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Young Girls Turning to Speed for Losing Weight

...he Amphetamine drugs that are snorted and injected contract appetite and trigger maniac behaviour, which results in burning of calories. Robin Herne with Suffolk's Drug and Alcohol Action Team, said that speed is used by girls as replacements for meals. Herne warned that the drug can lead to binge eating,...

New Blood Vessels can Be Created from Bone Marrow Stem Cells: Study

...n muscles that is responsible for their ability to contract and relax, to develop the new method for isolating...ns, the ability to proliferate, and the ability to contract in response to vasoconstrictors. The tissue-engineered vessels also produced both collagen and ela...

NanoSensors Provides Update on Its Biosensor to Detect E.coli and Salmonella

...of its e.coli biosensor for field testing from its contract manufacturer, due to its limited personnel and financial resources, it has not yet been able to commence field testing the prototype of its biosensor product as it had previously expected. Although the Company continues to review multiple alternati...

Rapid Response Teams Formed in Madhya Pradesh to Fight Diseases

...aid that action was initiated to appoint people on contract at district level surveillance units in 48 districts. The new rapid response teams will monitor the project work and a satellite interactive terminal (SIT) has been formed in the main state surveillance unit and places have been selected to set up ...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

...ed. As few as 10 to 20 percent of the people who contract EEE return to health, said DeMaria. According to the Massachusetts Natural Resources Collaboration website, July 20-23, Aug. 8-11 and Sept. 7-10 will probably be the most severe salt-marsh mosquito outbreaks for residents in coastal towns....

Food Safety Chief Executed for Bribery in China

.... In August last year about 40 people in Beijing contract meningitis after eating partially cooked snails at.... In August last year about 40 people in Beijing contract meningitis after eating partially cooked snails at a chain of restaurants. Three months later 5,00...

Suven Seeks Permission for Trials of New Drug

...-based life sciences company, which is involved in contract research and manufacturing services, drug discovery and development support services and collaborative research partner with global pharma majors. Suven's research focuses on developing treatments for Central Nervous System (CNS) disorders through...

Spice Girl Geri Halliwell Annoyed by the no Baby Contract

... her upcoming tour bosses have asked her to sign a contract banning her from having kids till the gig is over ...g to have another baby soon, she was bugged by the contract as no other band member was asked to sign such contract. Its just a practical requirement really, ...

Angelina Jolie Wants No Fewer Than 14 Kids!

...lie also talked about asking journalists to sign a contract before talking to her. "There was a memo that went out to ask people if they would sign it that said, 'Don't get into personal questions, focus on the movie,' and things like that. It was from my representative trying to be protective of me, but it...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

...es have already been made public by the media - a contract janitor who cleaned the floor around the woman as she vomited blood and a triage nurse who oversaw the whole episode and pointedly refused requests to intervene. The janitor was counseled orally; the triage nurse was placed on leave and later resigne...

Eyelid Spasm can Be Prevented by Coffee Drinking

...arospasm is a dystonia in which the eyelid muscles contract uncontrollably; this starts as involuntary blinking but in extreme cases sufferers are rendered functionally blind despite normal vision because they are unable to prevent their eyes from clamping shut. The study involved 166 patients with primary ...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Initiates Patient Enrollment In New Cotara(R) Brain Cancer Trial

...pating neurosurgeons, as well as the fact that the contract research organization overseeing the trial is highly experienced in conducting similar glioblastoma trials with many of the investigators involved with our study." The new Cotara study is being conducted according to internationally accepted ICH GC...

China Biopharma to Introduce an Immunotherapeutic Vaccine into China

...ill supply bulk materials and China Biopharma will contract local manufactures for the final packaging in China. CBPC will also conduct a study before a definitive agreement is to be signed. This product requires a clinical study and an approval from the Chinese SFDA before it is sold in China, though the p...

Tech Heads Go Gaga Waiting for Apple's IPhone

... will be obligated to sign up for a two-year phone contract with AT&T. The iPhone is to debut in Europe in late 2007 and in Asia in 2008....

Apple Launches IPhone; New Yorkers Line Up to Buy Gadget

... also be obligated to sign up for a two-year phone contract with telecoms giant ATT. Unlike regular cellphones that have dials and small screens, the iPhone features a larger touch-screen. All commands, from dialing a telephone number to surfing the Internet, are done by tapping or sliding a finger on the...

Junior Doctors Facing More Misery Because of Contract Deadlock: BMA

...isery because the government is stalling on a new contract for non-training grade doctors, the BMA warns. L...MA is concerned that ongoing delays to an improved contract for staff grade and associate specialist (SAS) doctors will make the posts even less appealing. It i...

DBT And IAVI Forge Partnership To Develop Next Generation Vaccine Candidates

...DBT may select additional principal investigators, contract researchers, or partners in India to participate in the Programme, and will discuss ways to build infrastructure for subsequent HIV/AIDS vaccine candidate evaluation. At a later stage, based on their initial research and vaccine design concepts, b...

More and More American Women Go for Facelifts to Get Jobs

... which sends a message to the muscle telling it to contract or tense up. With the flow of acetylcholine blocked or significantly reduced, the muscle can no longer retract and it relaxes. As a result, the wrinkled areas smooth out and soften. Liposuction is a cosmetic surgical procedure in which excess fatty...

AIDS Vaccine Still a Long Way Off

...ntially improve the quality of life for people who contract the virus after immunisation by postponing the day... people are HIV-positive and another 11 000 people contract the virus every day, most of them in the world's poorest nations. The ability of HIV to mutate rap...

Research may Yield Improved Treatment for Diseased Lungs

... Patients with certain kinds of scleroderma also contract a kind of pulmonary hypertension that is particularly resistant to most treatments. So in a limited series of studies in such patients, Chesler also will investigate whether excess collagen negatively affects heart health. "My hypothesis is that pati...

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