The News Review:

- New drug could transform the treatment of hepatitis C
- Surprising Language Abilities In Children With Autism
- Scientists find surprising language abilities in autistic children

New drug could transform the treatment of hepatitis C
The Australian – Apr 26, 2008
As a result more patients dropped out of telaprevir-based treatment (18 per cent) compared with normal therapy (4 per cent). Australian experts at the conference welcomed the results as "absolutely exciting". Greg Dore head of the viral hepatitis clinical research program at the Sydney-based National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research said that although there was some additional toxicity from telaprevir its ability to halve treatment time would be a huge benefit. Neil Graham the Adelaide-trained doctor who is leading the hepatitis C program for telaprevir’s maker Boston-based drug company Vertex said that if subsequent trials went well an application to register the drug could be lodged with US regulators in 2010. module-content –>.

Surprising Language Abilities In Children With Autism
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Apr 26, 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.

Scientists find surprising language abilities in autistic children
The Cheers – Apr 26, 2008
That is he used pragmatics effectively. It provided valid evidences that ASD patients can use and understand pragmatics in cases of literal talk as in the subway example. “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” said Stainton. De Villiers and Szatmari have developed a tool that can be used for clinical assessment of pragmatic abilities. “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” Stainton added.