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PA 244/08 Some women sail through it, others find it a challenge but few women like to talk openly about the menopause.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Neuroscientists at MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing show that increasing brain magnesium with a new compound enhanced learning abilities, working memory, and short- and long-term memory in rats.

When medication fails to control seizures in children with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a rare genetic disorder that affects multiple organ systems and frequently causes epilepsy, surgery to remove part of the brain is often necessary. But pre-surgical testing, which involves the implanting of electrodes into a child's head, can lead to longer hospital stays and greater risks from surgery.

Montreal - McGill . Malaria causes more than two million deaths each year, but an expert multinational team battling the global spread of drug-resistant parasites has made a breakthrough in the search for better treatment.

Children with leukaemia could be offered tailored treatment to avoid unnecessary side-effects from chemotherapy, thanks to research carried out at the University of Sheffield.

More supporters of government service program announced The University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs has selected six students to be the 2008 cohort of Scholars in the N

Robert F. Goheen, president of Princeton from 1957 to 1972, died Monday, March 31. During his tenure Princeton became coeducational, increased its ethnic and racial diversity and coped with protests against the war in Vietnam.

Montreal - McGill Montreal, January 27, 2010 " A new study has found that Vitamin D, readily available in supplements or cod liver oil, can counter the effects of Crohn"s disease.

Montreal - McGill Studies of the victims of the Walkerton, Ont. tainted drinking water tragedy have led researchers to discover DNA variations in genes that increase the risk of developing post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS).

Zurich - University of Zurich Eine Studie der Psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik Zürich hat erstmals die Schweizer Drogenpolitik von 1975 bis 2007 untersucht.

Lighting up nerves could help people with eye condition Retinitis Pigmentosa New £2 million partnership to push forward research in an emerging field of science called optogenetics %0A " Wednesday 2

Liverpool, UK - 27 January 2010: Research at the University of Liverpool has found that diarrhoea caused by rotavirus infection could be significantly reduced in the developing world with the use of a vaccine to prevent the condition.

Researchers at UC San Diego who last year genetically engineered bacteria to keep track of time by turning on and off fluorescent proteins within their cells have taken another step toward the construction of a programmable genetic sensor.

Osamu Shimomura, who today was named a winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry , will receive the award for a discovery he made while working at Princeton.

Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman has been named chair of the Association of American Universities (AAU), a nonprofit organization representing 60 of the nation's leading public and private research universities, as well as two major universities in Canada.

A team of researchers at Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey has identified a long-sought gene that is fatefully switched on in 30 to 40 percent of all breast cancer patients, spreading the disease, resisting traditional chemotherapies and eventually leading to death.

Princeton University trustees Jan.

John Kolligian, director of Counseling and Psychological Services in University Health Services (UHS) since 2004, has been named executive director of UHS, effective Feb.

Christina Paxson, a Princeton faculty member since 1986 who is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and chair of the Department of Economics , has been selected as dean of the University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs .

Hurricane Katrina. The Southeast Asian tsunami. Now the killer earthquake in Haiti, which has claimed upwards of 50,000 lives.

In the largest national survey of its kind, researchers from UCLA and UC San Diego measured medical students? attitudes and beliefs about complementary and alternative medicine.

Zurich - University of Zurich Nach Hirnverletzungen müssen Patienten Bewegungen neu einüben. Neuerdings helfen ihnen dabei Computergames.

Montreal - McGill Seventy per cent of Inuit preschoolers in Nunavut, Canada’s largest territory, live in households where there isn’t enough food, a situation with implications for children’s a

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Researchers at MIT and Rockefeller University have successfully grown hepatitis C virus in otherwise healthy liver cells in the laboratory, an advance that could allow scientists to develop and test new treatments for the disease.

Living the high life is risky business for toads under threat from fungus New research shows midwife toads infected with chytrid fungus are highly likely to die if they live at high altitude - %0A " Imperial College London News Release Under strict embargo until: 00.

