European heat waves double in length since 1880
... Paul Della-Marta and a team of researchers at the University of Bern in Switzerland compiled evidence from 54 high-quality recording locations from Sweden to Croatia and report that heat waves last an average of...European Space Agency's Envisat captures breath of volcano
... Officials raised the alert to the highest level on Tuesday after the volcano, located in the eastern province of North Maluku, started spitting out flaming material, indicating magma was approaching the craters surface making an eruption more likely, Saut Simatupang of Indonesia's Vulcanological Survey told Reuters ne...Polish journalist scoops first prize in prestigious European award
... The standard of this years entries was very high, with nominations received for journalists from Belgium, Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switz...UK and other European countries should introduce universal childhood hepatitis B vaccination
... ... Dr Jane Zuckerman, Academic Centre for Travel Medicine and Vaccines, Royal Free and University College Medical Sch...Elsevier partners with European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics
... http://www...Asia-European collaboration addresses water management in Indonesia
... ... A lack of knowledge and understanding of water management issues at the river basin scale has led to inadequate decision making and policy support actions, resulting in project failure, en...Leading European experts in magnetic resonance for animals
The UAB SeRMN is enlarging its facilities to make room for two new cutting-edge machines for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The devices are a Bruker BIOSPEC 70/30 spectrometer with a horizontal magnet, making it possible to carry out magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging in vivo on animals (from mice to rabbits), and an NMR Bruker AvanceII 600 spectrometer combined with a high-resolution li...European scientists receive funding from EU to develop novel therapy for cancer
Scientists of a consortium led by the University of Crete Medical School, Greece, have been awarded a grant from the European Commission Sixth Framework program for the discovery and validation of new therapeutic strategies for cancer. The research program, code-named Apotherapy, will develop methods to activate a protein at the surface of ovarian, lung and bladder tumor cells which will stop t...Astrolab Industry Day to showcase European research technology on ISS
... The day will highlight European technology on the International Space Station (ISS), which is either currently in use on the Station for research purposes or will add to the ISS research capabilities in the very near future. The event will also include a live in-flight call with...Key industry players meet at the European Parliament's Life Science Circle
... The keynote presentation will be by Prof. Dr. Harms President of the European Health Care Foundation, who will share his th...Preparing for European market launch
Ventracor Limited (ASX: VCR) today announced the first patient has been implanted with the VentrAssist in a new study designed to build on clinical momentum from the CE Mark Trial and prepare for European market launch....... The BRACE study (Baseline Results And Cost Effectiveness) will add to the body of evidence for the performance of the VentrAssist left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in up...2006 European eHealth Conference and Exhibition unveils in Malaga, Spain
Malaga, May 4, 2006 The 2006 European eHealth Conference and Exhibition will bring together leaders in the field of eHealth from around the world to shape policies, share best practices, introduce new technology and foster strategic innovation in the new world of eHealthcare May 10-12 in Malaga, Spain. Organized through a partnership between the European Commission, the Austrian Presidency of t...Inconsistencies in pandemic flu preparedness between European countries
Considerable gaps exist among European national pandemic plans, according to a new report published in the online edition of The Lancet on 20 April 2006....... The report, 'How prepared is Europe for Pandemic Influenza? An analysis of national plans', issued by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), reveals marked discrepancies in pandemic preparedness across Europe. The au...European Union's 169 billion bill for cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease cost the European Union's economy 169 billion in 2003, according to research published on-line (Wednesday 22 February) in Europe's leading cardiology journal, European Heart Journal[1]. ...... Dealing with CVD cost every man, woman and child in the EU 230 in healthcare costs[2], took up 12% of all the healthcare expenditure, accounted for 126 million hospital bed days, 268....Japan's ALOS in orbit: ESA will deliver its data to European researchers
ALOS, Japan's latest Earth Observation satellite, was successfully launched at 02:33 CET (10:33 Japan time) on 24 January. Environmental data and imagery from ALOS will be provided to European and African users through a cooperative agreement between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)....... The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) is a four-tonne satellite dedicated to lan...5th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC)
Come along to the largest meeting of breast cancer specialists in Europe - the only one of its kind to include advocacy groups. Together we will make the difference!...... Why you don't want to miss it... ... ...... Breast cancer, however, is not just a physical disease as it can produce profound psychological distress, not only in the patient but also in his or her immediate family and fri...Ethnic minority groups must be included in European health research
Despite the knowledge that ethnicity matters in cardiovascular disease, most studies of cardiovascular disease risk have not been designed to yield results that apply to different ethnic groups, report Meghna Ranganathan and Raj Bhopal (of Edinburgh University) in a new study in the international open-access medical journal PLoS Medicine. ... ...To ensure that the results of research studies can...European Science Foundation warns nanomedicine benefits will be lost without major investment
Brussels December 15, The European Science Foundation today announced the conclusions of its wide-ranging Forward Look study on Nanomedicine, calling for a clear strategy and investment plan to ensure Europe does not miss out on the benefits. The report concludes that nanomedicine is about to deliver a healthcare paradigm shift in which it will be possible to monitor people on the basis of known...For European media only: Can latest advances in health psychology help improve HIV care?
