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Cost-Effectiveness of Antimalarial Drug Combinations in Tanzania

They found that the drug combination that was the most expensive in the short term was in fact the most cost-effective, because its superior performance in…

Business and Finance

2006 Economic Sciences Prize Highlights Innovative Research

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2006The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of…

Health & Medicine

New technology to speed up research into Huntington's disease

Researchers have developed an effective new method of testing cognitive decline in mice with the disease, using an automated touch screen. It is hoped the…

Physics & Astronomy

Cluster Fleet Awakens from Hibernation During Autumn Eclipses

Each year, in autumn, the Cluster fleet must pass several times through the Earth's shadow with respect to the Sun. During these eclipses, which last about…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Electromagnetic Miniatures: Innovative Magnetic Control

Magnetic components that can be controlled by the application of an external electric field are useful in many different applications. They can serve as…

Studies and Analyses

Car Manufacturers Prioritize Profits Over Safety in Poor Nations

Every day, worldwide, around 30,000 people are seriously injured in road traffic crashes. Most of these are in low- and middle-income countries, and most are…

Health & Medicine

Cost of Depression in Europe: €118 Billion Impact Explained

The new figures, which can be translated into 250 euro per inhabitant per year, or 1 per cent of Europe's aggregate national income, are presented by Patrik…

Earth Sciences

Kentucky’s Underground Capacity for Carbon Dioxide Storage Revealed

One such research project, overseen by geologist Brandon Nuttall at the Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) at the University of Kentucky, has investigated the…

Studies and Analyses

Child-Proof: Safer Brain Mapping Techniques for Kids

Analysis of 241 cerebral angiograms performed on 205 children at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center between 1999 and 2006 showed that not a single patient…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights: Bubbles Behave Unexpectedly in Tabletop Experiments

University of Chicago physicists have discovered a new class of behavior in air bubbles rising from an underwater nozzle. In this surprising behavior, the…

Life & Chemistry

New DESI Technology Enhances Clinical Imaging Applications

The technology, desorption electrospray ionization, or DESI, measures characteristic chemical markers that distinguish diseased from non-diseased regions of…

Life & Chemistry

New Technique Quadruples Protein Size for Advanced Analysis

But now, Cornell researchers have extended a powerful technique to increase by fourfold the size of a protein that can be analyzed, to those containing more…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Solutions for Babies with Pulmonary Hypertension

“When these kids are born, you have a short amount of time to intervene or you get brain damage,” says Dr. Black, cell and molecular physiologist at the…

Physics & Astronomy

Chandra Reviews Black Hole Musical: Epic Yet Off-Key Insights

This discovery was made by using data from the longest X-ray observation ever of M87, a nearby giant elliptical galaxy. M87 is centrally located in the Virgo…

Health & Medicine

Methamphetamine: Use, as well as “meth mouth,” on the rise

According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more than 12 million Americans age 12 and older reported they had tried methamphetamine at least once…

Studies and Analyses

Tongue Scrapers: Minor Impact on Bad Breath Reduction

According to a study in the September/October issue of General Dentistry, the Academy of General Dentistry’s (AGD) clinical, peer-reviewed journal, halitosis…

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