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White Blood Cell Booster May Help Cancer Patients Avoid Deadly Complications

...utilized white blood cell booster that goes by the names Neupogen and Neulasta. Kuderer also receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. This study compiled the results of 17 trials involving more than 3,000 patients receiving chemotherapy of varying intensity to treat several different types...

Australian Father Gets 15 Year Jail Term for Forcing Bestial Acts on His Daughters

...tiality acts. The details are shocking, but no names have been revealed. The South Australian District Court heard the 66-year-old also coerced his daughters to have sex with his cousin and a friend between 1967 and 1980 at his suburban Campbelltown house. He then had incestuous relationships with ...

Boyfriend Bites Off Lip and Ear of 3-year-old Daughter of His Girlfriend

...lanning to drive back into New Bedford after their names and photos were posted on the Massachusetts State Police most wanted list, police spokesman Capt. Richard Spirlet said. Media reports had generated 'an awful lot of calls' about the couple's whereabouts and police learned they would be returning to...

Computer Games World Cup Kicks Off in Paris

...ntracts with Sennheiser, Razer and Qpad -- all big names in the industry. His team is among the favorites to win the Counter-Strike competition. "We try to practise four hours a day, four days a week, and we intensify before the competition," he said. "I get a salary every month. I cannot tell exactly ho...

Anti-smoking Drug Could Help Treat Alcoholism: Study

...ted the impact of varenicline -- know by its trade names Chantix in the United States and Champix in Europe -- on laboratory rats which had consumed high amounts of ethanol over a long period. Rats were trained to drink ethanol in consistent amounts over five months before they were given varenicline. Af...

Eco-architecture Takes Root in Thailand, but Growth is Slow

...g the ideas of some of the brightest international names working in eco-architecture today. "I threw the mango seed into the backyard. Three years later I picked up a mango," Soontorn tells AFP. "The mango tree does not need anything. The mango tree recycles everything, and it survives by the wind and th...

Organ Donors Solicited During UKs National Transplant Week

...list, but also for the hundreds more who add their names every month. In the UK every year, more than 600 patients have liver transplants with organs from dead donors. Currently, there are around 311 people on the liver transplant waiting list in the UK. The number of donors is far exceeded by the numbe...

$1 Million Unpaid Bills by Health Care Cheats at Waikato Hospital

...ospital in labor, giving birth and supplying false names and addresses to avoid paying for the delivery, which costs about $2000....

Worms are Killing the Planet

...ustbin-sized boxes formed from several trays, with names such as Can-O-Worms; into which reared worms are introduced. Some are even made to look like beehives, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph of London, which also cited the German research. The worms are laid out on lime and vegetable peelin...

Treat Every Patient as a Potential Organ Donor, British Health Official Says

...tion, 13 million people, have actually added their names to the NHS register. Doctors say more patients are going abroad for transplants and coming home with serious complications. "These transplant tourists' often face low standards of safety and quality of care," Donaldson wrote in his annual report,...

Men Could Overcome Erectile Dysfunction Through Group Psychotherapy

...ests that supplementing sildenafil, sold under the names Viagra, Revatio and under various other names, to group therapy can make the treatment more effective than sildenafil alone. Normal sexual function relies on the coordination of psychological, endocrine, vascular, and neurological factor. The re...

Chilly Sauce Linked to Botulism, Forcing Recall in US

...f stew, soups, hash and barbecue, under such brand names as Sweet Sue's, Bryan Meats and Castleberry's. It also makes store-brand products for clients that include Kroger. The supermarket has removed the recalled products from its shelves and consumers can return them for a refund, Kroger spokesman Glynn...

Four-legged Friends Connect Online at Dogster

...ould see photos online, but you couldn't see their names -- who's this dog, what's this dog's favorite treat, or what's this dog's character." Dogster and Catster communities have grown to more than 500,000 members, and quickly extended beyond US borders. Countries with the most active members are Austra...

Sioux Herb Confirmed as Shield Against Colds

...edies for infection, snakebites and rabies. Other names for the plant are black sampson, Kansas snakeroot and purple coneflower. Coleman's team said they had counted more than 800 products containing echinacea, which come in the form of tablets, extracts, fresh juice, tincture and tea. Three of the nine...

Computerized Doctors Order Reduce Prescription Errors

...times the recommended amount. Drugs with similar names are another common source of error, such as the pain medication Celebrex and the antidepressant Celexa, or the tranquilizer Zyprexa and the antihistamine Zyrtec. These medication errors are very painful for doctors, as well as the patients. Nobody ...

Travelers Beware: Is Your Medicine Really What the Doctor Ordered?

...ence. Unlike approved generic drug names, brand names of drugs are not standardized internationally. The...rat State (India), identified nearly 80 drug brand names that are either identical or similar to drugs found around the world, but contain different ingredie...

Hong Kong's Shopping Spree Surges On, and on

...Kong is seen more and more by international luxury names as "the trend-setting city for the rest of China." "The luxury market in Hong Kong is large and it is a window to the region, particularly China," said Boris de Vroomen, managing director of Moet Hennessy Diageo Hong Kong, whose brands include Moet...

Virus Claims Harry Potter is Dead!

...ting a host of new users on the PC using character names from the books like Harry, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. It also changes the computer's internet homepage to a spoof of book-seller Amazon.com displaying a novel called Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecakes. According to virus busters Sop...

Hoarding can Endanger Lives, Says New Study

...hey must hold on to every piece of mail with their names on it, in case they need it some day, or out of fear of someone using that information against them. Some persons, out of love for animals, may keep too many pets in their home-another form of hoarding. Persons who hoard often have extreme problems w...

UN Agencys Checklist on Health Care Error

...parts; Double-check similar-sounding medication names and resolve the problem of illegible prescriptions; Ban reuse of needles to prevent transmission of viruses that cause AIDS and hepatitis; Ensure medical workers communicate about patients' care and condition when passing care responsibility to...

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