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• How malaria parasites manage to outwit our immune system

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  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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• Letters: Lemons and limeys

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Certainly, the diet offered by Captain James Cook ( Report , 30 November) was sensible with regard to the prevention of scurvy. However, James Lind, the naval surgeon, had published his detailed Treatise of Scurvy 23 years before, in 1753. Among other recommendations, derived from the first-ever clinical trials ...
  21 hours ago

• In praise of… the Royal Society

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Gravity, evolution, the atomic nucleus, DNA. You name it, and the person who discovered it was a Royal Society fellow. While the individual glories of those on its membership roll are well established, its corporate contribution to advancing knowledge is appreciated less often. In the present, that contribution ...
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• 15 percent of Indian women below 50 are obese: Azad

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) At least 15 percent of women under the age of 50 are obese in India, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad informed parliament Monday.A Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) survey, carried out at six centres, shows that 12.3 percent urban women and 2.9 percent rural women are obese in [...]
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• ‘Defiant’ Iran announces plans to build ten new uranium enrichment plants

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Tehran, Nov 30(ANI): Two days after world powers ordered Iran to halt the construction of a uranium enrichment plant near Qom, Iran has announced that it has plans to build ten new plants to escalate its nuclear programmes.The announcement was made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said that his Cabinet ...
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• Nanomagnet cancer treatment

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 437
  Nanoscale magnetic discs actually physically wreck cancer cell s. Nanotech is offering a lot of medical treatments, particularly in cancer research. From the link: Laboratory tests found the so-called “nanodiscs”, around 60 billionths of a metre thick, could be used to disrupt the membranes of  cancer cells , ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Living With Eczema

  
  Healthy Living Times — Authority: 139
  Eczema is one of the most widespread skin disorders in the world. As such it is a part of life for many people. Although there is at present no cure for this skin condition the symptoms can be controlled reasonably well if care is taken. Eczema affects people of all ages and does not discriminate on the basis of sex ...
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• Homeopathy and the nocebo effect

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Dr Peter Fisher from the Royal London Homeopathic hospital (funded by the NHS) says homeopathic pills have physical side-effects. Can a sugar pill have a side-effect? This week the parliamentary science and technology committee looked into the the funding of homeopathy on the NHS and the evidence behind the decision ...
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• More Evidence for Suppression of Research: the Case of Lamictal for Depression

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 546
  We recently discussed the severe challenges to evidence-based medicine presented by manipulation and suppression of clinical research to serve vested interests.  I recently (and unfortunately belatedly) came upon yet another example of suppression of research that was unfavorable to a research sponsors vested ...
  4 days ago

• Clinical Research Coordinator Job Vacancy: KEMRI / USAMRU-K “The Walter Reed Project”

  
  MY AFRICAN CAREER — Authority: 160
  “The Walter Reed Project” is a Research Based Organization that is affiliated tothe Kenya Medical Research Institute.Our mission is to develop and test improved means for predicting, detecting,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://myafricancareer.blogspot.com/ for Vacancies, Career Tips and Resume ...
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• Italian doctor may have found surprisingly simple cure for Multiple Sclerosis

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 711
  An Italian doctor has been getting dramatic results with a new type of treatment for Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, which affects up to 2.5 million people worldwide. In an initial study, Dr. Paolo Zamboni took 65 patients with relapsing-remitting MS, performed a simple operation to unblock restricted bloodflow out of the ...
  5 days ago

• Ian Sample on a Commons inquiry into homeopathy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Ian Sample on the MPs investigation into whether there is sufficient evidence to dispense homeopathy on the NHS Ian Sample
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• Integrated Electrical Services Awarded Contract to Provide Electrical Systems for U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 438
  Integrated Electrical Services Awarded Contract to Provide Electrical Systems for U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases HOUSTON, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IES (NASDAQ:IESC) , a leading national provider of electrical and communications systems and services for the commercial, industrial ...
  6 days ago

• Pregnancy-Produced Hormone May Prevent Breast Cancer

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 684
  Hormones produced during pregnancy induce a protein that directly inhibits the growth of breast cancer.
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• Homeopathy: MPs grill experts

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has called in homeopaths and scientists to discuss evidence for the alternative therapy The meeting has now concluded. Read what happened below 8.32am: It would be nice to think ministers made policy decisions on the basis of sound scientific evidence, but ...
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• Coma revelation leads to re-examination of other cases

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Locked-in syndrome is a rare neurological disorder in which nearly all the bodys voluntary muscles are paralysed, but the patient remains conscious and able to think and reason. It can be caused by traumatic brain injury, diseases of the circulatory system, overdosing on medication or diseases that destroy the ...
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• I always knew he could understand

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Fina Nicolaes tells how she never gave up on son written off as brain dead It was 2am on a bleak Belgian Sunday in November when Fina Nicolaes received the news that every mother dreads. Her son Rom, 20, was in hospital in Liège with life-threatening injuries after a Saturday night car crash. The phone call that ...
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• Human Gene Mutation Creates Resistance to Kuru -A Rare, Violent Epidemic

  
  The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel — Authority: 567
  "Its absolutely fascinating to see Darwinian principles at work here. This community of people has developed their own biologically unique response to a truly terrible epidemic. The fact that this genetic evolution has happened in a matter of decades is remarkable." Professor John Collinge, Director of the Medical ...
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