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Scientists Identify Broad Neural Response Behind Speech Reception

...ween four and eight cycles per second, changed its phase pattern with unique sensitivity and specificity in...t the brain discriminates speech by modulating the phase of the continuously generated theta wave in response to the incoming speech signal. They also note...

Roshan Announces Launch of Afghanistan's First Telemedicine Project

...hnology suppliers to launch the project. The first phase of the project has already linked FMIC in Kabul, Afghanistan to AKUH in Karachi Pakistan, enabling access to a broad array of radiology expertise provided by AKUH. Subsequent phases will link major Afghan regional hospitals to the FMIC, which is bein...

Neurological Disorder Gene Identified

...ntified form of the disease called CMT4J. In the phase of the research involving human patients, the multidisciplinary team of U-M scientists collaborated with scientists at Wayne State University and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The study also produced other intriguing findings: The signalin...

Modified Drug Therapy for Alzheimers Disease

...r Alzheimers disease.The drug has begun the first phase of clinical trials. Millions of people suffer f...uman clinical data by the end of 2007 and to begin phase II studies in Alzheimer's patients in 2008. The drug could be administered at any stage of the disea...

Ex-IITian-designed Alzheimer's Drug's Human Clinical Trials Begin

Purdue University researchers have begun the first phase of human clinical trials to test the efficacy of a...e end of 2007, and the researchers expect to begin phase II studies in Alzheimer's patients in 2008. In 2000, Professor Ghosh had built an inhibitor that ha...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

...nability. STEPS will partner Demos in the second phase of the Atlas of Ideas project, which is mapping changes in the global geography of science and innovation. Andrew Scott, policy director at charity Practical Action, also speaking at the launch, said: The STEPS centre will help us understand how we...

Novagali Pharma Presents Phase III Clinical Trial of Vekacia(R) for Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis

...halmology presents positive results of its pivotal phase III clinical trial positive results from the Phase... excellent. The study was designed as a clinical phase II/III, multicenter, randomized parallel group, double masked, dose ranging, controlled study divide...

Vaccine Ninety Percent Effective Against Cervical Cancer

...s. More than half of the women vaccinated in the phase III trials were from Finland, with the rest coming from 13 other countries, including many in the developing world, where 90 percent of new cases occur. "The vaccine is not therapeutic but prophylactic," Paavonen said by telephone, explaining that ...

UK to Support Third Phase of India's AIDS Control Programme

...16 Crore) over five years in support of the third phase of Government of India's (GOIs) National AIDS Control Programme (NACP III). The NACP III is a comprehensive prevention, care and support programme to halt and begin to reverse the AIDS epidemic in India by 2012. The announcement was made by Susann...

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

...ill have advanced three different indications into phase III trials that include some of the largest trial to date in both Parkinson's and Huntington's. "We are very encouraged by the results of our HD-02 trial and we believe that in conjunction with our collaborators at MGH, we have identified the optima...

VYVANSE(TM) Drug for the Treatment of ADHD in Adults

...e. Shire plans to announce full results from its phase III clinical trial for the treatment of ADHD in adults at a major scientific conference in Q4 2007. The FDA approved VYVANSE on February 23, 2007, to treat symptoms of ADHD in children aged 6 to 12. Additional information about VYVANSE and Full Pre...

New Virus Test Technology Experimented

...nology to detect epidemic diseases has entered the phase of clinical experiments, claimed a Chinese scientist . Different from traditional methods that rely on antigen or antibody test, the new technology is based on genetic substances of the viruses, namely DNA or RNA, to confirm epidemic diseases such ...

Spit Test Kit on the Cards to Ascertain Pre-eclampsia Risk

...n of pre-eclampsia. This test in its development phase in the United Kingdom, addresses the risks of pre-eclampsia in the initial stages itself so that repercussions on the health of both the mother and the baby can be averted. This test may not offer any cure for the condition apart from monitoring the ...

Diabetes Drug Dramatically Boosts Potency of Platinum Chemotherapy

...o be compared with standard chemotherapy in larger phase 2 and phase 3 trials involving many hundreds of patients. Rosizitaglone, sold under the name Avandia, enhances...

Inherited Genes Linked to Toxicity of Leukemia Therapy

...tic (liver), and neurologic toxicities during each phase of treatment. The three treatment phases were induction, the initial phase designed to cause remission of the cancer; consolidation, the follow-up after induction; and consoli...

Six Towns in India Selected for Eco-City Project

...van and Thanjavour have been selected in the pilot phase of the Eco-City Programme . The projects undertaken under the pilot phase of the Programme for the respective towns are under various stages of implementation. The Programme ...

Female Reproductive Function Influenced by Childhood Environment

... point to the period before puberty as a sensitive phase when changes in environmental conditions positively impact on key developmental stages. Put very simply, the female body seems to monitor its environment throughout childhood and before puberty, to gauge when and at what rate it will be best to matur...

Death and Disability from Brain Injury Reduced, Emory Researchers Report

...ical Treatment"), enrolled 100 participants. The phase II study was primarily designed to evaluate whethe...search team is now planning a large, multi-center, phase III clinical trial designed to test the effectiveness of progesterone in 1,000 patients with TBI. Th...

UC Regents Approve Fundraised Campaign for UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay

... $500 million toward the development of the first phase of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay. UCSF is p...ampus at Mission Bay. Upon completion of the first phase in 2014, the 865,000-plus-gross-square-foot hospital complex will include: A 183-bed childrens hos...

Bali Bombings Helped Improve Trauma Care

...ion to terrorist activity and they initiated a new phase of trauma response for public health services. "A national mental health response to mass trauma was established and this proved particularly useful to the Royal Darwin Hospital, which handled a large number of casualties from both bombings." Ano...

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