SAN MATEO, CA (MARKET WIRE) TeraRecon (www.terarecon.com), a leading provider of advanced visualization solutions, and previously a two-time Frost & Sullivan award recipient, received the Frost & Sullivan 2007 Market Penetration Leadership Award for demonstrating strategic excellence in product innovation,

Background: We present a probabilistic topic-based model for content similarity called pmra that underlies the related article search feature in PubMed. Whether or not a document is about a particular topic is computed from term frequencies, modeled as Poisson distributions.

Various kinds of nanotechnology are being worked on in China, but one of the most important on the pathway to a general ability to build with atomic precision is what is called functional supramolecular systems. We at Foresight wish we

About 10 percent of Americans aged 71 and up, or 2.4 million people, have Alzheimer's disease and 1 million more have some other form of dementia, researchers said on Tuesday, offering figures lower than some widely cited estimates. The National

Ziprasidone, sold under the trade name Geodon, is well tolerated by patients and shows long-term efficacy as maintenance therapy for patients with schizophrenia who have not responded to other drugs, according to the results of a clinical trial published in

Breast cancer has risen sharply in Beijing, China's capital, and in Shanghai, its top financial centre during the last decade due to unhealthy diets, a poor environment and increased stress at work, state media reported on Tuesday. In Beijing, the

The results of a new survey indicate that 48 percent of physicians between 50 and 65 years of age are planning to reduce or end their clinical practice in the next 1 to 3 years. The findings also suggest that

President George W. Bush on Tuesday welcomed Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to the White House, where the two heads of state discussed a variety of issues, including trade, HIV/Aids and malaria.

New UC Irvine research is among the first to demonstrate that neural stem cells may help to restore memory after brain damage. In the study, mice with brain injuries experienced enhanced memory -- similar to the level found in healthy

The brain, the human supercomputer, might work more like an assembly line when recognizing objects, with a hierarchy of brain regions separately absorbing and processing information before a person realizes what they are seeing, according to new research in Neuroscience.

Hospitals seeking to keep patients from picking up infections should focus as much on cleaning up invisible germs as on removing the visible dirt, a British doctor argued on Tuesday. Clean hands can only go so far in protecting patients

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Mbarara Assistant Health Officer Eldard Mabumba has advised Born Again Christians not to rely on the preaching of their pastors, which encourages them not to take drugs but only pray for healing.

THE Human Resource Department at Mulago Hospital has submitted a proposal urging the Public Service Commission to recognise nurses who have upgraded their education.

A US based Nebbi Catholic priest has kick-started the construction of a Shs500 million shillings modern health center that would relieve patients from traveling long distances to seek medical treatment at Nebbi government hospital.

Over 5,000 poor people are expected to benefit from free breast cancer screening after Safaricom donated mobile mammography unit to the Kenya Breast Health programme.

World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for the strengthening of civil registration amid reports that many deaths and births go unregistered.

MITYANA District authorities have appealed to the government to consider building a new hospital for them. The district chairman, Mr. Joseph Musoke and the Mityana hospital Medical superintendent, Mr Isaac Kadowa made the appeal on Friday while addressing journalists at

Unsafe delivery and failure by expectant mothers to attend ante-natal clinics have been cited as the main causes of increased number of children living with HIV and Aids.