new mission to the ISS, the crew includes two space veterans American Scott Kelly and Russian Mikhail Kornienko. The duo will be the first to spend a whole year straight on the cosmic outpost, rather than the usual six months.

Explaining about the life aboard the ISS after returning to earth this month, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev said that the crew aboard ISS performs their work and also love and respect each other.

Dennis Williams, leader of the United Auto Workers union, was present at the union's national bargaining convention in Detroit on Wednesday.

He has rejected a tier of lower wages for workers making auto parts. Williams affirmed that the union already has too many tiers of low wages. He was responding to the reports revealing that General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co may propose a third tier of pay.

Williams is facing pressure from union members to send a second tier of wages. He affirmed that he has come across talks about the third tier in which employees would be paid less than the $15.28 starting salary for second-tier workers.

There is a question about when policy makers of the Federal Reserve System will raise interest rates. But before that question, it is important to know if the policy makers have figured out how to do that. And the answer is: they haven't quite figured it out.

Since 2008 financial crisis, the United States central bank has been trying to control near-term borrowing costs, but in that case, the central bank has faced troubles. While the bank's main new tool has enabled the Federal Reserve System to exert more influence over money-market rates in the last year, experts at investment banking companies like Barclays to Goldman Sachs said that the bank's program is too small to stop rates from falling.