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Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned

Like an armada of small rototillers, female salmon can industriously churn up entire stream beds from end to end, sometimes more than once, using just their tails. For decades ecologists have believed that salmon nest-digging triggered only local effects. But a University of Washington researcher writes in this month's BioScience journal that the silt, minerals and nutrients that are unlea...

Researchers to study why dead zone returned to Lake Erie

A $2.5 million grant will fund a 5-year study examining why dead zones have returned to Lake Erie, and researchers hope the findings will allow them to detect the cause and stop the spread before the fishery and tourism industries suffer. "This is a very serious problem," said University of Michigan's Donald Scavia, professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, and lead in...

U-M researchers discover gene switched off in cancer can be turned on

Popular new drugs such as Herceptin and Gleevec more effectively treat cancer by targeting genetic mut...
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Opposition: Government turned a deaf ear to warnings about dwindling health care services

The state government is facing accusation from the Victorian Opposition for inadequate management of health services in the state. // Reports are rife that almost one in seven mentally ill suffer a relapse within a month of being discharged from the hospital, necessitating a re-admission. Helen Shardey confirms that the auditor-general had fore-warned the Government about mental health...

Lady Patient Died after Hospital Turned Inhospitable, Rules Sheriff

A case of hospital negligence stands substantiated in yesterday’s ruling by the Sheriff, confirming the inadequacy of appropriate treatment// measures to a lady patient who had suffered a large abscess. According to the sheriff’s ruling, the lady might have survived, had she been referred to a specialist. The hospital had failed in their duty to guide the patient properly. A fatal acc...

Drug Trial Turned Into a Terrible Nightmare

A drug trail was conducted to test the drug manufactured by German pharmaceutical company TeGenero by medical research company Parexel. // The drug TGN1412 which was designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, leukaemia and multiple sclerosis was tested on volunteered healthy men. One of six men who fell seriously ill after taking part in a drug trial has told the press that he felt like h...

HIV Patient Who Turned 50, Alive and Going Strong

M. Smith was diagnosed with AIDS in the early 1990's when she was 35, healthy, and never suspected that an ex-boyfriend, who died years earlier// of AIDS related complications, had infected her. Smith also had cancer which gave her less than two years to live. One day, flipping through a magazine for HIV positive people, she saw an advertisement offering to buy her $150,000 life insura...

Adolescent Drinkers Turned Addicts Cause the Exchequer More

According to a study conducted by Susan E. Foster, M.S.W., and colleagues from The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, New York, //found that there is a sudden increase in the number of adolescent drinkers. Statistics show that about $23 billion is contributed yearly to the alcohol industry by adolescent drinkers. The results of the study are published...

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Dean: President Bush Has Turned His Back on the American People

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- DemocraticNational Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the followingstatement today after President Bush once again put politics aheadof science by vetoing the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of2007. The legislation, providing federal funding for life-savingembryonic stem cell research, has the overwhelming support of theAm...

NCI Researchers Discover Genes That Are Turned on at High Levels in Tumor-associated Blood Vessels of Mice and Humans

BETHESDA, Md., June 11, 2007--A team of researchers at theNational Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes ofHealth (NIH), has uncovered a set of genes that are turned on, orexpressed, at high levels only in the blood vessels that feedtumors in mice and humans. These genes, and the proteins theyencode, are important new potential targets for novel drugs thatcould selectiv...
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