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Facebook discloses details on bonuses

Facebook's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries and other earnings, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing.

Technology / Business

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Long-term study shows epilepsy surgery improves seizure control and quality of life

While epilepsy surgery is a safe and effective intervention for seizure control, medical therapy remains the more prominent treatment option for those with epilepsy. However, a new 26-year study reveals that following epilepsy ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HP awards new CEO Whitman with $16.5M pay package

Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package that hinges on the one-time politician's ability to lift the stumbling technology company's stock price during the next two years.

Technology / Business

created Feb 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In times of scandal, corporations are likely to use others' misconduct to justify their behavior

Among corporations involved in the 2006 stock-option backdating scandal, those implicated earlier were more likely to dismiss their top executives than those that surfaced later on, according to new research from Rice University ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When the isolated lung runs out of air

A lung transplant is the only treatment option for patients faced with imminent pulmonary failure. But suitable donor organs are highly susceptible to damage in transit. A team of researchers based at LMU's Walther Straub ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers visualize the development of Parkinson's cells

In the US alone, at least 500,000 people suffer from Parkinson's disease, a neurological disorder that affects a person's ability to control his or her movement. New technology from the University of Bonn in Germany lets ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cyberknife radiation relieves stabbing pain of facial nerve condition

A technique that delivers highly focused beams of radiation, known as Cyberknife, can relieve the stabbing pain of the facial nerve condition trigeminal neuralgia, indicates a small study published online in the Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Apple CEO Tim Cook could top pay list in 2011

(AP) -- Tim Cook could well end up being the highest paid CEO in America in 2011, after Apple Inc. granted him a million restricted stock units last August for taking the reins shortly before co-founder Steve Jobs died.

Technology / Business

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sorafenib effective in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, but low survival rates reported

Sorafenib was effective in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and a KRAS mutation, but survival rates were reportedly "unsatisfactory," according to data presented at the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Added benefit of linagliptin is not proven

Linagliptin (trade name: Trajenta) has been approved since August 2011 to improve blood glucose control ("glycaemic control") in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus whose elevated blood glucose levels are inadequately controlled ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Netflix CEO's stock options slashed after bad year

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will pay a $1.5 million penalty for blunders that alienated the video subscription service's customers and pulverized its stock.

Technology / Business

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breakthrough in treatment to prevent blindness

A UCSF study shows a popular treatment for a potentially blinding eye infection is just as effective if given every six months versus annually. This randomized study on trachoma, the leading cause of infection-caused ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Free-to-pay? No way! Professor explores negative billing

During the festive season, online shoppers may think they're getting a bargain when they click on promotional discount boxes or sign up for free trials for such things as Christmas cards, exercise tips or even e-dating. But ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Simple test to help diagnose bowel and pancreatic cancer could save thousands of lives

A simple online calculator could offer family GPs a powerful new tool in tackling two of the most deadly forms of cancer, say researchers.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'PARP' drug sabotages DNA repair in pre-leukemic cells

Looking for ways to halt the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells, scientists at Johns Hopkins have found that a new class of drugs, called PARP inhibitors, may block the ability of pre-leukemic cells to repair broken bits ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast