U.K. doctors question treatment of terminally ill Sep 4, 2009
Marie Curie Cancer Care, the charity that drew up the guidelines, said the procedures had "improved the end of life experience for thousands of people" and claimed the doctors' letter would cause unnecessary fear. Most Britons strongly support the NHS, which provides free medical care for all. (MSNBC -- Health)
U.K. Docs Worry Patients Dying Prematurely Sep 4, 2009
" Marie Curie Cancer Care, the charity that drew up the guidelines, said the procedures had "improved the end of life experience for thousands of people" and claimed the doctors' letter would cause unnecessary fear. Also Thursday, a report by management consultants McKinseyvised the health service to cut a tenth of its 1.5 million-strong work force over the next five years to make up a budget shortfall. It also suggested the NHS sell off hospitals and cut back on some services. The government... (CBS News -- Health)
PATIENTS WITH TERMINAL ILLNESSES MADE TO DIE PREMATURELY Sep 3, 2009
" The warning comes just a week after a report by the Patients Association estimated that up to one million patients had received poor or cruel care on the NHS. The scheme, called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), was designed to reduce patient suffering in their final hours. Developed by Marie Curie, the cancer charity, in a Liverpool hospice it was initially developed for cancer patients but now includes other life threatening conditions. It was recommended as a model by the National Institute... (The Drudge Report)
Start math learning early, make it fun Aug 30, 2009
" Making math fun may be critical to student success, whatever the age. Jo Boaler is Marie Curie professor of mathematics education at the University of Sussex in England and author of "What's Math Got to Do with It. " a book on how parents and teachers can help children love math. "Math needs to be fun for children because when it is not, they disengage and their performance goes down," she said. Her research shows that an interest in math is the most important factor in children continuing... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Street art in the Mission Aug 21, 2009
Close by is the Women's Building, a colorful paean to female heroes and goddesses, from Guatemalan peace activist Rigoberto Menchu to scientist Marie Curie. A couple of blocks up is an intricate mural on the facade of a writer's school and colony, depicting the human race's attempts at communication. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Martian life appears less likely, study reveals Aug 13, 2009
Computer models show that if chemical reactions on the planet's surface are responsible for the rapidly declining levels of on Mars, it would leave "little hope that life as we know it can exist at present or that evidence of past life can be preserved in the shallow surface layer," said Franck Lefevre and Francois Forget of the Universitaire Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Mailbag: French are poor example (Aug. 12) Aug 13, 2009
There are at least 57 French Nobel prize winners, including Pierre and Marie Curie, who were honored for their work on radioactivity. Reader Comments The comments below are from readers of Democratherald. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Mars, methane and mysteries Aug 11, 2009
"We thought we understood how methane behaved on Mars but if the measurements are correct then we must be missing something big," says Franck Lefvre, Universit Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, Paris and a member of Mars Express's SPICAM instrument team. Together with his colleague Franois Forget, Mars Express Interdisciplinary Scientist in charge of atmospheric studies and also of Universit Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, Paris, Lefvre has investigated the disappearance using a computer model of... (Scientific American)
More Insulin-producing Cells, At The Flip Of A 'Switch' Aug 8, 2009
The researchers include Patrick Collombat, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany, Beta Cell Biology Consortium, Nashville, TN, JDRF Center for Beta Cell Therapy in Diabetes, Brussels, Belgium; Xiaobo Xu, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Philippe Ravassard, JDRF Center for Beta Cell Therapy in Diabetes, Brussels, Belgium, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Hopital Pitie. Salpetriere, Paris, France; Beatriz Sosa-Pineda, St. Jude Children's Research... (Science Daily)
AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009 Aug 7, 2009
Authors: J. Vialard: Laboratoire d'Ocanographie Exprimentation et Approches Numriques, IRD, Universit Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. S. S. C. Shenoi: Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad, India. (EurekAlert!)
