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Sea Massage for French Wines

...tasting, Heude watched with anxiety as a crab boat named "Shangaie" winched up two enormous open-weave wooden cases, badly sea-weathered and covered in abalone, seaweed and limpets -- a highly delicate operation carried out by professional abalone fishermen in diving suits.The 600 sea-buried bottles, 300 r...

A ‘Fit’ of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgey

...throat, as she convulsed. This had led her to be named as "The Joker face," by her physician, Dr. Steven Schneider, of Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park. This girl, all of 3 years suffered a very uncommon type of epilepsy called gelastic epilepsy for the past one year. After the recent bre...

Chinese Medicinal Compound Stops Formation of Cysts in Polycystic Kidney

...iptolide is derived from a Chinese medicinal herb, named Lei Gong Teng, which has been used in traditional medicine to treat cancer, inflammation, and auto-immune diseases and, more recently, also has been tested in Phase I clinical trials as an anti-tumor agent. This study, with mice bred to have a dise...

Cure for CMT

...Coined on the names of the three scientists it was named Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease. CMT is a condition that affects the nerves in your legs and arms, known as the peripheral nerves. It is a universal term used under which some 50 to 60 disorders of the peripheral nervous system, which controls our abil...

Cancer Patient’s Life Improved With Anti-reflux Valv

... bile duct stent with the “Dua Anti-Reflux Valve,” named after its inventor, was cleared for use by FDA last year. The Dua stent, for short, has also been approved for use in Europe and Canada. The bile duct carries bile from the liver to the intestines. When this duct is obstructed from cancers of the ...

Former Official Confesses He Had Sold Steroids to Leading Baseball Players

...500,000 dollars in fines. None of his clients were named in the plea agreement. Allan Huber 'Bud' Selig, a senior official of the Major League Baseball, the virtual apex body of professional baseball in the US, told a Congressional committee that the steroid problem in baseball had been blown out of pro...

Bio-Rad Gets Life Science Industry Awards – 200

...the status of Finalist and from this group 11 were named Winners. “The Scientist is proud to recognize the contributions of these companies to the life science research community,” says The Scientist’s Editor and Publisher Richard Gallagher. “This year’s finalists and winners provide a remarkable set of ...

Pfizer Awaits FDA Approval for New AIDS Drug, Maraviroc

...on with popular drugs.// The drug, in question named as maraviroc may find a prominent place amongst drugs meant for AIDS with its power to impede the CCR5 co-receptor, the main route for the entry of the virus into the cells. This drug has certainly raised its manufacturer’s hopes with a projected sal...

Potential Lifesaver Drug Announced

...ntific world is too thrilled for silence. The drug named as PTC124 and been worked upon by researchers from PTC Therapeutics in New Jersey and those from University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts , is slated to be licensed for public use by 2009. The drug which trains the crosshairs on diseases ...

Black-Owned Hospital Receives Historical Commemorative Marker

...dent of the Chester County Medical Society and was named general practitioner of the year by the Pennsylvania Medical Society. The facility reopened in 1991 as the W.C. Atkinson Memorial Community Center. Brandywine Hospital partnered with the Atkinson Center to establish a primary care clinic in the ba...

Deflecting Damage: Flexible Electronics Aid Brain Injury Research

...en recognized by Technology Review magazine, which named her to its 2006 list of 35 leading innovators under age 35. Together, the engineers created the first working stretchable circuits by linking tiny pieces of traditional semiconductors mounted on a rubbery membrane with thin pieces of gold. Even whe...

Thailand Claims World’s First Successful Heart Separation in Siamese Twin

...can boast of the world's 'original' Siamese twins, named Eng and Chang. The conjoined brothers, born in 1811 in Samut Songkram province, became world famous when they traveled to the US where they eventually married American brides and changed their names to Chang Bunker and Eng Bunker. Never separated...

Exposure to a Soil Bacterium can Boost Happiness

...ty treated lung cancer patients with the bacteria, named 'bacterium Mycobacterium vaccae', and found improvement in their quality of life, reported the online edition of BBC News. However, they said more work is needed to determine if the bacteria has anti-depressant properties through activation of sero...

Canandian Firm Announces Positive Results from Anti- Cervical Cancer Drug Trials

...es that may be cancer or may lead to cancer. It is named after George Papanicolaou, an American anatomist."We are very pleased to have achieved this milestone in the continuing development of our Topical Interferon Alpha-2b product candidate," said John Docherty, Helix's Vice President of Corporate Develop...

Exposure to a Soil Bacterium can Boost Happiness

...ty treated lung cancer patients with the bacteria, named 'bacterium Mycobacterium vaccae', and found improvement in their quality of life, reported the online edition of BBC News. However, they said more work is needed to determine if the bacteria has anti-depressant properties through activation of ser...

UF Launches Project to Bridge the Regeneration Gap

...ifferences." The gift from the Maren Foundation, named for the late UF researcher Thomas H. Maren, will provide immediate funding. Maren spent most of his career at UF's College of Medicine and his research led to the development of Trusopt, an important drug for the treatment of glaucoma. The Thompson...

A New Pathway To Deal With Sleeping Sickness

...escribe a pathway in T. brucei parasites that they named SLS (SL-RNA silencing). Triggering this pathway shuts down the synthesis of a crucial RNA molecule, which halts the production of messenger RNAs and leads to the parasite’s death. Inducing SLS could therefore be a novel way to eradicate parasites and...

Women – watch Your Fat and Sugar Intakes to Keep Cancer at Ba

... the mid-1980s at age 40, 50 and 60. The research named the V?sterbotten Intervention Project and funded by World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), put the participants to test by measuring fasting glucose levels as well as sugar levels after glucose infusions. During the study period ,2,478 cases of can...

New Screening Techniques for Cervical Cancer in Chennai Government Hospital

...e cervix for examination under a microscope. It is named after George Papanicolaou an American anatomist. It is used to detect changes that may be cancer or may lead to cancer. It can show non-cancerous conditions too, such as infection or inflammation. Colposcopy takes the process further. It is a visu...

Child Struck With Mystery Illness Shows Signs of Recovering

...ozens of tests they could not prove it, hence they named the mystery condition Bingham Syndrome. AN...

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