Gene testing war looms for AstraZeneca heart drug
Gene testing is shaping up to be a marketing battleground for new blood thinners like AstraZeneca’s Brilinta, underscoring the power and limitations of genetics as a tool to predict medical outcomes.
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Gene testing war looms for AstraZeneca heart drug
September 3rd, 2010 
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September 3rd, 2010 admin Up in smoke
Chris’s pain relief lies in half a cookie made with marijuana, eaten every two hours, plus one or two puffs off a joint on the hour and the occasional pot lollipop.
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Chilean miners must remove rocks to aid their own rescue
September 2nd, 2010 admin Chilean miners must remove rocks to aid their own rescue
The 33 trapped Chilean miners who have astonished the world with their discipline a half mile underground will have to aid their own escape — clearing thousands of tons of rock that will fall as the rescue hole is drilled, the engineer in charge of drilling [...]
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September 2nd, 2010 admin BREAKING NEWS
Aid has been delivered to Pakistan’s flood victims in isolated area for first time. The floodwaters are receding in Pakistan’s Punjab for instance, but much too slowly for most.
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Marijuana advocates flock to Anaheim expo
September 2nd, 2010 admin Marijuana advocates flock to Anaheim expo
ANAHEIM – They came to learn about marijuana laws, how to start a medical dispensary business, what they could do to change the stigma of the drug. Inside a cavernous hall at the Anaheim Convention Center, more than 1,000 people gathered Saturday…
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Restoring sight with new type of artificial cornea
September 1st, 2010 admin Restoring sight with new type of artificial cornea
WASHINGTON—Scientists have created a new kind of artificial cornea, inserting a sliver of collagen into the eye that coaxes its own natural corneal cells to regrow and restore vision.
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New Artificial Cornea Regrows Eye Cells
September 1st, 2010 admin New Artificial Cornea Regrows Eye Cells
Scientists have created a new kind of artificial cornea, inserting a sliver of collagen into the eye that coaxes its own natural corneal cells to regrow and restore vision.
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South Africa: Strike Threatens Lives of Aids Patients
September 1st, 2010 admin South Africa: Strike Threatens Lives of Aids Patients
People taking life-long antiretroviral therapy have been left stranded and are being forced to skip crucial treatment as the public sector strike continues.
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September 1st, 2010 admin Cancer-Zapping Precision Radiation Beams Could Soon Target Other Diseases
Targeted beams of high-intensity radiation can shrink early-stage tumors with limited collateral damage to surrounding healthy tissue. The addition of robotics and image guidance systems in recent years has made these stereotactic, or directed beam, radiosurgery systems an even more versatile weapon against cancer, attacking not only [...]
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August 31st, 2010 admin David Mitchell: ‘Readers enable me to continue to do what I love. Prizes won’t do that for you’
David Mitchell is weaving his way around a circuit of yurts erected for the Edinburgh Book Festival, to get to his seat for an afternoon event, but his journey is a puttering one, punctuated by a convivial form [...]
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