Archive: 07/17/2008
Raw deal for foreign brides in Taiwan: study
More than a quarter of a million women have been sold as wives and baby-makers in South East Asia, but they are getting a raw deal in health care and social inclusion.
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Breakthrough in the fight against deadly superbug
(PhysOrg.com) -- The week the government's chief medical officer for England, Sir Liam Donaldson, has announced that the NHS aims to create immunisation against two of the most common superbugs, MRSA and Clostridium ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Molecular Hula Hoop: Spinning motion of a molecular rotor detected
(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans have long been trying to make the dream of nanoscopic robots come true. The dream is, in fact, taking on some aspects of reality. Nanoscience has produced components for molecular-scale ...
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Insight into mechanisms of diabetes-induced microvascular disease reveals new therapies
New findings from Bristol scientists could lead to future treatments to prevent lower limb amputations in diabetes - which currently affect 100 people a week in the UK (source Diabetes UK).
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Drug lowers body's 'set point' to control hyperparathyroidism in dialysis patients
A medication called cinacalcet—an important part of treatment to control high levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in patients receiving dialysis for end-stage renal disease (ESRD)—works by resetting the balance between calcium ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 17, 2008 |
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First worldwide analysis of cancer survival finds wide variation between countries
Cancer survival varies widely between countries according to a worldwide study published online today in Lancet Oncology.* More than 100 investigators contributed to the study.
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Categories help us make happier choices
Most of us have stood in a supermarket aisle, overwhelmed with the array of choices. Making those choices is easier if the options are categorized, according to new research in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Drugs industry protecting 'morally unacceptable' patent system
Major drugs companies are using fierce lobbying tactics to protect a pharmaceutical patent system that is "simply morally unacceptable", a world-leading political philosopher will tell a major meeting of UK and European pharmacologists ...
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Fuel from food waste: bacteria provide power
Researchers have combined the efforts of two kinds of bacteria to produce hydrogen in a bioreactor, with the product from one providing food for the other. According to an article in the August issue of Microbiology Today, this t ...
Biology /
Jul 17, 2008 |
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New model explains why we overestimate our future choices
When people make choices for future consumption, they select a wider variety than when they plan to immediately consume the products. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines the reasons behind this divers ...
Jul 17, 2008 |
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