In this paper, I will argue that the current discussions about regulating certain activities concerning the pharmaceutical industry do miss a crucial point. The Pharmaceutical Industry is a story of success, providing a wealth of new discoveries and applied technologies, which have greatly enhanced our lives. The current call for ...

Evidence of the causal role of marketing in the tobacco epidemic and the advent of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control have inspired more than half the countries in the world to ban some forms of tobacco marketing. This paper briefly describes the ways in which cigarette marketing is ...

Modern biotechnology has gradually attracted ever greater interest over the past four decades, from ever-widening communities across the world-from academic scientists, of course and then from industrialists, journalists, medical specialists, agricultural practitioners, environmental "experts," economists, trading companies-and, so far as it concerns regulation, above all from political interests whose product ...

When compiling the Dictionary of the English Language, Johnson read and annotated over two hundred thousand passages from innumerable English authors of various disciplines across four centuries. Most of the literary anecdotes came from Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden and Pope. The medical and scientific anecdotes came from 31 scientists, physicians, pharmacologists ...

Human papillomaviruses (HPV), remarkably diverse DNA viruses etiologically linked with various benign and malignant neoplastic lesions of mucosal and skin epithelium have been the subject of intensive research for the last 30 years worldwide. Briefly to review 20 years of HPV research in Slovenia by analyzing the articles published in ...

Approximately 30 000 cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) occur in the equatorial belt of Africa each year. Apart from the fact that Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is very common among children and adolescents in Africa and that an epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is currently ongoing in this part of ...

Gold nanoparticles have become widely used in scientific research due to their unique physical and chemical properties. In the last several years their use as siRNA delivery agents has been investigated. Here, progress made using gold nanoparticles for siRNA delivery is described and the different strategies employed are compared.

Multilevel modeling (MLM) is rapidly becoming the standard method of analyzing nested data, for example, data from students within multiple schools, data on multiple clients seen by a smaller number of therapists, and even longitudinal data. Although MLM analyses are likely to increase in frequency in counseling psychology research, many ...

Participating in research must be an educational experience for students in order to ethically justify its inclusion as a requirement in college courses. Introductory Psychology students (N = 280) completed a written class assignment describing their research participation as a means to enhance this educational mission. Approximately half of students ...

The most significant results in experimental and clinical orthopaedic research in Italy within the last three years have been primarily in major congenital diseases, bone tumors, regenerative medicine, joint replacements, spine, tendons and ligaments. The data presented in the following discussion is comparable with leading international results, highlighting Italian orthopaedic ...

Ten years ago, we began a new research effort in attoscience at ETH Zurich, building on our ultrafast laser expertise in the few femtosecond regime. I present some of the technical highlights and explain how we continue within the NCCR MUST.

The Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) group is 20 years old this year (2011). This brief review traces the origins of the group focussing on its more recent history and reviewing some of its major contributions to lupus research during the past two decades.

Natural Resource Management (NRM) and Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) have been guiding frameworks in Australia for a number of decades. Recently, NRM and ESD have become central to climate change mitigation. In this paper, we explore the psychological paradoxes that function within climate change settings, with particular attention devoted to ...

In recent years, there has been increased research focus on dating violence, producing important information for reducing these violent relationships. Yet Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are often hesitant to approve research on dating violence, citing emotional distress of participants as a possible risk of participation. However, no known research has ...

Discovered in 1898 by British chemists, xenon is a rare gas belonging to the noble gases of the periodic table. Xenon is used in many different ways, from high-intensity lamps to jet propellant, and in 1939, its anesthetic properties were discovered. Xenon exerts its anesthetic properties, in part, through the ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Nasal dressings are commonly used following endoscopic sinus surgery in an attempt to prevent ongoing bleeding and to modulate the wound healing process. Experience with nasal dressings in the otolaryngologic literature spans more than half a century; however, despite this, there is still little agreement between surgeons ...

The Army has had extensive experience in the study and treatment of shock, beginning with the American Civil War and continuing to the present. This is the story of one Army surgeon's experience, both in research and treatment of shock, from Pearl Harbor to the present.

