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This week Raven, the mobile surgical robot developed by the University of Washington, leaves for the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. The UW will participate in NASA’s mission to submerge a surgeon and robotic gear in a simulated spaceship. For 12 days the surgical robotic system will be put through its paces in an underwater capsule that mimics conditions in a space shuttle. Surgeons back in Seattle will guide its movements. [click link for full article]

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Neurobiologists have pinpointed brain regions critical to one of the brain’s more remarkable feats - piecing together a continuous view of the world by integrating snippets of visual input from constantly moving eyes. Since the eyeball has only a narrow field of clear view, it must continually make tiny shifts to sample the visual world. And during these shifts, which last thousandths of a second, people are essentially blind. [click link for full article]

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Nutritious school lunches and a ban on sweets, buns and sweetened drinks in school is a good strategy for reducing the risk of obesity in children, reveals a new study from Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. After four years, the relative number of overweight or fat 6 to 10-year olds fell by 6 per cent in the schools in the study that had opened for healthy diets. [click link for full article]

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Every day, people make assumptions, educated and not, about their risk for developing cancer. For many, the risk of developing a secondary cancer after an earlier illness rests uncomfortably in the backs of their minds. Researchers are continuing to understand the factors that might dictate an individual’s risk of developing primary or secondary cancer. [click link for full article]

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Younger siblings of children with autism are at risk to suffer from delayed verbal, cognitive and motor development in their early childhood years. This finding is the result of a research project carried out by a staff headed by Prof. Nurit Yirmiya and doctoral candidate Yifat Gamliel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Marian Sigman of the University of California, Los Angeles. [click link for full article]

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“As a woman and as a Minister of Health, the protection of the health of the baby and family is a top priority for me and my country there is nothing more important,” said Dr. Agnes Horvath, the newly appointed Minister for Health in Hungary, at the Early Nutrition Programming Project conference in Budapest today. “In Hungary, we have the lowest life expectancy in the EU, rising obesity rates in adults and ten times more obese children than 30 years ago. [click link for full article]

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A peptide found in human blood inhibited 60 strains of HIV from infecting cells in laboratory tests, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. [click link for full article]

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Primary schoolchildren should not be routinely screened for obesity and overweight in the absence of effective treatment, finds research in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. At present, 4 to 5 and 10 to 11 year olds are weighed at school and the anonymised information fed into the National Childhood Obesity Database as part of a monitoring programme. [click link for full article]

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Caraco PharmaceuticalLaboratories, Ltd., (Amex: CPD) announced today that the US Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) has granted final approval for the Company’sAbbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Zolpidem Tartrate Tablets. olpidem Tartrate is a sedative-hypnotic drug, which is indicated for the short-term treatment of insomnia characterized by difficulties with sleep initiation. [click link for full article]

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Autoimmune diseases such as type I diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis are caused by the immune system attacking the body’s own tissues. Determining the factors that trigger the immune system to attack is an area of intensive research. [click link for full article]

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