For patients on hemodialysis, the use of dialysis filters coated with vitamin E may provide a simple new approach to the common problem of anemia, reports a paper presented at the American Society of Nephrology’s 39th Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego.
Important information will be presented regarding target blood hemoglobin concentrations and clinical outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease during a session at the American Society of Nephrology’s 39th Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, CA on Saturday, November 18.
Ageing in the community is one of the primary concerns that needs be addressed in elderly care policy, Secretary for Health, Welfare & Food Dr York Chow says.
WHO organized a forum and a technical meeting on Reducing Salt Intake in Populations, 5 to 7 October 2006 in Paris, France.
Visitors to Supercomputing ’06 in Tampa, Florida this week will be the first to see a new interactive map that shows nine of the world’s largest computing Grids. The map, developed by researchers from GridPP in the UK and the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, in Geneva, uses Google Earth to pinpoint Grid sites on six continents, showing more than 300 sites overall. Like the medieval ‘mappa mundi’, which showed what was known of the world at the time, this is one of the first attempts to show the whole scientific Grid world.
World Diabetes Day on 14 November concludes a year-long worldwide campaign to address diabetes in disadvantaged communities and vulnerable groups.
Recharging your laptop computer — and also your cell phone and a variety of other gadgets — might one day be doable in the same convenient way many people now surf the Web: wirelessly. Marin Soljac?ic? of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present research by himself and his colleagues Aristeidis Karalis and John Joannopoulos on the physics of electromagnetic fields, showing how wireless energy could power future gadgets. The MIT team is also working on demonstrating the technology in practice. The work will be described on Tuesday, November 14 in San Francisco, at the 2006 American Institute of Physics Industrial Physics Forum (IPF), which will be co-located with the Nanotechnology Topical Conference at the AVS 53rd International Symposium & Exhibition at the Moscone Center West.
ALTRAN, the European leader in innovation and high technology consulting, unveiled at the EcoBuilding Performance Forum on November 8-9 in Paris, three new eco-innovative concepts, to enable the best use of energy in the building and urban environment sectors. The “eco-innovation” is one of the pillars of the environment policy recently adopted by the EU, emphasizing that a “green” product is not enough, but that the product’s life cycle must be energy efficient.
A two day International Conclave on Traditional Medicine is being organized by the Department of AYUSH in collaboration with NISCAIR, CSIR on November 16 & 17, 2006. The Conclave will focus on the key issues of standardization, quality control and development of a regulatory approach for traditional medicine on the one hand and issues relating to market authorization and IPR protection of traditional medicine on the other. About 100 delegates from SAARC, APTMNET, BIMSTEC, IBSA Forum member countries and representatives of WHO, WIPO, APCTT and experts on various aspects of traditional medicine and IPR protection would participate in the conclave.
The science of cancer prevention has advanced to the point where researchers now say they can detect ?cancer genes? in the breath of smokers, and can test the presence of two proteins in men they say will predict development of prostate cancer a decade in advance. All of these novel findings need much more examination, of course, but scientists at the American Association for Cancer Research?s Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting, say these examples illustrate how it is becoming increasingly possible to use genes and their protein products to help predict and diagnose cancer, as well as choose therapy that offers the most potential for a good result. These researchers will also discuss a test that can pick out patients who have pancreatic cancer – an advance that offers hope the disease can be treated at earlier stages than it is now – and how several unique genes can predict which prostate cancer or lung cancer patients will develop aggressive tumors that need additional treatment. Cancer is a disease of genes, they say, so genes can be employed as a crystal ball to thwart the disease.