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A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

..., and that effort has completely turned around the prospects of finding something that could eventually help our patients,” Dr. Younkin says. Now more than 100 mutations have been found in the three genes that cause early Alzheimer’s, and all increase production of AB42. Of the AB produced normally in human...

Contraceptive Spray Shows Positive Clinical Trial Result

...rea, which has further strengthened our commercial prospects in the global contraceptive market Richard Treagus said. Contact: Dr Richard Treagus, CEO & Managing Director +61 3 8379 0100 +61 417 520 509 richard.treagus@acrux.com.au...

A Savage Murderer in Canada Gets Sentenced to Life

... was no evidence of previous acts of violence, his prospects for rehabilitation were "remote" because he had long rejected any professional help, Minden said. Ross's mother Sharon Fortis, who cried and wiped away tears during the sentencing, called the sentence "bittersweet" and said it would do nothing to ...

China to "salvage" Reputation on Food, Drug Safety

... other Chinese officials were not so upbeat in the prospects of solving the problems. "China is in a time of serious food safety risks and our task of fixing this is extremely arduous. Despite some recent improvements, the food safety outlook is no cause for optimism," Sun Xianze, head of the administration'...

Illegal Immigrants Allowed To Stay A Year More To Care For Their Child

...ia San Franciscos Medical Center, the little girls prospects are now brighter after the procedure, though she would probably still require lifelong medical care. The U.S.-born girl's parents crossed the border illegally 17 years ago, and they had been ordered to surrender for deportation to Mexico by July 2...

Move To Ban Asbestos Welcomed

...ey do not want to risk endangering their political prospects in Quebec as a result of potential job losses created by any mine closures. Every year about a third of Saskatchewan workers who die from work-related causes die from asbestos-related diseases, says Anderson."This is really harmful stuff,'' he warn...

Mental Health of Children on the Decline

...ion to prevent mental health problems wrecking the prospects of a generation. Influenced by super models and celebrities to look like them, the number of children admitted to the hospital with eating disorders has, shot up to more than a third in the last 10 years. The study, based on a survey of nearly 8...

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...communities. Many have left the country for better prospects and like the computer technocrats command a good position in the society and are highly respected for their skills and care. The national doctors day is a celebration for all doctors from India be they in India or abroad. Profile: Dr.Makani ...

Negative Emotions Affect Old and Young Differently

...oney. They had to rate their own excitement at the prospects while their brain activity was monitored using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the online edition of New Scientist reported. However, when winning money, activity in the "emotion" area was the same regardless of age, says the study pu...

Junior Doctors Facing More Misery Because of Contract Deadlock: BMA

...he contract so that the money earmarked to improve prospects for SAS doctors disappears into the black hole of NHS finances. The problems with training reforms, combined with the mishandling of the new SAS contract, will create a rapidly expanding group of demoralised doctors who are deeply pessimistic about...

India is Uncorking Its Wine Market: Expert

...expansion of organised retail, India offers bright prospects to outside wine merchants....

Deep-sea Mining can Damage Marine Ecosystem

...dustry have a poor record of mining oversight. The prospects for regulation of underwater mining are not good,' said Prof. Halfar. A Canadian-based company is currently planning the worlds first commercial undersea exploration for high-grade gold and copper, targeting an area known as the Manus backarc basin...

AIDS Vaccine Still a Long Way Off

...tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, discusses prospects for an AIDS vaccine. He says while the ultimate goal is prevention, much like that for polio, smallpox and measles, combating the AIDS virus requires a non-traditional strategy in which a vaccine may not totally block infection, but could lower the l...

Implanting Electrodes in the Brain Could Help Treat Severe Depression

...icine in Baltimore, and his team are examining the prospects of deep brain stimulation, a therapy used to treat tremors associated with Parkinson's disease, to treat depression. The idea behind the study is to rearrange disordered neural activity in the brain in a parallel way to how a person might reboot a ...

Manmohan Singh to Meet UN Chief, Discuss Climate Change

...fied that it will not allow growth and development prospects in the developing world to be undermined or constrained at the cost of greenhouse emissions. India has blamed the "unsustainable production and consumption patterns" in the developed world for the problem of climate change. The Kyoto Protocol, the ...

India to Propose Global Fund for Clean Energy Technologies

... must be taken not to allow growth and development prospects in the developing world to be undermined or constrained," said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as he left for the Summit at the Baltic resort of Heiligendamm in Germany. "I will emphasise the need not to lose sight of the accepted principle of commo...

Dire Future Predicted for Europe's 4 Seas

...tion and in the case of the Baltic Sea; short-term prospects for reducing eutrophication are particularly bleak, said Prof. Laurence Mee, the project coordinator, and Director of the Marine Institute at the University of Plymouth. Prof. Mee said European political and economic landscape had witnessed unparal...

Junior Doctors Facing More Misery Because of Contract Deadlock: BMA

...he contract so that the money earmarked to improve prospects for SAS doctors disappears into the black hole of NHS finances. “The problems with training reforms, combined with the mishandling of the new SAS contract, will create a rapidly expanding group of demoralised doctors who are deeply pessimistic abou...

Negative Emotions Affect Old and Young Differently

...oney. They had to rate their own excitement at the prospects while their brain activity was monitored using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the online edition of New Scientist reported. However, when winning money, activity in the "emotion" area was the same regardless of age, says the study pu...

Scientists Explore ‘muscle’ in a New Drug to Assuage Muscular Dystrophy Symptos

...al trials so that we can see more clearly what the prospects and possible timescales are for treatment.” SV/V...

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