Archive for November 2021

EPA Targeting Gender Benders

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EPA Targeting Gender Benders - More than a decade after Congress told the Environmental Protection Agency to start the test chemicals that can disrupt the balance of hormones in people, the agency finally gets time to do it. Yesterday, the EPA published a list of 67 first pesticides that will be...

Flood Dizzying numbers

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Flood Dizzying numbers - swine flu The outbreak of swine flu in the United States and Mexico is, as is typical in the early stages of the spread of a new virus leading to an outpouring of different data from different sources. At a news conference today in Mexico City, the Mexican health secretary...

Several serious cases of swine flu in the US Surface

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Several serious cases of swine flu in the US Surface - Five people with swine flu in the US were hospitalized, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today. So far, only one patient in the US was hospitalized, a 41 year old woman who recovered. CDC and health agencies...

Seeking Margaret Hamburg

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Seeking Margaret Hamburg - Plus The New Republic 'The health care blog, Jonathan Cohn wondered why a seemingly qualified expert on diseases infectious-member Institute of medicine, nonetheless has yet to get a vote Senate confirmation to become commissioner of the Food and Drug administration....

A New Patient Zero *

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A New Patient Zero * - Mexico confirmed that a person from Mexico infected with the swine flu virus developed symptoms on 11 March, six days earlier than the case that many in the media called "patient zero" science Insider has learned. The finding not only adds a new entry at the left end of the...

Swine flu: It is a mutation, but does that mean

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Swine flu: It is a mutation, but does that mean - The virus isolated from the second patient of swine flu in the Netherlands has an interesting mutation in a gene called PB2 that could mean? the virus has become more to spread from person to person, a team of Dutch researchers reported Friday ProMED,...

Trigger Cancer tumors Blues

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Trigger Cancer tumors Blues - It is not surprising that a deadly disease like cancer can make you depressed. But if the tumors are the source of depression? That's what a new study in rats suggests. Animals with breast tumors showed depressivelike behavior and anxiety, although unlike humans, they...

Definition pandemic continues to Mystify

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Definition pandemic continues to Mystify - As swine flu cases continue to rise in many countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) maintains that the epidemic does not deserve the "pandemic" label. And the United States, representing just over half of the 12,954 confirmed cases of the disease...

A New Twist on Prion Disease

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A New Twist on Prion Disease - In Mad cow disease, misfolded proteins called prions drill holes in the brain, eventually destroy. Hereditary prion diseases, which are rare and passed through families, do the same. But it has long been a puzzle why prion attack neurons than other cell types, and how...

free vaccines, Big Money for research

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free vaccines, Big Money for research - [SmallBusiness science Insider this week a report on the prediction of a US government official that H1N1 will continue unabated during summer and autumn, a decision taken by the G8 nations to skip science during their summit...

If Hong Kong suggests swine flu resistant spilling

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If Hong Kong suggests swine flu resistant spilling - A third case of swine flu resistant to oseltamivir, announced today in Hong Kong, experts from the flu fear that drug resistance is spreading. Unlike the two previous cases, Hong Kong the patient has not taken oseltamivir itself, suggesting that...

Lingering concerns remain about NIH Stem Cell Rules

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Lingering concerns remain about NIH Stem Cell Rules - UPDATE :. NIH has issued an opinion stating that current research on previously approved stem cell lines can continue BARCELONA, SPAIN science was the main topic of conversation here yesterday the international Society for (ISSCR of) the annual...

New Head CDC orders to cut management layers

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New Head CDC orders to cut management layers - Thomas Frieden, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has decided to dismantle a key element of the former director of CDC controversial reorganization Julie Gerberding agency based in Atlanta. In a memo sent to members...

Watching the clock to lose weight

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Watching the clock to lose weight - Uneven gains. The mice with an immunity gene eliminated the gain less weight than normal mice, and their livers ( insert ) Pack on less unsightly fat. Shian-Huey Chiang et al., Cell 138 (September 4, 09) © 09 Elsevier Inc....

Get your selected cells

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Get your selected cells - The National Institutes of Health has today taken a step towards facilitating the new administration policy on the use of human embryonic stem cells, opening a website where scientists funded by NIH can complete an application form for the use of certain cell lines. scientists...

A New Journal for Biomedical Discoveries translate

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A New Journal for Biomedical Discoveries translate - discoveries out of the laboratory and into the clinical removal has become one of the main objectives of the leaders in biomedical research. They called for programs to deploy search results faster and get young researchers interested in the work...

We fell Cancer Center Clinical Trials, former employee Charges

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We fell Cancer Center Clinical Trials, former employee Charges - Molecular biologist Suzanne Stratton worked to improve clinical trials Carle Cancer Center in Urbana, Illinois, when she was fired late last year prompting an investigation into the center of the standards, according to a report in...

Gene Therapy Halts Brain Disease in Two Boys

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Gene Therapy Halts Brain Disease in Two Boys - Gene fix. The blood cell with red dots was designed to ADL, a protein that was missing in this patient until he received the gene therapy 2 years earlier. Patrick Aubourg The researchers used a modified AIDS...

If NIH study Conflicts of interest more?

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If NIH study Conflicts of interest more? - A new group adds its voice to the rage on the influence of drug money on research and medical practice, saying it should be more money to study the problem. In a letter sent today to the National Institutes of Director Francis Collins Health, 100 doctors,...

Enemy-With-Benefits revocation status flu

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Enemy-With-Benefits revocation status flu - colorful character. The influenza virus goes to the house in human cells and diverts our protein for its own purposes. CDC Humans are the best friend of the influenza virus. We give a home. We travel and introduce...

Biotech Leaders Slam US Report on gene patents

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Biotech Leaders Slam US Report on gene patents - Anticipating a series of federal recommendations on gene patents coming out tomorrow, a former senator and four biotechnology companies and leaders biotech trade groups criticized the Department of Health and Human services (HHS) for decision, they...

Music Therapy gives a voice to the voiceless

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Music Therapy gives a voice to the voiceless - SAN DIEGO -It's an awesome video. An old man in thick glasses and a blue shirt is sitting in a wheelchair. A therapist sits in front of him, off camera. She tries to make him say he is thirsty, but can not produce the words. There are many years man...

Notorious Drug belly Bleeding

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Notorious Drug belly Bleeding - windfall. white arrows indicate weaknesses in the blood vessels of mice with HHT ( environment) than healthy mice ( left ) did not. Thalidomide strengthens the vessel walls ( right ). Lebrin et al, Nature Medicine, Advance Online...

Popular Stem Cell Line In Limbo Released

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Popular Stem Cell Line In Limbo Released - The line most widely used human embryonic stem cells can again be studied with federal dollars. Yesterday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has approved four stem cell lines submitted by WiCell, the nonprofit associated with the University of Wisconsin,...
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