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Autumn Babies Are More Prone To Childhood Asthma
Are you afraid of having a child with
asthma? A new study suggests that the time of the year in...
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Canada Reports Its 15th Case of Mad Cow Disease
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed on Monday a
new case of mad cow disease in a...
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Clostridium Difficile Takes Over Hospitals
Despite being anti-septic, hospitals are still filled with the largest number of diseases,...
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Suspected Norovirus Outbreak Closes Hope College
Hope College in Holland is expected to
remain closed a day longer because of “a growing outbreak...
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Urinary Tract Infections Are Easily Treatable
Bad Wildungen, Germany - The most common symptoms of an acute urinary tract infection are a burning...
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CDC: Human Wart Virus HPV Caused 25,000 Cases of Cancer Annually
At least 25,000 cases of cancers associated
with human papillomavirus (HPV) occurred annually in...
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New Zealand Approves Pig Cell Transplants for Diabetes
Wellington - New Zealand has approved trials of pig cell transplants to patients with Type 1...
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Prostate Gland, a Repository of Adult Stem Cells, Genentech Researchers Found
Researchers at Genentech, in San Francisco, found that
the prostate contains adult stem cells that...
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Scientific Advances in Stem Cell Field: Yamanaka Finds New Method for Safer iPS Cells
The search for viable alternatives to replace
the embryonic stem cells that are derived from the...
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WHO Probes Mystery Deadly Disease in South Africa
The World Health Organization is currently investigating a mysterious disease that has killed three...
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New Discovery in Stem Cell Field: Stem Cells from Testicular Biopsies
The search for the best source of stem
cells continues, with many scientists supporting the field...
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Nobel Prize in Medicine Ends Debate between American and French Researchers
The long-running debate between US researcher Robert
Gallo and French scientist Luc Montaginer...
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Does Circumcision Protect Gay/Bisexual Men From HIV?
More effort is needed to prevent new cases
of HIV infection and AIDS prevention techniques such as...
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2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Three AIDS, Cervical Cancer Researchers
2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
has been awarded to the German scientist Harald zur...
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Harald zur Hausen - Nobel honour for cancer research
Berlin - Harald zur Hausen, a German virologist who shared the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday,...
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Three European Scientists Win The 2008 Nobel Prize For Medicine
One German and two French scientists won
the 2008 Nobel prize in medicine for their work in...
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Scientists Might Have Found The Origin Of HIV
In a recent study, to be published in tomorrow's issue of the journal Nature, scientists reveal new...
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New Discovery in Stem Cell Field Improves the Cell Reprogramming Technique
The results of a study conducted by researchers
at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard...
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New Stem Cell Technique, a Safer Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cells
Scientists have found a new and safer way to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), which...
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Flu Vaccine Recommended For Children Of School Age
As the flu season approaches, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced yesterday...
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WHO IDs Diseases, Warming as Asia-Pacific Health Challenges
Manila - The World Health Organization (WHO) is bracing for major health challenges in Asia and the...
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FBI Requests Scientific Review Of Controversial Anthrax Case
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said an
independent team of researchers and engineers from the...
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More Cases Of West Nile Virus Found
The most recent human cases of West Nile
virus infection are a Grand Forks resident who
was...
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Merck & Co.’s Vaccine Gardasil Approved for Vaginal, Vulvar Cancer
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved
Merck & Co.’s cervical cancer vaccine...
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Gardasil Fights Against Vulvar And Vaginal Cancers
The FDA has updated the label of Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine manufactured by Merck,...
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Thomas H. Weller, American Virologist Who Shared Nobel for Polio Work, Dies
Thomas H. Weller, the American virologist who
shared a Nobel Prize for developing techniques to...
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FDA Clears XDx’s AlloMap Gene Expression Test
The US Food and Drug Administration
announced its decision to allow XDx Inc. to sell a test,...
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Scientists Discover New Technique To “Reprogram” Pancreas Cells In Mice
Harvard scientists have managed to
transform one type of pancreas cell in living mice into another...
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Adult Mice Cells Can Be Reprogrammed
Another promising step towards finding a cure for
diabetes type 1 and type 2 has been made....
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New Bird Flu Vaccine From Novavax Shows Encouraging Results
Novavax Inc. announced on Tuesday that their new bird flu
vaccine that uses a mock version of the...
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Fall Babies Have 30 Percent Higher Risk of Developing Asthma
Children born four months before peak flu season are more
likely to develop childhood asthma...
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Microsoft Details Malware Threat
Worldwide threats from malicious software that cripple computers
with spy programs, viruses and...
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Clickjacking Threat
The Internet is well known for the fact that it’s an excellent provider of information, or because...
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The Nobel Prize Rekindles 25 Years Old Controversy
On Monday, the
Nobel committee awarded the famous prize to Dr. Luc Montagnier, a...
