The News Review:

- FDA approves HeartMate II mechanical heart pump for heart-failure…
- Asia Times nline :: South Asia news business and economy from India…
- S Korea ahead China catching up with India
- Daily Times – Site Edition
- Surprising language abilities in children with autism
- Surprising language abilities in children with autism

FDA approves HeartMate II mechanical heart pump for heart-failure…
EurekAlert – EurekAlert (press release) – Apr 25, 2008
In addition the device is designed to be quieter and more durable than other FDA approved devices. ne-eighth the size of the original HeartMate LVAS the HeartMate II provides continuous blood flow through the circulatory system using only one moving part — a rotary pumping mechanism. “For patients whose hearts are unable to effectively pump blood due to severe heart failure this remarkable device can help them have active lives as they await a heart transplant” says Dr.

Asia Times nline :: South Asia news business and economy from India…
Asia Times nline – Apr 25, 2008
According to the Planning Commission Indian docs who have migrated to developed countries form nearly five per cent of their medical workforce with nearly 60000 Indian physicians working in the US Britain Canada and Australia alone. “For several decades Indian medical professionals have been serving not only in the Middle East but also in developed countries including the US and the UK” said Anwarul Hoda a member of the Planning Commission who headed the group that drafted the report. “The overriding requirement in India therefore is to increase the supply of human resources at all levels from specialists to paramedical personnel and improve their quality. ” This is easier said than done considering the medical profession in India has itself lost much of its old charm. In fact the number of Indian youth who are now opting for medicine as a career choice has whittled down remarkably. For instance this year according to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) only 1. 6 million candidates took the medical entrance exam a 25% plummet since last year.

S Korea ahead China catching up with India
Economic Times – Apr 25, 2008
CurrentlyIndia?s clinical trial industry is estimated to be around $300 million andprojected to touch $2 billion by 2010. However this is still a small pie of theglobal outsourcing market estimated to be around $30 billion. ?Amongst Asiancountries India had a headstart having initiated global clinical research morethan a decade ago. Countries like China Korea and Taiwan joined the bandwagonmore recently but surging ahead rapidly. These countries should catch up andovertake India in the volume of work in no time ? Mr Potkar added. Global companies say thatdespite the clear advantages of language proficiency skilled manpower andethnic diversity India?s lack of overall capacity and inability toenforce intellectual property rights (IPR) may see the country lose the upperhand. However industrysources representing Indian drugmakers pointed out that global drugmakers willcontinue to flock to India.

Daily Times – Site Edition
Daily Times – Apr 25, 2008
orgA seminar on ‘Clinical Research Management in Pakistan’ co-hosted by the trade development authority of Pakistan and the ministry of health in association with the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre with speakers from pharmaceutical MNCs local and international CRs and representatives of the ministery of Health IP and TDAP. April 26 Saturday 9 a.

Surprising language abilities in children with autism
Western News – Apr 25, 2008
That is he used pragmaticseffectively. In short Stainton and his colleagues produced surprisingevidence to show that speakers with ASD use and understand pragmatics in casesof literal talk as in the subway example. Stainton who is also ActingAssociate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Westernsays ?It is especially gratifying and encouraging because this is an Arts andHumanities contribution to clinical research. Without a philosophicalperspective this discovery might not have been made. ” Related researchallowed de Villiers and Szatmari to develop a rating scale of pragmaticabilities that can be used in the clinical assessment of people with ASD. Stainton says ?In the short term their new tool will help identify where anindividual fits on that spectrum. In the longer term however by making use ofrecent results in philosophy of language it may contribute to our theoreticalunderstanding of the boundary between knowledge of the meanings of words andnon-linguistic abilities – specifically pragmatics.

Surprising language abilities in children with autism
Physrg.com – Apr 25, 2008
That is he used pragmatics effectively. In short Stainton and his colleagues produced surprising evidence to show that speakers with ASD use and understand pragmatics in cases of literal talk as in the subway example. Stainton who is also Acting Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Western says “It is especially gratifying and encouraging because this is an Arts and Humanities contribution to clinical research. Without a philosophical perspective this discovery might not have been made. Related research allowed de Villiers and Szatmari to develop a rating scale of pragmatic abilities that can be used in the clinical assessment of people with ASD. Stainton says “In the short term their new tool will help identify where an individual fits on that spectrum. In the longer term however by making use of recent results in philosophy of language it may contribute to our theoretical understanding of the boundary between knowledge of the meanings of words and non-linguistic abilities specifically pragmatics.