Initial results from the OpenMind study, the largest behavioural study to look at both patients' and physicians' perceptions to a self-injectable HIV therapy (enfuvirtide) will be presented at the 10th European AIDS Conference of the European AIDS Clinical Society on 18th November in Dublin.... ...The study findings will aim to provide insights into:... What physician barriers exist to prescribi...University's HIV diagnostic test expands into European market
A diagnostics test developed by the University of Liverpool for monitoring anti-HIV drugs in the blood is to be made available across Europe.... ...The test has been acquired by Delphic Europe a diagnostics products provider - which will develop it in conjunction with viral resistance testing for market on the continent. The service was created by Professor David Back, Dr Saye Khoo and a team i...Implementing European Space Policy: Key ESA/EC agreement on Earth Observation data signed today
An agreement on space-based information services and access to, and provision of, Earth Observation data was signed today by ESA and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The signature took place at ESRIN, the ESA Earth Observation Centre in Frascati, Italy....... Dr Volker Liebig, Director of ESA's Earth Observation Programme, signed the agreement on the 'Specific arrangement con...Liverpool psychology helps bring peace to European football
'Low impact' policing is the key to overcoming 'hooliganism' at major international football tournaments, according to ESRC-funded research. ...... It found that while preventing known troublemakers from travelling is important, the way to foster incident-free events is a 'low profile', friendly-but-firm police presence, and dealing with fans on the basis of their behaviour not their reputation....Do the Europeans turn ill sitting up so late?
In spring 2005 a large European research and training network was established...to investigate the causes and implications of poor sleep from the medical as well as from the social point of view. This EU-financed sleep research project, named..."The biomedical and sociological effects of sleep restriction" will last for four years...and is coordinated by Dr. Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen (Stenberg) MD,...European approval trial enrolment gathers momentum
Ventracor Limited (ASX:VCR) today said recruitment at CE Mark Trial sites outside Australia was gathering momentum worldwide with the recent implantation of a patient in New Zealand, bringing the total number of patients implanted to 27 including nine as part of the pilot trial. ... ...Ventracor Limited Chief Executive Officer, Colin Sutton PhD said: "We are now recruiting and implanting in thre...European working time directive may put doctors' and patients' lives at risk
The European working time directive may put doctors' and patients' lives at risk, warn experts in this week's BMJ....... Introduced in August 2004, it aims to reduce working hours in order to improve workers' health and safety, but the current NHS shift system could threaten doctors' and, moreover, patients' safety, argue Professor Roy Pounder and colleagues....... Junior doctors' working hours a...Study examines cost-effectiveness of HPV testing in four European countries
Incorporating testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA into cervical cancer screening has the potential for improving health benefits at a reasonable cost in France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, according to a new study in the June 15 issue of the ...... Cervical cancer screening has been shown to decrease mortality from the disease. The discovery that HPV infection is the c...Enrollment progress for European approval trial
Sydney 28 April 2005: Ventracor Limited (ASX:VCR) today announced three patients had recently been implanted with the VentrAssist implantable heart assist system as part of its CE Mark Trial. Ventracor Limited Chief Executive Officer, Colin Sutton PhD, said two implants were conducted at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne and one at Royal Perth. ... ...Dr Sutton said 20 patients had now been impla...Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
Full-scale disaster breaking out in France in the form of a simulated accident around which a major European civil protection exercise is planned. Just as in a real emergency, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters is being activated so rescue teams will receive satellite images of the disaster zone....... It begins with a train derailment, and then the situation gets worse. Trai...