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Escapee farmed salmon infiltrate fitter wild populations

...ally differently to wild salmon, therefore backing claims that any integration of farmed salmon back into the wild through escapees could have a negative impact on the health of wild salmon populations. Christian Roberge and Louis Bernatchez, two of the co-authors on this research paper explain: "Using a 3...

Efficiency, not more doctors, is the prescription for aging population

...ther academic medical centers. Using the Medicare claims database to examine the experience of chronically-ill people who received most of their medical care at academic medical centers, the researchers calculated the physician workforce inputs per patient during their last 6 months of life. Their analys...

Mayo Clinic study finds two genes predict outcome for breast cancer patients

... in approximately one million women each year, and claims the lives of over 40,000 in the United States. More than two-thirds of all breast cancers are hormone positive, and most of these are early stage (lymph node-negative). ...

Many cleaners, air fresheners may pose health risks when used indoors

...lifornia, then examined the labels and advertising claims (e.g. "pine-scented") for these products and reviewed available product data sheets. Based on this information, they selected the 21 products most likely to contain significant amounts of terpenes and ethylene-based glycol ethers: four air fresheners...

Teasing out tissue from blood

...rmafrontiers, a company in Woodland, Texas. It now claims to have refined a way to produce stem cells from whiteblood cells called monocytes and develop them into many different tissue types including, crucially, insulin-producing cells. Most mainstream stem cell researchers are sceptical, however, because...

New treatment for severe malaria

...angerous form of malaria is difficult to treat and claims two million lives a year. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a powerful new weapon against the disease. Severe anaemia, respiratory problems and encephalopathy are common and life-threatening consequences of serious ...

Protect patients from exploitation by alternative medicines industry

...empted to write misleading, he says. Indeed the claims made by companies to support the sales of such products may be overtly and malignly incorrect and, in many cases, the products may be doctored by chemicals borrowed from the conventional pharmaceutical industry. The reason that these products are acc...

Fishy cooperation

...he past decade, this ladder has been challenged by claims of high intelligence and great social complexity in other animals. For example, spotted hyenas establish hierarchies in which dominant females support the rank contests of their daughters. Bottlenose dolphins form "political" coalitions every bit as ...

Health Canada approves cold and flu medicine

...atory agency, has approved wide-ranging new health claims for COLD-fX®, the most popular cold/flu remedy in ...ting the immune system.? Comprehensive therapeutic claims require support by the highest level of scientific evidence: randomized, double-blind, placebo-contr...

New cigarette designs don't offer lower predicted cancer risks

...egon Health & Science University may snuff out claims by tobacco companies that smoking such newly marke...d be allowed to regulate cigarettes. "Marketing claims need to be tightly regulated. Tobacco companies should not be allowed to make expressed or implied p...

Mosquito repellents that emit high-pitched sounds don't prevent bites

... vicinity from bites and disease. To test these claims a team of Cochrane Researchers conducted a systematic review looking for trials conducted with EMRs. They located ten field trials that had been carried out in various parts of the world. None of these trials showed any evidence that EMRs work. "A...

Growth hormone is not the anti-aging bullet for healthy adults

...to see if there is any validity behind some of the claims made about growth hormone's anti-aging properties....growth hormone. "Think about all the scientific claims made on anti-aging Web sites based on this small population of patients. The FDA typically doesn't a...

Arsenic in chicken feed may pose health risks to humans, C&EN reports

...ciation that represents the U.S. chicken industry, claims there is “no reason to believe there are any human health hazards?associated with the use of roxarsone. ...

Row over study puts Korea's scientific community under scrutiny again

...over Woo-Sok Hwang's stem cell research. Dr Kim claims a paper about premature ovarian failure that he or...ng that Dr Kim had defamed her. The CHA group also claims that Dr Kim stole the data used in the study. In February, the co-director of the CHA Stem Cell I...

Cloning the smell of the seaside

...e discovery adds to the diverse list of Stiffkey's claims to fame. The small coastal village is renowned for its 'Stewkey Blue' cockles and was also the home of Henry Williamson, author of 'Tarka the Otter'. A more controversial figure from Siffkey's past was its rector, Rev Harold Davidson, who was defr...

Study warns deep-sea mining may pose serious threat to fragile marine ecosystems

...y operating in Papua New Guinea has already staked claims off the coast of Tonga and Fiji," he says. "If this first attempt at mining proves successful, it’s like letting the genie out of the bottle."...

HIVMA opposes The Gambia's unproven AIDS remedy

...ls on President Yahya Jammeh to cease his unproven claims that the treatment "cures" AIDS. Earlier this ye...emonstrated to save lives." "Any treatment that claims to alleviate this devastating disease must be subjected to rigorous scientific scrutiny," he added. ...

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