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South Africa leads hunt for killer TB vaccine
Reuters Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:18 PM PDT
WORCESTER, South Africa (Reuters) - Baby Hisinawa is permanently semi-comatose after TB spread to his brain, his board-stiff body shivering as a doctor pushes a rubber tube down his nose to clear away thick phlegm choking him.

NASA Develops Rehydration Beverage
SpaceRef Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:37 PM PDT
To help keep astronauts at peak performance during missions, NASA researched, qualified and patented a highly effective electrolyte concentrate formula that maintains and restores optimal body hydration levels quickly and conveniently.

Most 'repulsed' by murderer donor
Channel 4 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:26 PM PDT
Most people would be "repulsed" at the offer of a life-saving organ transplant from a serial killer, a study has revealed. And one in three people believe that recipients of hearts, livers and other body parts begin to take on personality traits of the donors.

Buxton girl undergoes rare surgery
Grand Forks Herald Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:14 PM PDT
  Hope Fuglesten, the 12-year-old Buxton, N.D., girl with spina bifida, on Thursday underwent the second half of a rare, life-saving two-part surgery to implant a titanium rib cage in her body. The surgery took place at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock, Ark.   Father's Day gift idea- 8 round punch card $100 LINCOLN PARK 9 HOLE GOLF COURSE - Ends Jun 21, 2009

Film review: Terminator Salvation
Stuff Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:09 PM PDT
Kicking off a few years in the past, Terminator Salvation offers up Helena Bonham Carter as a scientist with a cybernetics company, offering a pre-execution murderer (Sam Worthington) a shot at post-mortal redemption if he'll sign his body over to medical research.

Body lies in LLR for want of `dutiful' docs
The Times of India Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:58 PM PDT
The callousness of a prominent government hospital was evident on Thursday when the body of a patient lay unattended for three hours in LLR hospital.

Toward new drugs that turn genes on and off
PhysOrg Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:37 PM PDT
Scientists in Michigan and California are reporting an advance toward development of a new generation of drugs that treat disease by orchestrating how genes in the body produce proteins involved in arthritis, cancer and a range of other disorders. Acting like an `on-off switch,` the medications might ratchet up the production of proteins in genes working at abnormally low levels or shut off ...

Hawaii Guard trains for hurricane preparedness in Kahuku exercise
Honolulu Advertiser Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:26 PM PDT
A comprehensive hurricane preparedness exercise is under way today in Kahuku, with Hawaiçi National Guard members dressed in full-body chemical suits taking mock victims through a series of medical tents at Kahuku Medical Center.

Families to sue state after fatal I-40 crash
The Gallup Independent Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:25 PM PDT
Police and fire officials carry the body of a man to a Cope Memorial Chapel vehicle on Interstate 40 in this March 30 file photo. James Gaffer, 46, was killed when his eastbound traveling vehicle collided head on with a van traveling west. â€" © 2009 Gallup Independent / Brian Leddy

Discovery of two proteins may lead to more effective treatment of endocarditis and infections associated with implants
News-Medical-Net Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:22 PM PDT
A research team at the Faculty of Odontology at Malmö University in Sweden has discovered two new proteins that are of importance to the survival of bacteria and their colonization of the human body. Besides enhancing our knowledge of the ability of bacteria to spread, the findings may also lead to more effective treatment of endocarditis and infections associated with implants.




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