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Mexican health care reform has been convoluted and ineffective

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A Policy Forum published in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine argues that twenty-five years of health care reforms in Mexico have increased insurance coverage but have not resulted in greater efficiency and ha ...


New research links International Monetary Fund loans with higher death rates from tuberculosis

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created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans were associated with a 16.6% rise in death rates from tuberculosis (TB) in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern European countries between 1992 and 2002, finds a study in ...





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Monetary gain and high-risk tactics stimulate activity in the brain

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Monetary gain stimulates activity in the brain. Even the mere possibility of receiving a reward is known to activate an area of the brain called the striatum. A team of Japanese researchers report in the January 2010 issue ...


Andreessen fund's 1st investment has familiar ring

Technology / Business

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A new fund managed by Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen and his longtime confidant Ben Horowitz is treading familiar ground with its first investment - a high-tech startup already tied to the two partners.


Supporters of 'The Pirate Bay' web site, one of the world's top illegal filesharing websites, demonstrate in Stockholm

Swedish regulator to Pirate Bay suitor: where's the money?

Technology / Internet

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Swedish financial regulators want Pirate Bay suitor Global Gaming Factory to reveal how it will fund its takeover of the popular download site despite GGF chief executive Hans Pandeya insisting Thursday that ...


Medical aid group raises alarm about AIDS funding

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The global recession and pressure to divert funds to other health crises are hurting the fight against AIDS, a medical group warned Thursday, with one health worker saying he feared a return to the days when the ...


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New studies find amazing concentration of species unique to east African mountains

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created Jan 16, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New studies published this month in the scientific journal Biological Conservation document an amazing concentration of over 1000 species unique--or endemic-- to an area slightly larger than Rhode Island in ...


Canada's universal health care system should fund in-vitro fertilization

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created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Canada should extend universal health coverage to fund in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection, writes Dr. Renda Bouzayen, Division Head, Reproductive Endocrine and Infertility, Dalhousie University ...


Britain?s oldest dinosaur to be released

Britain's oldest dinosaur to be released

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- After 210 million years of being entombed in rock, the Bristol Dinosaur is about to be released, thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant awarded to the University of Bristol.


Delegates at the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22

Twitter to raise $100 mln in new funding: WSJ

Technology / Internet

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Twitter is close to raising up to 100 million dollars in new funding in a deal which values the hot micro-blogging service at one billion dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.


Broadcom filed a patent infringement suit on Monday against Emulex

Broadcom files patent infringement suit against Emulex

Technology / Business

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US computer chip company Broadcom filed a patent infringement suit on Monday against Emulex, two months after dropping a hostile takeover offer for its rival.


Venture capitalist and founder of Khosla Ventures Vinod Khosla

Khosla Ventures raises 1 bln dlrs for green tech

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Two new US venture capital funds have raised more that one billion dollars to help propel a green technology revolution, the company founded by influential investor Vinod Khosla said.



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