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Responses of pulvinar neurons reflect a subject's confidence in visual categorization

Here the authors report evidence for the neural correlates of confidence in the primate pulvinar, a visual thalamic nucleus. Data from electrophysiological recordings, functional silencing and theoretical modeling indicate that pulvinar activity enco...

Optimal ablation strategies for different types of ventricular tachycardias

In the past decade, improvements in procedural techniques and the understanding of electrophysiological mechanisms have led to the establishment of effective ablation strategies for almost all types of ventricular tachycardia....

India Health Ministry Moves To End Drug Marketing Under Brand Names

India's health ministry has instructed the nation's states to cease licensing the making and selling of drugs intended to be marketed based on their brand names, meaning they will have to sell under their generic names.

Indian Drugmakers Fight No Brand-Name Rule

Earlier this week, I described the India drug controller's, GN Singh, plan to prohibit the use of brand names in selling drugs. This is an effort to promote generics' use to reach a greater portion of the population and to save money for the governme...

Alcohol and antibiotics: an interview with Dr Randall

Contrary to popular belief, there are only a handful of antibiotics that can interact with alcohol to cause unpleasant effects. The two main antibiotics you should definitely avoid drinking alcohol with are metronidazole (brand names include Flagyl)...

India Serious About Pushing Generics

Are you a Big Pharma Compnay looking to make up sales shortfalls in emerging countries? Well, scratch India off your list of profit centers. India Pushes To End Sale Of Branded Drugs // Pharmalot. India's drug controller, GN Singh, wants to prohibit...

Wording Errors in: Electrophysiological Study With Prophylactic Pacing and Survival in Adults With Myotonic Dystrophy and Conduction System Disease

Wording Errors: In the Preliminary Communication entitled “Electrophysiological Study With Prophylactic Pacing and Survival in Adults With Myotonic Dystrophy and Conduction System Disease” published in the March 28, 2012, issue of JAMA...

Novozymes Biopharma aligns recombinant human albumin portfolio with new brand name

Portfolio will bring together rAlbumin product line with introduction of new brand names Recombumin Alpha and Recombumin Prime

The Electrophysiological Signature of Motivational Salience in Mice and Implications for Schizophrenia

Electrophysiological Effects of Repeated Administration of Agomelatine on the Dopamine, Norepinephrine, and Serotonin Systems in the Rat Brain

Why Are Drugs Getting Such Weird Brand Names?

Oddball product names are one of the occupational hazards of biotech writing. Drugs in particular can be hard to spell, and often hard to pronounce. While I can practically type telaprevir, telaprevir, telaprevir in my sleep at this point, I can almost feel the reader reaction when that scientific name flows from my keyboard. ZZZ…. [...]

Attractive names sustain increased vegetable intake in schools

(Cornell Food & Brand Lab) The age-old parental struggle of convincing youngsters to eat their fruits and vegetables has some new allies: Power Punch Broccoli, X-Ray Vision Carrots -- and a host of catchy names for entrees in school cafeterias. Corn...

Heavily congested highway correlates with higher rates of asthma

Researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, found that living near a heavily congested highway correlates with a higher presence of asthma.

Companies Submit Joint Application Seeking Approval for Additional Indication forHelicobacter pylori Eradication by Concomitant Therapy with Proton Pump Inhibitors, Amoxicillin Hydrate and either Clarithromycin or Metronidazole

Osaka and Tokyo, Japan, August 31, 2012 --- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, President: Yasuchika Hasegawa), AstraZeneca K.K. (Headquarters: Osaka, President: Paul Hudson), Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (Headquarters...

India Expected To Clarify Brand Name Ban Not To Include Export Licenses

India reportedly plans to clarify that it will not require a ban on the use of brand names on applications for export licenses, similar to one it recently adopted for applications for manufacturing licenses.

India Pushes To End Sale Of Branded Drugs

Here is a move certain to warm the hearts of brand-name drugmakers everywhere. The drug controller of India wants to prohibit medicines from being sold under brand names in a bid to accelerate the sale of lower-cost generics. In fact, states have bee...

Indian Drugmakers To Fight Brand-Name Rule

A move by the drug controller of India to prohibit medicines from being sold under brand names is already raising objections from domestic drugmakers. The effort is designed to accelerate the sale of lower-cost generics. As noted earlier this week, s...

Sino Biological Of China, Life Tech Of U.S. Join In Global Brand Products

China's Sino Biological signed an agreement with Life Technologies of the U.S. for global distribution of Sino drugs with the names of both firms on the brand.

NetApp Eyes Opportunities in Health Care Data Storage

Bio-IT World | Whatever happened to NetApp? When Bio-IT World launched in 2002, NetApp was one of the big names in big data storage in the biotech and life sciences arena. But over the past decade, while brand names such as Isilon, EMC, BlueArc, Qua...

What's in a Drug Namzx?

Several commentators have recently mentioned the all the new drugs with odd syllables and letter combinations -- often centering on the use of X's and Z's. This is supposedly due to these types of names being "memorable" for prescribing MDs and to th...

Control of brain waves from the brain surface

Whether or not a neuron transmits an electrical impulse is a function of many factors. European research is using a heady mixture of techniques – molecular, microscopy and electrophysiological – to identify the necessary input for nerve tra...

[Series] Correlates of physical activity: why are some people physically active and others not?

Physical inactivity is an important contributor to non-communicable diseases in countries of high income, and increasingly so in those of low and middle income. Understanding why people are physically active or inactive contributes to evidence-based...

Conscious perception is a matter of global neural networks

Identification of the parts of the brain are responsible for the things that reach our awareness is one of the main puzzles in neurobiology today. New findings from researchers in Europe using electrophysiological methods now support the view tha...

Arrhythmia Management in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1—Reply

In Reply: Drs Groh and Bhakta raise several methodological issues regarding our study. We found that an invasive strategy based on electrophysiological study followed by prophylactic pacing when necessary was associated with a longer mean survival co...

Neuroendocrine correlates of childhood trauma in CFS