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Son Donates Part of Liver to Ailing Father, Transplant Successful

In a striking demonstration of filial love a British Youngman willingly came forward to donate more than half of his liver to his father, and the...

Adult Stem Cells Show Promise for Peripheral Vascular Disease

Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd. announced that a team led by Dr. Yang Xiaofeng at its collaborating hospital in Shenyang completed a study to assess clinical efficacy, safety, and feasibility of transplantation of peripheral blood s...

UK Sports Clubs Failing to Run Comprehensive Health Checks on Professional Players

...eurological, and musculoskeletal systems, and that a general medical history should be taken. The res...d cricket clubs recorded before employment whether a player had a history of concussion than did football clubs. While most football and rugby union c...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

...i. Brucella infections cause prolonged fever and a wide range of other possible manifestations, such ...ectious Diseases (EID). Coxiella burnetii causes a flulike disease in humans that is rarely fatal, according to the CDC. It is called Q fever. 'Query...

Tamiflu 30 Mg and 45 Mg Capsules Approved by FDA

...S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) to marke...g and 45 mg doses. The lower dose capsules provide a convenient alternative for the treatment and prevention of influenza types A and B in patients one y...

UK Army Personnel Involved in Iraqi Invasion Not at Risk from Depleted Uranium

...ssessed many years after potential exposure, using a special test called plasma-mass spectrometry, and a particular mathematical formula. The authors tested depleted uranium levels in the urine of four d...

Dow Acquires Wolff Walsrode from Bayer

... million (approximately USD 725 million) includes a cash component and the assumption of financial deb... is our latest example of how Dow is delivering on a transformational growth strategy. Wolff is a strategically aligned acquisition that brings new exper...

Manmohan Singh to Inaugurate Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Conference

... Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will inaugurate a two-day conference on rural drinking water supply and sanitation here on Wednesday. The conference will focus on ensuring sustainability in drinking water supply projects and sanitation for all in the rural areas of the country by 2012. The conf...

Drinking Problem Plagues 30% Americans

...ent). It means that 1 out 3 persons in the US have a real problem with the bottle. But the nature of this problem can vary widely -- from a sustained streak of binge drinking behavior all the way to serious physiological addiction to alcoho...

Maxygen Initiates Phase IIa Clinical Trial of MAXY-G34 in Breast Cancer Patients

...axygen, Inc. today announced that it has initiated a phase IIa trial to evaluate the efficacy, safety a... of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia . MAXY-G34 is a novel pegylated granulocyte colony stimulating factor (PEG-GCSF) shown in preclinical and Phase I st...

Lost Sleep can Never Be Compensated for

...y of Sciences (PNAS), these findings shed light on a problem prevalent in industrialized nations with 2...the US, where people get nearly an hour less sleep a night than they did 40 years ago. We now know that chronic lack of sleep has an effect on how an a...

Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

... can go up, and more contact with mosquitoes means a greater possibility of mosquito-borne illness," sa...tral nervous system of one in 250 people bitten by a mosquito carrying the virus, leading to extensive nerve damage. One in five people bitten experience...

Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming

...When they went back last year, after an absence of a year, permanent ponds which previously had been up to a meter deep were drastically shrunken or even dry. Their measurements had shown the water had been g...

Accused 13yr Old Admits to Stabbing Her Brother

A 13-year-old girl accused of killing a Medicine Hat family broke down on the witness stan...ain both her parents. The girl, , told the jury in a barely audible voice that Steinke was panting and covered in her parents blood as he climbed the bed...

Strange Sex Life of Mole-rats may Provide Clues About Human Infertility

... colonies underground where they are ruled over by a queen. In a new study, scientists, by examining these creatures, are hoping to learn more about how stress affec...

Sea Snail Venom Paves Way for Potent New Painkiller

...properties of the deadly sea snail venom to create a drug that can kill pain in humans. The snail us...University of Utah, in the US, were able to detach a molecule from the venom that also had painkilling properties in humans. Now researchers have produ...

Chavez Threatens to Nationalize Private Hospitals in Venezuela

...rs did not reduce health care costs . Chavez made a nationally televised speech, saying that the priva...w. He also described costs at private clinics as a symptom of "the evil of capitalism", which allow only wealthier, insured patients to afford better t...

"Alarming" Malnutrition Among Kenya Refugees: UN Agencies

...e told journalists in Geneva. The UNHCR added in a statement that "a complete package of assistance is needed to overcome chronic shortages in essential commodities such as firewood, energy saving stoves and soap." Otherwise, refugees were being forced to sell their food to meet the need for these ...

Translating Structure into Function

...expedited article in NATURE, researchers show that a solution to the puzzle is finally in sight. A te...trategy works with other enzymes, it should become a potent tool to determine how key enzymes work in the body. And since enzyme action is crucial to d...

Napoleon Love Letter Seduces Bidders at Manuscript Auction

...te to his future wife Josephine sold for more than a quarter of a million pounds at an auction of original handwritten letters by historical figures -- more than fiv...

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