Martian methane mystery deepens Aug 6, 2009
Writing in the journal Nature, Franck Lefevre and Francois Forget from the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris describe how they used a computer model of the Martian climate to reconstruct observations made by a US team ... Franck Lefevre, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie. (BBC News -- Science)
Protein 'Tweek' Rare But Critical In Synaptic Process Aug 6, 2009
Funding for this work came from the Baylor College of Medicine Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, a R.L. Kirchstein NRS award, a Marie Curie Excellence Grant, the Research Fund K.U. Leuven, VIB and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Scientists prepare to turn fiction into fact with first full-face transplant Aug 5, 2009
marie curie cancer care. hospice in hampstead. (Yahoo News -- Organ Donation & Transplants)
Unique immunization method provides insights about protective anti-malaria immune response Jul 31, 2009
4 Universit Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005, Paris. 5 Laboratory of Malaria Immunobiology, Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore. (EurekAlert!)
Discovery Of Elephants' Oldest Known Relative Jul 30, 2009
(1) UMR 7207 (MNHN/CNRS/Universit; Pierre et Marie Curie), Center for Research on Paleobiodiversity and Paleoenvironments. (2) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. (Science Daily)
Neuronal survival and axonal regrowth obtained in vitro Jul 25, 2009
1 : Biotechnology and Biotherapy Group, Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epiniere, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR 7225, Institut National de la Sant et de la Recherche Mdicale (INSERM) UMRS 975, Universit Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) - Hpital de la Piti Salptrire, Paris F-75013, France. 2 : NEUREVA-inc. (EurekAlert!)
Editor's Notebook: Finding 50 ways to love your liver Jul 24, 2009
The Nova Science Now episode follows how she balances her work and her life, and how she instills a curiosity in her own daughters much like Marie Curie, another pioneering scientist, did. It details the process she developed for helping liver cells survive outside the body for up to six weeks, which no one had done before. (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
Brain imaging and proteins in spinal fluid may improve Alzheimer's prediction and diagnosis Jul 14, 2009
1Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), Trinity College, University of Dublin ide and Meath Hospital Incorporating the National Children's Hospital (AMNCH), Dublin, Ireland; 2Dementia Research Section and Memory Clinic, Alzheimer Memorial Center, Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany; 3Department of Statistics, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 4Institute on Aging, Alzheimer's... (EurekAlert!)
The language of world Jul 14, 2009
Moreover, educated Americans would agree that French philosophers such as Rousseau and Montesquieu, artists like Monet and Renoir, literary figures including Moli;re and Jean Paul Sartre and scientists like Marie Curie constitute a vital part of our Western cultural heritage. And how can we in the United States ignore the impact on us of the French Revolution and Alexis de Tocqueville s astute book on American democracy. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Like humans, birds avoid inbreeding Jul 1, 2009
Wagner conducted the study in collaboration with Etienne Danchin from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, as well as researchers from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Parks, the Alaska Science Center and the University of Bern. The study appears in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Avoidance Of Inbreeding In Birds Demonstrated Jun 30, 2009
The study, led by Richard H. Wagner from the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Etienne Danchin from the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, and involving researchers from the Universit; Pierre et Marie Curie, the Alaska Science Center, and the University of Bern, tracked 10 genetic markers, microsatellite loci, to investigate whether kittiwakes avoid inbreeding by pairing with genetically distant mates, and whether inbreeding reduces the number of... (Science Daily)
Yeast: Highest Resolution Three-dimensional Structure Yet Of A Membrane Protein Jun 30, 2009
This work was supported by grants from the European Commission (The Marie Curie Research Training Network of Aqua(glycero)porins), the Swedish Science Research Council (VR), The Swedish Strategic Research Foundation (SSF), the University of Gothenburg Quantitative Biology Platform, and the EU Integrated projects E-MEP and EDICT. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Journal reference. (Science Daily)
Spintronic – The New Electronic? Jun 26, 2009
For now, work continues and, while the Nanospin project is over, the partners are continuing to collaborate through a Marie Curie European network called SemiSpinNet. Currently, we are looking at logic schemes for spintronics, so we are moving from memory and storage to processing, says Gould. (Science Daily)