Previous research has revealed that waxy corn starch which has been entrapped in a matrix of electrostatically cross-linked alginate, shows a slow digestion rate such that much of the starch may reach the colon; thus making this a new type of resistant starch. The purpose of this research was to ...

Studies are under way to discover the cause of widespread malformations in wild amphibians.

From the roots of PICRORHIZA KURROOA a new iridoid glycoside, 6-feruloylcatalpol has been isolated, along with veronicoside and minecoside and two phenol glucosides, picein and androsin.

In Gina Kolata's article "Avoiding the schistosome's tricks" (Research News, 18 Jan., p. 285), Schistosoma mansoni and S. japonicum were inadvertently interchanged in the first full paragraph of the first column on page 286. Schistosoma japonicum lives in the mesenteric veins of the upper (small) intestine, and S. mansoni lives ...

Denturism, an organized movement by dental laboratory technicians to increase their control over the provision of denture services to the public, has generated a great deal of controversy among members of organized dentistry, the National Denturist Association, the Federal Trade Commission, consumer groups, and prepaid dental plans.Denturism is currently legal ...

1. A simplified sensitive fluorimetric assay for dopamine based on the hydroxyindole principle is described. Oxidation of dopamine by ferricyanide and subsequent tautomerization both occur in the same, strongly alkaline, ethanolic solution in the presence of metabisulphite. The reaction is self-regulating, and since times of additions of reagents are relatively ...

Cells of Acanthamoeba castellanii (Neff) are known to form mature cysts characterized by a cellulose-containing cell wall when transferred to a nonnutrient medium. Amebas which engulfed latex beads before encystment formed mature cysts essentially devoid of bead material. The encystment of bead-containing cells appeared to be similar to that of ...

Neural disturbance of micturition may occur as a result of a prolapsed intervertebral disc. Single nerve root lesions are unlikely to cause bladder dysfunction; a massive central protrusion producing total blockage of the vertebral canal or multiple disc lesions are more likely to cause disturbance of voiding. High lesions are ...

1. A novel phthalazine analogue taloximine (1-hydroxyimino-4(2-dimethyl-aminoethoxy)-1,2-dihydrophthalazine monohydrochloride monohydrate) stimulated respiration in conscious rabbits at doses of 7 mg/kg and above.2. Taloximine antagonized the depressant action of morphine on respiration in rabbits at doses of 10 mg/kg. At high doses it resuscitated rabbits after they had been given lethal doses ...

Various alkylating and non-alkylating agents are known to induce sterility in Culex pipiens fatigans, but the duration of the sterilizing effect they produce had not so far been studied for this species. The authors therefore investigated the duration of sterility induced by the alkylating chemosterilants apholate and tepa in C. ...

Large talus blocks litter the flat floor of Oceanographer Canyon at a depth of 1460 meters; they indicate down-axis mass transport of floor sediment at an unknown time and rate. From 1460 to 1310 meters the sidewall is covered by unconsolidated sediment lying at 35 degrees to 40 degrees from ...

Myxomycete plasmodia of four different types (not including Physarum polycephalum) were studied in thin sections viewed in the electron microscope. In the cytoplasm of the protoplasmodia of Clastoderma debaryanum and the phaneroplasmodia of Fuligo septica fixed in situ, fibrillar differentiations of three rather distinct kinds were observed. One of these ...

v. Irregular no. 1- 1930-

v. Irregular no. 1- 1930-

The purification of hypertensin I has been described. The final product which is four times as powerful a pressor agent as l-arterenol, is obtained with an over-all recovery of 40 per cent. The product consists of a single component in countercurrent distribution, having a nitrogen content of 15.97 per cent ...

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Five crystalline retinenes have been isolated, which have every appearance of being cis-trans isomers of one another. They are all-trans retinene; three apparently mono-cis isomers: neoretinenes a and b and isoretinene a; and isoretinene b, an apparently di-cis isomer. The absorption spectra of these substances display the relations expected of ...