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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...
» read full story August 18th, 2008 - 18:46
U.S. Department of Justice Is Convinced Ivins Was The Anthrax Killer

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...
» read full story August 11th, 2008 - 13:19
Gene Variant Could Raise Africans’ AIDS Risk

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...
» read full story July 17th, 2008 - 14:50
With 8 Million Copies Firefox 3 Achieves Its Desired Guinness World Record

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...
» read full story July 03rd, 2008 - 13:31
Trojan Horsie Messes With Mac OS X

Trojan Horsie Messes With Mac OS X

Last week, SecureMac, the company that offers anti-spyware solution for Macs, issued a warning on...
» read full story June 23rd, 2008 - 15:12
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News: World

Equine Influenza Outbreak in Australia Hinders Racing

Equine Influenza Outbreak in Australia Hinders Racing

The recent outbreak of equine influenza (horse flu) in Australia has required the country to impose...
» read full story August 28th, 2007 - 20:11
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News: Business

Google’s Web Security Is Out On The Market

Google’s Web Security Is Out On The Market

Google announced yesterday the launch of its Web Security for Enterprises, which is expected to...
» read full story May 09th, 2008 - 14:54
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News: Technology

Update: Computer Virus Makes Extraterrestrial Landing On ISS Laptops

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...
» read full story August 28th, 2008 - 13:28
Update: Computer Virus Gammima Travels  Into Space

Update: Computer Virus Gammima Travels Into Space

It seems you can’t escape computer viruses not even on the International Space Station. NASA...
» read full story August 27th, 2008 - 20:07
Facebook Wall Used as Malware Launching Pad

Facebook Wall Used as Malware Launching Pad

Facebook has quickly dealt with a malware attack launched using the social networking website's...
» read full story August 08th, 2008 - 21:49
CherryPal Mini-Desktop: Tiny Package, Small Consumption, Big Promises

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...
» read full story July 21st, 2008 - 13:42
Lenovo Brings IdeaCentre K210 Desktop PC To U.S.

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...
» read full story July 01st, 2008 - 12:11
Watch Out For Two New Mac Viruses

Watch Out For Two New Mac Viruses

SecureMac and Intego Security released a warning this weekend about the discovery of two Mac...
» read full story June 24th, 2008 - 17:19
Mozilla, Firefox 3.0 And 10 Million Downloads

Mozilla, Firefox 3.0 And 10 Million Downloads

It seems like the Firefox download frenzy is slowly fading away, but Mozilla has some serious...
» read full story June 20th, 2008 - 11:07
Firefox 3: Are We Heading Towards a New Browser War?

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...
» read full story June 16th, 2008 - 13:21
Firefox 3 To Make Its Debut On Tuesday, June 17

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...
» read full story June 13th, 2008 - 01:40
Beware of .hk Domains

Beware of .hk Domains

McAfee, an antivirus and security company, has made public its report on internet security for...
» read full story June 04th, 2008 - 19:53
Qtrax Plans Free P2P Music Sharing Service

Qtrax Plans Free P2P Music Sharing Service

Qtrax is the first online file-sharing service that promised unrestricted access to over 25...
» read full story January 28th, 2008 - 11:37
Mac-Attack: US Army guarding its Windows with OSX

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...
» read full story December 24th, 2007 - 21:50
Symantec Announces Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac

Symantec Announces Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac

Recently, Apple’s Mac operating system has become more and more similar to its rival, Microsoft’s...
» read full story December 12th, 2007 - 02:21
Mozilla Releases First Beta Of Firefox 3

Mozilla Releases First Beta Of Firefox 3

The battle of browsers will surely heat up again as Mozilla has just released the first public...
» read full story November 20th, 2007 - 23:29
Leopard's Firewall Does Not Work As Expected

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...
» read full story October 31st, 2007 - 22:25
Google Apps Premier Edition Become More Secure

Google Apps Premier Edition Become More Secure

Maybe you remember when two months ago Google bought the e-mail security company Postini for...
» read full story October 03rd, 2007 - 21:57
SpiralFrog Opens For Business

SpiralFrog Opens For Business

Why should you pirate the music when you can download it free and legal? This is the philosophy...
» read full story September 17th, 2007 - 11:52
Sony’s Rootkit Scandal, Part Two

Sony’s Rootkit Scandal, Part Two

Finish security firm F-Secure has just spotted another trace of Sony’s bad habit to install malware...
» read full story August 28th, 2007 - 15:52
Intel Offers More Hardware Security In Its Latest vPro

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...
» read full story August 28th, 2007 - 01:24
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News: Science

Cell Phone Study: We Never Stray Far From Home

Cell Phone Study: We Never Stray Far From Home

We probably don’t know it, but most of us stick with the “don’t stray far from home” idea for the...
» read full story June 05th, 2008 - 11:32
Scientists Map Worldwide Journey of Seasonal Flu

Scientists Map Worldwide Journey of Seasonal Flu

Scientists have finally solved a long-standing mystery of where seasonal flu viruses originate and...
» read full story April 17th, 2008 - 15:43
First Cloned Human Embryos From Skin Cell DNA

First Cloned Human Embryos From Skin Cell DNA

US scientists at biotech company Stemagen Corporation in La Jolla, California, allege they made the...
» read full story January 17th, 2008 - 21:24
Lab Announces Breakthrough In Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Lab Announces Breakthrough In Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Scientists at the Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, announced on Thursday that...
» read full story January 11th, 2008 - 14:45
Stem Cells Created from Human Skin

Stem Cells Created from Human Skin

Two research groups managed to obtain stem cells without the ethical problems posed by destroying...
» read full story November 20th, 2007 - 19:07
Scientists: IAPV May Be A Factor In Honey Bee Disorder

Scientists: IAPV May Be A Factor In Honey Bee Disorder

According to a report being published by the journal Science the scientists discovered that a...
» read full story September 06th, 2007 - 22:41
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News: Health

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...
» read full story August 29th, 2008 - 13:08
FDA Clears XDx’s AlloMap Gene Expression Test

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,...
» read full story August 28th, 2008 - 14:32
Scientists Discover New Technique To “Reprogram” Pancreas Cells In Mice

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...
» read full story August 28th, 2008 - 13:00
Adult Mice Cells Can Be Reprogrammed

Adult Mice Cells Can Be Reprogrammed

Another promising step towards finding a cure for diabetes type 1 and type 2 has been made....
» read full story August 27th, 2008 - 22:52
New Bird Flu Vaccine From Novavax Shows Encouraging Results

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...
» read full story August 27th, 2008 - 00:24
1918 Antibodies Resurrected

1918 Antibodies Resurrected

Researchers at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt have discovered antibodies to...
» read full story August 20th, 2008 - 11:07
Survivors From 1918’s Spanish Flu Still Produce Antibodies

Survivors From 1918’s Spanish Flu Still Produce Antibodies

In a report presented by the newest issue of the journal Nature, scientists offer a new perspective...
» read full story August 18th, 2008 - 13:00
Despite Encouraging Facts, West Nile Virus Threat Is Still A Concern

Despite Encouraging Facts, West Nile Virus Threat Is Still A Concern

The West Nile situation continues; some of the latest news comes from Colusa County, where property...
» read full story August 17th, 2008 - 16:26
FTY720 is the New Hope For Treating Viral Infections

FTY720 is the New Hope For Treating Viral Infections

New findings published in the journal Nature regard new strategies for fighting chronic viral...
» read full story August 14th, 2008 - 17:39
Acyclovir Treatment for Genital Herpes Doesn’t Prevent New HIV Infections

Acyclovir Treatment for Genital Herpes Doesn’t Prevent New HIV Infections

One of the issues that stirred the interest of researchers at the International AIDS Conference...
» read full story August 12th, 2008 - 15:44
FDA Clears Next Season’s Flu Vaccines

FDA Clears Next Season’s Flu Vaccines

The Food and Drug Administration approved six flu vaccines for the upcoming flu season changing...
» read full story August 06th, 2008 - 15:30
AIDS Prevention Methods: More Efforts Are Needed to Prevent the Infection

AIDS Prevention Methods: More Efforts Are Needed to Prevent the Infection

More effort is needed to prevent new cases of AIDS infection – this was one of the key themes...
» read full story August 06th, 2008 - 14:16
HIV/AIDS Will Remain a Critical Issue for Years to Come

HIV/AIDS Will Remain a Critical Issue for Years to Come

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at...
» read full story August 05th, 2008 - 21:00
Flu Vaccine Ineffective in Some Seniors but Still Worth Having

