Supercomputers to focus brains on AIDS dilemma
More than two decades after it burst onto the scene, HIV/AIDS has claimed more than twenty million lives and continues to devastate societies around the world, particularly in Africa and other developing countries. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, after years of effort AIDS researchers succeeded in developing a class of drugs that proved to be highly effective against AIDS. By blocking the acti...Finding an answer to Darwin's Dilemma
The sudden appearance of large animal fossils more than 500 million years ago ?a problem that perplexed even Charles Darwin and is commonly known as "Darwin’s Dilemma" ?may be due to a huge increase of oxygen in the world’s oceans, says Queen’s paleontologist Guy Narbonne, an expert in the early evolution of animals and their ecosystems. In 2002, Dr. Narbonne and his research team found t...Enron's dilemma: A corporate governance nightmare
For example: Violating the wisdom of recommendations by governance reformers, Ken Lay served as CEO and Chairman of the Board.<...The new techie dilemma MBA or JD?
OK. I'm sure that's not really true. There was the ATT breakup and... and......Drug dilemma confronts users of painkillers
The Food and Drug Administration announced that Vioxx - Merck's blockbuster painkiller, would include new information on its label. The FDA said that Merck can claim that Vioxx has fewer gastrointestinal complications// than one older non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, naproxen. But the FDA also decided that the Vioxx label must mention that it might be linked to an increased risk of h...A ray of hope in Angioplasty dilemma
A new technique to keeping heart arteries flowing easily after angioplasty shows fantastic success in early testing, visibly solving a major weakness of the common procedure.Doctors released the longest follow up with the new technique - the drug-coated stent. In testing on 30 patients over three years, they found it to be 100 percent effective, an accomplishment almost unheard of in med...Elderly in Dilemma As Care Home Fees Surge in UK
Help the Aged charity in the UK has found that care home fees has increased by over 50 percent in the last five years in the UK//. But in the concurrent period basic state pension has risen by only 21.5 percent. The charity said that the care home fees is bound to jump by another 25 percent by the end of this month and fears that many elderly people will not be able to cope with such...Pope in Dilemma: To ban condoms or not
Pope Benedict XVI is in a dilemma; whether to preserve the Roman Catholic Church's "traditional ban on contraception or shift[ing] to a relative yes-sometimes //policy that gives us an effective weapon against AIDS -- but opens up church policy on contraception, abortion and infallibility to new challenges," according to Peter Boulay, former religious brother and editor of a Catholic news...