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FDA Prevents Two Dairies From Adulterating Animal Drugs And FoodThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that the District Court for the District of New Mexico has enjoined Do-Rene and Clover Knolls Dairies and their owners, Douglas B. Handley and Irene Handley, from adulterating new animal drugs and introducing adulterated food into commerce. Both companies are based in Clovis, N.M.
Medical News Today Monday, January 05, 2009Getting A Good Deal On Gym MembershipNew Year is the time when many
people decide to join a gym, or revisit a neglected gym membership, and in the current economic climate, gym owners will be concerned not only to attract new members but also to hold onto their existing ones, so now is a good time to get a good deal on your gym membership.
CBC.ca Monday, January 05, 2009Building Work Starts On The Largest IVF Facility In The NHS, UKA £3.3m plan to reorganise Reproductive Medicine services in Leeds, bringing them together for the first time in a single purpose-designed facility which will
improve care for fertility
patients, is getting underway.
CBC.ca Monday, January 05, 2009What If The Treatment Doesn't Work: Nailing Steroid Resistant AsthmaNailing steroid resistant asthma was the focus of a recent Biomedical Forum for clinicians, researchers and allied health professionals from Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College
hospital NHS Foundation Trusts and King's College London.
CBC.ca Monday, January 05, 2009Zimbabwe cholera fears grow as rains peakHARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic, which has killed more than 1,600
people, could get worse as the rainy season peaks, its health minister said on Monday.
Reuters Monday, January 05, 2009Third Hand Smoke Dangers Very SeriousThe
new york Times reports on the new term - third-hand smoke. Apparently
smoking is even worse than we thought in terms of lingering air pollution. The story states the following on third hand smoke.
"Parents who smoke often open a window or turn on a fan to clear the air of second-hand smoke, but experts now have identified another
smoking-related threat to children's health that isn't as easy to get rid of: third-hand smoke.
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eMaxHealth Monday, January 05, 2009Uncultured bacteria found in amniotic fluids of women who experience preterm births(Case Western Reserve University) Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Yale University have made a significant advancement in understanding the cause behind why some pregnant women suffer from inflammations in the inner womb without any signs of an infection.Using gene-cloning techniques, researchers discovered that approximately 60 percent of the bacteria present in women with intra-amniotic inflammations were missed by traditional culture testing -- considered the gold standard for finding bacterial infections.
Eurekalert.org Monday, January 05, 2009Evolution in action: Our antibodies take 'evolutionary leaps' to fight microbes(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) With cold and flu season in full swing, the fact that viruses and bacteria rapidly evolve is apparent with every sneeze, sniffle and cough. A new report in the January 2009 issue of the FASEB Journal, explains for the first time how humans keep up with microbes by rearranging the genes that make antibodies to foreign invaders. This research fills a significant gap in the understanding of how the immune system helps us survive.
Eurekalert.org Monday, January 05, 2009EAU 2nd Eastern Mediterranean Meeting expected to highlight cystectomy(European Association of Urology) The 1st Eastern Mediterranean Meeting, which was held in Antalya in 2007, was a great success. The "second edition" will be organized on Jan. 23-24, 2009 in the Pyramisa hotel in Cairo. Approximately 250 participants from the eastern Mediterranean area are expected to participate.
Eurekalert.org Monday, January 05, 2009Indigenous health at risk from rising temperatures: researchersResearchers are warning climate change will have a bigger impact on Indigenous
people than it will on non-Aboriginal Australians.
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