Migraines With Aura In Midlife Associated With Increased Prevalence Of Brain Lesions In Older Age Jun 25, 2009
D., of the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, and Christophe Tzourio, M.D., Ph. D., of the University Pierre et Marie Curie and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, write in an accompanying editorial that the clinical implications of this study "should be interpreted with caution.". (Science Daily)
Melatonin: The Fountain Of Youth? Jun 24, 2009
A team at laboratoire Arago in Banyuls sur Mer (CNRS / Universit; Pierre et Marie Curie) has found that a treatment based on melatonin can delay the first signs of aging in a small mammal. See also. (Science Daily)
Tiny crustacean big on reproduction Jun 20, 2009
The research was supported by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, European Union Marie Curie Research and Training Networks, Ludwig-Maximilians University, the Lake Biwa Museum of Japan and the Natural History Museum, London. . (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Giant Sperm Found In Microfossils Jun 19, 2009
The project led by the LMU Munich paleontologist was funded by ESRF (Grenoble), the European Union in the scope of the Marie Curie RT Network "SEXASEX" and the Lake Biwa Museum. Journal reference. (Science Daily)
Parkinson's Disease Associated With Pesticide Exposure In French Farm Workers Jun 6, 2009
D., of Inserm, the national French institute for health research in Paris, and University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris 6), the study involved individuals affiliated with the French health insurance organization for agricultural workers who were frequently exposed to pesticides in the course of their work. Occupational health physicians constructed a detailed lifetime exposure history to pesticides by interviewing participants, visiting farms, and collecting a large amount of data on... (Science Daily)
Bats recognize the individual voices of other bats Jun 5, 2009
This work was also supported by the human resources and mobility activity Marie Curie host fellowships for early stage research training under contract MEST-CT-2004-504321 PERACT by the European Union. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. (EurekAlert!)
Galapagos reptiles could face new threat Jun 3, 2009
The research was funded by the UK's Darwin Initiative scheme, an AGAPE Marie Curie Training Centre grant and the Natural Environment Research Council. More on. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Wiping Out The World's Mass Migrations: First Analysis Of The Effect Of Habit Changes On Migrating Grazers Jun 2, 2009
The research was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Frankfurt Zoological Society, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge project BIORESC.. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS. Email or share this story. (Science Daily)
Mary Stottele Jun 1, 2009
If could meet anyone from history: Marie Curie. She is a great role model for women in the sciences everywhere. (Buffalo Business First, NY)
Sir Ranulph Fiennes May 29, 2009
We wanted a good photograph of our Marie Curie cancer charity flag ... After my wife cleans them, cancer charity Marie Curie will auction them. (Time.com)
Cosmology's Best Standard Candles Get Even Better May 23, 2009
The telescope is equipped with the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS), an instrument designed and integrated by a French consortium of researchers based at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC) in Paris and the University of Lyon, affiliated with the National Institute for Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics (IN2P3) and the National Institute for Universe Science (INSU), both of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) ... This work was supported by institutes of the... (Science Daily)
Fiennes' success May 21, 2009
Since then most of his fundraising efforts have been for the cancer charity Marie Curie. Through his expeditions, he has raised more than 10m for good causes. (BBC News -- UK)
Proteins Underlying Devastating Brain Diseases Uncovered May 21, 2009
This work was supported by a Federation of European Societies postdoctoral fellowship, the Wellcome Trust, Marie Curie Actions: Research Training Network programs and the EPSRC/MRC Doctoral Training Centre in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience. Journal reference. (Science Daily)
Explorer Ranulph Fiennes climbs Everest May 21, 2009
The 65-year-old arrived at the top of the 8,848-metre (29,028-foot) Himalayan peak just before midnight GMT on Wednesday, said a spokeswoman for Marie Curie Cancer Care, for whom Fiennes is raising money. "Sir Ranulph Fiennes reached the summit of Everest shortly before 1:00 am (BST) on Thursday 21 May 2009, completing what he set out to do a year ago -- to raise the Marie Curie flag at the peak of the world's highest mountain," said a statement issued by the charity ... 4 million euros) for... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Fiennes climbs to Everest summit May 21, 2009
