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Radical Idea of Implanting Tiny Electrodes to the Deaf

.... Through its Office of Technology Transfer, it is seeking a commercialization partner to assist in bringing the technology to market....

China Turning Tables on the US on Food Import

...official said the Food and Drug Administration was seeking more information from its Chinese counterparts, in...ction, Dr. David Acheson, said U.S. officials were seeking more information. Whatever the motives are for this, if it's real, we want to know about it," Acheso...

Transplant Patient Gets a New Lease of Life

...es seeks to close the gap between donors and those seeking organs, but many doctors and hospital ethicists are concerned about issues surrounding an increasingly used procedure to curb the shortage called donation after cardiac death. In the first donation after cardiac death organs were taken after the pa...

Chandigarh to Become India's First Smoke-free City

...etitions under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, seeking the status of the implementation of a 2003 legislation banning smoking at public places. "In the 1980s and 90s, terrorists in Punjab had demanded a complete ban on smoking in the state and Chandigarh. They even terrorized people with bullets and gu...

Own Up and Pay Up, Nigerian Party Tells Pfizer

...t month by Kano, Nigeria's largest state, which is seeking 2.75 billion dollars from the pharmaceutical giant. Pfizer has denied the charges lodged against it by Kano state....

US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

...vere reactions. About 35 percent of soldiers are seeking some kind of mental health treatment a year after returning home under a program that screens returning troops for physical and mental health. Only three days ago a study revealed former soldiers were twice as likely to commit suicide as people who...

Japanese Flower Art Helps Calm a Frantic Moscow

...aring the ancient secrets of Ikebana with students seeking refuge from the frantic pace of the booming capital. "The city drains your energy and this creativity revives you. It allows you to defend yourself, to become a normal person again," said Dina Gorodetskaya, 47, a student at a Moscow school. Popula...

45 Day Jail Sentence for Paris Hilton

...in which the prosecutors argued that Ms Hilton was seeking to be placed above law. Her defense lawyers said that this harsh treated was meted to her because of her celebrity status. Ms. Hilton apologized saying “"I'm very sorry and from now on I'm going to pay complete attention to everything. I'm sorry an...

New Critical Path Report Highlights Research Needed to Foster Generic Drug Development

... development issues and to alternative methods for seeking waivers from clinical bioequivalence studies. Last year FDA issued the Critical Path Opportunities Report listing 76 specific scientific projects that, if undertaken, would help modernize the Critical Path sciences. This companion document focuses ...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

NIH's National Eye Institute is seeking to raise glaucoma awareness among Mexican-Americans, who have a higher risk for// the disease than others, the Casa Grande Valley Dispatch reports. Mexican-Americans over age 60, blacks over age 40 and people with a family history of glaucoma all ...

Study Focus on Environmental Hazards Posed by IT Scraps

...t the material is burned. Many manufacturers are seeking to lure customers with promises of computers produced in more environmentally friendly ways. Fujitsu-Siemens is offering a "Green PC," for example: "We've calculated that we require roughly 25 fewer sacks of coal to produce it than are needed for a t...

Mailing Pamphlets can Reduce Alcohol Consumption

...inkers screened in clinics and hospitals or people seeking specialized counseling and alcohol rehabilitation treatment. “While these are important target groups, university students only represent a small fraction of drinkers in the general population who engage in heavy alcohol consumption and get into pr...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

NIH's National Eye Institute is seeking to raise glaucoma awareness among Mexican-Americans,// who have a higher risk for the disease than others, the Casa Grande Valley Dispatch reports. Mexican-Americans over age 60, blacks over age 40 and people with a family history of glaucoma all ...

Numerous Defense Personnel Granted Early Retirement Due to Mental Illness

... Antony, the main reasons identified for personnel seeking premature retirement were supersession in promotion, or being placed in a permanently low medical category. This apart, early retirement was sought on compassionate grounds such as to look after ailing parents/children/siblings, or to look after an...

No-scalpel Vasectomies by Skilled Surgeons may Speed Recovery

...of skill. One of the most important issues for men seeking a vasectomy is the experience of the surgeon with that particular method." "The no-scalpel vasectomy is much more difficult to learn than the conventional one and requires more hands-on training," said Dr. Marc Goldstein, executive director of the...

UK Mental Health Reforms Will Do More Harm Than Good, Critics Warn

...tal health services, even when they're desperately seeking help, and no amount of legislation will change this.' The new bill would also enable the authorities to detain people with personality disorders who have not committed a crime. The government's contention is that every year around 55 to 60 murder...

Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Saves Men's Lives

...der and sicker spouse or live alone … they are not seeking medical help or keeping their medical appointments as vigorously as their male counterparts do." Source-Eurekalert ED/V...

Ever-Controversial Mental Health Act To Be Decided Upon

...ed within the bill will be a deterrent to patients seeking treatment from such institutions. Liberal Democrats critics have condemned in particular, the clauses that call for the forcible detainment of mental health patients, even if they have not committed a crime in view of them being a threat to society. ...

Military Healthcare Lacks Compassion, Say US Soldiers

...yland. But he said he had often been frustrated in seeking care at Walter Reed. "It was rare that I ever saw the same doctor," Ramos reported. "I constantly had to re-explain my symptoms and medical history." Moreover, Ramos said, the transition from Walter Reed to the Department of Veterans Affairs (...

Bill Clinton Says US Healthcare System Immoral

...debate on health care, his wife, Hillary Clinton, seeking Democratic nomination, declared, “We’re going to have universal health care when I’m president — there’s no doubt about that. We’re going to get it done.” In reference to her failed effort to establish a universal health insurance system in 1994...

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