A tad over? Under? Inaccurate scales can be costly
AUGUSTA, Maine — A cover illustration from an old “Saturday Evening Post” shows a shopkeeper and woman standing on each side of a butcher-shop scale that holds a chicken. His finger pushes down on one end to add a bit of weight, while she pokes a finger [...]
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4G wireless: It’s fast, but outstripped by hype
NEW YORK — Cell phone companies are about to barrage consumers with advertising for the next advance in wireless network technology: “4G” access. The companies are promising faster speeds and the thrill of being the first on the block to use a new acronym.
But there’s less [...]
South African Govt is planning to ban digitally distributed pornography. Deputy Minister of Home Affairs has asked the Law Commission whether a change is possible. He also had talks with the Justice Alliance for South Africa (JASA), who has written its own draft bill on the issue. Internet security expert ruled out the fact … [...]
DHAKA – Close on the heels of Pakistan blocking access to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, Bangladesh has blocked access to Facebook after satirical images of the Prophet Muhammad and the country’s leaders were uploaded.
Government officials termed the ban as temporary and said access to the site would be restored once the images [...]
Russia seeks EU’s help with visas, technology
MOSCOW — Russia will press the European Union to scrap visas for its citizens and seek the EU’s help in modernizing its economy at a two-day summit beginning Monday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is hosting top EU officials for talks in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don. The European Union is [...]
Report: Orascom-MTN talks to end in a week
CAIRO — The chairman of Egyptian mobile phone giant Orascom Telecom says he expects talks with South Africa’s MTN Group over the purchase of some of Orascom’s units will be wrapped up within a week.
In comments carried Sunday by al-Mal financial daily, Naguib Sawiris says MTN, Africa’s largest [...]
A new and noncontroversial source of stem cells can form heart muscle cells and help repair heart damage, according to results of preliminary lab tests.
Health Robotics today announced that its joint venture Health Robotics South East Asia Ltd. scored two strategic wins by reaching agreements on two separate government-sponsored projects to deliver CytoCare-made accurate and sterile oncology patient doses in Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, respectively.
Reaction Progress Kinetic Analysis (RPKA) streamlines kinetic studies by exploiting extensive data available from accurate in situ monitoring of global reaction progress under synthetically relevant conditions, where the concentrations of two or more reactants are changing simultaneously – in fact, in the same manner that they are expected to change during practical synthesis.
Patients with drug-resistant epilepsy run the risk of gradual deterioration in their cognitive abilities. Surgical treatment generally puts an end to seizures but can have a negative effect on memory. However, there is no further deterioration in memory, and some patients may even recover some of their memory capacity, reveals a thesis from the University [...]
Ubichem, a leading provider of chemistry services to the drug development sector, through its Hungarian operation – Ubichem Research – has successfully completed a regulatory inspection and is now approved for the supply of cGMP radiolabelled Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs).
It’s on a path full of history and collective memories that more than 500 walkers will gather, on Sunday, May 30th, for the fourth edition of the RONA Walk for Memories. This Alzheimer’s disease awareness event, which will take place on the Quays of the Old Port and in the streets of the Old Montreal, [...]
A two-year, $12 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Technology Transition (OTT) will jumpstart human trials of three innovative research programs that aim to replace scars and defects with healthy, functional tissues, announced officials of the University of Pittsburgh and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine today at the Institute’s Second [...]
LONDON – Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, who is vying to stage a comeback on the country’s political stage for quite some time now, has said that he has a huge fan following on the popular networking site-Facebook, which is consistently urging him to return to [...]
SHANGHAI – President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, who is on a visit to China, said on Sunday that unless market access for Indian pharmaceutical, engineering and information technology companies improves, trade relations between India and China, which is under strain at present, would continue to worsen.
During her [...]
An advanced type of cancer radiation is more successful than traditional radiation in avoiding “dry mouth” when treating head and neck cancers, but it is unknown whether the treatment is better or worse at reducing the size of tumors, according to a new comparative effectiveness review funded by HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Researchers have identified a distinct pattern of gene expression in the largest reported group of kidney transplant recipients who have not rejected the transplant kidneys even though they stopped taking anti-rejection drugs. This finding may help identify other transplant recipients who could safely reduce or end use of immunosuppressive therapy. In 2008, more than 80,000 [...]
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Pakistani court lifts ban on Facebook
LAHORE, Pakistan — A Pakistani court lifted a ban on Facebook on Monday after officials from the social networking site apologized for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents, said a top information technology official.
The Lahore High Court imposed the ban almost two weeks ago [...]
Dutch vaccine development company Mucosis B.V. announced today that it has received an innovation credit line of approximately € 3 million from Agentschap NL, an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Mucosis will use this loan towards the clinical development of its lead product FluGEM™, an influenza vaccine that can be administered by [...]
Physician-scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center will present their latest research findings at the American Urological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, May 29 to June 3.