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German, French Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize for Virus Discoveries
Stockholm - The finding of cervical cancer virus and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency...
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Officials Blame Norovirus for Georgetown University Illnesses
It appears that norovirus was responsible for sickening more
than 170 students at Georgetown
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Virus hunters track HIV to 100 years back
Washington - A decades-old paraffin wax-encased block of tissue has added a curious chapter to the...
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Survivors of 1918 Flu Pandemic Still Immune
Although hard to believe antibodies from survivors of the most devastating 1918 influenza pandemic...
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U.S. Department of Justice Is Convinced Ivins Was The Anthrax Killer
According to new evidence released by the government, it seems that Bruce Ivins, the alleged...
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Gene Variant Could Raise Africans’ AIDS Risk
In an attempt to find an explanation for the high frequency
of AIDS cases within the world’s black...
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With 8 Million Copies Firefox 3 Achieves Its Desired Guinness World Record
Firefox 3 has entered today in the Guiness Book of World Records as the most downloaded software in...
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Trojan Horsie Messes With Mac OS X
Last week, SecureMac, the company that offers anti-spyware
solution for Macs, issued a warning on...
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Technology
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Microsoft to Design Free Anti-Malware Program
Microsoft is planning to design a free anti-malware program that should help those who won’t or...
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Microsoft To Offer Anti-Malware Software Free Of Charge
PC security is one aspect that increasingly concerns
Microsoft, and as a proof of that, the...
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Microsoft Announces Free Anti-Malware Software
Microsoft has recently announced that it will offer free software in order to protect PCs from...
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Microsoft: While Trojans Invade U.S., China Fights Browser Exploits
Microsoft today released the fifth volume of its Security
Intelligence Report, providing insight...
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Windows 7 Will Deliver Enhanced Security, Reliability, Performance
When we think of an operating system, we inevitably tend to
think: Windows. Why? Because despite...
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Android G1 Too Has Application Killswitch
Well after back in August Apple reluctantly admitted to the
existence of an application “kill...
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Apple Pulls and Replaces Faulty Adapters
Although Macs seem to be the dream-computers, with no
viruses and no frozen screen, the same...
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With Fame Comes Malware! Celebrities Bad For Your PC
Eager to have your favorite star on your PC? You might want
to think it over before downloading...
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Update: Computer Virus Makes Extraterrestrial Landing On ISS Laptops
We all know what computer viruses are capable of these days,
but the latest manifestation of this...
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Update: Computer Virus Gammima Travels Into Space
It seems you can’t escape computer viruses not even on the
International Space Station. NASA...
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Facebook Wall Used as Malware Launching Pad
Facebook has quickly dealt with a malware attack launched using the social networking website's...
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CherryPal Mini-Desktop: Tiny Package, Small Consumption, Big Promises
What can we expect from a tiny paperback-sized desktop
computer? A lot, CherryPal promised, as it...
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Lenovo Brings IdeaCentre K210 Desktop PC To U.S.
Lenovo made a debut into the consumer desktop market “outside
of China” this week with the launch...
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Watch Out For Two New Mac Viruses
SecureMac and Intego Security released a warning this
weekend about the discovery of two Mac...
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Mozilla, Firefox 3.0 And 10 Million Downloads
It seems like the Firefox download frenzy is slowly fading
away, but Mozilla has some serious...
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Firefox 3: Are We Heading Towards a New Browser War?
Tomorrow, Mozilla will release the latest version of its
famous browser Firefox. After 34 months...
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Firefox 3 To Make Its Debut On Tuesday, June 17
The third version of the popular browser Firefox will be available
for download as soon as Tuesday...
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Beware of .hk Domains
McAfee, an antivirus and security company, has made public
its report on internet security for...
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Qtrax Plans Free P2P Music Sharing Service
Qtrax is the first online
file-sharing service that promised unrestricted access to over 25...
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Mac-Attack: US Army guarding its Windows with OSX
The US Army wants some more Apple if we are to believe recent rumors emanating from the media. In...
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Symantec Announces Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac
Recently, Apple’s Mac operating
system has become more and more similar to its rival, Microsoft’s...
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Mozilla Releases First Beta Of Firefox 3
The battle of browsers will surely heat up again as Mozilla
has just released the first public...
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Leopard's Firewall Does Not Work As Expected
Apple's new operating system, Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), which sold 2 million copies over its first...
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Google Apps Premier Edition Become More Secure
Maybe you remember when
two months ago Google bought the e-mail security company Postini for...
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SpiralFrog Opens For Business
Why should you pirate the music when you can download it free
and legal? This is the philosophy...
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Sony’s Rootkit Scandal, Part Two
Finish security firm F-Secure has just spotted another trace of Sony’s bad habit to install malware...
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Intel Offers More Hardware Security In Its Latest vPro
Thanks to the latest innovation unveiled today by Intel, you
don’t have to worry so much about the...
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