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Babys Poop is of Interest for Researchers

...atio that persists throughout life. "It's really striking the degree to which the patterns of bacterial abundance were so dynamic over time," said David Relman, MD, a collaborator on the work. "Things appear and then things suddenly drop in abundance and other things appear and take their place." There are ...

Talks Between Striking Polish Nurses and Government to Open

...alks are to open between the Polish government and striking nurses who have been camping outside the prime minister's office in Warsaw for the past week, a union official said Tuesday . Four nurses who had been occupying the cabinet office in support of their campaign for better pay left Tuesday after "an h...

Indian Projects Win Top Ashden Awards

...to run a renewable energy business which is both a striking commercial success, and which lifts people out of poverty, too." The awards ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society in London was addressed by former US Vice President Al Gore. "No-one can attend an event like the Ashden Awards and fail to be ...

Polish Police Break Up Nurses' Pay Protest

...ent the night outside the premier's offices. The striking physicians are refusing to provide all but emergency medical services or carry out administrative duties. Poland's state-employed medical workers are notoriously poorly-paid, like their counterparts in many former communist bloc countries. Polish m...

Large Geographic Differences in EpiPen Prescriptions in the U. S.

... be fatal without treatment with epinephrine. The striking north-south differences in EpiPen prescribing, a marker of anaphylaxis risk, currently are without explanation. The investigators hypothesize, however, that low levels of vitamin D from lack of sunshine, may play a role and that this hypothesis requi...

WBC Selective About Sugar

...them to the neutrophils and was surprised to see a striking difference in their response to the two sugars. The neutrophils quickly engulfed many of the beads coated with beta-1,6-glucan, but only a few of those covered in beta-1,3-glucan. Previous studies indicated that blood serum (basically blood minus c...

Talks to End Poland's Medical Strike Fail

Polish authorities have broken off talks with striking doctors and nurses who have camped outside the prime minister's office for about 20 days to demand higher pay , the health minister said Tuesday. "There will be no more discussions with the unions, the government has nothing else to offer," said Zb...

New Therapies for Kidney Diseases

...p novel ways to treat the disease. Our mice show striking similarities with NPHP patients, says Mathias Treier, group leader at EMBL. Very early on in their lives their kidney cells start to die and the mice develop all the characteristic disease symptoms. It is the first time that a mouse model reveals ...

Boffins Identify Gene That can Protect Humans from Nephronopthisis

...ease by working on a mouse model. "Our mice show striking similarities with NPHP patients. Very early on in their lives their kidney cells start to die and the mice develop all the characteristic disease symptoms. It is the first time that a mouse model reveals increased cell death as the mechanism underpin...

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 transplant has been successful. David and Stephen Lomas, from Ulverston, Cumbria, were speaking after The 20-year-o...

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