Manila - Philippine shares slipped by 2.12 per cent on Friday as investors remained jittery over the continued volatility in the stock markets around the world.

The Philippine Stock Exchange's 30-share composite index shed 42.43 points to close at 1,953.49, from Thursday's finish of 1,995.92.

A total of 847.39 million shares valued at 1.95 billion pesos (39.95 million dollars) were traded.

Losers outpaced gainers, 92 to 23, with 24 issues unchanged.

Washington, October 24: A research team from The Johns Hopkins University has created water-soluble electronic materials that spontaneously assemble themselves into "wires" much narrower than a human hair.

The researchers say that their work may pave the way for pacemakers that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient''s body cannot discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralysed limbs.

According to medical experts black women die of breast cancer more often than white women. But the numbers in Chicago, are especially alarming.  According to the recent statistics by The Chicago Metropolitan Breast Cancer Task Force, African American women in Chicago are more than twice likely to die of breast cancer than the whites.

The breast cancer death rate of African – American women is 116 percent higher than whites, according to data released Wednesday by the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force.

London, October 24: Trials of a new compound called BG-12 have shown that it can reduce the number of new gadolinium enhancing (Gd+) lesions by 69 percent in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), compared to treatment with placebo.

The oral compound was also found to show a 53 percent reduction in the mean number of T1-hypointense lesions, and a 44 percent reduction in cumulative new Gd+ lesions in patients treated during the trial.

While the presence of Gd+ lesions is thought to indicate continuing inflammatory activity within the central nervous system, T1-hypointense lesions are associated with significant breakdown and loss of brain tissue.

Brussels - The trouble with telling a nervous customer that you have solved their problem is that you first have to admit that there is one. That is the dilemma facing the world's banks, governments and financial institutions as they desperately try to restore faith in an economic system which millions of customers now believe has failed.

"We have shown the world that the United States of America will stabilize our financial markets and maintain a leading role in the global economy," US President George W Bush proclaimed on October 3 after the US Congress passed a 700-billion-dollar bank rescue plan.

His words spectacularly failed to restore global confidence, with stock markets nosediving in the days following the vote.

Washington, October : A team of Indian-origin researchers in Penn State''s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) says that small hospitals in rural areas can provide patients with the benefits of modern equipment and technology by sharing an IT infrastructure with larger hospitals in the same geographic area.

Assistant Professor Madhu Reddy, Associate Professor Sandeep Purao, and graduate student Mary Kelly conducted interviews with administrators at a regional hospital and three small, rural hospitals in central Pennsylvania.

The researchers said that the three smaller hospitals relied on the regional hospital to manage such things as software, laboratory information, and technical support.