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Merck in the Dock Due To Vioxx

...he Vioxx case takes a bad turn when the Texas jury awarded $32 million for the family of a 71-year-old man wh... against Vioxx maker Merck & Co. Inc. The jury awarded Leonel Garza's family $7 million in compensatory damages for mental anguish and personal loss and $2...

Google Supports Indian's Novel Literacy Drive

...ctive, sustainable, and scalable". The Foundation awarded Kothari's PlanetRead website (www.planetread.org) a grant to increase the number of same-language subtitling programmes available. Google is also supporting PlanetRead with free advertising through the Google Grants programme and content hosting o...

Nanotechnology at its best: Nanomotors And Mechanical Nanoswitches

...pringer Prize for Applied Physics for 2006 will be awarded to Dr. Viola Vogel for her creative and pioneering work on bionanotechnology exploring single molecule mechanics and nanomotors for technical applications. Engineering principles of biological nanosystems for the development of new technologies has...

Developer Of Vaccine For Cancer Granted A Prestigious Fellowship

...zer of the University of Queensland (UQ), has been awarded the Smart State Premier's Fellowship. The prestigious Fellowship comes on top// of his recent Australian of the Year award for his work in developing a vaccine for cervical cancer. Under the Smart State Premier's Fellowship, Professor Ian Frazer will...

Rice University wins Prestigious Grants from HHMI

... program is evident from the fact that it has been awarded three times of the entire 40-award span of the program. The aim of the HHMI Professor program is to invigorate teaching in science and engineering with the help of laboratory research. Professor Bartel's has undertaken "From Reading to Research: ...

First Gene Therapy Human Trial For Muscular Dystrophy In Progress

...uly 2004, the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) awarded $1.6 million to AskBio to develop gene therapy strategies for DMD. Following extensive laboratory toxicity experiments required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration demonstrating that minidystrophin gene transfer was unlikely to harm and could...

Nanotechnology Promises Huge Medical Benefits

...ial mention for his work in the field. He has been awarded the most prestigious fellowship conferred by the Optical Society of America, a premier institution that promotes research in the field of optics and photonics. The work of Baumberg and numerous other researchers is directed at the production of dev...

Treat Spondylitis With Keyhole Surgery

...ard procedures. The central commerce ministry has awarded a patent for the instrument, which facilitates a small hole near the neck to correct a prolapsed disk or provide relief to a patient of acute spondylitis....

New Device Developed For Treating Cervical Spondylitis

...ctised so far. The central commerce ministry has awarded a patent for the instrument, which facilitates a small hole near the neck to correct a prolapsed disk or provide relief to a patient of acute spondylitis. "The production of this instrument has been undertaken by a well known private manufacturer a...

John Mendelsohn M.D, chosen for an International Award

...and path breaking. "It is a tremendous honor to be awarded the Dan David Prize," Mendelsohn says. "It's espec...apy and according to the foundation, Mendelson was awarded the prize for “pioneering the rapidly developing field of antibody-mediated cancer therapy in genera...

A Protein In Yoghurt Has The Potential To Fight E. coli

...Mucosal Biology Research Center. Fasano has been awarded a patent for the protein, although it is officially owned by the University of Maryland, reported the online edition of Baltimore Sun. The student happened to notice an unusual ingredient lactobacillus in yoghurt. She obtained - through her father...

Vaccine For Bird Flu May Not Be Effective

...ce which company among those who tendered has been awarded the contract. Researchers led by Yi Guan, of Shantou University, China, who studied the avian flu in China and South East Asia said that the diversity of the viruses are such that the vaccine may be fruitless, reported Times Online. Bird flu has k...

Prevention of lethal diseases by vaccines

...d prostate cancer. Professor Ian Frazer who been awarded Australian of the Year, unveiled the world's first cancer vaccine against cervical cancer, and genital warts. Then after a week vaccines to combat these two deadly diseases have been developed and is under trial. The malaria vaccine was develop...

Art Attack: Doodling For a Cause!

...will preside as the judge and certificates will be awarded among different age categories. Winners’ work will find a place in the hall of fame chapter on the National doodle day website. Famous personalities from multi-faceted spheres are part of this campaign - Big Brother housemate, Rula Lenska; comedian...

Detecting Epidemics using statistics

...nces, one of the National Institutes of Health has awarded the $3 million, five-year award of national Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) grants to // the Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care-led research team. The goal of this project is to develop powerful mathematical a...

Personalized Treatments For Obesity Planned

...University of Navarra's Ana Anton Solanas has been awarded a fellowship for conducting basic research by the Danone Institute. This will enable Ana Antón Solanas to collaborate in a program// aimed at defining individualized treatments for various types of obesity. This will also enable her to take part in a...

RPB grants $7.9 Million Towards Research

...ntary health organization supporting eye research, awarded 81 grants, totaling more than $7.9 million in 2005.// The RPB seeks to contribute towards more effective clues with regard to ailments that afflict the eye, according to its President Diane S. Swift. The laboratories which are supported by the RPB...

New Treat And Teach Program To Modernize Dental Services in Scotland

...fic areas of Scotland. Another ￡4.5m would soon be awarded towards the reimbursement of rent and allowances for the dental practitioners, committed to the NHS. Dr. Andrew Lamb, Director, British Dental Association for Scotland has welcomed the move and expressed hope that it would encourage hospitals, heal...

US Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science

...y the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., annually awarded for noteworthy and distinguished accomplishment in...al and a prize of $ 25,000. Gibbs Brothers Medal, awarded every three years for outstanding contribution to naval architecture and marine engineering, goes to...

Distinguished Scientist Award Conferred on University of Rochester Scientists for Work on Preventing Cavities

...D.D.S., Ph.D., and Robert Marquis, Ph.D. have been awarded the Distinguished Scientist Award by the International Association of Dental Research. Both are Both Koo and Marquis are researchers at the University of Rochester's Center for Oral Biology.// Koo is an oral biologist and Marquis is a microbiologis...

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