http://www.wikio.co.uk/blog/search/BioMed Wikio Blogs - search: BioMed wikio wikio http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66127480 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:05:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66127480 anton 2008-07-31T00:05:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66473359 After introducing Pubmedfight, I wrote about InterMedi which: is a set of tools aiming at connecting biomedical researchers together helping them to find informations about their previous works, collaborators and affiliations. The remarkable fact is that no information is required! Our intelligent software knows how to combine information already available on the web, specially on the [...] Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:55:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66473359 Bertalan Meskó 2008-08-03T05:55:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65256742 Seeking Alpha had a good piece Sunday on the poor performance of China's biomedical industry when it comes to venture capital funding. The comparison is simple enough. In the U.S., biomedical projects rake in 31% of all venture capital funding. In China, only 2.4% of venture capital funding went to biomedical and/or healthcare projects in the recently released Q2 numbers. Everyone keeps waiting and predicting that the biomedical take of VC funds in China will start to climb. So far it hasn't... © Patrick J. Lynch See full article. Related Entries: Venture Capital Tsunami Surges Over China's IT - 22 December 2005 For China's Poor- Venture Capital Funds for Digital Deliverance - 23 October 2006 A Tax Increase for Venture Capital? Maybe... - 28 June 2007 China's Venture Capital Sector Grows, Focuses on Internet - 18 August 2007 Contents of this feed are a property of Creative Weblogging Limited and are protected by copyright laws. Violations will be prosecuted. Please email us if you'd like to use this feed for non-commercial activities at feeds - at - creative-weblogging.com. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:01:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65256742 ChinaVentureNews 2008-07-23T16:01:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65215335 Seeking Alpha had a good piece Sunday on the poor performance of China's biomedical industry when it comes to venture capital funding. The comparison is simple enough. In the U.S., biomedical projects rake in 31% of all venture capital funding. In China, only 2.4% of venture capital funding went to biomedical and/or healthcare projects in the recently released Q2 numbers. Everyone keeps waiting and predicting that the biomedical take of VC funds in China will start to climb. So far it hasn't... © Patrick J. Lynch See full article. Related Entries: Venture Capital Tsunami Surges Over China's IT - 22 December 2005 For China's Poor- Venture Capital Funds for Digital Deliverance - 23 October 2006 A Tax Increase for Venture Capital? Maybe... - 28 June 2007 China's Venture Capital Sector Grows, Focuses on Internet - 18 August 2007 Contents of this feed are a property of Creative Weblogging Limited and are protected by copyright laws. Violations will be prosecuted. Please email us if you'd like to use this feed for non-commercial activities at feeds - at - creative-weblogging.com. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:21:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65215335 ChinaVentureNews 2008-07-23T08:21:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=64339928 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:35:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=64339928 anton 2008-07-15T23:35:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=69114961 Women who have a positive outlook may decrease their chances of developing breast cancer, say Israeli researchers. The small study, published in the BioMed Central journal, besides raise that acquirement divorced, or being deprived of friend could increase the risk. But the researchers admitted that women were questioned after their diagnosis, which might significantly change their outlook forward living beings. UK experts said it was hard to compare different women's emotional stresses. Emotional stress is in a high degree. subjective and is difficult to measure accurately Dr Sarah Cant Breakthrough Breast Cancer The role of mental watch-tower on cancer remains controversial, with some studies suggesting that it might play a role. Meanwhile, others be obliged ground not any significant effect, either in continuance the likelihood of developing the illness in the first lay, or in succession your chances of surviving it. The latest study looked at 255 women with breast cancer and compared their answers in a questionnaire on mental outlook and life events with 367 vigorous control subjects. They found that a in the usual course of things indisputable outlook appeared to reduce the chance of breast cancer by a quarter. In addition, exposure to one or more of the traumatic "mode events" such to the degree that loss of a parent or a spouse increased the risk by more than 60%. Lead researcher Dr Ronit Peled, from Ben-Gurion University, said that women who had been exposed to a number of negative events should be considered one "at-risk" group for breast cancer. "We can carefully say that experiencing more than one severe and/or moderate life marked occurrence is a risk factor for breast cancer among young women. "On the other hand, a not partial feeling of prosperity and optimism can play a protective role." 'Complex disease' But Dr Sarah Cant, from Breakthrough Breast Cancer, maintained that there was no clear evidence that positive or negative experiences could affect breast cancer risk. "Emotional stress is very much subjective and is difficult to measure accurately. "Women in this study were interviewed after breast cancer was diagnosed when they may be more likely to recall feeling depression and disquietude. "The researchers also didn't account for other factors known to affect mammary organ cancer risk such as subdivision of an order history or weight. "Breast cancer is a complex disease and there is unlikely to be one single cause." free viagra cialis Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:11:56 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=69114961 admin 2008-08-26T22:11:56Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=64339221 SAN DIEGO, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BMR) today announced it will report results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2008 after…Read more Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:12:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=64339221 2008-07-15T22:12:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68765073 Owning a pet dog during childhood could increase the risk of a person becoming a habitual snorer later on in life, a new study published in the journal BioMed Central revealed. Researchers from the Swedish Hospital Umea questioned more than 15,500 people and found that nearly 20 percent of the volunteers from countries such as Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Estonia were habitual snorers. When asked to suggest a reason for their snoring, the researchers received a number of replies... Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:04:22 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68765073 Shaan 2008-08-24T05:04:22Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68414288 Photo & Text Copyright 2008 Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved, including reproduction or republishing. You are viewing a long wooden bench and ornamental grass planting at the newly opened University of Washington Research complex , built by Vulcan (Paul Allen) as part of the core biomed industries area envisioned for the Cascade neighborhood in South Lake Union. I took quite a few photos of construction in progress a year or two ago, so it was a treat to see the exterior design elements in their finished form. This is actually a test shot I took with a new pocket camera I had just purchased at a camera store across the street. I saw some BMX riders coming out of this courtyard area, and went to take a look at where they might be doing tricks. Seems security personnel shooed them off, but didn't mind me taking photos. I'll be back with my "real" camera and tripod. . .this place is beautifully designed. Copyright 2007 Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:35:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68414288 noreply@blogger.com (Kim) 2008-08-20T15:35:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68654269 This is an unexpected finding. It’s been well established that a positive outlook has no effect on the medical prognosis once you have cancer (though it does wonders for one’s mental health), but apparently a positive outlook does have value as a preventive: Feelings of happiness and optimism play a positive role against breast cancer. Research [...] Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:59:10 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68654269 LeisureGuy 2008-08-22T18:59:10Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68163498 With grant support from the Open Society Institute, Intelligent Television and BioMed Central are engaged in the Open Access Documentary Project, which is producing videos about the benefits of open access. The first video clips from the project are now available. They are interviews with John Wilbanks, Vice President of Science at the Creative Commons, [...] Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:39:17 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68163498 Charles Bailey 2008-08-18T22:39:17Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68061960 I was reading this paper “A cohort study of in utero polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposures in relation to secondary sex ratio” in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health , and it disturbed me. The article clearly depicts that women exposed to high levels of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls – a group of banned environmental pollutants) are less likely to have male children. PCBs are persistent organic pollutants identified worldwide as human blood and breast milk contaminants. Irva Hertz-Picciotto, the lead author of the study says "The women most exposed to PCBs were 33% less likely to give birth to male children than the women least exposed". Even though PCBs were banned in the 1970s it is believed that they find their way in developing and underdeveloped countries. Chemicals with a similar structure to PCBs, such as the flame-retardants PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers), are still widely used in plastic casings and foam products.People consuming fish from contaminated lakes and those who live near former manufacturing facilities face high risk. The risk is not restricted to human beings alone. Wildlife also face a threat of equal magnitude. Environmental Health 2008, 7:37 (15 July 2008) If you want to read the full article click here Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:54:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68061960 noreply@blogger.com (Mohan Alembath) 2008-08-18T03:54:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67998250 A new systematic analysis of the relationship between the neoplastic and developmental transcriptome provides an outline of trends in cancer gene expression. The research, published recently in BioMed Central’s open access journal Genome Biology, describes how cancers can be divided into three groups distinguished by disparate developmental signatures. Isaac S Kohane from Children’s Hospital Boston and [...] Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:25:48 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67998250 admin 2008-08-17T07:25:48Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67626173 We've discussed quite a few aspects of open access on this blog over the years, so a recent email from BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com) lead me to looking into our areas of interest - nursing, health informatics, e-learning, etc. - to see how well we scored in the open access stakes. The 'Open Access Quotient' (OAQ) was introduced on the BioMed Central blog in July 2007 (> > > ); the Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:54:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67626173 Peter 2008-08-13T13:54:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66715371 Human brains pay a price for being big General Science / Biology Metabolic changes responsible for the evolution of our unique cognitive abilities indicate that the brain may have been pushed to the limit of its capabilities. Research published today in BioMed Central’s open access journal Genome Biology adds weight to the theory that schizophrenia is a [...] Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:18:24 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66715371 ngvrnd 2008-08-05T13:18:24Z