The 2013 Geoffrey Beene Global Neurodiscovery Challenge
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, in association with the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer’s Initiative, announce preliminary winner, finalist for the awards, and open voting to the public.
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Online Voting begins on November 1
and ends of November 5
From November 1 – 5, 2013 the public will have the opportunity to vote for the grand prize winning entry. Click the image above for details.
The grand prize winner will receive an additional $50,000 award to continue research specifically in the area of male/female differences in Alzheimer’s disease.
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Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 29, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Pfizer funds study: Economic burden of cancer across the European Union: a population-based cost analysis
Background
In 2008, 2·45 million people were diagnosed with cancer and 1·23 million died because of cancer in the 27 countries of the European Union (EU). We aimed to estimate the economic burden of cancer in the EU.
Methods
In a population-based cost analysis, we evaluated the cost of all cancers and also those associated with breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers. We obtained country-specific aggregate data for morbidity, mortality, and health-care resource use from international and national sources. We estimated health-care costs from expenditure on care in the primary, outpatient, emergency, and inpatient s...
Source: PharmaGossip - October 15, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Punishment For Criticizing The US Government?
Jonathan Turley: While there has been little media attention in the United States, European press is reporting how German-Bulgarian writer and activist Ilija Trojanow was barred from entering the United States this week. A critic of NSA spying programs and professor at The European Graduate School, Trojanow was invited to speak at a literary conference and is well-known for his criticism of the surveillance state. He said that he was given no explanation for being barred from entry. Trojanow was... (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - October 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Egypt’s Vanishing Currency Black Markets
Steve H. Hanke
Despite escalating tensions between Egypt’s new military-backed government and supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi, there is at least one positive development coming out of the Land of the Nile. Yes, at long last, some semblance of stability appears to be returning to Egypt’s economy.
After the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, the Egyptian economy took a turn for the worse. In particular, the Egyptian pound began to slide shortly after Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood-backed government took power, sparking the development of a black market for foreign currency. The accompanying chart...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 25, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Steve H. Hanke Source Type: blogs
The Misery Index: A Look Back at Bulgaria's Elections
This article was originally published in the Bulgarian newspaper Trud. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Steve H. Hanke Source Type: blogs
Green Energy and the Fall of the Bulgarian Government
Marian L. Tupy
The Bulgarian government resigned on Wednesday after violent protests spread across the country. The protesters complained about a variety of issues, including perceived government corruption and persistently low standards of living. A key complaint, it seems, was the high price of electricity. Yet when it comes to electricity price, Bulgarians ought to understand the pernicious role played by the European Union and its obsessive drive toward renewable energy targets.
The departing minority government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and his center-right party, the Citizens for European Development of ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 22, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Marian L. Tupy Source Type: blogs
Tredaptive RIP
Niacin/laropiprant products to be suspended worldwide
Tuesday 15th January 2013
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended that the marketing, supply, and authorisations of three identical niacin/laropiprant products—Tredaptive, Pelzont, and Trevaclyn—for the treatment of adults with dyslipidemia be suspended across the European Union.[1]
In addition, the company that markets the combination, Merck, has begun working with regulatory agencies in all countries where the medicine is currently available to develop communications for healthcare providers and to suspend the availability of the pro...
Source: PharmaGossip - January 15, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
5 years HOME!!!
Still can't believe it myself. Yes, I'm interrupting the Bulgarian posts momentarily to share about Nik and Alyona. Both were declared ours this time 5 years ago. Hard to believe for sure. Nik was a tiny little thing. Size... (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - December 31, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Stephanie Tags: Auditory/Oral Cochlear Implant vm Source Type: blogs
Class Warfare Tax Policy Causes Portugal to Crash on the Laffer Curve, but Will Obama Learn from this Mistake?
Daniel J. Mitchell
Back in mid-2010, I wrote that Portugal was going to exacerbate its fiscal problems by raising taxes.
Needless to say, I was right. Not that this required any special insight. After all, no nation has ever taxed its way to prosperity.
We’re now at the end of 2012 and Portugal is still saddled with a weak economy. And the higher taxes haven’t resulted in less red ink. Indeed, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, government debt has jumped from 93 percent of GDP in 2010 to 124 percent of GDP this year.
Why did higher taxes backfire in Portugal? For the same reasons that higher ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 31, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