His efforts this time are raising money for the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity - his wife, mother and sister all died from the disease within 18 months. The BBC's Andrew North joined Sir Ranulph during the first two days of the climb and said it was obvious that a "bull-headed determination" drove him on. (BBC News -- UK)
Care of terminally ill attacked May 14, 2009
Thomas Hughes-Hallett, chief executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care, said work carried out by the charity had shown that if health and social care agencies worked together the number of people able to die at home could be doubled at no extra cost. He said: "This report again highlights the need for better end of life care.". (BBC News -- UK)
Shadow Of A Forming Star Apr 28, 2009
Team member Dr Basmah Riaz, an ER fellow for the Marie Curie CONSTELLATION network, will present the results of their work on Thursday 23rd April in a poster at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science conference at the University of Hertfordshire. In March 2008 the scientists observed the young star (protostar) system 2M171123 in the B59 molecular cloud, with the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) 4-m telescope in Chile. (Science Daily)
Next Generation Nanofilms Created Apr 20, 2009
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time aligned films less than a nanometer thick have been produced," say Iftach Nevo, a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, and Leslie Leiserowitz of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Together with their colleagues at these institutions and at the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany and Northwestern University in Evanston, they describe their research in the 14 April 2009 issue of The Journal... (Science Daily)
Cooperative Behavior Meshes With Evolutionary Theory Apr 7, 2009
5, 2006) Researchers at the Laboratoire d';cologie at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Ecole Normale Sup;rieure/CNRS) and the Royal Holloway College (London, United Kingdom) have just. . (Science Daily)
Poison: It's what's for dinner Apr 6, 2009
Dearing conducted the study with Jael Malenke, a postdoctoral fellow in biology at the University of Utah, and Elodie Magnanou, who held the same position until March 2008 and now is at Pierre and Marie Curie University in France. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation. (EurekAlert!)
Honouring womens scientific achievements Mar 28, 2009
Marie Curie is a two-time Nobel laureate, receiving the prize for physics in 1903 and for chemistry in 1911. These facts reinforce the basis for the For Women in Science programme that women are under-represented in the research industry, that women deserve more recognition for their contribution to science, and that Curie should not be the sole inspiration for budding female scientists. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Brain On A Chip? Mar 24, 2009
Meanwhile, the consortium has just obtained funding from the EU s Marie Curie initiative to set up a four-year Initial Training Network to train PhD students in the interdisciplinary skills needed for research in this area. Where could this go. (Science Daily)
Students bring history to life Mar 21, 2009
Among those depicted in special appearances were Egyptian queen Cleopatra, Founding Father George Washington, cellist Yo Yo Ma, baseball slugger Babe Ruth, Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, sharpshooter Annie Oakley, chemist Marie Curie, theoretical physicist Albert Einstein and many others. Students in classes taught by Christy Schloss and Beth Martin researched the history-makers, composed a short biographical sketch and wore costumes that reflected their subjects during the second annual Wax... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
CLO AAA investors to block trading amendments Survival of the Senior Mar 14, 2009
FT.com / Mergermarket - CLO AAA investors to block trading amendments Survival of the Senior. Financial Times FT.com. (FT.com -- Markets)
Swiss action sparks talk of currency war Mar 13, 2009
FT.com / Europe - Swiss action sparks talk of currency war. Financial Times FT.com. (FT.com -- Markets)
Terra Firma buys Packers cattle ranches Mar 13, 2009
FT.com / Companies / Asia-Pacific - Terra Firma buys Packers cattle ranches. Financial Times FT.com. (FT.com -- Markets)
RBS Asian asset sales likely around two months away Mar 12, 2009
Financial Times FT.com. All times are London time. (FT.com -- Markets)
Science as a pioneer Mar 12, 2009
With a Marie Curie research training network funded under the 6th Framework Programme, the Research Training Group already has access to more European funding and locations. How can the number of successful cooperation projects be increased and made more prominent at a European level. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Live Evolution Witnessed In Controlled Environment Of Microbial Predator And Prey Mar 11, 2009
10, 2009) Observing the mechanisms of evolution in order to understand how a species adapts to another under different ecological conditions was the goal of researchers at the Laboratoire ;cologie et ;volution at CNRS, Universit; Pierre et Marie Curie and the ;cole Normale Sup;rieure. They studied two bacteria -- a predator and a prey -- over 300 generations in a controlled environment. (Science Daily)
