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Son Donates Part of Liver to Ailing Father, Transplant Successful

...sked for it. "I didn't know what he was talking about at first and I thought he meant he wanted me to ge...s gesture was "tremendous". He said he became ill about three years ago. After a series of tests, he was told he had advanced liver disease. "I just thoug...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

... or hepatitis. And in a small percentage of cases, about 2 per cent, it persists in a chronic form and can ...reedom-of-information requests to obtain documents about the lab incidents. In April, the Sunshine Project reported that a Texas A&M researcher had been in...

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

...vehicles. The staff were also questioned closely about the circumstances in which exposure might have occ...nalyzed. The findings should help to allay fears about the health of military personnel exposed to radioactive depleted uranium, say the authors....

Drinking Problem Plagues 30% Americans

A new US study estimates that about 30 per cent of Americans report have some alcohol...ince the early 1990s, Theres a lot of knowledge about how to treat. Whatever the reason, people arent getting treatment. The research found that about 18%...

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

...s first Phase II trial we will begin to learn more about how our drug might play a role in the large, undifferentiated GCSF market." The Phase IIa trial, which will be conducted at multiple centers in Eastern Europe, is the first trial of MAXY-G34 in patients. Approximately 30 patients with Stage I-III b...

Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming

...iversity of Alberta in Edmonton have been studying about 40 ponds on Ellesmere Island in northern Canada si...going down, but they were taken aback to find that about 40 well-studied pools among them Camp Pond, Cape Herschel Lagoon and Beach Ridge Pond were fractio...

Accused 13yr Old Admits to Stabbing Her Brother

...s gurgling," she testified. The murders happened about one week after the accused and Steinke had sex for...illed them. After three weeks of Crown evidence about the grisly crime scene and a rebellious adolescent who hated her parents and the rules they tried to...

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

...xamining these creatures, are hoping to learn more about how stress affects fertility in both men and women, a subject which is still inadequately understood. The naked mole-rat lives in colonies of between 100-300 animals, but only the queen reproduces, suppressing fertility in both the females and the ...

Five Killed by Methane Gas on Virginia Farm

...und tank. He would have climbed down a ladder into about 18 inches of manure. "It was probably something ...e a toxic gas," said Bruce Good, who saw Showalter about once a week. Whether the victims suffocated from the fumes, drowned or died of another cause might...

Mira Nair Takes AIDS Message to Indian Cinema Halls

...his collaboration of filmmakers to raise awareness about the disease from the Bill and Melinda Gates Founda...immense power" of Indian cinema to "wake people up about AIDS." She calls project AIDS Jaago, or "awake" in Hindi. "I proposed that I would get together th...

Test-tube Babies: Mood Swings are Key to Fertility Choice

...t said Tuesday they had uncovered important clues about mood swings that heavily influenced a life-alterin... before IVF treatment. The volunteers were asked about their mood states, their social, sexual and relationship stress and about whether they preferred to ...

Complementary Therapy may Reduce Pregnancy Chances in Women

...more and more susceptible to deceptive advertising about ineffective CATs or other unproven treatments, says Dr. Boivin....

Skin Rashes Signifies Longer Survival in Cancer Patients

...ue treatment, patients should talk to their doctor about an effective and proactive strategy to manage the rash while continuing Tarceva therapy." According to the researchers, these rashes can be controlled with mild steroids or antibiotics, and in most cases, they will improve with treatment. They are ...

Mother Donates Eggs So Daughter can Give Birth

...he added. "My partner and I wondered a long time about this donation. Will it be my kid or my daughter's?...Presse daily. "Finally, after a year of thinking about it, we decided that we could go through with it." Tan said the egg-freezing procedure has "reached...

Elderberry A Natural Boost to Skin

...th products and may also give us vital information about diets which promote healthier hearts....

China Fears Show Food Export Quality Key: WHO Official

... also brings risks like this. We cannot be talking about money only. If we do ... the economy and the people will suffer."...

Luciano Pavarotti Believes He is 'nearing His End'

... he is going to die soon, and that he speaks a lot about meeting his parents and finding peace. 'He knows he's going to die soon and often speaks of his greatest desire to meet his parents again and finally find peace,' the Daily Mail quoted her, as telling Italian weekly Diva and Donna. The 71-year-ol...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

...osque in Glasgow. Meantime fresh details emerged about the men linked to the plot to detonate two car-bombs in Londons West End, and an attack the following day at the Glasgow airport, in which two men rammed a Jeep Cherokee into the terminal and set it ablaze. The driver of the vehicle was another doc...

Sporty Spice Fears That She Might Never Get Pregnant

... look a certain way and you shouldnt have to worry about things like that when youre young, she added....

Just One Cigarette can Cause Nicotine Addiction

...ur years. The students were interviewed frequently about smoking and symptoms of addiction. The researchers noted that of the students who were hooked on cigarettes, half were already addicted by the time they were smoking seven cigarettes per month. Some youth found that they were unable to quit smokin...

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