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Medical whistleblowers speak out

...tability Project. In comments that echoed his now infamous testimony to the US Senate Finance Committee, Graham said that, "Nearly 60,000 people probably died from that drug. That's as many of our soldiers that were killed in the Vietnam war [who] died as a result of Vioxx use. And FDA had the opportunity, t...

Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon lower quality food

...the onset of intensive fishing, decades before the infamous sardine fishery collapse of the late 1940s, and nearly a century before recent declines of anchovies, squid and rockfish. The researchers compared these historic samples with feathers they collected between 1998 and 2002 from 201 murrelets in the sa...

Recurrence of a flu pandemic similar to infamous 1918 flu could kill 62 million

...l recall the pandemics of 1968 and 1957, it is the infamous 1918-1920 pandemic--and the possibility of a recurrence on that scale--that causes the most trepidation. Strangely, researchers still don't know exactly how many people died from this particular strain of the flu virus in that pandemic, and they ...

Plague proteome reveals proteins linked to infection

...ct. Y. pestis is the bacterium that caused the infamous Black Death plagues. Fleas are vectors for the disease and can spread it to rodent and human hosts. This study mimicked environmental conditions of Y. pestis in flea and in mammalian systems. The proteome is a survey of proteins in a cell. Lipton,...

'Erectile dysfunction' drugs heighten natural anti-cancer activity

...y and lead author on the paper. Nitric oxide is infamous among city dwellers as a component of air-polluting smog, but is gaining importance in medical research for its cell-signaling duties and its ability to divert soldiering T-cells that patrol and protect. The Hopkins team also analyzed gene express...

Are journal rankings distorting science?

... fact that a bad paper may be cited because of its infamous errors and that a journal’s rank has no bearing on the quality of individual papers it publishes. But more worrying is the trend towards using impact factors to guide decisions on research funding. This has been particularly noticeable in the UK, whe...

Bacterial walls come tumbling down

...ate the search for an effective weapon against the infamous superbug. The images produced by Strynadka's team show the enzyme frozen in place by a powerful antibiotic called moenomycin. Moenomycin has been used for decades in animal feed to promote livestock growth. Bacteria have shown very little evidence...

Herpes infection may be symbiotic, help beat back some bacteria

...before becoming quiescent again. In addition, less infamous herpes viruses like HHV6 and HHV7 permanently infect most humans without ever producing any significant symptoms. The results have potentially wide-reaching implications for immune research. Humans and other mammals have spent millions of years li...

Diminishing dinosaur steps saved by laser and laptop

... Creek Formation in the United States, home to the infamous Tyrannosaurs Rex. ...

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