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• Scientists finds a way to measure human Brain activity!

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 443
  The electroencephalogram (EEG) is widely used by physicians and scientists to study brain function and to diagnose neurological disorders. However, it has remained largely unknown whether the electrodes on the head give an exact view of what is happening inside the brain. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for ...
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• Making contact with a helping hand

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Here is a mystery. Rom Houben, a Belgian, was diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years, and he has now made a partial recovery. This has been demonstrated via a series of recently developed brain scanning techniques (whose predictive value is not entirely known, but they are promising), and he is opening his eyes. ...
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• Sleep disorder: When the lights go out | Brian Thomas

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Last month Brian Thomas was acquitted of strangling his wife – because he was asleep when he did it. But how does a sleep disorder turn an innocent man into a violent killer, and will the case open a loophole for the guilty? For years, Brian and Christine Thomas rarely went to bed together. They had decided ...
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• New Therapy Targets for Amyloid Disease

  
  Disabled World — Authority: 481
  A major discovery is challenging accepted thinking about amyloids – the fibrous protein deposits associated with diseases such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons - and may open up a potential new area for therapeutics.
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• World’s Worst Industrial Disaster [to date]

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 431
  Bhopal Pesticide Plant Disaster: 25 years onThis week marked the 25th anniversary of India’s Bhopal gas leak disaster with protesters demanding that those responsible for the deaths of thousands be brought to account.Local activists attend a demonstration to mark the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster in ...
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• EUROPE: Study finds no brain tumor link with mobile phones

  
  Seniors World Chronicle — Authority: 145
  . WASHINGTON / Reuters / Health / December 4, 2009 By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor A very large, 30-year study of just about everyone in Scandinavia shows no link between cellphone use and brain tumors, researchers reported on Thursday. Even though mobile telephone use soared in the 1990s and ...
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• Cell phones and brain cancer

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 438
  Maybe there isn’t too much to worry about after all. Lots of frightening real and virtual ink has been spilled on the topic of cell phone usage and brain tumors. Looks like current research isn’t seeing a problem there . Of course brain cancer is not the only medical worry with cell phone usage . From the first ...
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• Study Suggests Adult Stem Cells May Help Repair Hearts Damaged by Heart Attack

  
  The X-Journals — Authority: 142
  Adult stem cells may help repair heart tissue damaged by heart attack according to the findings of a new study to be published in the December 8 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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• Jerry Morris obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The first physician to show the link between exercise and health Jerry Morris, who has died aged 99, was the first researcher to demonstrate the connection between exercise and health. He also helped redefine public health with a focus on the role that lifestyle plays in the development of chronic disease, and ...
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• BioDigest: Geron

  
  BIOtech Now — Authority: 110
  See what strides are being made in the field of stem cell research at Geron – a Menlo Park, CA based company currently working on stem-cell based treatments for heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, liver disease, and cancer, as well as a treatment for spinal cord injuries currently in clinical ...
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• and so the march towards cyborgs continues

  
  weird things — Authority: 464
  Recently, an Italian man who lost his arm was able to do a lot more than just manipulate a robotic prosthesis by thought alone. Thanks to new advancements in medical technology, he was able to feel his mechanical arm being poked, bumped and prodded . It seems that in the near future, a traumatic event like losing a ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• AUSTRALIA: Cutting hospital deaths by preventing blood clots

  
  Seniors World Chronicle — Authority: 145
  . CANBERRA, Australia / National Health and Medical Research Council / December 3, 2009 Australians at risk of potentially fatal blood clots will benefit from NHMRC’s new Australian Guideline for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE). These evidence-based guidelines developed by the National Health and ...
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• More stem cell lines open for research

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 438
  Very welcome news and finally a tangible shift away from the idiotic christianist policies of the Bush 43 administration. This is an area of medical research where the United States should be world leaders , not playing catch up after eight years of a completely medieval stance toward science and medicine. From ...
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• Defiant Iran vows to enrich uranium even more

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Iran said Wednesday it will enrich uranium to a higher level on its own, the latest indication the country was rejecting a U.N.-backed proposal aimed at thwarting any effort by Tehran to make material for a nuclear weapon. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the comment after expressing frustration with the ongoing ...
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• Bhopal tragedy still affects our collective conscience: PM

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said he shared the grief of those affected by the Bhopal gas tragedy that occurred 25 years ago and said it “still gnaws at our collective conscience”.“The enormity of that tragedy of neglect still gnaws at our collective conscience,” the prime ...
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• Ahmadinejad: Iran will refine uranium to 20 pct

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will enrich its uranium to a higher level in direct contravention to an international call to halt the process. Ahmadinejad expressed frustration with negotiations over a U.N.-backed deal to swap Irans low-enriched uranium for higher-enriched fuel rods to ...
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• Assistant Manager - Analytical Development (Bangalore)

  
  Apnijobs.com — Authority: 464
  Job Description: Experience on Stability testing, raw data review, compilation on different stability dosage forms.Routine analysis experience on Dissolution, Assay, Related substance and etc. Desired Candidate Profile: Preparation of Standard Test Procedure (STP) like Operation, Calibration of instruments and ...
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• BioBytes: What are Stem Cells?

  
  BIOtech Now — Authority: 110
  Join Dr. Targan as he explains stem cells – what they are, how they work, and how biotech researchers are using them to treat a myriad of diseases, conditions, and disabilities like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, spinal cord injury, stroke, burns, heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid ...
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• How malaria parasites manage to outwit our immune system

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Dec 1 (ANI): A new study has shown that malaria parasites are able to disguise themselves to avoid the host’s immune system.Malaria is caused by a parasite, which is injected into the bloodstream from the salivary glands of infected mosquitoes. There are a number of different species of parasite, but the ...
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