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Distinct Brain Sections Are Activated While Making Risky Decisions

... with a cash payout based upon whether or not they won their gambles. The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine which areas of the brain were activated while people were making risky or ambiguous choices. They found that activation of specific brain regions depended...

Campbell Decides To Boost Publicity about Prostate Cancer

...0,000 a year throughout the UK. Mr Campbell has won the support of 55 MPs and in association with the Prostate Cancer Charity planned to launch an Awareness Week. According to a National Audit Office many prostate cancer patients are unhappy with the range of treatment available. Last week research su...

Satyam Stops Conducting HIV Tests On Employees To Prevent Discrimination

...t and livelihood. The foundation, which recently won a corporate social responsibility award from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, has already taken up initiatives aimed at creating public awareness, especially among the youth. The foundation under its HIV awareness campaig...

Doctor Grilled In Court For False Report About Vioxx Health Risk

...ney who stands for Thomas Cona is the only who had won a case against Merck, last August. He enabled a Texas based widow, a user of Vioxx receive a multimillion-dollar jury award. Other similar trials that were taken up in the state and federal courts had ended up in favor of Merck. Rayburn was peppere...

Rice University wins Prestigious Grants from HHMI

...its exemplary teaching and research experience has won three highly covetous grants from Howard Hughes Medical Institute// (HHMI) to develop model programs for the country which can provide engineering and science undergraduate teaching with cutting-edge research. Professors Bonnie Bartel, the Ralph an...

Assam's Floating Hospital To Render Medical Services To Islanders

...unded by prize money from a World Bank competition won by C-NES volunteers and a group of grass-root boat-builders in 2004. With the India Country-level Development Marketplace award of $20,000 (Rs.900,000), Hazarika and other C-NES workers could realise their dream of treating the unreachable under-pr...

Women Win Legal Battle Over Treatment Of Breast Cancer

.... Ann Marie Rogers, a breast cancer patient, has won a landmark ruling that her local hospital acted unlawfully in refusing to supply her with a potentially life-saving treatment. Jeremy Hughes, the chief executive of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, welcoming the judgment, said that, it could be hoped tha...

Google Supports Indian's Novel Literacy Drive

...Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, has already won a sizeable grant from Development Marketplace, a global innovation competition conducted by the World Bank. At Stanford as a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow, he also launched PlanetRead to take SLS to other countries. "We also managed to spin off S...

Soaring Rates Of HIV Infection In Swaziland

...emic would continue to roll back progress and hard won gains. One of the important steps in restricting the spread of HIV/AIDS is educating the public, more specifically the at risk group about patterns of HIV transmission and other factors that aggravate the spread. Young women face an increased risk ...

Cure For Pompe Disease

... passing through a variety of tests and trails has won the federal approval to sell the drug in the market. Genzyme officials said that the dug Myozyme, would cost about $200,000 to $300,000 a year. The disease incidence is less than 10000 people and they are all grateful for Genzyme's drugs. Genzyme sa...

European Medicines Agency (EMEA) Recommends Herceptin For Early Stage Breast Cancer

...e in court. Ann Marie Rogers of Swindon, Wiltshire won a case earlier this month ruling forcing her local primary care trust to fund Herceptin. The news of Herceptin's approval by the EMEA was welcomed by charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer, "Not only does this confirm the drug's importance, it should als...

Vioxx Not Safe Even For Short Term Use

...ier, the attorney for the drug company has already won two out of the three trials. Canadian researchers analyzed health records of 114,000 patients ages 66 and older who were prescribed painkillers, including Vioxx, Celebrex and ibuprofen. The study followed patients for about two and a half years, inc...

Quest for bird flu vaccine in US

...tional ($40.97 million) and Solvay Pharmaceuticals won $298.59 million. The companies will work to develop cell based-vaccines to fight seasonal influenza or a pandemic strain. The interesting fact is that the new vaccines will be grown in labs in batches of cells called cell cultures and not on older,...

Nobel Laureate Finds an Alternate Way to Manufacture Anti-Flu Drug

...is now taking up most of the crop. Professor Corey won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1990 for his successes in devising lab-bench approaches to synthesizing natural compounds. He used an old approach were mixtures of the useful and useless forms of complex molecules are formed, and then separated late...

Second Android Developed By Koreans

... female in her early 20s. Baeg invested 3 billion won in a time period of 12 months and developed EveR-1. He plans to make a few changes by the end of this year so that she can move four limbs. As of EveR-1 can be employed as a guide robot at museums and department stores or as an educational model to r...

Bird Flu: Fact or Fiction

...vie's stressing of the importance of planning also won acclaim from the department. Hollywood has broug...vie's stressing of the importance of planning also won acclaim from the department. ...

Women With Breast Cancer Can Now USE IVF To Spare Their Daughters

...rd gene that predisposes to bowel cancer, has also won the backing of the watchdog’s ethics and law commi...The Times had in 2004 disclosed that Mr Serhal had won the first HFEA licence to screen embryos for a form of bowel tumour that affects 90% of those who in...

NHS to fund Herceptin treatment for Stuart weaver

... British man, Stuart Weaver who filed the case and won it. He was told that his local NHS trust would fund for his treatment with Herceptin. Maidstone Weald Primary Care Trust said that they have agreed only after reviewing his age, clinical needs and advice from his medical consultants. He is 37 years...

Long Patient Waiting Times Force NHS Patients To Seek Treatment Abroad

...et treated// for their ailments. Recently, a woman won the right to claim compensation from the NHS for a hip replacement surgery done abroad. In yet another case, a 63-year-old British woman who traveled elsewhere gave birth to a baby, after prenatal diagnostic tests confirmed absence of any genetic dis...

Eminent Doctors In UK Wants The NHS To Abandon Alternative Medicines:

...gnatories to the letter were, Sir James Black, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988, Sir Keith Peters, president of the Academy of Medical Science, and, according to the Times, six fellows of the Royal Society. Bob Ward a spokesman for the Royal Society said yesterday that the society had not org...

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