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Scientists Identify Broad Neural Response Behind Speech Reception

... of the journal Neuron, David Poeppel and Huan Luo report that the inherent rhythm of neural activity called "theta band" specifically reacts to spoken sentences by changing its phase. The researchers also note that the natural oscillation of this frequency provides further evidence that the brain samples...

Dozens of Panamanians Gravely Ill from Toxic Substance from China

...e many people who died but whose relatives did not report the case," said Herrera. The latest fatality was Blasina de Saavedra who died two weeks ago, eight months after consuming a contaminated cough syrup. The director of Panama's Social Security Fund (SSF) was arrested earlier this month after 14 medicin...

Challenges in Entecavir Drug Treatment

According to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine,treating he... in the Siliciano laboratory. The groups initial report of the findings in February, 2007, at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections le...

Tamil Nadu Orders Probe into Operation by Minor

... of the IMA then held an urgent meeting and sent a report to the IMA committee in Chennai demanding action a... he has ordered an inquiry into the incident. "The report will be available later this week and strict action will be taken". Murugesan later retracted his ...

Uttar Pradesh to Declare Revised Medical Entrance Results

... Thursday. The government will also announce the report submitted by a specially constituted nine-member technical committee that suggested reassessment of the result. About 84,000 candidates had taken the Combined Pre-Medical Test (CPMT) to different medical colleges in the state, having nearly 1,600 s...

Australian PM Says No to Same-sex Marriage

... Australian public want it that way," he said. A report by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Community on entitlements for same sex couples is expected to be released Friday....

WTC Neighborhood Residents Misled on Extent of Contamination

...of the Bush administration over WTC bombing, a new report admits that officials had misled people living in...Environmental Protection Agency did not accurately report the results of a residential cleanup program in 2002 and 2003. More than 4,000 apartments in Lowe...

Video Game Addiction to Be Termed as a Medical Condition

...omplete and thorough data, Gallagher said. An AMA report notes that the heaviest game players are those who play MMORPGs massive multiplayer online role-playing games such as World of Warcraft. And those players, says the AMA, are more likely to be socially isolated and probably addicted. Up to 90 perce...

Questions Over Drugs to Prevent Heart Complications During Surgery

...any beneficial effects. However, all studies did report significantly higher rates of important side effects with blockers, including slow heart beat (bradycardia) and very low blood pressure (hypotension). This has led to calls to examine the widespread use of perioperative blocking drugs. Like bloc...

New York Records Decline in Smoking Rate

...ers to kick the habit. The statistics in the 2006 report shows a decline in the smoking rate by 20%, in com...n aimed at prompting more smokers to quit. The new report is available online at www.cdc.gov/mmwr/. Beginning in 2002, and after a decade with no progress, N...

Research Studies on Molecular Switches of Gene

...emistry at St. Jude. Brindle is senior author of a report on this work that appears in the June 20 issue of The EMBO Journal. CREB is like a plumber who turns on the water flow in a pipe system by using a certain tool, Brindle said. What we discovered is that the CREB plumber requires different tools to t...

Imphal Hosts Cycle Rally to Spread Drug Abuse Awareness

...n June 26. A Manipur Aids Control Society (MACS) report released in 2004 stated that 370 deaths and 2,600 ...g to the United Nations Narcotics Control strategy report there are overa million opiate users in India. Traffickers have little difficulty in converting op...

One Fifth of Timor Needs Food Assistance: UN Report

...he population in need of food assistance , says a report issued today by the United Nations Food and Agricu...rough international food assistance. The FAO/WFP report also noted that the severe food crisis earlier this year, with commodity price hikes and the virtual...

Chikungunya Spreads as Funds Remain Unspent

...sked the respective states to submit a utilisation report within a week or so," he said. However, the minister promised not to withdraw the funds. "They have been instructed to spend it as soon as possible," Ramadoss told IANS. The minister said that the central government has allocated a sum of Rs. 200...

Iraq's Orphans Left to the Kindness of Strangers

...rthwest Baghdad last week, according to a CBS News report broadcast on Monday. "They saw multiple bodies laying on the floor of the facility," Staff Sergeant Mitchell Gibson of the 82nd Airborne Division told CBS News. "They thought they were all dead." Inside the government-run facility, the American and...

Four Percent of American Adults Never Had Sex

...lower percentage than any other ethnic group. The report also said 16 percent of adults first had sex before the age of 15, while 15 percent abstained from sex until age 21 or older. The data was compiled between 1999 and 2002, the Atlanta-based CDC said....

US Observers Concerned Over Increasingly Permissive Atmosphere

...ey found Mexican-Americans were the most likely to report never having had any form of sex, with 24 percent of men and 45 percent of women in that group claiming to be virgins. For all men, the median number of sexual partners was 6.8. "If you ask women, it is less -- it is 3.7," Porter said. A histor...

Stem Cells Aid in Hearing Recovery

...recovery in untreated animals. This is the first report to demonstrate hearing recovery following stem cell transplantation into the inner ear. Cell therapy targeting regeneration of the cochlear fibrocytes may therefore be a powerful strategy to cure sensorineural hearing loss that cannot be reversed by ...

Australian Government Charged With Under-funding Public Hospitals

...John Howard, is also in similar difficulties. A report of the Caring For Our Health, released Sunday, cha...That means 350,000 hospital admissions less. The report was prepared jointly by Australia's six state and two territory Labor health ministers. It also fo...

BMA Scotland Publishes Plan to Tackle Scotland's Drink Problem

...kills six people every day in Scotland and doctors report an increase in the number of young people presenting to the NHS with serious illness resulting from alcohol misuse. Drinking in moderation can be a source of pleasure however the effect of excessive alcohol consumption on our health and the related...

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