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Honeybee decision-making ability rivals any department committee

When 10,000 honeybees fly the coop to hunt for a new home, usually a tree cavity, they have a unique method of deciding which site is right: With great efficiency they narrow down the options and minimize their bad decisions. The Seeley group's study, which is pub...
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Wisconsin spaceport committee moves closer to formation

Mark Hanna, a city alderman, and Judy Schieble, co-director of an educational rocket program, will join s...

Thompson To Chair MDVIP Committee On Preventive Healthcare

MDVIP is a provider of personalized healthcare made up of a network of 82 physicians in 14 states. Member physicians limit their practices...

Finance Committee rejects extra tax on Internet buys

The Joint Finance Committee rejected Governor Jim Doyle's proposal for a 5 percent sales tax on Internet purchases on Tuesday. The proposal, a plan to charge consumers for their music, book, art, and movie purchases made online, was one of several proposals turned down by the budget review panel. After much debate, the committee rejected the proposed sales tax on electronic entertainment...

UN committee opposes human cloning

A United Nations panel has fired yet another salvo into the human-cloning battle, which was punctuated recently by the United Kingdom's decision to allow therapeutic researchers to grow cloned embryos with up to around 200 cells. In a divided vote, the United Nations' Legal Committee this week recommended that the General Assembly call on all member nations to "prohibit all forms of huma...

Merges Simon Elected to DICOM Standards Committee

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Avian Influenza: Government to set up expert committee

The Government in its determination to gear up to meet the avian flu threat, has decided to set up an expert committee to keep a close watch on bird flu cases and also to suggest preventive measures.// Animal Husbandry Secretary P M A Hakeem said "Though we have no cases of bird flu in the country, we want to take precautionary measures and the committee to be formed will include repres...

UK Committee Warns on Food Shortages Due to Flu Epidemic

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has issued a warning that if a bird flu pandemic were to hit Britain, there would be a severe shortage of food. // The Committe has called on ministers to step-up efforts to collaborate on an international level and has asked the Government to prepare alternative plans to combat an epidemic should the need arise. As staff continue to...

Valiathan Committee Seeks Documents from AIIMS

Setting in motion the process to review the functioning of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, the Centre's Expert Committee has sought details about the institute's rules and regulations. // The four-member committee, set up in the backdrop of the bitter row between Health Minister A Ramadoss and AIIMS chief P Venugopal, has sought deatils about the organisation, its various act...

Committee Set Up to Review Safety of CT Scans

The Department of Health (DoH) has set up a special healthcare committee to look into the safety of CT scans on healthy people.// The Department of Health has asked the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Radiation (COMARE) to look into the safety of the CT scans in preventative healthcare to ensure that the long-term benefits are greater than the risks attached to radiation exposur...

Government has Set up a Special Committee to Curb Polio Cases

The Indian government has set up a special committee to check cases of polio that have more than doubled since 2005.// Till the first week of August the country reported 155 cases, as against 66 last year. Most cases are from Uttar Pradesh, the country's most populous state. "The committee comprising doctors, health workers and health ministry officials will work in collabo...

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Statement by Philip Home Chairman of the RECORD Study Steering Committee and Professor of Diabetes Medicine at Newcastle University in England

"The editorials published by the NEJM are disappointing andmisleading in that they disregarded important pieces of data thatare extremely relevant to patients and physicians. Mostsignificantly the editorials ignored data that showed no evidenceof any increase in cardiovascular death or death from anycause."...

FDA Announces Change of Location Notice for Upcoming Advisory Committee Meeting

ROCKVILLE, Md., April 18, 2007--Due to water damage caused byflooding over the weekend, FDA has been forced to change thelocation for the upcoming Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committeemeeting on April 24, 2007 to discuss new drug application formaraviroc 300 milligram tablets. Originally scheduled to be held atthe FDA, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Advisory CommitteeConference Roo...

Isotechnika's independent data monitoring committee conducts review of phase 2b kidney transplant trial

- Company Set to Host Evening Symposium at ATC - EDMONTON, March 27 /CNW/ - Isotechnika Inc. announced today thatan independent data monitoring committee (DMC) has met and reviewedthe interim data from the Phase 2b kidney transplant (PROMISE)trial. The review included 3 month data from approximately 1/3 ofthe anticipated 332 patients to be enrolled. The DMC hasrecommended that...
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