Fiserv crosses Fortune 500 threshold
Fiserv, which reported $4.1 billion in annual revenue and earned $516 million in 2005, cracked the...Calcium Supplements May Not Be Useful After A Certain Threshold Is Achieved
According to The World Health Organisation one in three women and one in seven men will experience a fracture due to osteoporosis at some point after the age of 50.The recommended daily// intake of calcium for women aged between 18 and 50 years is 1000mg. Calcium, together with vitamin D is crucial for maintaining strong bones and helps in preventing brittle bone disease osteoporosis in later l...Gene determines pain threshold...
According to researchers, a gene determines people’s sensitivity to pain.In the study conducted on rats, the development// of chronic pain could be prevented by blocking the expression of that particular gene after a nerve injury or inflammation. This could be a breakthrough in development of new painkillers. "Studies in volunteers showed that about a quarter of them had the genetic v...Drug Firm on the Threshold of Developing Dengue Vaccine
A giant pharmaceutical firm is close to developing the world's first vaccine against dengue fever as Singapore and neighbouring countries battle outbreaks, a news report said Friday. Clinical tests on up to 3,000 people will begin by early next year in Thailand, said Jean Stephenne, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals president. "We've been working on the dengue vaccine with...