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Tuberculosis still affects thousands of victims worldwide.

Today, the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, part of the Novartis Research Foundation, is celebrating its 40th birthday.

One of the most comprehensive reports into the youth justice system has examined whether the police and the youth justice system treat young people from different ethnic groups in different ways.

Liverpool, UK - 16 March 2010: Scientists at the University of Liverpool argue that anti-obesity drugs fail to provide lasting benefits for health and wellbeing because they tackle the biological consequences of obesity, and not the important psychological causes of overconsumption and weight gain.

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and Lee Goldman, Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine, today sent the following message to the University community: "We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN, as the new dean of the Columbia University School of Nursing .

Baroness Vivien Stern has today published her independent review into the way rape complaints are handled by public authorities.

Deep venous thrombosis (DVT), the formation of blood clots in the lower limbs, is the third most common vascular disease in North America after heart attack and stroke, and is a frequent complication in hospitalized patients.

Local researchers at UC San Diego Medical Center are collaborating with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) on the largest clinical trial of hypothermia (brain cooling) for stroke to date.

Reindeer have 'switched off' their body clocks in order to survive the extreme Arctic seasons of polar day, when the sun stays up all day, and polar night, when the sun does not rise above the horizon at all, scientists have discovered.

This prosthetic device, which has gone through many incarnations since, is an alternative to complete knee replacement, helping patients recover mobility faster after the operation and giving them an implant that, in over 90 per cent of cases, lasts for over 20 years.

David Botstein , director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, has been named a recipient of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine for his leading role in mapping the human genome.

They say money can?t buy you happiness ? but it seems that being ?happy in yourself? can make you a more successful mum, regardless of your financial circumstances.

A survey of the media coverage that followed Jack Straw?s requests to Muslim women to remove their face veils when visiting him in his constituency surgery charts the ways in which the wearing of Mus

The University of Sheffield, along with six other members of the UK´s Russell Group of leading universities, have joined forces with the US research news website Futurity (www.futurity.org).

A cutting-edge machine, which could transform the lives of kidney disease sufferers by making it easier for them to do their own dialysis treatment at home, is set to undergo clinical testing over the next few months.

Premier rang de gauche à droite: Oscar Matzinger, Marie-Denise Schaller, Marie-Claude Hofner, Patrice Guex, Nicolas Salamin.

Immune cells use bungee of death to kill dangerous cells, shows new research Natural killer cells use membrane nanotubes to pull in escaping dangerous cells - Imperial College London News Release Under strict embargo until: 20.

After the 7/7 bombings in 2005 a group of clinical psychologists targeted nearly a thousand survivors of the attacks by painstakingly compiling hospital treatment records, police witness files and referrals from GPs. The need for this new method of reaching potential patients was evident after results showed that only 4% of patients contacted by the programme had been referred for treatment by their GPs ? the traditional pathway to mental heath care.

March 09, 2010 — Viruses are believed to be the cause of as many as 20 percent of all cancers, but some viruses can infect human cells and remain latent.

Pharmaceutical companies could substantially reduce the expense of costly treatments for cancer and other diseases produced from mammalian or bacterial cells by growing these human therapeutic proteins in algae?rapidly growing aquatic plant cells that have recently gained attention for their ability to produce biofuels.

Press release issued 8 March 2010 Two of the world's leading nanoscience institutes have entered into an agreement for research collaboration and educational exchange in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Fourth-year medical student Andrew Lewis describes ten days he spent in Nagpur, India, that changed the lives of 104 children with cleft palates.

PA 40/10 Scientists at The University of Nottingham have pinpointed one of the mechanisms which cancer cells use to survive chemotherapy.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT has been named part of a national pancreatic cancer research consortium formed by the Lustgarten Foundation.

On Friday, March 5, MIT officially opens the Media Lab Complex, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki and Associates in association with Leers Weinzapfel Associates.

Dr. Marc McKee, of McGill's Faculty of Dentistry and the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, is collaborating closely with Enobia Pharma Inc, a Quebec biotech company, to develop innovative treatments for serious genetic bone diseases.

There's an epidemic in progress, and it has nothing to do with the flu. A ground-breaking study published in the March 2010 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found an astonishing 59 per cent of study subjects had too little Vitamin D in their blood.

The 39th Two Cities Boat Race, an annual rowing regatta between The Universities of Manchester and Salford, will take place on Saturday 8th May 2010.

Two scientists from UC San Diego have been elected to the governing council of the National Academy of Sciences, the nation's preeminent organization of scientists, which advises Congress and the U.S. government on matters of science and technology.

Scientists at UC San Diego studying the biological clocks of bacteria, fungi, plants and animals have joined forces to apply their knowledge across these diverse groups of organisms to human sleep disorders in a newly established Center for Chronobiology.

Breakthrough Breast Cancer has launched a £5 million appeal for its pioneering Research Unit at The University of Manchester which aims to find new treatments for breast cancer patients.

Imperial paper voted a ?must read? of 2009 The Lancet journal?s Paper of the Year Award sees Imperial research voted runner-up %0A " Thursday 4 March 2010 By Colin Smith A study explaining how thousa

PA39/10 The University of Nottingham is collaborating with one of China's largest pharmaceutical companies in an international research initiative.

BERKELEY — In the long evolutionary road from bacteria to humans, a major milestone occurred some 1.5 billion years ago when microbes started building closets for all their stuff, storing DNA inside a nucleus, for example, or cramming all the energy machinery inside mitochondria.

The research news Web site Futurity, featuring discoveries from McGill and 45 other research universities in North America, has gained seven new partners in the U.K. Since launching in

Staying healthier for longer Imperial's new research initiative aims to speed-up multidisciplinary collaborations for reducing the gap between our lifespan and health span - News Thursday 4 March By

Researchers from UCL?s Institute of Ophthalmology say what we can and can?t see in our peripheral vision may not be the result of a random process.

Health Scotland, shows that pupils who eat breakfast everyday are more likely to rate their school performance as 'good or very good' and their health as 'excellent or good'. The survey also found that pupils who skip breakfast every day are more likely to consume daily sugary drinks and snack type foods, such as sweets and crisps.

Researchers from UCL's Institute of Ophthalmology say what we can and can't see in our peripheral vision may not be the result of a random process. As you read this, you may notice that the word directly in front of you is clear, but all the surrounding words are hard to decipher. For most people, this effect ? known as 'crowding' ? is not a problem.

LANL gets young women involved in math and science at 31st Expanding Your Horizons Conference April 6 Teacher conference also planned LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, March 4, 2010—Los Alamos National Laboratory is again cosponsoring the Expanding Your Horizons in Math and Science?

This past week, the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT received funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to become a Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB).

Researchers have launched a unique project to improve early diagnosis and management of dementia among Deaf people who use British Sign Language (BSL).

The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA and the Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information (NSQI) at England's University of Bristol have entered into an agreement to expand research collaborations and educational exchanges in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

First Study to Demonstrate Association between Asthma and Acetaminophen is Linked to Gene Involved in Detoxification of Foreign Substances February 4, 2010 - Children who were exposed to acetaminophe

February 25, 2010 - Initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) during tuberculosis therapy significantly reduced mortality rates by 56 percent in a randomized clinical trial of 642 patients co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis.