Pharmacist fined for natural therapies
Sep 14, 2007 |
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A Tennessee pharmacist has received a $1 million fine for treating customers at his health-food store with juices and dietary supplements.
Lift-off for Foton microgravity mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2007 |
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An unmanned Foton spacecraft, carrying a payload of more than 40 ESA experiments, was successfully launched earlier today. The Soyuz-U launcher lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 13:00 CEST ...
Mother's milk a gift that keeps on giving
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Extensive medical research shows that mothers’ milk satisfies babies’ nutritional needs far better than any manufactured infant formula. It also protects babies against many common infectious diseases and certain inflammatory ...
Progress in understanding the malarial parasite
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Sep 14, 2007 |
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About 2 million people die of malaria every year, of which more than a million are children in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is caused by a protozoan parasite belonging to the genus Plasmodium, and Plasmodium falciparum is ...
Immune police recognize good and bad guys in the body
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Immune system police are as good at recognizing bad guys, such as bacteria and viruses, as they are our own tissue, researchers say.
Experts propose cholesterol tests at 15 months of age
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Children could have their cholesterol levels tested at about 15 months of age to prevent heart disease later in life, say doctors in a study published in BMJ today.
'Guide to Secure Web Services' provides blueprint to safer Web 2.0
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Many Web-based services, from shopping to online word processing, allow computer programs to talk to each other and exchange user data across several Web sites without human intervention. Many of the attractive features of ...
Returning personal effects in a bin liner must stop, says researcher
Sep 14, 2007 |
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The personal effects of the victims of disasters and terrorist attacks are sometimes returned to relatives in bin liners or withheld for spurious health and safety reasons, says a researcher speaking at the Death, dying & ...
NASA keeps eye on ozone layer amid Montreal Protocol's success
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2007 |
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NASA scientists will join researchers from around the world to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to reduce the hole in Earth's protective ozone layer. The United Nations ...
Team IDs binocular vision gene
Sep 14, 2007 |
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In work that could lead to new treatments for sensory disorders in which people experience the strange phenomena of seeing better with one eye covered, MIT researchers report that they have identified the gene responsible ...
Researchers test old drug with new hopes for pre-eclampsia cure
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston are trying to determine whether a drug already available to heart patients can also be used to delay delivery in expectant mothers with severe preeclampsia. ...
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