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Lively Women (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
If you’ve had skin cancer once, eating a low-fat diet may help you avoid getting it again say researchers in Australia at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. Their study revealed that high intake of total fat increases squamous cell carcinoma in those with a history of skin cancer. The study, published in International Journal of Cancer in October 2009, included diets of 600 women,...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've posted before about my brother Mark Pescovitz's fine art photography. In his spare time, Mark is a transplant surgeon and medical research scientist. Today, he and his colleagues published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine about a new way to slow and possibly even stop the progression of type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile-onset diabetes. The approach uses the drug Rituxan, normally...
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The Poor Mouth (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Two days ago we saw the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. I didn’t have the time to post anything on that momentous anniversary. However, a trawl through the Breaking News section on the Fortean Times website I found an excellent example of Natural selection in action. On 21 November Science Daily reported on a paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine...
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The Register (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Symbol of sturdy Britishness mustn't be bred any more Animal-rights protesters in Georgia, America have asked a local football* team - the "Georgia Bulldogs" - to replace their recently-deceased bulldog mascot with a robot. The protesters say that far from being tough, bulldogs are actually weakly genetic freaks and shouldn't be allowed to breed.… The power of collaboration within...
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Everything USB (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
There's no telling how many diseases could have been cured by Razer if they were doing medical research and not masters of PC gaming. The Razer Imperator gaming mouse probably has more technology than some netbooks. The feature stats actually make it sound more like a computer than a mouse. Their latest sensor is able to track at up to 5600 dpi with what they are calling their 3.5G laser. Buzzword...
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Smile of the decade blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/25/homeopathy-nhs-commons-committee-inquiry Today we see yet another article in which (Professor) Edzard Ernst, one of the junior staff within the smaller branch (of complementary medicine) within the world renowned (cough splutter) Peninsular medical and dentistry school near Exeter, continues his long running campaign against Homeopathy, there is a give...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, a leading medical researcher instrumental in developing the cervical cancer vaccine, will join the university in the autumn Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, one of the country's most respected medical researchers, was today nominated as the 345th vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He will succeed Alison Richard, the current vice-chancellor, when her seven-year term comes...
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British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Slices from the brain of H.M., a key patient in pioneering memory studies, will be immortalized online.
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The Register (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
'Some people open their windows and all they see is camels' An Oz Outback community is battling to regain control of its town from a 6,000-strong feral camel invasion, which has seen the thirsty dromedaries cause "chaos" in their search for water.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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The Register (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Plastiki and the 100% recyclable yacht By now, David de Rothschild is used to being cast as the eccentric visionary whose well-meaning crusade to save the world's oceans is overshadowed by a lack of execution - or at least naiveté.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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Australian Politics (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Hungry Jack's criticized over monster burger "Hungry Jack's" is the Australian branch of America's "Burger King". When something is attacked by "the chairman of the Sydney World Action on Salt and Health", you know you are dealing with an attention-seeking fraud -- and you can be pretty sure that the truth is the reverse of what he says -- since a low salt diet REDUCES...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
HOUSTON, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IES (Nasdaq: IESC), a leading national provider of electrical and communications systems and services for the commercial, industrial and residential markets, announced today that its commercial business group has been awarded a contract from Manhattan Torcon JV to install the electrical systems for the Level 4 bio-safety lab (BSL-4) replacement facility at...
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Gerry Canavan (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
UC President Mark Yudof: Many of our, if I can put it this way, businesses are in good shape. We’re doing very well there. Our hospitals are full, our medical business, our medical research, the patient care. So, we have this core problem: Who is going to pay the salary of the English department? We [...]
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Blog for Iowa (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Health Care Reform Update: Science or Rationing? by Alta Price, M.D. Health care reform proposals to encourage the scientific study of medical testing or medical treatments will help improve our health and lower costs. The anti-reform myth that comparative effectiveness research is code for rationing is ridiculous. I guess it is just more evidence that the GOP doesn’t have much understanding...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is not opposed to sending its low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad but wants 100 percent guarantees of receiving higher-enriched fuel in return for a medical research reactor, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
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neilsamsung | 02/10/2009
Sacramento offers a variety of investment options to a prospective Sacramento investor. Residential real estate housing ranges from low-income properties to multi-million dollar estate s and is known to have had some of the best appreciation rates in the state. Sacramento has also seen marked advances in commercial real estate with the construction of new high-rise buildings, expansion of employment...