Asia Medical News

In india, new pictorial warning for tobacco products to come into effect from 1st June 2010

As per the provisions of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008, subsequently amended in 2008 and 2009, the specified health warning rules notified by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare on 31.5.2009 have to be rotated after every 12 months and the next rotation is due on 31.5.2010. As [...]



Victorian State Government and IBM Establish Life Sciences Research Collaboratory at the University of Melbourne

IBM today announced a Research collaboratory in Melbourne, Australia, where scientists from the Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative (VLSCI) at the University of Melbourne and the IBM Research Computational Biology Center will use high performance computing – including IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputer – to study human disease.
The collaboratory – where IBM Researchers co-locate with a [...]