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...US food processing companies can now apply a novel yet natural tool: LISTEX(TM) bacteriophages. The FDA and USDA have approved this product from The Netherlands as GRAS, based on extensive safety and efficacy data and organoleptics tests confirming that LISTEX(TM) is safe and has no impact on taste, smel...Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials
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...hat 90% of the population supports organ donation, yet only 23% have signed up to the organ donor register. And so the decision falls to the family when they have just been told their relative has died or is dying. Not surprisingly, when they do not know their relatives wishes a large number (40%) opt fo...Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks
...mbai and Bangalore. The final World Bank report is yet to be released formally. World Bank funds a substantial portion of India's battle against HIV/AIDS. Upon his return to the US, Saha wrote to Paul Wolfowitz, then president of the World Bank, about the discovery by the team. "Since I was under...British Woman Who Has inherited Breast Cancer Wants to Spread Awareness
...but it's clear that there are others which haven't yet been identified. If you have a large number of first-degree relatives with breast cancer, you don't really need to do a gene test. Women in this category are offered regular screening and some opt to have a bilateral mastectomy." He says that wome...Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US
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