Toronto, July 27 : New computer software scheduled for testing at Toronto''s Hospital for Sick Children may prove effective in saving the lives of premature babies, and take neonatal care to a new level, say researchers.

Experts from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology will lead the trial of the IBM software, with the goal of helping doctors make better decisions about treatment at a faster pace.

The existing technique requires babies to be connected to monitors that provide a variety of data on paper and onscreen, and the information is only stored for up to 24 hours and then discarded.

Kabul- Canada is to send more troops to Afghanistan in order to support fight against corruption, drug trafficking, good governance and reconstruct process, visiting Canadian Foreign Minister David Emerson said Saturday.

Speaking in a joint press conference with Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta in Kabul, the Canadian minister however did not set a timetable for the sending of troops to Afghanistan but said, "Canada was asking other partners to increase their troops commitment. Canada has had 2,500 troops here in Afghanistan and that number could expand to 2,700."

Montreal (Canada), July 26 : A seventeen member Pakistani delegation is among dozens of activists from developing countries who have been denied temporary visas into Canada, and thus will not the World Youth Congress being held in Quebec.

Organisers of the event said the activists failed to convince immigration officials that they would leave the country after the event ends.

The World Youth Congress runs from August 10 to August 21, reports the Globe and Mail.

San Francisco - Seven US West Coast states and four Canadian provinces are to introduce a market-based emissions-trading scheme aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions, news reports said Thursday.

The Western Climate Initiative - comprised of the US states of California, Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Oregon and Washington and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec - released a draft proposal for the programme Wednesday, the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper said.

Trading was to officially start in 2012.

The initiative was launched in February 2007 with the aim of dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions on a regional level by 15 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020.

Amblyopia, more commonly known as ‘lazy-eye’ is the related to the eyes, where one eye is weaker than the other, and thus lead to poor vision among the patient.