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Dr. R. Thiyagarajan with patients visiting from Ireland to his Homoeocare Hospital in Trichi, a southern town of south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The 2008 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Promega Biotechnology Research Award has been presented to David J. Lipman, Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of medicine, National Institutes of health, Bethesda, Maryland. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the application of biotechnology through fundamental microbiological research and development. Dr. (Source: Biology / Biochemistry News From Medical News Today)

American Society for Microbiology honors Stephen C. Edberg The 2008 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology was presented to Stephen C. Edberg, Professor, Department of Laboratory medicine and Internal medicine, Yale University School of medicine, and Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Yale-New Haven Hospital. (Source: Biology / Biochemistry News From Medical News Today)

Natural medicine: Here are a couple of myths, and some facts, about natural medicine.

American Society for Microbiology honors Steven A. Rosenberg The 2008 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Abbott Laboratories Award in Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology was presented to Steven A. Rosenberg, Chief of Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the health Sciences, and Professor of Surgery, George Washington University School of medicine and Health Sciences.

A drug once approved as an antihistamine in Russia improved thinking processes and ability to function in patients with Alzheimer's disease in a study conducted there, said an expert at Baylor College of medicine in Houston. The findings are published in the current issue of the journal The Lancet. 'More research is needed, but we are encouraged by the effect the drug Dimebon had on Alzheimer's patients' said Dr.

MedicineS for hospital patients are to be rationed under radical new plans to halt the spread of killer superbugs.

(Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)) A study by researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), in collaboration with the Instituto de Biología Molecular of CSIC, reveal a mechanism that controls the movement of cells in a tissue by regulating cell adhesion. This same mechanism may be defective in diseases such as cancer and metastasis, when tumour cells lose their adhesion to neighbouring cells and migrate through the organism. The results have been published in Nature Cell Biology.

(Emory University) The selective gene-silencing technique called RNA interference holds promise for medicine if it can be adapted to work in humans. Certain antibiotic compounds called fluoroquinolones enhance the effectiveness of RNA interference in cells and could reduce potential side effects.

Medicexchange PLC (subsidiary of MGT Capital Investments Inc, Amex: MGT) announces the launch of a focused Nuclear medicine and Molecular Imaging online community to allow medical imaging professionals to keep abreast of the developments in this fast evolving arena of imaging. The