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<title>NEWS - Ultrasound is a potential male contraceptive </title>
<description><![CDATA[New research conducted on rats has used commercially available ultrasound equipment to reduce their sperm count to levels which would cause infertility in humans  The technique could potentially act as an inexpensive and longlasting male contraceptive]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>NEWS - New cancer treatment uses light</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Norwegian company have been developing a cancer treatment that better targets drugs to cancer cells without affecting other areas of the body  The technique utilises photochemical internalisation PCI technology and involves shining a laser beam onto the affected cells]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>NEWS - Innovative medicines on the horizon</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking IMI and the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium CDISC have signed an agreement to enhance the use of information in order to develop safer and more effective innovative medicines  Rebecca Kush President and CEO of CDISC stated this will be an invaluable mutually beneficial partnership that can generate standardsbased innovations to streamline the development of new therapies and medical knowledge that will benefit patient]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>NEWS - Can scientists halt the signs of ageing</title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have delayed and even removed the signs of ageing in mice including the onset of wrinkles muscle wasting and cataracts  The scientists achieved the treatment by flushing out retired cells naturally collected through ageing that no longer divide]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>NEWS - Early promise for cancer vaccine</title>
<description><![CDATA[Early clinical trials have shown promising results for a vaccine that trains the bodys immune system to attack one of the most common forms of lung cancer  Although Cancer Research UK advise that there are many unanswered questions about the treatment it has been observed to slow progression]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>PROJECTS - THz Pulse technology brings new hope to cancer sufferers</title>
<description><![CDATA[A team of scientists from the University of Pcs who developed a method for producing ultrashort highenergy terahertz pulses are now confident that they will be able to increase the electric field value of these pulses by a magnitude of 100 This development could lead to a variety of new and exciting applications ranging from cancer therapy to semiconductor research We spoke to Jnos Hebling and Jzsef Flp to find out more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>PROJECTS - Studying rare genome motifs</title>
<description><![CDATA[Gene regulation is an essential function in all life forms and it is a wellresearched area of multicellular organisms as diverse as roundworms and humans Now Miklos Cserzo believes he may have discovered a completely new aspect of this regulation and all he needs to do now is discover just quite what it all means In this fascinating interview he explains more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>PROJECTS - Important first steps in fight against kidney disease</title>
<description><![CDATA[Dr Peter Hamar and a team of researchers from Semmelweis University and Harvard Medical School have been investigating what role the miRNA network has in kidney problems such as reperfusion injury and transplants Projects finds out more about this vital work]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>PROJECTS - Saving lives through better hospital communication</title>
<description><![CDATA[Poor communication between staff and departments in hospitals can put patients lives at risk even lead to death The HANDOVER Research Consortium is an EUfunded project looking at ways to improve patient care during time of transition as well as reducing avoidable and unnecessary treatment We talk to the projects principal investigator Paul Barach and other project partners about this important work that is saving lives]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>PROJECTS - The race to eliminate tuberculosis</title>
<description><![CDATA[What is carried by a third of the worlds population kills someone every 18 seconds somewhere on the planet and develops a new case almost every second The answer may surprise you  its tuberculosis TB a disease which many in Europe assumed had been wiped out in the postwar era That assumption has contributed to TB becoming a forgotten disease  and one for which there is no fully effective vaccine]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>OPINION - Expediting scientific discovery in Europe</title>
<description><![CDATA[Professor Janet Thornton Director of the EMBLEuropean Bioinformatics Institute coordinates ELIXIR an ESFRI Research Infrastructure of global significance that will protect Europes treasuretrove of biological information Here she talks about how ELIXIR will allow competition and innovation to flourish in Europes health sector
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>OPINION - GWA studies gene regulation and disease pointers for the future of medical science</title>
<description><![CDATA[Analyses of existing genome wide association GWA studies have shown that 88 of disease associated polymorphisms are contained in the human noncoding genome  However our understanding of the role of the noncoding human genome in human health and how variation in this component can lead to disease has seriously lagged behind our understanding of the role of genes ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>FEATURES - Chemical tagging threatens illegal activity</title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the University of Oviedo in Spain have developed a new method for tagging and identifying objects substances and even living creatures  The new technique will allow the tracking of illegal gunpowder use  even after it has been denotated  The results also have implications for differentiating between wild and farmed fish]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>FEATURES - Gender affects recovery from facial paralysis</title>
<description><![CDATA[New research focusing on the recovery of facial paralysis has found that gender plays an important role in postsurgery repair  Female brains adapted more easily to the new nerve connections and recovered spontaneous smiling sooner due to a difference in the way the masseteric nerve functions  The results will have implications for planning strategies for reconstruction surgery based on the differing recovery periods]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>FEATURES - Stem cell reprogramming is now one hundred times more efficient</title>
<description><![CDATA[A new technique for reprogramming human cells into stem cells has been announced by researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute  The new process has increased efficiency by one hundredfold generating cells of a higher quality at a faster rate  The technique is a milestone in human stem cell research providing a foundation for realising the full potential of stem cell research]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>FEATURES - Virtual humans health monitoring bed sheets and Japanese supercomputers Welcome to eHealth in Europe</title>
<description><![CDATA[Ilias Iakovidis is the Deputy Head of ICT for Health Unit for the European Commission and has his finger on the pulse of Europes eHealth plans and projects which are astounding in terms of scope and innovation Richard Forsyth interviews him on the latest developments for European healthcare]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>FEATURES - Ticking all the right boxes facilitating EU health</title>
<description><![CDATA[Currently data exchange between GPs and hospitals is rare But research in speechbased structured reporting technology is progressing fast Therefore the age of health records exchange even among EU Member States is dawning says Marcel Wassink Vice President at Nuance Healthcare]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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