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S.Africa in $208 mln AIDS drug venture with Swiss Lonza

South Africa on Friday unveiled plans for a 1.6 billion rand ($208 million, 157 million euro) pharmaceutical plant, in a joint venture with Swiss biochemicals group Lonza to produce anti-AIDS drugs.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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Targeting tumors may help stop spread of breast, other cancers

(Medical Xpress) -- Cancer that has spread from the site of an original tumor to other places in the body is often viewed as a death sentence. But if there are just a few of those secondary tumors, called metastases, some ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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UAE court jails five Internet activists

A United Arab Emirates court on Sunday sentenced a blogger and four other Internet activists to prison terms after finding them guilty of charges including insulting the Gulf state's leaders.

Technology / Internet

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Sharp decrease in deaths from sudden cardiac arrest

Only a few decades ago, sudden cardiac arrest was a death sentence. Today, a victim of sudden cardiac arrest is saved roughly once every six hours in Sweden, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Finland runs checks on 750 doctors after bogus scandal

Finnish authorities will review the credentials of up to 750 doctors trained outside the EU after a recent scandal over bogus medics, the health watchdog said Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Other

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New technology pinpoints anomalies in complex financial data

Identifying atypical information in financial data early could help identify problematic financial trends such as the systemic risk that recently put the U.S. and global financial systems in a downward fall. ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

UK medical group rejects new skin cancer treatment

(AP) -- An independent British medical watchdog says the first treatment proven to help people with the deadliest form of skin cancer is too expensive to be used by the U.K.'s health care system, a recommendation critics ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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5 years in US prison for Cisco counterfeiter

The US representative of a Chinese company was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday for importing counterfeit Cisco-branded computer networking equipment, money laundering and other offenses, the Justice ...

Technology / Other

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Language speed versus efficiency: Is faster better?

A recent study of the speech information rate of seven languages concludes that there is considerable variation in the speed at which languages are spoken, but much less variation in how efficiently languages communicate ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Ted Bundy's DNA added to database in hope of solving cold cases

The DNA profile of Ted Bundy, one of the United States' most notorious serial killers, was uploaded Friday into a national database in the hope that the new material will help solve murder cases that have gone cold over the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Former China Mobile exec guilty in bribery case

(AP) -- A former deputy chairman of state-owned China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone company by subscribers, was convicted Friday of taking bribes and sentenced to prison.

Technology / Other

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Japan's brash Livedoor tycoon heads to jail

Sporting a mohican haircut and a protest T-shirt, Japan's maverick Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie on Monday started a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for accounting fraud.

Technology / Business

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Juror faces jail for Facebook chat with defendant

(AP) -- A British juror will be sent to jail for discussing a drug and corruption trial with a defendant on Facebook, a judge said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

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Be it numbers or words -- the structure of our language remains the same

It is one of the wonders of language: We cannot possibly anticipate or memorize every potential word, phrase, or sentence. Yet we have no trouble constructing and understanding myriads of novel utterances every day. How do ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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'Motherese' important for children's language development

(Medical Xpress) -- Talking to children has always been fundamental to language development, but new research reveals that the way we talk to children is key to building their ability to understand and create ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1