...recommending - but not requiring - that they gradually stop using antibiotics identified as important in the treatment human diseases.The FDA also asked drug manufacturers to voluntarily change their package labels to say that the antibiotics should...
...around the world report thousands of whales and other marine mammals beaching themselves, dying of cancer and other human disease. Some could meet the legal definition of toxic dumps. Well-known oceanographer Sylvia Earle states that up to 85...
...study showing that salivary gland tumors in those mice were shrunk by a drug already approved for treating some other human diseases. So perhaps the same drug could improve treatment for humans with the rare cancer that makes up less than 0.5 percent...
...birds, but to avoid dead or sick birds and take extra care in handling carcasses and cooking meat. Though no cases of human disease from Asian H5N1-infected wild birds have been recorded yet, one potential case is under investigation in Azerbaijan...
...the replication and mutation of viruses and bacteria into more lethal forms. In fact, Wikipedia lists more than 70 human diseases that are developed and transmitted by animals, frequently through confinement and crowding. Among these are such...
...question about the public good. What's the best, fairest, fastest way to go from mapping the human genome to curing human disease? There is something to be said for patenting. In theory, it gives private companies the incentives to get the medicine...
...interesting. But he said the type of glioma cells used to create the tumors does not provide a very good mimic of the human disease. del.icio.us Reddit Archives NEW YORK (AP) - Marijuana-like drugs eradicated some brain cancers in rats...
...question about the public good. What's the best, fairest, fastest way to go from mapping the human genome to curing human disease? There is something to be said for patenting. In theory, it gives private companies the incentives to get the medicine...
...brain, he said. Dr. Rolf Barth, who studies brain tumors at Ohio State University, called the work interesting. But he said the type of glioma cells used to create the tumors does not provide a very good mimic of the human disease.
...of the antibiotic era,'' says Emory University anthropologist George J. Armelagos, who studies the evolution of human disease. ``Within our lifetimes, scraped knees and cut fingers may return to the realm of fatal conditions.'' Rinse...
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