Son Donates Part of Liver to Ailing Father, Transplant Successful
...ate more than half of his liver to his father, and the transplant has been successful. David and Steph...ought he meant he wanted me to get some liver from the butcher," he joked as he sat by his father's bedside. "But I just said yes straight away, without th...Adult Stem Cells Show Promise for Peripheral Vascular Disease
...s for patients with peripheral vascular disease of the lower extremities. Beike is best known for its r...f 152 patients with peripheral vascular disease of the lower extremities were enrolled into this non-controlled study from November 2003 to March 2006. The...UK Sports Clubs Failing to Run Comprehensive Health Checks on Professional Players
...ayers, finds research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The findings... carry out health checks on their players, despite the higher potential risks of injury. But it is recommended that these checks should be carried out be...Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected
... 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 work on select agents and toxins....Tamiflu 30 Mg and 45 Mg Capsules Approved by FDA
Roche announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approv...dose capsules provide a convenient alternative for the treatment and prevention of influenza types A and B in patients one year and older. Since the capsul...UK Army Personnel Involved in Iraqi Invasion Not at Risk from Depleted Uranium
Army personnel involved in the Iraqi invasion of 2003 have not absorbed dangerous...a. The authors tested depleted uranium levels in the urine of four different groups who would have been subject to different levels of exposure. These ...Dow Acquires Wolff Walsrode from Bayer
The Dow Chemical Company and the Bayer Group today announced the closing of Dow's acquisition of Wolff Walsrode. The purchase price of EUR 540 million (approximatel...Manmohan Singh to Inaugurate Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Conference
...ng water supply projects and sanitation for all in the rural areas of the country by 2012. The conference will broadly focus on the issues, such as, progress under Bharat N...Drinking Problem Plagues 30% Americans
... half (17.8 per cent) are due to alcohol abuse and the rest to alcohol dependence (12.5 per cent). It means that 1 out 3 persons in the US have a real problem with the bottle. But the nature of this problem can vary widely -- from a ...Maxygen Initiates Phase IIa Clinical Trial of MAXY-G34 in Breast Cancer Patients
...hat it has initiated a phase IIa trial to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of MAXY-G34 in the treatment of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia . MAXY-G34 is a novel pegylated granulocyte colony sti...Lost Sleep can Never Be Compensated for
...als ability to compensate for lost sleep, and that the body responds differently to chronic sleep loss than it does to acute sleep loss. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), these findings shed light on a problem preva...Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace
Wet weather in some parts of the US and Canada heralds the menace of mosquitoes. The month long heavy rains have sent floodwaters rushing through large areas i...Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming
Some of the ponds which have been around for thousands of year...g , according to two researchers. Ancient ponds in the Arctic drying up during the polar summer as warmer temperatures evaporate shallow bodies of water il...Accused 13yr Old Admits to Stabbing Her Brother
...sed of killing a Medicine Hat family broke down on the witness stand Tuesday while admitting to stabbing ...and eight-year-old brother in April 2006. Taking the stand in her own defense she testified that it was her much older boyfriend Jeremy Steinke who actua...Strange Sex Life of Mole-rats may Provide Clues About Human Infertility
Washington, The out of the ordinary sex life of the African naked mole-rat is helping scientists comprehend how stress can lead to infertility in humans...Sea Snail Venom Paves Way for Potent New Painkiller
Washington, Boffins have used the magical properties of the deadly sea snail venom to create a drug that can kill pain in humans. The snail uses venom to par...Chavez Threatens to Nationalize Private Hospitals in Venezuela
...ez made a nationally televised speech, saying that the privately owned hospitals and clinics would be made part of the public health service if they failed to abide by the law. He also described costs at private clini..."Alarming" Malnutrition Among Kenya Refugees: UN Agencies
.... The UN High Commissioner for 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 percent in Kenya's Dadaab complex of three camps and 15.9 perc...Translating Structure into Function
Scientists have perfected ways to determine the knot-like structure of enzymes, but theyve been stumped trying to translate the structure into an understanding of function what the enzyme actually does in the body. This puzz......ters by historical figures -- more than five times the pre-sale estimate. The letter from the future French leader fetched 276,000 pounds (409,000 euros, 557,000 dollars) at the Christie's aucti...