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New Clues Add 40,000 Years to Age of Human Species

Nearly 40 years after an historic anthropology expedition to Ethiopia's Lake Turkana basin, researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting human bones found at that time are roughly 195,000 years old. The researchers believe the findings may bolster the “Out-of-Africa?hypothesis that suggests we all trace to an ancient line that first evolved in Africa and then displaced other hominids as recent...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

A severe allergic reaction to a medication robbed Elma Phifer of her vision two decades ago when she was 39. The reaction scarred her corneas and reduced the ability of her eyes to soothe their damaged surfaces by remaining moist. She came to rely upon family and friends to help her do many of the activities people with normal vision sometimes take for granted. Now, twenty years and severa...

Measles Deaths Worldwide Drop By Nearly 40% Over Five Years

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today announced that countries are on target to halve deaths from measles, a leading vaccine-preventable killer, by the end of this year. Global measles deaths have plummeted by 39%, from 873 000 in 1999 to an estimated 530 000 in 2003. The largest reduction occurred in Africa, the region with the highest...

A New Species of Monkey is Discovered in Tanzania: The First in Africa for More Than 20 Years

Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society, working in conjunction with other partners, have discovered Africa’s first new species of monkey in over 20 years, marking the third monkey WCS...

Retrovirus struck ancestors of chimpanzees and gorillas millions of years ago, but did not affect ancestral humans

The ancestors of chimpanzees and gorillas were infected with a deadly retrovirus about three to four million years ago, but there is no evidence it infected ancestors of modern-day humans, according to research by genome scientists. The virus struck after humans had split off the evolutionary tree from primates, researchers said. The infection may have played a role in the evolution of such great...

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UW System says goodbye to Lawson after 5 years, $26 million

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TDS restates years of revenues, shows slight profit drop

Phone and data company TDS, also the corporate parent of U.S. Cellular, said its revenues for the last quarter were $1 billion, an increase over results from last year that it had to restate due to accounting problems. Net income for the quarter was $41.5 million, down from $43.3 million in the same quarter a year ago. TDS said in November 2005 it would have to restate some resu...

Space port could open in Sheboygan in next 10 years

Private space flights could be launched from Wisconsin in the next ten years, according to a proposal that has passed the Joint Finance Committee 14-1 and could reach the Senate for a vote this month. State Senator Joe Leibham, R-Sheboygan, has a vision of a private spaceport in Wisconsin that would be regulated similarly to airports. Leibhams bill, SB 352, would establish a Wisconsin Ae...

Internet Scout celebrates 10 years on web, eyes new project launch

From the beginning, the Internet Scout Project has been on the job, providing better tools for finding, filtering and presenting online information. Internet Scout is currently celebrating its first decade on the Web and also looking forward to a fu...

Food microbiology symposium will mark 25 years

The Food Microbiology Symposium is Oct. 15-19 and features speakers from academia, industry and regulatory agencies will provide an overview on various topics including: GMO...

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Diagnosis of Alzheimer's years before clinical signs emerge

Brain researchers are developing tests that can identify the beginnings of Alzheimers years before the first clinical signs of the disease emerge. The researchers, who presented their results on 14 // November at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington DC, say the tests allowed them to single out people who went on to develop the condition. If those results ar...

New Test Can Detect Breast Cancer 8 Years Earlier

There is a new test some doctors say could change the way we treat breast cancer. The new Halo Pap Test for the breast is now available to help doctors identify breast disease // up to eight years earlier than a lesion might be found on a mammogram. Breast pap patient Amy Rhoades is taking a screening test that could potentially predict her risk for breast cancer up to eight years in ad...

Fraudulent Dentist Jailed For Three Years

A dentist who was accused of defrauding the NHS of more than £600,000 has been sentenced to three years in jail. 45-year-old Michael Semeniuk of Willerby, near Hull carried on// this fraud for more than six years during which he filed around 3,500 cases of false claims for payment. The Hull Crown Court was told that the claims were filed for treating dead patients or for work, which was...

Test tube babies, 25 years later

Considered a pioneering fertility treatment 25 years ago, IVF has now been responsible for an estimated 114,000 babies born in the United States alone, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. IVF is a procedure that involves retrieving the eggs from the mother and mixing them in the lab with sperm from the father. The resulting embryo is then placed back into the moth...

Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free

Valium, the drug that revolutionized the treatment of anxiety and became a cultural icon, is 40 years old this year. The drug owes its success to the stubborn streak of chemist Leo Sternbach, who refused to quit after his boss at Hoffmann-La Roche ended a project to develop a tranquilizer to compete with a rival company's drug. Sternbach tested one last version and in just a day, he got t...

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Based on Up to 6 Years of Follow-Up, Biovest Announces Favorable Interim Blinded Data for Fast-Tracked Pivotal Phase 3 Clinical Trial of BiovaxID Anti-Cancer Vaccine for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

WORCESTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 28, 2007 - BiovestInternational, Inc. (OTCBB: BVTI), a majority owned subsidiary ofAccentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABPI), announced on June27, 2007 blinded interim data from the start of its fast-trackedpivotal Phase 3 clinical trial of BiovaxID(TM) for Non-Hodgkin'slymphoma (NHL) from September 2000 through June 2006. This interimblinded dat...

Byetta Treatment for Three and a Half Years Associated with Reductions in Cardiovascular Risk Factors in People with Type 2 Diabetes

- BYETTA also Showed Sustained Improvements in Blood GlucoseControl and Progressive Weight Loss - CHICAGO, June 23, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AmylinPharmaceuticals, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company today announcedresults from a study that showed BYETTA(R) (exenatide) injectionsustained improvements in blood sugar levels and progressive weightloss through three and a half years of thera...

Enbrel Safety Data for up to Eight Years in Patients with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis Being Presented at EULAR

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. & COLLEGEVILLE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun13, 2007 - Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, adivision of Wyeth (NYSE:WYE), today announced the presentation ofadditional data that showed that the safety profile of Enbrel(R)(etanercept) was maintained with long-term use in patients withmoderate-to-severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) whocompleted up to e...

Cervarix, the GSK Cervical Cancer Candidate Vaccine, Provides Sustained Immune Response in 100 Percent of Women up to 55 Years of Age

New Study Results Show Antibodies Against Cancer-Causing VirusTypes 16 & 18 That Are At Least Ten Times Greater Than NaturalInfection Levels CHICAGO, June 05, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- New Phase III data showthat at 18 months after the first of a three-dose regimen, 100percent of women up to age 55 vaccinated with the GlaxoSmithKline(GSK) cervical cancer candidate vaccine had antibodies pr...

Investigation Findings, Corroborated by Empirical Evidence of the Schisandra Berry as Cardio-Tonic in Traditional Chinese Medicine for Hundreds of Years, Support the Use of Schisandrin B in the Prevention and Treatment of IHD

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2007 - Mitopharm Corporation,Inc. (Pink Sheets:MTPM), releases the results of a research paperwhere Professor Dr. Robert Ko published the beneficial effects ofSchisandrin B, the precursor of (-) Schisandrin B - a noveldiscovery by Dr. Ko - on Ischemic Heart Disease. In a research paper entitled "SCHISANDRIN B PROTECTS AGAINSTMYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSIO...

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