Eurozone: Faster economic reform and sounder budgets needed 19/07/2005
Persistent growth differences in the eurozone can be reduced by a tough implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact, further integration of product, labour and capital markets plus measures to improve competitiveness, says the Commissio...
Positive Outcome of High Level Review of COST and recommends further funding 18/07/2005
COST - the oldest and largest European networking structure receives support from the Framework programme. This was set at a level of between¬50M and ¬80M, the final amount being dependent on a Mid Term review of the COST operation and, in ...
Nature press release for 14 July issue - part 2 18/07/2005
Nature press release for 14 July issue vol. 436 no. 7048....
Nature press release for 14 July issue - part 1 18/07/2005
Nature press release for 14 July issue vol 436, no. 7048....
Futuristic design wins competition for new Antarctic Research Station 18/07/2005
A futuristic design by Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton Architects has won the competition for the new British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Halley Research Station. In a very close-run contest, three finalists presented their ideas to a Jury Pa...
Barroso: More needed from Beijing for arms ban to be lifted 18/07/2005
Commission President Barroso has urged China to further improve its human rights record before the EU will lift its 16-year-old arms embargo. Meanwhile, the US House of Representatives has rejected a bill that would have imposed penalties o...
Nature Research Journals press release - part 1 17/07/2005
Nature Research Journals press release for papers that go live on 17 July at 1800 London Time (BST)....
Will urbanization in developing countries in 2030 be less pronounced than model projections? 17/07/2005
UNO projections on population and urbanization are used widely as input for assessments of other global trends such as poverty, energy consumption and so on. However, they appear to have been overestimated in the past, especially figures fo...
The Abandoned Tenofovir Trials; The Stigma of HIV: Press Release from PLoS Medicine 14/07/2005
The dramatic protests that shut down trials of tenofovir as pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV may prove damaging in our fight against the HIV pandemic, according to an article published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. This and...
Discrimination Against HIV Patients and A Cheap and Easy Way to Monitor CD4 Counts: Press Release from PLoS Medicine 14/07/2005
In the premier open access journal PLoS Medicine, research reveals the results of discrimination by health personnel towards individuals with HIV/AIDS. In another paper, a rapid, affordable method for counting CD4 cells may be useful for m...