Double blow for online music file-sharing`hubs Mar 9, 2009
" Authorities alleged that members of these networks were required to make at least 250 songs available so that other users could copy them. In exchange, members were able to download shared files from the hard drives of all other people on the network.The RIAA's efforts were set back last week when a federal appeals ruled that makers of file-sharing software could not be held liable for copyright infringement by people using the software.Additianl reporting by Joanna Chung The Financial Times... (Yahoo News -- Digital Music)
Post your question now Mar 9, 2009
FT.com / Markets / Ask the expert - Suki Cooper of Barclays Capital on haven-sent gains for gold. Financial Times FT.com. (FT.com -- Markets)
What Determines The Size Of Giant Dunes? Mar 9, 2009
8, 2009) Physicists at the Laboratory of Physics and Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media (CNRS / Universit; Paris Diderot / ESPCI ParisTech / Universit; Pierre et Marie Curie) have shown, in collaboration with scientists from the US and Algeria, that the size of giant dunes is controlled by the depth of the atmospheric convective boundary layer. See also. (Science Daily)
A late payment for nuclear workers Mar 8, 2009
Before Vitro began operations there in the 1930s, the plant had been known as Standard Chemical Co., and produced the highly radioactive element radium, some of which was given to Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie, who visited the plant in the 1920s. In the 1980s, more than 20 years after the plant ceased operations, the federal government spent more than $40 million -- $107 million in today's money -- to bury radioactive waste under a clay mound at the site and decontaminate houses nearby. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Bizarre Bird Behavior Predicted By Game Theory Mar 7, 2009
5, 2006) Researchers at the Laboratoire d';cologie at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Ecole Normale Sup;rieure/CNRS) and the Royal Holloway College (London, United Kingdom) have just. (Dec. (Science Daily)
Burping Worms May Contribute to Climate Change Mar 5, 2009
The research was supported by a European Union Marie Curie Fellowship, the Danish Research Agency and Aarhus University, Denmark. Copyright. (Fox News)
Nanoweapons Research Necessary for Survival Feb 27, 2009
Initially, these persons included well-known scientists such as Ernest Rutherford of New Zealand and Great Britain, Niels Bohr of Denmark, Pierre and Marie Curie of France, and Albert Einstein of Germany. Later, the nuclear group was joined by Leo Szilard of Hungary, Otto Hahn of Germany, Michael Polanyi of Hungary, Walther Bthe of Germany, Lise Meitner of Austria, Hantaro Nagaoka of Japan, and others of similarly diverse backgrounds. (Newsmax)
Marie Curie Cancer Care seeks runners Feb 25, 2009
To be in with a chance, contact Marie Curie Cancer Care's Daffodil Runs team on 08700 340 040 or e-mail daffodilruns@mariecurie. org. (Shields Gazette)
Marie Curie nurses need more support Feb 23, 2009
Marie Curie Cancer Care fundraising office holds their Daffodil collections during March and April each year to help raise funds to provide one-to-one nursing care for terminally-ill people in their homes. Last year the collections across the area raised enough to fund over 2,000 hours of one-to-one Marie Curie home nursing care. (Community News Group)
New Genomic Markers Associated With Risk Of Heart Disease And Early Heart Attack Feb 20, 2009
19, 2009) Five short reports published simultaneously by the journal Nature Genetics have for the first time identified clusters of genetic markers associated with heart attack and coronary heart disease. In one of the reports, from the largest ever study of its kind, the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium identified nine precise genes associated with an increased risk of infarction (MI), three of them newly discovered; the investigators said that these nine gene variants identify 20% of... (Science Daily)
New Tesco Express in Crewe makes donation to Marie Curie Cancer Care Feb 19, 2009
A TESCO Express in Crewe celebrated its launch on Thursday with a donation to Marie Curie Cancer Care. Chris Barratt, who is chairman of the South Cheshire Support Group for Marie Curie Cancer Care, was the guest of honour when the store opened in Tommys Lane, near Crewe Station ... The store chose to donate to the charity as Marie Curie Cancer Care is the Tesco Charity of the Year for 2008, and the partnership continues. (Crewe Chronicle)
Funding milestone for new hospice Feb 18, 2009
Marie Curie aims to raise 16 ... Marie Curie Cancer Care's Big Build Appeal needs 16 ... Marie Curie Cancer Care operates hospices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. (BBC News)
Rights and wrongs Feb 17, 2009
Barbro Bjrkman is Marie Curie Postdoc Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Add your comments on this story, using the form below. (BBC News -- UK)
