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Team of international scientists departs today to discover the unknown in China's Himalayan region

In the quest to discover new species, a team of international scientists leaves today on a month-long expedition to explore the undiscovered treasures in the Mountains of Southwest China, an extension of the great Himalayan mountain range. "Expedition Everest: Mission Himalayas" is a scientific and cultural journey to explore one of the planet's richest and most biologically diverse regio...

Today's babies are fatter babies

By examining more than 120,000 children under age 6 in Massachusetts over 22 years, a newly published study shows that young children--especially infants--are now more likely to be overweight. This study was based at the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and appears in the July issue of Obesity. "The obesity epidemic has...
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Is traditional voice quality an oxymoron with today's cellular, VoIP?

The old Bell system also had very stringent requirements for improving voice quality. It focused on moving from anal...

The challenge of financing today's Midwest life science companies

There are now 48 Midwest VC groups in 16 states with combined capital of $2 billion under management that are affiliated with the ever...

Efforts to avoid friendly fire spawned ancestor of todays RFID

British soldiers seeking ways to identify friendly aircraft in World War II were given a newly developed radar transponder system called IFF - Identification Friend or Foe. It was a crude system, but it was a way to tap into technology to identify something at a distance. Fast forward 65 years, and you'll find researchers working on today's version of remote identifi...

Gone missing: Today jobs, tomorrow workers?

Okay, whodunit fans, heres a mystery to solve. Despite a two-year-plus economic recovery in the United States, an estimated one to five million jobs (depending on which source you cite) have mysteriously failed to appear as anticipated. What happened to them why have they not been created as expected? The list of possible suspects includes high healthcare costs, an inconsistent economic recovery...

Etiquette at Todays Midwest Technology Trade Show

CHICAGO Like so many industries tied to the tech sector, the trade show producers took quite a beating over the last couple years. Things seem to be bouncing back, though, and more and more companies are returning to exhibit at one of the big tech trade shows. Yippee! Good news for trade show booth designers and the union electricians at McCormick Place. But what about for you and me w...

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Results Of Human Trials Of Hungarian Bird-Flu Vaccine Expected Today

BUDAPEST - In what is the first promising news regarding the deadly bird flu virus, the Hungarian veterinary services department (ANTSZ) has said that a prototype //of a vaccine developed against the disease was proving effective against birds. 'The effectiveness of the prototype vaccine against the Asian H5N1 strain of bird flu is proved among poultry and so it can be used to vaccina...

The older generation today, better off then predecessors.

A U.S. Census study found that the Americans who are old today are much healthier as compared to those in the past, have fewer disabilities later in life and will get healthier with the arrival of the baby boomers.// It would be like the next generation would have older people telling them all sorts of things and having access to a large range of situations and wider time frames. <b...

Oral Sex and Anal Sex More Common in Teens Today

STD clinics in Baltimore, Maryland have reported a significant increase in the numbers of teenagers and young adults that have engagied in oral sex and anal// intercourse over the past decade. Dr. Emily Erbelding from Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center presented the current study findings at the 2006 National STD Prevention Conference sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control an...

Minor Fire At AIIMS In The Wee Hours Today

A minor fire broke out in the AII India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here in the wee hours, fire department officials said today. // The blaze broke out in the X-ray department of neurology section due to a suspected short circuit shortly after 1 a.M., they said. Fifteen fire tenders were rushed to the hospital and the blaze was brought under control after around two...

New Delhi Hosting An Asian Delegation On bird Flu From Today

It has been reported that the Agriculture and Health ministers from eleven south and south East Asian countries are attending a meeting organized by the World Health// Organization (WHO). Harsaram Pandey, the WHO spokeswoman says the focus is on controlling bird flu and better communication with local communities. It has been reported that in Indonesia following the death of a 44-year...

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Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Management to Discuss Today's Announcement of Interim Pixantrone Study Results

SEATTLE, July 11, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On Wednesday,July 11, 2007, at 1:30 p.m. Pacific/4:30 p.m. Eastern/10:30 p.m.Central European Time members of Cell Therapeutics, Inc.'s (CTI)management team will host a conference call to discuss today'sannouncement of the interim results of its phase II/III RAPID trialcomparing CHOP-R to CPOP-R, in which pixantrone is substituted fordoxor...

Phase 3 Results for Dabigatran Etexilate, an Investigational Oral Anticoagulant, Presented Today at the XXIst Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis

RIDGEFIELD, Conn., July 11, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Phase 3 resultsfrom the RE-NOVATE(TM) trial demonstrated that oral dabigatranetexilate once daily, administered for an average of 33 days, wasnon-inferior to enoxaparin, also administered for an average of 33days, in preventing venous thromboembolism (VTE) and all-causemortality after total hip replacement surgery. In this trial, therate o...

Synta Pharmaceuticals to Host Conference Call Today

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 5, 2007 - SyntaPharmaceuticals Corp., (NASDAQ: SNTA) a biopharmaceutical companyfocused on discovering, developing, and commercializing smallmolecule drugs to treat severe medical conditions, today announcedit will hold a conference call at 2:30 p.m. (EST) today to discussthese results, which will be presented at the annual meeting of theAmerican Socie...
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