Mixed-handed children more likely to have mental health, language and scholastic problems, say researchers Findings may help teachers and health professionals to identify children at risk of developing certain problems %0A " Imperial College London news release Under STRICT EMBARGO for 00.

Research from the University of Birmingham has renewed hope that an effective vaccine could be developed against nontyphoidal strains of Salmonella.

MIT - MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School have built targeted nanoparticles that can cling to artery walls and slowly release medicine, an advance that potentially provides an alternative to drug-releasing stents in some patients with cardiovascular disease.

MIT - MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Contrary to a widely held scientific theory that the mammalian Y chromosome is slowly decaying or stagnating, new evidence suggests that in fact the Y is actually evolving quite rapidly through continuous, wholesale renovation.

MIT - MIT Neurons genetically rendered hyperactive (red) survive better than normal neurons (green).

High vitamin D levels linked to lower risk of colon cancer Study finds people with highest vitamin D blood levels have 40% lower risk of colon cancer than those with lowest People with high levels of

Video of virus in action shows viruses can spread faster than thought possible Scientists may be able to create new drugs to tackle some viruses Imperial College London News Release Under strict embargo for 14.

Engineer Tal Golesworthy was suffering from a defect in his aorta ? the main artery for carrying oxygenated blood ? that left it in danger of splitting.

Dr Mark Lythgoe (UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging) will reveal why the pictures that have really changed the world are not those from history or art but those from the medical profession. 'Images that see inside our bodies, into our very cells, have had a bigger impact on society than the photographic or artistic image.' Over the course of the series Dr Lythgoe will look at the images that have changed lives, culture, history and politics; those that have affected our opinions and made us decide what's right and wrong.

PA 12/10 World-leading research into Regenerative Medicine pioneered at The University of Nottingham has taken a step closer to creating a new kind of healthcare industry.

Dr. A. Eugene Washington, an internationally renowned clinical investigator and health policy scholar whose wide-ranging research has been instrumental in shaping national health policy and practice guidelines, will join UCLA Feb.

UCLA researchers have discovered that a specific type of medication used to treat cardiovascular conditions such as hypertension, angina and abnormal heart rhythms may also decrease the risk of developing Parkinson's disease. In the first large-scale population-based study of its kind, Dr. Beate Ritz, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health, in collaboration with researchers from the Danish Cancer Society, found that a specific sub-class of dihydropyridine cardiovascular medications was associated with a 26 to 30 percent decrease in the risk of Parkinson's.

Montreal - McGill Stemming from the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, we suggest the following sources for your stories about this catastrophe: Critical care/trauma after a natural disaster Dr.

Zurich - University of Zurich Die Universität Zürich und die Schweizer Luftwaffe haben ein weltweit einzigartiges Forschungsvorhaben in der Weltraummedizin gestartet.

Results of the TRANSFORMS and FREEDOMS studies, the two pivotal Phase III clinical trials with oral FTY720 (fingolimod), have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine , providing compreh

Basel - Novartis Basel, January 20, 2010 - Patients in Japan will benefit from the approval of three new Novartis medicines - Equa® (vildagliptin), marketed as Galvus® in the European Union , for t

In the largest national survey of its kind, researchers from UCLA and the University of California, San Diego, measured medical students' attitudes and beliefs about complementary and alternative med

Montreal - McGill Chicken sold in supermarkets, restaurants and other outlets may place young women at risk of urinary tract infections (UTI), McGill researcher Amee Manges has discovered.

Bern - Universität Bern Der Regierungsrat des Kantons Bern hat den Medizinprofessor Martin Täuber zum künftigen Rektor der Universität Bern gewählt.

Press release Links: 'Grid cells? that act like a spatial map in the brain have been identified for the first time in humans, according to new research by UCL scientists which may help to explain how we create internal maps of new environments. The study is by a team from the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and was funded by the Medical Research Council and the European Union.

Researchers take early step towards devising new antibiotics Scientists reveal the structure of a protein that infects and kills bacteria %0A " Researchers have made the first step towards creating a new class of antibiotics in a study published last night in the journal .