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Campaigner wins seven-year battle to force rethink on use of pesticides
Published on Saturday 15 November 2008 - 01:14 - http://www.guardian.co.uk/An environmental campaigner yesterday won a landmark victory against the government in a long-running legal battle over the use of pesticides. The high court ruled that Georgina Downs, who runs the...
Laugh? Not at these old witless windbags
Published on Saturday 15 November 2008 - 01:00 - http://www.independent.ie/Peter Ustinov, who died four years ago, bizarrely featured in two nostalgia programmes during the week. On Gaybo Laughs Back (RTE1) we saw him in a Late Late Show clip from the 1970s, while over on...
Parkinson's research nets £1,000 prize
Published on Friday 14 November 2008 - 17:02 - http://www.manchester.ac.uk/A young neuroscience student has won a prestigious prize for the presentation of his research into Parkinson s disease.
Protecting neurons could halt Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
Published on Friday 14 November 2008 - 15:24 - http://www.scienceblog.com/Researchers at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) have identified a group of chemical compounds that slow the degeneration of neurons, a condition...
Dancing Moves Parkinson's Patients to a Better Place
Published on Friday 14 November 2008 - 13:30 - http://www.sci-tech-today.com/Pity is not for the students with Parkinson's who study dance at the Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn.''Not when one student, well into his 70s, bent crookedly in his chair, lifts his arms...
Chemicals that can halt Alzheimer's, Parkinson's by preventing neuron death identified
Published on Friday 14 November 2008 - 06:09 - http://www.dailyindia.com/American researchers have identified chemical compounds that slow the degeneration of neurons, a condition behind old-age diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
Food not the enemy this holiday season
Published on Friday 14 November 2008 - 06:00 - http://www.bcm.edu/Dr. Huda Y. Zoghbi, professor of pediatrics and molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, leads a team that has been awarded the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
Deep Brain Stimulation May Help Treat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Published on Thursday 13 November 2008 - 18:20 - http://www.fdanews.com/The same kind of deep brain stimulation used to treat some patients for Parkinson s disease also helped a few people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, French scientists reported.
Orion Sues Sun Pharma to Protect Comtan
Published on Thursday 13 November 2008 - 18:15 - http://www.fdanews.com/Finnish drugmaker Orion has filed a patent infringement suit against Sun Pharma Global, which submitted an ANDA to market a generic version of Comtan in 200-mg tablets to treat Parkinson s disease.
Ryan Reynolds: I gorged myself after running New York marathon
Published on Thursday 13 November 2008 - 15:12 - http://fametastic.co.uk/Ryan Reynolds has revealed he celebrated completing the New York Marathon by gorging on food.'The Fireflies in the Garden star ran the 26.2mile race at the start of the month in aid of the Michael...