Flu Vaccine Ineffective in Some Seniors but Still Worth Having

For many years, the elderly have been told that a simple flu shot could keep them safe against...
» read full story August 01st, 2008 - 14:10
Tamiflu Maker Tries to Convince Companies to Stockpile Drug

Tamiflu Maker Tries to Convince Companies to Stockpile Drug

Roche is apparently discontent that sales of its Tamiflu influenza drug have dropped and seeks new...
» read full story June 27th, 2008 - 20:49
The U.S. Government Seeks Proper High-Risk Laboratory Location

The U.S. Government Seeks Proper High-Risk Laboratory Location

The government is considering several locations for building a new high-security laboratory and so...
» read full story June 21st, 2008 - 16:04
Cloned T-Cells Therapy Halted Man’s Melanoma

Cloned T-Cells Therapy Halted Man’s Melanoma

For many years, physicians believed that the immune system was effective only in combating...
» read full story June 19th, 2008 - 13:31
Flu Shot Manufacturers Plan More Doses for Next Season

Flu Shot Manufacturers Plan More Doses for Next Season

Although this year’s vaccine against flu was largely ineffective, the five companies manufacturing...
» read full story May 11th, 2008 - 19:51

China On Nationwide Alert As Deadly Virus Spreads

China ordered a nationwide alert in order to control the outbreak of a fatal virus that managed to...
» read full story May 03rd, 2008 - 18:40
Blindness May be Improved with Breakthrough Gene Therapy

Blindness May be Improved with Breakthrough Gene Therapy

Gene therapy has restored vision partially in patients who were blind in experiments by Seattle...
» read full story April 28th, 2008 - 18:48
Viruses May Increase Lung Cancer Risk

Viruses May Increase Lung Cancer Risk

Although smoking is the No. 1 cause of lung cancer, viruses may also contribute to the development...
» read full story April 26th, 2008 - 10:01
Alligator Blood May Help Fight MRSA

Alligator Blood May Help Fight MRSA

Recent studies revealed that alligator blood may hold the key to fighting antibiotic-resistant...
» read full story April 08th, 2008 - 00:47
Two Spanish People Die from Human Mad Cow Disease

Two Spanish People Die from Human Mad Cow Disease

Two persons died in Spain from the human form of the mad cow disease in the Castilla-Leon region....
» read full story April 07th, 2008 - 19:14
World Health Day Warns on Health Risks Carried by Global Warming

World Health Day Warns on Health Risks Carried by Global Warming

This year’s World Health Day (April 7) highlights the idea that global warming carries more health...
» read full story April 07th, 2008 - 13:40
Premiere: Vaccine for Deadly Ebola to Be Tested on People

Premiere: Vaccine for Deadly Ebola to Be Tested on People

U.S. and Canadian researchers might have finally discovered a vaccine against one of the world’s...
» read full story April 01st, 2008 - 12:56
World’s First Microchip to Detect Influenza Now on Sale

World’s First Microchip to Detect Influenza Now on Sale

STMicrolectronics NV, Europe’s largest semiconductor maker and medical diagnostics research...
» read full story March 24th, 2008 - 12:33
Antibiotics Over-Prescribed in Sinus Infections, but Not Helpful

Antibiotics Over-Prescribed in Sinus Infections, but Not Helpful

People with sinus infections should not be prescribed antibiotics, because their symptoms are...
» read full story March 17th, 2008 - 14:02
Hong Kong Flu Outbreak under Control

Hong Kong Flu Outbreak under Control

Hong Kong’s government ordered more than half a million primary and kindergarten students Wednesday...
» read full story March 15th, 2008 - 20:28
Influenza Study Sheds Light on "Flu Season"

Influenza Study Sheds Light on "Flu Season"

A new US study on the Influenza viruses, published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, has shed...
» read full story March 02nd, 2008 - 21:36
CDC Panel: All Children up to Age 18 Should Get Flu Shots

CDC Panel: All Children up to Age 18 Should Get Flu Shots

A panel of federal vaccine advisers recommended Wednesday that all children aged from six months...
» read full story February 28th, 2008 - 11:18
US Health Officials Held Urgent Meeting over Next Year’s Vaccine

US Health Officials Held Urgent Meeting over Next Year’s Vaccine

The number of states affected by influenza in the U.S. has risen from 44 at the middle of this...
» read full story February 23rd, 2008 - 18:30
Study Links Stress to Cervical Cancer

