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a Confidential Inquiry into the Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities, a partnership led by NFRC involving the University of Bristol Department of Community-Based Medicine, NHS Bristol, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Department of Health.

Nearly 100 UC Berkeley students are participating in service-learning trips this week through the Cal Corps Public Service Center's Alternative Breaks program.

Why do some people with mental illnesses entertain bizarre and seemingly irrational beliefs that make their lives a misery?

The number of Intellectual Property transactions completed by Cambridge Enterprise continued to rise in 2009, along with a 39 per cent increase in the number of consultancy agreements negotiated on behalf of the University's academics.

Tuberculosis (TB), considered by many Canadians to be a forgotten disease, is alive and well in high-risk aboriginal communities Montreal.

The device itself is light sensitive, with a 1,500 pixel array, and is stimulated by the natural image focused by the eye - eliminating the need for an external camera (typically mounted on spectacles).

The event commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB).

Experts from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's, have called for urgent educational and harm reduction guidance on mephedrone, in an Editorial published in the 'The recent deaths of two young men

Research from the University of Sheffield (UK), which shows that increasing alcohol prices could reduce illnesses, premature deaths and healthcare costs, will be published in The Lancet this week (24 March 2010). The findings are reported in an article published in Online First (www.thelancet.com) and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet, written by Dr Robin Purshouse and colleagues from the University´s School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) and Department of Economics.

One of the country's leading experts in tobacco control studies says it is time to take smoking completely out of children's lives.

For individuals interested in helping those affected by the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, there are a number of organizations accepting donations that will help bring critical aid to affected communities.

A team of researchers led by John Rogers, the Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering at Illinois, has developed biocompatible silicon devices that could mark the beginning of a new wave of surgical electronics. Photo by Thompson-McClellan CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Arrhythmic hearts soon may beat in time again, with minimal surgical invasion, thanks to flexible electronics technology developed by a team of University of Illinois researchers, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Northwestern University.

University of Manchester Professor of Psychiatry Louis Appleby will be the first National Clinical Director for Health and Criminal Justice it was announced today (Wednesday).

Story: Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease that is preventable and curable. The World Health Organization (WHO) is working to dramatically reduce the burden of TB, and halve TB deaths and prevalence by 2015.

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Phillips's poignant version of Paolo Nutini's 'Autumn', recorded on her mobile phone four hours before her mother Debbie died of cervical cancer, generated an overwhelming response when posted on YouTube.

On Sunday 21 March, 200 musicians from across King's College London came together for the second Arts and Humanities Alumni Concert, a performance of Verdi's choral masterpiece, the in one of London's most prestigious concert venues, Cadogan Hall.

Sir James Black OM was Emeritus Professor of Analytical Pharmacology at King's College London.

Today (Monday, March 22) work crews will begin removing seven trees from the large eucalyptus grove near the west entrance to campus.

A new consortium of four research teams from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California, San Diego has been selected by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, based in the United Kingdom, to receive a $4 million grant over five years to study neuronal circuits underlying higher brain function.

The kids are all right: JGH Psychiatry Research Day focuses on supporting families and children Event spotlights biological, psychological and cultural factors in treating children and their parents

Obama wins epic health-care battle Story: A watershed moment for America, a defining victory for its president.

A research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.

The Dead Hand tells, from both the American and the Russian perspectives, of the end of the Cold War arms race and its legacy of peril.

The results of one of the largest surveys of women solicitors in England and Wales are published today.

PA 57/10 How will people react to calls for a minimum price on alcohol? A University of Nottingham expert is leading a research group which will investigate the question and advise government on the proposal, which aims to reduce the level of binge drinking in the UK. The research, funded by the Alcohol Education and Research Council, will focus on public opinion, of both the issue of binge drinking and the idea of imposing a minimum price on alcohol.

One anti-animal research extremist has pleaded guilty and another pleaded no contest to felony criminal charges in connection with an ongoing campaign of harassment of UCLA researchers who utilize laboratory animals in their work.

UCL scientists and surgeons have led a revolutionary operation to transplant a new trachea into a child and use the child's own stem cells to rebuild the airway in the body.

The King's College London School of Law and The Open Society Justice Initiative, hosted a conference yesterday 'Where Now for Stop and Search?' to discuss one of the most controversial police powers.

Novartis receives approval in the European Union for Menveo , first quadrivalent conjugate vaccine in the EU to help prevent meningococcal disease Meningococcal disease is a major cause of bacterial

Major new research effort targets key pig diseases The project aims to prevent and diagnose costly respiratory diseases in pigs - %0A > Wednesday 17 March 2010 A consortium of researchers in Cambr

HE Louis B. Susman, the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, delivered the King's College London Commemoration Oration last night (17 March), at the Great Hall, Strand Campus.

The College has been allocated a provisional recurrent grant of £135,240,793 by the funding body HEFCE for 2010/11.

PA 54/10 Scientists at The University of Nottingham are aiming to take their innovative lab-based tissue engineering technology closer to the clinic as part of a research project that could revolutionise hip replacement operations in the future.

Cell division in cyanobacteria controlled by same kind of circadian rhythms that govern human sleep Physics Professor Alexander van Oudenaarden, left, works in his lab with physics graduate student Bernardo Pando. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A team of researchers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego has shown how cell division in a type of bacteria known as cyanobacteria is controlled by the same kind of circadian rhythms that govern human sleep patterns.

UCLA plans to contest citations and $23,900 in fines proposed by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) in connection with a November 2007 accident in a campus chemistry and biochemistry laboratory.

New treatments for inflammatory lung diseases and a host of other conditions could be developed following a study into the impact of circadian rhythms - or body clock - at The University of Manchester.

Matilda Larsson, in the background you can see her research in the form of a state of the heart diagram.

However, computer technology developed by Cereproc, a company formed through the University, has been able to reconstruct Mr. Ebert's original voice by using recordings of television appearanc

Researchers from King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre have found that antidepressants are effective against depression in patients suffering from physical illnesses.

A state-of-the-art £1million facility, which will screen for fruit fly genes whose human counterparts are involved in diseases and breakthrough biological processes, is set to open at the University

For parents of children with multiple medical problems, keeping up with countless doctor's appointments, ongoing tests and a variety of medications can be overwhelming, especially for those in challenging socioeconomic situations. But a growing concept in health care reform called the "medical home" offers parents a way to simplify, organize and coordinate the complexities of their medically fragile child's health care needs.