Report says dietary supplements for horses, dogs and cats need better regulation
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Aug 21, 2008 |
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The growing use of animal dietary supplements has raised several concerns, including the safety of specific supplements and the approaches taken to determine their safeness. A new National Research Council report, requested ...
Study on salmonella self-destruction
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Aug 21, 2008 |
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ETH Zurich biologists, led by Professors Martin Ackermann and Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, in collaboration with Michael Doebeli of the University of British Colombia in Vancouver (CN), have been able to describe how random molecular ...
Research shows pollsters how the undecided will vote
Aug 21, 2008 |
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As the American Presidential election approaches, pollsters are scrambling to predict who will win. A study by a team of researchers at The University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the University of Padova, Italy, may give ...
Cervical cancer prevention should focus on vaccinating adolescent girls
Aug 21, 2008 |
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The cost-effectiveness of vaccination in the United States against human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually-transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, will be optimized by achieving universal vaccine coverage in young adolescent ...
New vaccine to fight multiple vaccine strains
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Aug 21, 2008 |
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A universal vaccine effective against several strains of influenza has passed its first phase of testing, according to Dr. Christine Turley of the University of Texas at Galveston.
China sees spike in rabies cases
Aug 21, 2008 |
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A new Chinese study has reported a dramatic spike in rabies infections. The research, published today in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, shows that in some provinces of China the number of human rabies cases ...
Obesity in elderly a ticking time bomb for health services
Aug 21, 2008 |
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Research carried out at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England has discovered that obesity in later life does not make a substantial difference to risks of death among older people but that it is a major ...
Helping the medicine go down
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 21, 2008 |
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Getting little Doug and Debbie to take a spoonful of medicine is more than just a rite of passage for frustrated parents. Children's refusal to swallow liquid medication — and their tendency to vomit it back ...
To protect against liver disease, body puts cells 'under arrest'
Aug 21, 2008 |
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A stable form of cell-cycle arrest known to offer potent protection against cancer also limits liver fibrosis, a condition characterized by an excess of fibrous tissue, according to a new report in the August 22nd Cell, a Cell ...
