Archive: 12/21/2006
European office withdraws Nexium patent
The European Patent Office, answering a generic drug maker's challenge, withdrew a patent on Britain-based AstraZeneca PLC's heartburn treatment, Nexium.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 21, 2006 |
2.3 / 5 (3) |
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Journal Nature ends online group editing
The journal Nature, citing lack of participation, pulled its online experiment of allowing public editing of scientific articles.
Dec 21, 2006 |
2.8 / 5 (6) |
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Watching with intent to repeat ignites key learning area of brain
[B]Tapping the region may prove important in rehabilitation[/B] Watch and learn. Experience says it works, but how? University of Oregon researchers have seen the light, by imaging the brain, while test subjects watched fil ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 21, 2006 |
4.4 / 5 (5) |
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Purification and dilution reduce risk of fish being injured by hormone-disrupting compounds
In a dissertation at the Department of Applied Environmental Science (ITM), Stockholm University, Maria Pettersson has examined whether purified wastewater from municipal purification plants and cellulose factories in Sweden ...
Dec 21, 2006 |
3 / 5 (1) |
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Pain relief effectiveness down to mind-set?
Research by the Human Pain Research Group at The University of Manchester suggests that people's responses to placebo or 'dummy' pain relief varies according to their way of thinking.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 21, 2006 |
4.1 / 5 (8) |
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Portrait of a dramatic stellar crib
Known as the Tarantula Nebula for its spidery appearance, the 30 Doradus complex is a monstrous stellar factory. It is the largest emission nebula in the sky, and can be seen far down in the southern sky at ...
Dec 21, 2006 |
4.7 / 5 (15) |
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Neanderthals different in north, south
A Hull York Medical School (HYMS) researcher has played a key role in a study which has cast important new light on Neanderthals.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 21, 2006 |
3.6 / 5 (18) |
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Cyberspace may overcome ethical constraints in experiments
By repeating the Stanley Milgram's classic experiment from the 1960s on obedience to authority – that found people would administer apparently lethal electrical shocks to a stranger at the behest of an authority figure – ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 21, 2006 |
2.5 / 5 (2) |
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Antenatal fish oil supplements boost kids' hand-eye coordination
Fish oil supplements given to pregnant mums boost the hand-eye coordination of their babies as toddlers, reveals a small study published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood (Fetal and Neonatal Edition).
Dec 21, 2006 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
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