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The Society for Translational Oncology (STO) is pleased to announce that Professor Patrick G. Johnston, M.D., Ph.D, Dean of the School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been named recipient of the 2013 Bob Pinedo Cancer Care Prize. Durham, NC (PRWEB) May 30, 2013 The Society for Translational Oncology (STO) is pleased to announce that Professor Patrick G. Johnston, M.D., Ph.D, Dean of the School of Medicine, Dentistry...
Luxury Travelers Go Behind Private Walls in Belfast and Berlin LOS ANGELES, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Crystal Cruises is expanding its uber-exclusive collection of intimate "Boutique Adventures" during summer Northern Europe cruises with two new experiences in Belfast and Berlin. The shoreside outings - none of which are available on any other cruise line - offer intimate access to Northern Ireland's political leadership and Germany's Soho -- Soho House, that is, along with...
New research from Queen’s University Belfast has uncovered the cause of infertility for 80 per cent of couples previously diagnosed with ‘unexplained infertility’. At present some 50,000 couples require fertility treatment across the UK each year, with the figure reaching one million worldwide. Up to one third of these couples are diagnosed with unexplained or idiopathic infertility. This means that, using current tests, neither partner has been diagnosed with any detectable problem....
LONDON, October 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise Rent-A-Car, the UK's leading car hire company [http://www.enterprise.co.uk ], has recently opened a new location in Belfast city centre, further expanding its extensive branch network. The branch, situated on Cromac Street in Belfast city centre [http://www.enterprise.co.uk/car_rental/deeplinkmap.do?gpbr=SC76&bid=004&cnty=GB ], is the latest addition to Enterprise's network of over 380 locations throughout the...
Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have developed a new technique which has the potential to kill off hospital superbugs like Pseudomonas aeruginosa, C. difficile and MRSA. As revealed in the most recent edition of leading journal PloS One, the novel method uses a cold plasma jet to rapidly penetrate dense bacterial structures known as biofilms which bind bacteria together and make them resistant to conventional chemical approaches. The new approach developed by scientists in the...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenGamma was honoured as the recipient of the "Top Innovator" award from SWIFT's Innotribe Startup Challenge Regional Showcase held on 14 June, 2012 in Belfast. OpenGamma won the title of "Top Innovator" with the OpenGamma Platform, the first open source analytics and risk management platform for the financial services industry. As "Top Innovator" for the European showcase, OpenGamma will now advance to the Innotribe...
LONDON, June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Summer is fast approaching and those who are looking for a relaxing break, a great value holiday or an adventure trip can find all of that in Ireland. HostelBookers, the budget accommodation specialist, has an extensive property inventory in Dublin, Belfast and Cork where customers can book quality accommodation at the lowest prices. Belfast Sleepy Cedars is a welcoming bed and breakfast set in a restored Victorian red brick...
A new psychological intervention has been shown to more than halve the trauma experienced by child victims of war, rape and sexual abuse. Researchers at Queen's University Belfast pioneered the intervention in conjunction with the international NGO, World Vision as part of a wider program to treat psychological distress in child victims of war and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Eastern Congo has the world's highest rate of sexual violence. Known as 'the rape...
LONDON, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - Cloud testing and demo sites to offer "test drive and showcase" facilities for SME and enterprise cloud services and platforms - Data centre service provider Data City Exchange (DCE) http://www.datacityexchange.com has today announced that it will launch cloud service data centre incubator testing facilities at its flagship locations in Titanic Quarter, Belfast and Birmingham. Known as Cloudvault...
Study shows Avastin has similar effect to Lucentis in treating most common cause of blindness in the developed world The one year results from a study into whether two drug treatments (Lucentis and Avastin), are equally effective in treating neovascular or wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), have been reported today at an international research meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Wet AMD is a common cause of loss of vision in older people. In the UK, around 70 per cent of...
