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Sanitation Emerges as the Winner

...cal Journal.//Sanitation and the flushing lavatory won the race with 1795 votes. The discovery of antibiotics came as a close second with 1642 votes. Fifteen discoveries were short listed which included vaccines, anesthesia, antibiotics and DNA. While doctors considered the discovery of anesthesia to b...

Nobel Prize and Lifespan

...searchers with 524 scientists. Among these 135 had won a Nobel Prize. The average lifespan of these 52...rchers concluded that amount of actual prize money won by the winners and their longevity were not related. The fame and the status conferred on a scientis...

Cancer Scientists' Gene Research Offers New Treatment Hope

...Craig Mello, from the University of Massachusetts, won last year's Nobel Prize in medicine. Source-Bio-Bio Technology SR...

Benefits of Carbon Monoxide

...rtment of Chemistry at the University of York have won a grant of ￡110,000 to investigate potential uses of carbon// monoxide in treating disease. The Scientists have been awarded the funding by the Leverhulme Trust for a three-year study into the use of metal compounds for the controlled release of ca...

Oral Flu Vaccine On The Horizon In Russia

...n more complicated. Earlier this month the company won US approval to sell a new formulation that only needs refrigeration, and MedImmune is hopeful this will kickstart sales. It sold 1.7 million doses of FluMist in the first nine months of 2006, bringing in $18 million in revenues. Now, the Russian s...

NIMH Studies Woman’s Hormonal Cycl

...ry phase. When they hit the jackpot and actually won a reward, women in the pre-ovulatory phase activated the striatum and circuit areas linked to pleasure and reward more than when in the post-ovulatory phase. The researchers also confirmed that the reward-related brain activity was directly linked...

Is Extreme Irritability - a Childhood Bipolar Disorder?

...task repeatedly; each time they did the task, they won or lost 10 cents. The task was frustrating because the children often lost money. The researchers found that while both the children with BD and those with SMD became more frustrated than did healthy children performing the same task, the brain me...

Cancer Patient Wins Lottery

...s, New York who was diagnosed with lung cancer has won $ 1 million in a lottery. Wayne Schenk who is a fo... eighteen months of life. At this juncture, he has won this lottery. But the irony that is accompanying this lottery win is that he would be paid $50,000 i...

Swedish Biotech Licenses HIV Drug to China for Development

... It is the first time that a Chinese company has won the global rights to develop an HIV product. Prof. Oberg said that Medivir will retain the right to commercialise or license any developments that result from the partnership for the rest of the world. Medivir is also involved in two other develop...

Cancer-virus Vaccine Targets Wrong Age Group

...ardasil, the lone HPV vaccine on the market, which won approval from the Food and Drug Administration in June. But that hadn't impeded its lobbying efforts. Legislators in at least 20 states and cities, including Virginia and the District of Columbia, are considering HPV vaccinations for girls 11 to 13 a...

Hearing Impaired Student Captures International Performance Award

...lassical piano despite a loss of hearing, recently won the 2007 International Young Soloists//Award given by VSA arts. The international, nonprofit organization was founded in 1974 by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where all people with disabilities learn through, participate in and ...

Sania Mirza Admitted for Treatment of Knee Injury

...he first round match at the Qatar Open Feb 26. She won the match. The 20-year-old was brought to the hospital Friday with pain and swelling in the joint. Physical examination and an MRI indicated an ACL injury. She was admitted to the hospital for further evaluation Saturday morning. "This examinatio...

British Indian Doctors Win Another Reprieve

Doctors of Indian origin have won yet another reprieve in the ongoing recruitment to...for the injunction. "We were sure we would have won if the case had been heard. We are pleased that the Department of Health has conceded and we hope th...

Unique Savings Scheme Aids Sex Workers

...or the 'Queen of Tomorrow'. Stunned that she had won the best-saver award, Muniamma from Dharmapuri district said: "I never dreamt that I would win the award with the small amounts of money I set aside. But now I find that my efforts have yielded results." Explained Jayashree, TAI's communication off...

Educational Video Increases Knowledge but Not Behavior

...ntain independence. The video, which eventually won the 2003 Telly Award, also featured a virtual home to which adaptations were made and an educational section on the AMD process itself. To determine the impact of the video, the research team divided 151 low vision patients into two groups—those (t...

After the King’s Crown, Maoist Want Miss Nepal’s Cron

...career by lifting the Miss Nepal 2007 crown. She won over 18 other finalists as well as scores of Maois...opinion." The five-seven-and-a-half leggy beauty won the contest due to her quick wit. Asked during one of the preliminary rounds, which role she consi...

India’s Biotech Companies- Jumbos Waiting to Gro

...while, it is well known that India’s IT firms have won market share in everything from data analysis to call centers. Says Singer: "At the moment we think of biotech in India as the baby elephant where information technology is the adult elephant. But that baby elephant is going to grow. "Any biotec...

Kiss a Chocolate and Tell

...he race between the chocolate and kiss, the former won hands down. Both men and women portrayed similar response to the tests. Neurophysiologist Dr David Lewis, who led the study, was quite surprised with these findings. He said “These results really surprised and intrigued us. While we fully expected ...

Top UK Surgeon Who Loved Himalayas is Dead

...1913, Roaf spent his early childhood in London and won a scholarship to Winchester College at the age of 13 and received a further scholarship in 1931 to Balliol College, Oxford, to study physiology and biochemistry. In 1934 Roaf's parents moved from London to Liverpool where he finished his studies. I...

Two Indians on Team to Battle Cervical Cancer

A US-based team, with two Indians on board, has won $100,000 in funding at the Duke University's CUREs competition to develop a device to facilitate// cervical cancer prevention in poorer parts of the planet. The device, cerviScope, is a portable colposcope - an electric microscope that gives an ill...

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