Study Links Stress to Cervical Cancer

The negative effects of stress on the human body are already common knowledge, but a new study...
» read full story February 16th, 2008 - 19:56
CDC: As Viruses Mutate, Flu Vaccine Becomes Inefficient

CDC: As Viruses Mutate, Flu Vaccine Becomes Inefficient

The World Health Organizations issued a warning about the necessity of adapting next year’s...
» read full story February 16th, 2008 - 10:27
US Scientists Make Human Stem Cells from Skin

US Scientists Make Human Stem Cells from Skin

US scientists said they have successfully reprogrammed human skin cells to behave exactly as...
» read full story February 12th, 2008 - 22:34
Pig Brain Tissue May Be Cause of Slaughterhouse Illnesses

Pig Brain Tissue May Be Cause of Slaughterhouse Illnesses

The ongoing investigation of a mysterious illness affecting workers at two pig slaughterhouses in...
» read full story February 04th, 2008 - 15:35
Tamiflu Resistant Flu Virus Strikes European Countries

Tamiflu Resistant Flu Virus Strikes European Countries

A small but significant number of flu viruses resistant to Tamiflu have been detected in more than...
» read full story February 01st, 2008 - 11:11
A Needle-Free Flu Vaccine for the Squeamish

A Needle-Free Flu Vaccine for the Squeamish

Patients afraid of flu shots, young or old, may soon be spared the nervousness of another prick as...
» read full story January 29th, 2008 - 11:12
Ind. Slaughterhouse Illness Possibly Linked to Minn. Outbreak

Ind. Slaughterhouse Illness Possibly Linked to Minn. Outbreak

The case of the two ill workers at an unidentified Indiana pig slaughterhouse is being investigated...
» read full story January 18th, 2008 - 14:35
FDA Expands Use of Evicel for General Surgical Bleeding Control

FDA Expands Use of Evicel for General Surgical Bleeding Control

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reportedly expanded the use of a liquid protein sealant...
» read full story January 18th, 2008 - 13:36
New Virus Is Linked to Aggressive Merkel Cell Skin Cancer

New Virus Is Linked to Aggressive Merkel Cell Skin Cancer

U.S. researchers have discovered a new virus they believe it is linked to a rare but extremely...
» read full story January 18th, 2008 - 12:09
xTAG Respiratory Viral Panel Gets Clearance for FDA

xTAG Respiratory Viral Panel Gets Clearance for FDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Thursday a new test that can quickly inform...
» read full story January 05th, 2008 - 17:16
Stomach Flu Hits New York City

Stomach Flu Hits New York City

New York City's Health Department announced yesterday that cases of stomach flu have spiked in...
» read full story December 21st, 2007 - 23:02
Human Skin Cells - An Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cells?

Human Skin Cells - An Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cells?

Embryonic stem cells have created quite a controversy not only among scientists, but also among...
» read full story December 07th, 2007 - 10:42
Possible Leak of Foot and Mouth Virus in UK Lab

Possible Leak of Foot and Mouth Virus in UK Lab

British officials said on Thursday that the foot and mouth virus may have leaked at the same...
» read full story November 23rd, 2007 - 10:37
Norwalk Virus Sickens Passengers on Hawaiian Cruise

Norwalk Virus Sickens Passengers on Hawaiian Cruise

Hundreds of passengers aboard a Norwegian Cruise Lines ship that sailed around Hawaii over the past...
» read full story November 13th, 2007 - 10:31
AIDS Path to US Comes Through Haiti

AIDS Path to US Comes Through Haiti

A recent study published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences tracks the...
» read full story October 31st, 2007 - 09:54
A New Study Links Obesity To A Common Virus

A New Study Links Obesity To A Common Virus

According to a new research an infection with a common virus may be a contributing factor be a...
» read full story August 21st, 2007 - 23:35
Echinacea Could Prevent Colds, Study Says

Echinacea Could Prevent Colds, Study Says

According to a study published online and in the July edition of The Lancet Infectious...
» read full story June 26th, 2007 - 16:45
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Rockstar’s Social Club Opens For Business

Rockstar’s Social Club Opens For Business

Celebrating the release of the widely-acclaimed GTA IV, Rockstar opened today the virtual gates of...
» read full story April 30th, 2008 - 16:26
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