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Climate Change: Are New Policies An Opportunity Or Barrier To The Biofuel, Renewable Chemicals Industries?
Pending climate change legislation and regulations for the Renewable Fuel Standard are creating an uncertain environment for investment in advanced biofuels and biobased chemicals. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) announced that executives of biofuel and industrial biotechnology companies as well as representatives of NGOs will offer their views on how the industry might fare under carbon accounting rules during the 2009 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, to be held July 19-22, 2009 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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New Cortex Study Uncovers How We Recognize What Is True And What Is False
A recent neuroimaging study reveals that the ability to distinguish true from false in our daily lives involves two distinct processes. Previous research relied heavily on the premise that true and false statements are both processed in the left inferior frontal cortex. Carried out by researchers from the Universities of Lisbon and Vita-Salute, Milan, the June Cortex study found that we use two separate processes to determine the subtle distinctions between true and false in our daily lives. Deciding whether a statement is true involves memory; determining one is false relies on reasoning and problem-solving processes.
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Also In Global Health News: Kenya Donor Fund Management; Malaria In Afghanistan; Pneumococcal Vaccine In Rwanda; Female Condom

Kenya Seeking Agents To Manage Health Donor Funds Kenya"s health ministry is looking to appoint agents to manage funds from the CDC - "a key donor to the health sector" - and other donors, Business Daily/allAfrica.com reports. The move by the government comes after "revelations that some key health institutions" are facing "severe cutbacks by donors who have held back funding following allegations of corruption," according to Business Daily/allAfrica.com (Kimani, 7/8). Malaria Cases In Afghanistan Expected To Increase This Year There is an anticipated increase in the number of malaria cases in Afghanistan this year, Najibullah Safi, director of the National Malaria and Leishmaniasis Control Programme, said, IRIN reports. He said the rise is expected because of "ample rainfall." Floods between January and June affected more than 21,000 households and caused extensive damage in about 15 of the country"s 34 provinces, according to reports by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (7/7). Pneumococcal Vaccine Available Throughout Rwanda, Official Says The pneumococcal vaccine has reached all health centers in Rwanda, two months after the Ministry of Health first made it available at a hospital in the Eastern Province, said Fidele Ngabo, the manager of the Expanded Programme of Immunisation, New Times/allAfrica.com reports. Ngabo said the vaccine is being administered to all children under the age of one (Nambi, 7/7). The Female Company"s Female Condoms Examined Fortune Small Business/CNNMoney.com examines The Female Health Company"s efforts to create and sell a female condom. When the current CEO joined the company in 1985, the "very notion of a female condom had a rough road ahead," Fortune Small Business/CNNMoney.com writes, adding, "To sell one would mean building a global market for it." After overcoming various obstacles, 2008 was a "great" year for the company. While this year "looks good as well," Female Health has "only made tiny inroads into the market. In 2007, more than 11 billion male condoms were delivered around the world, in contrast to 27 million female ones," writes Fortune Small Business/CNNMoney.com (Grant, 7/7). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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