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Adult Stem Cells Show Promise for Peripheral Vascular Disease

...eted a study to assess clinical efficacy, safety, and feasibility of transplantation of peripheral blood...xtremities. Beike is best known for its research and treatments for ataxia, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury and MS which are often covered by China St...

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

...professional clubs, covering football (premiership and championship), rugby (union and league), and County cricket. Unlike some types of employment, sports clubs are not legally obliged...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

...lip or other. And it seems to have happened in US and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ordered the biodefense research laboratory at Texas A&M University to stop all ...

Tamiflu 30 Mg and 45 Mg Capsules Approved by FDA

Roche announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemen...miflu(R) (oseltamivir phosphate) capsules in 30 mg and 45 mg doses. The lower dose capsules provide a convenient alternative for the treatment and preventi...

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

... research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Depleted uranium is used in military combat to pierce armoured vehicles, and spontaneously combusts on impact into fine aerosol particles. These can either be breathed in or eat...

Dow Acquires Wolff Walsrode from Bayer

The Dow Chemical Company and the Bayer Group today announced the closing of Dow...imately USD 725 million) includes a cash component and the assumption of financial debt and pension commitments. Following regulatory clearance from variou...

Manmohan Singh to Inaugurate Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Conference

... two-day conference on rural drinking water supply and sanitation here on Wednesday. The conference wi...g sustainability in drinking water supply projects and sanitation for all in the rural areas of the country by 2012. The conference will broadly focus on...

Drinking Problem Plagues 30% Americans

...Over half (17.8 per cent) are due to alcohol abuse and the rest to alcohol dependence (12.5 per cent). It...re analyzed a survey of 43,093 people done in 2001 and 2002. Dr Deborah Hasin, from the Columbia University Medical Center and her colleagues analyzed the ...

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

...a phase IIa trial to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of MAXY-G34 in the treatment of chemo...stimulating factor (PEG-GCSF) shown in preclinical and Phase I studies to have novel and potentially superior properties compared to the current PEG- GCSF ...

Lost Sleep can Never Be Compensated for

...s an animals ability to compensate for lost sleep, and that the body responds differently to chronic slee...dy author Fred W. Turek, Professor of Neurobiology and Physiology, whose paper has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (P...

Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

Wet weather in some parts of the US and Canada heralds the menace of mosquitoes. The month...rain like this, our mosquito population can go up, and more contact with mosquitoes means a greater possibility of mosquito-borne illness," said Doug Hardy...

Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming

...fects of global warming, threatening bird habitats and breeding grounds and reducing drinking water for animals. John P. Smol of Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and Ma...

Accused 13yr Old Admits to Stabbing Her Brother

... her to. She is accused of murdering her parents and eight-year-old brother in April 2006. Taking the...in a barely audible voice that Steinke was panting and covered in her parents blood as he climbed the bedroom stairs that fateful night in April 2006. Sh...

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

...ility in humans. Mole-rats are blind, hairless, and live in large colonies underground where they are ...ore 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 b...

Sea Snail Venom Paves Way for Potent New Painkiller

...f the compound with parallel pain-killing effects, and it forms the foundation of the new drug, Prialt. ... in people who suffer from various types of cancer and other very serious diseases. It is a very powerful drug, as it was created to lessen chronic pains i...

Chavez Threatens to Nationalize Private Hospitals in Venezuela

... speech, saying that the privately owned hospitals and clinics would be made part of the public health se...ublic health service, such as building new clinics and sending doctors to provide free care to poor people. Following his re-election for a six-year pres...

"Alarming" Malnutrition Among Kenya Refugees: UN Agencies

... "alarming levels" of malnutrition amongst Somali and Sudanese refugees based in camps in Kenya. The U...r Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that as of mid-2006, the acute malnutrition rate stood at 22.2 perc...

Translating Structure into Function

...n Almo of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Frank Raushel of Texas A&M describes the first suc... Schoichet a professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and an investigator in the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, or QB3, based at U...

Napoleon Love Letter Seduces Bidders at Manuscript Auction

...ree kisses -- one on your heart, one on your mouth and one on your eyes," he wrote in the letter. Just ...on of letters, which were written between the 13th and 20th centuries, was put together over 30 years by Albin Schram, a professor of law who died last yea...

Five Killed by Methane Gas on Virginia Farm

...e killed by methane. His wife, two young daughters and a farmhand followed in his trail. Farmers typica...ether cattle feed could have trickled into the pit and accelerated the formation of the gas. "You cannot smell it, you cannot see it, but it's an instant...

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