Bird flu virus remains infectious up to 600 days in municipal landfills
Amid concerns about a pandemic of swine flu, researchers from Nebraska backfire for the duration of the first antiquated that poultry carcasses infected with another threat - the “bird flu” virus - can remain communicable in metropolitan landfills fitting for wellnigh 2 years. Their [...]
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News From The American Chemical Society, May 27, 2009
July 3rd, 2010 · No Comments
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ISTA Pharmaceuticals Announces Phase III Results For Once-Daily Topical Xibrom(TM) 0.09%
July 1st, 2010 · No Comments
ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISTA), an ophthalmic pharmaceutical company, announced results from the Company’s recently completed Occasion III clinical program of Xibrom(TM) (0.09% bromfenac sodium ophthalmic solution) QD (once-daily). The program enrolled 282 patients who underwent cataract surgery in two U.S. multi-center, randomized, coupled-masked, offset-group, vehicle-controlled studies to approximate Xibrom 0.09% dosed in [...]
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US Health System Problems Worsening, Warns Expert In BMJ
June 30th, 2010 · No Comments
The problems of the US healthcare way are growing, warns an expert in this week’s BMJ.
The Unanimous States is the only major industrialised state without cosmic healthiness guaranty, writes Karen Davis, President of the Commonwealth Fund. Coverage varies widely between states and has deteriorated in recent years. The tons of uninsured people has increased from [...]
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Increasing The Diagnostic Accuracy Of CBDS To Exclude Common Bile Duct Stones Prior To Gallstone Operations
June 27th, 2010 · No Comments
CBDS occur in 7-20% of all patients undergoing a gallstone effective and may complicate the course of surgery. Although intraoperative x-ray examination was routinely performed to diagnose CBDS in the pre-laparoscopic era, its use during the laparoscopic era has been debated. Accordingly, other techniques for diagnosing CBDS have been introduced. For example, preoperative liver function [...]
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Advocacy Group Says Nickelodeon Should Ditch Junk Food Ads
June 26th, 2010 · No Comments
A nutrition advocacy group is accusing the Nickelodeon tube network of marketing trash food to kids through advertising and licensing deals.
In a trendy study, the Center for Science in the Public Interest looked at a sampling of commercials and Nickelodeon-related promotions in 2005 and found that unhealthy products accounted for 80 percent of all “foods, [...]
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Experts testifying before Senate panel extol incentives, standardization as means to improve quality of care
June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
Contribution incentives to well-being mindfulness providers who deliver higher importance charge and requiring that they comply with national quality standards would labourers improve patient care, witnesses said at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Tuesday, CQ HealthBeat reports.
The hearing was one of several held by the panel to discuss issues related to overhauling the nation’s [...]
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Biologists spy close-up view of poliovirus linked to host cell receptor
June 20th, 2010 · No Comments
Researchers from Purdue and Stony Brook universities sire determined the literal atomic-scale form of the poliovirus attached to key receptor molecules in lenient horde cells and also have taken a vital snapshot of processes foremost to infection.
The virus binds to a receptor on the cell to form a single complex.
“This structure had been predicted, but [...]
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Study Finds New Link In Liver Cancer
June 19th, 2010 · No Comments
Liver damage can be triggered by various insults, including hepatitis infection or alcohol-induced cirrhosis. In severe cases, this impairment can begin to cancer. A new study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and Osaka University reveals how one protein helps decide the fate of damaged livers in mice. The study pleasure be published [...]
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Despite Recent Advances, Need For Embryonic Stem Cell Research Remains, Editorial Says
June 17th, 2010 · No Comments
“[G]ood communication on stem cells is flowing loose again,” including a recent announcement by Toronto scientists that “they could safely turn a fragment of abrade into all-purpose arrest cells,” according to an editorial from London’s Financial Times. The discovery — which involves “induced pluripotent stem cells,” or iPS cells — is a development that “would [...]
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Same taste bud differentiates sweet from bitter
June 16th, 2010 · No Comments
The tongue’s ability to differentiate between sweet and unpleasant tastes may reside in the having said that leaning bud cells, a new study reports.
The study explains the discovery of a chemical messenger called neuropeptide Y (NPY) in taste bud cells. Albeit researchers have long known that NPY is on the go in the perception [...]
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