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Sewage Flows into Hudson River in a Torrent

The Hudson river is in the news again, for all the wrong reasons. Civic authorities in the New York state are warning boaters and others who use the Hudson River of the potential health problems from the 7.5 million gallons of raw sewage that reached the river after a main broke Friday after...

Supreme Court Rejects Limits on Drug-Injury Lawsuits

...ine's benefits and risks and to determine which safety information to include in the drug label." The high court's decision is likely to unleash a torrent of similar lawsuits around the country. "The court opinion not only declined to tell pharmaceutical companies that they could have this kind of im...

Depression After a Heart Attack Dangerous for Years

...on and heart disease, said Dr. Alexander H. Glassman, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. "There is a torrent of information that depression in relation to vascular disease worsens the outcome," Glassman said. "If you look at post-stroke patients, you find the...

NEWSWEEK International Editions: Highlights and Exclusives, OCT. 15, 2007 Issue

...nes and even the vast stretches of "junk DNA" once thought to serve no purpose. The result of this seemingly modest conceptual breakthrough has been a torrent of new discoveries. Scientists around the world have identified alterations in the sequence of DNA that play causative roles in a range of common dise...

Doctors' Groups Offer ADHD Guide for Parents

... TUESDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Two leading U.S. psychiatric organizations on Tuesday released a guide intended to help parents deal with the torrent of often confusing and frightening information on treatments for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In addition to providing informat...

Fast-Multiplying Lawsuits Can Stymie Medical Science, Authors Warn

...Medicine in St. Louis, writes from personal experience: His studies tentatively linking welding to increased risk of Parkinson's disease resulted in a torrent of subpoenas for research data. Responding to them slows or stops his follow-up research. "Participation in the legal system can be a huge burden...

Nicholas buys ICI’s drug business for Rs 70 c

... catapult NPIL to the number one position in the Rs 1,300-crore India cardiovascular market. The other players in the segment are Cipla, Zydus Cadila, torrent Pharmaceuticals and Sun Pharmaceuticals. Mr Piramal said, “This acquisition is significant for our presence in high-growth segments such as cardi...

Sun Pharma to launch chiral version of omeprazole soon

... is the omeprazole product, ‘Omez’, which grossed about Rs 42.8 crore last fiscal with 10.6 per cent marketshare. Cipla (brand name - Lamazol), torrent (Omerac), Wockhardt, Bohringer and Emcure are other companies in the field. Sun Pharmaceuticals has products in the other derivatives of the omeprazol...

Torrent in Medical Dictionary

Immune System

..... Disorders of the Immune System . Immunology and Transplants ... When the immune system hits the wrong. target, however, it can unleash a torrent of ... If the immune system . is crippled, other kinds of diseases result. ... Boost Your Child's Immune System . 8 FOODS THAT BOOST IMMUNIT...

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Ultrasonic frogs can tune their ears to different frequencies

...new about its auditory system," he said. O. tormota , the concave-eared torrent frog, is unusual in other ways. Most frogs have ears on the body surface, but the torrent frog's ears are recessed. Feng and his colleagues previously reported that ...

Killer whales, blind bats, discriminating dolphins, mating birds

...er Narins ( pnarins@ucia.edu ) and his colleagues recently uncovered the first evidence of ultrasonic communication in an amphibian: the concave-eared torrent frog ( Amolops tormotus ), found in Huangshan Hot Springs, China. The males of the species produce diverse birdlike melodic calls with strong ultrason...

Female concave-eared frogs draw mates with ultrasonic calls

...only rudimentary vocal cords. A typical female selects a mate from a chorus of males and then silently signals her beau. But the female concave-eared torrent frog, Odorrana tormota, has a more direct method of declaring her interest: She emits a high-pitched chirp that to the human ear sounds like that of a...

Rare Chinese frogs communicate by means of ultrasonic sound

...ps tormotus) in China sings like a bird, then that the species produces very high-pitch ultrasonic sounds. Now scientists say that these concave-eared torrent frogs also hear and respond to the sounds. The findings, to appear in the March 16 issue of Nature, represent the first documented case of an amphib...

Chemical guidance of T cells leads to immunologic memory and long-term immunity

...cells infected with bacteria or viruses--a process known as cell-mediated immunity. When these CD8+ T cells encounter an infected cell, they unleash a torrent of substances that poke holes in the cell's membrane, chew up its proteins and ultimately cause it to die. They also produce molecules such as interfe...

Frog’s ear canal may provide insights for understanding human hearing loss

...understanding why humans have ear canals: to improve sensitivity to high-frequency sounds." Amolops tormotus, also referred to as the concave-eared torrent frog, is the first non mammalian vertebrate found to be capable of producing and detecting ultrasounds for communication, much like dolphins, bats and...

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Indian pharma delegation arrives in Chicago as part of multi-city tour

...ociation (FICC). In addition to a number of Indian government officials, representatives from Indian pharmaceuticals companies Ranbaxy Labs, Calyx, torrent Pharma, Sami Labs and Alkem will be present. Additionally, given the growth of the CRO market in India, Quintiles India (the Indian subsidiary of the ...

Anthropology professor's blog raises public interest

...ecies of tiny humans that roamed the island 18,000 years ago. Hawks was one of many anthropologists skeptical of the finding, and his posts prompted a torrent of responses from colleagues. "It was such a weird thing to find, so that raises my guard," Hawks says. "In my field, extraordinary claims require ...