MUMBAI, India, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Indian telecom sector has taken great strides forward in recent times, and the high rate of growth in the mobile phone market has amplified market prospects. These positive trends in the telecom industry bode well for the general purpose (GP) test equipment market as these testers are employed for a variety of purposes ranging from research and development (RD), manufacturing to installation and maintenance (IM). Besides telecommunications, demand from defense and education sectors in India is also driving growth in the GP test equipment markets.
ROME, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --
- Call to Reduce the Four Million Deaths Annually, From a Condition Responsible for More Fatalities Globally Than AIDS[1]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases (EFA) today announced that they are bringing together over 150 international delegates to discuss the growing epidemic of Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRD) that affects one billion people worldwide[1,2,3] and is responsible for four million deaths annually[1]. The conference which will discuss the implementation of a five-year initiative to unite policy makers, providers and patient groups will be hosted by the Italian Ministry of Health in Rome on June 12 and 13.
LONDON, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --
- Campaign will reach travelers on Expedia sites across Europe with new homepage spotlight service
Expedia, the world's leading online travel company, today announced a new partnership with VisitDenmark for the first-ever multi-country homepage spotlight campaign from Expedia Media Solutions. During the week of June 8, the Danish capital Copenhagen is prominently featured in advertising space on the homepages of Expedia sites in France (www.expedia.fr), Germany (www.expedia.de), Italy (www.expedia.it) and the UK (www.expedia.co.uk), which are highlighting the city's most popular attractions and offering cost-saving deals on trips to Denmark.
If you're a man, somewhere at some time some woman has said you just don't make love long enough. Okay, for some men all women have said that. But there are other extremes as well. Male flies of the species Drosophila montana are all about reproductive success so they keep going ... and going ... and going. And there's an evolutionary reason.
Researchers writing in the BMC Evolutionary Biology say that that females engaged in extended intercourse wait longer before they mate again, increasing the first fly's chances of fathering offspring.
Most people won't eat two cups of blueberries a day but tell them a cup of red wine will make them healthier and they seem downright happy. Red wine has cultural and historical mystique blueberries lack so it has a psychological edge.
Red wine contains a complex mixture of bioactive compounds, including flavonols, monomeric and polymeric flavan-3-ols, highly colored anthocyanins, as well as phenolic acids and the stilbene polyphenol, resveratrol. Some of these compounds, particularly resveratrol, appear to have health benefits.
But look at the PubMed citations and you'd think red wine is curing cancer and halting global warming.
Graying hairs that crop up with age could be more than just nature, they could be signs of stress, according to a new report in the June 12 issue of Cell.
The researchers say that the kind of "genotoxic stress" that does damage to DNA depletes the melanocyte stem cells (MSCs) within hair follicles that are responsible for making those pigment-producing cells. Rather than dying off, when the going gets tough, those precious stem cells differentiate, forming fully mature melanocytes themselves. Anything that can limit the stress might stop the graying from happening, the researchers said.
Who says politics and science can't mix? Well, we say they shouldn't mix but we're rare in science media. Yet sometimes political events can make for great science studies too.
Case in point, the value neuroscientists at the University of Washington got when former President George W. Bush and Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had shoes thrown at them by a crazy Iraqi 'reporter' during a Baghdad news conference.
When Bush ducked and Maliki didn't flinch as the first shoe sailed toward them, it was a real-world example supporting the theory that there are two independent pathways in the human visual system.
Can you tell when your dog has done something wrong by his appearance? Not really, says Alexandra Horowitz, Assistant Professor from Barnard College in New York, in Behavioural Processes. It's mostly what you want to see.
Horowitz was able to show that the human tendency to attribute a "guilty look" to a dog was not due to whether the dog was indeed guilty. Instead, people see 'guilt' in a dog's body language when they believe the dog has done something it shouldn't have – even if the dog is in fact completely innocent of any offense.
A study of patients and members of the public has shown that most lack even basic knowledge of human anatomy. The research, featured in the journal BMC Family Practice, found that people were generally incapable of identifying the location of major organs, even if they were currently receiving relevant treatment.
LONDON, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --
- Mild Alzheimer's Patients Continue to be Denied Treatment
Eisai Limited, the licence holder of Aricept(R) (donepezil hydrochloride) and Pfizer Limited, its co-promotion partner, have been notified by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) of their decision to continue to deny vulnerable patients the use of anti-cholinergic medicines in the treatment of mild Alzheimer's disease.
At the recent Appraisal Committee meeting it was recognised that the current model contained four significant errors, and that NICE had failed to undertake appropriate checks of their calculations in three separate areas.
