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Rorting Health Practioners Busted

... tougher rules. The report also warned that the movement of corporations into general practice was creating new problems. There was potential for "negative corporate influence" to encourage GPs to make unnecessary referrals to their other services by giving performance pay and bonuses, the report said and ...

Palestinian Rival Leader Claims That Arafat Died of AIDS

...ague, which had been imposed upon them. The Fatah movement now has an opportunity to renew itself." A spokesman at the Palestinian Authority in Washington declined to comment on Jibril's claim. One senior Palestinian diplomat said Jibril never liked Arafat, so "whatever he says about him is questionable." ...

Ex-CIA Official Accuses Retired ISI Chief of Supporting Taliban

...n had quoted Gul as saying, "I morally support the movement to end the American occupation of Afghanistan. But there is no physical dimension to it, no hidden agenda"....

Risk of Water Intoxication in Endurance Athletes

...nt of stuff dissolved in them, and keeping the net movement of water across cell membranes to a minimum. In the case when you have, for example, maybe ingested a pound of rock salt or five gallons of tap water, its not hard to imagine this delicate balance being thrown entirely out of balance. In the latter c...

Moon, Venus Pair Up, Play Hide-and-seek

...dozen amateur astronomers, explained the planetary movement to those gathered at Jantar Mantar, the 18th century astronomical observatory in the heart of the capital. 'Though the lunar occultation is not a rarest of the rare event yet it's beautiful,' said Nehru Planetarium director R. Rathnasree. Elabora...

Advanced Cancer Patients Have Sleep Disorders

...is age group such as sleep apnea and periodic limb movement disorder....

Research in the Origin of Microtubules

... to a novel cellular mechanism that may guide cell movement and possibly cancer cell invasion. Microtubules ar... facilitating the transport of proteins needed for movement to the cell front. "This new microtubule subset that we discovered directly connects the Golgi to ...

Urate Reduces the Risk of Parkinsons Disease

...rio, along with co-author Michael Schwarzschild, a movement disorder specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and colleagues at the Parkinson Study Group, a collaborative group of Parkinson's disease researchers from the U.S. and Canada, accessed the databases of two large, randomized studies conducted a...

High Urate Levels in Blood Linked to Reduced Parkinson's Risk

...or author of the study and Michael Schwarzschild a movement disorder specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital then followed up on this clue and accessed the databases of two large, randomized studies conducted among patients with early Parkinson's disease. The preliminary results, presented in abstract ...

Genetic Cause of Inherited Eye Diseases Identified

...on of the proteins of a mammalian cilium used for movement and sensing has been determined. We want to und...etic diseases. They are commonly used by cells for movement or sensory purposes, and, in many cases with mammals, have been thought to be remnants of evolution ...

Gene Therapy for Parkinsons Disease

...ix, a New Jersey-based company. Parkinson's is a movement disorder caused by a progressive depletion of the brain chemical dopamine in the substantia nigra. These dopamine-containing cells control movement. When 70 to 80 percent of these cells are destroyed, a person develops the first symptoms of disease: ...

Sixteen-year-old UK Girl Demands Right to Wear 'purity Ring'

...d Lydia's band - a symbol of the Silver Ring Thing movement launched in the United States in 1996 - broke uniform rules about the wearing of jewellery and threatened to expel her unless she removed it. In a written statement submitted to Deputy Judge Michael Supperstone QC, Lydia, whose case is being backed ...

Iraq's Orphans Left to the Kindness of Strangers

...m in northeast Baghdad controlled by the political movement of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Husham Hassan, 37, cares for around 30 orphans in a home funded by private donations. Prior to opening the "Safety House," Hassan worked for another private organisation established in 2003 to care for Baghdad's or...

Northern Forests Less Effective Than Tropical Forests in Reducing Global Warming

...ements, they had failed to accurately simulate the movement of carbon dioxide vertically in the atmosphere. The computer models tended to move too much carbon dioxide down toward ground level in the summer, when growing trees and other plants take in the gas, and not enough carbon dioxide up from ground lev...

Insecurity Jepardising WFP Initiatives in Western Afghanistan

...four weeks due to insecurity. Unless we can resume movement along the southern ring road soon, we will run out of food in the west in the coming weeks, and will have to reduce or suspend distributions to many of the poor families, children and internally displaced people living in those areas," said Rick Cors...

Car Sickness for the Little Ones can Be Prevented

...eyes see and the ears interpret as there is little movement of the objects apart from coming towards you. Here...ify the nauseating sense of disconnection from the movement outside. Better bets: listening to music or books on tape or engaging in old-fashioned conversation...

Georgia may Lose Most Pigs to Swine Fever: FAO

...ine fever. "However, due to the probably ongoing movement of pigs and pig products between Georgia and neighbouring countries, spread of the virus can not be excluded," it added. The FAO said 52 of Georgia's 65 districts were suspected of being affected by swine fever by mid-June, and more than 30,000 pig...

Avicena to Advance Huntington's Disease Clinical Program into Phase III

...ant neuroprotective effects such as improved motor movement and increased survival rate. Avicena intends to collaborate with Dr. Hersch and the Huntington Study Group to initiate a Phase III trial in early 2008 following completion of a chronic toxicology study that is currently underway....

Loss of Antenna Leads to Cancer in Insects

...ed that HEF1 has a role in controlling normal cell movement and tumor cell invasion. Golemis laboratory has also shown that Aurora A and HEF1 interact to initiate mitosis (chromosome separation) during cell division. Suggestively, many cancers produce too much of the Aurora A protein, including breast and c...

IVF Tourism Marred by Ethical Differences in EU

...aid for donating their eggs. But he said that this movement was not problematic as it allows a degree of individual freedom for individuals: 'There is no unified European culture and no consensus on substantive human values', he said, adding that the implication would be that 'European decisions would have th...

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