Quoted: Doctors sometimes accept gifts and cash to push drugmakers' products irrespective of patients' needs. Activists want New Delhi to step in.

Fantastic article. While I believe that WHO does a phenomenal job in maintaining a high level of public health standards for all nations, let's face it...it's still a bureaucracy. We know bureaucracies are mostly slow, and for the large part inefficient since there are no "market solutions". But with a NGO structured like the Gates Foundation (more a for-profit business model than the typical NGO), it is driven by the market...there is a supply and demand for better health systems, addressing public health concerns, and cutting edge research.

While the Gates Foundation may appear monopolistic, in the sector of non-profits, I think it encourages more, generous philanthropy and competition -- isn't that better for non-profits in the end? After all, one of the biggest downfalls of non-profits, and reasons why many of them wither away is that they are bad managers of monetary and human resources, thereby making them less efficient.

Quoted: The audacity of the Gates Foundation may have unintended consequences, but things would be worse if UN bureaucracies still dominated the field

This seems pretty obvious. But I'm skeptical about the small sample size...why only 13 mothers? Also, I'd be curious to know, given a bigger sample, if there are mothers who don't display these results and what implications that might have for child-rearing. Experiments on fathers would be cool too, as the article points out. Further, I wonder if they can do similar studies on animals...how cool would that be?

Quoted: A mother’s impulse to love and protect her child appears to be hard-wired into her brain, a new imaging study shows.

that is so cool! it's about time people started doing this...

Quoted: Corporations have made India a laboratory for extending modern technological conveniences to the world’s poor.

I worked here last year!! Yay for NWRG :)

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that would be awesome

Quoted: The two are plotting what they hope will be the next great industrial revolution: the convergence of software and smart electronics with the grease and ...

good to know...all in all though, in my opinion, eat what you want in moderation, exercise well, and you'll be good. i don't believe in diets.

Quoted: Don't let your diet — or stomach — be held captive by these nutrition myths.

the genetics of knock-out mice are SO complicated...i remember it gave me headaches learning about how create/use them in Genome 371.

Quoted: Two Americans and a Briton won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for their work in gene targeting.

hah! funny stuff

Quoted: Pioneering research into a "gay bomb" that makes enemy troops "sexually irresistible" to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes.