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Pesticides and Parkinson's disease: Working near sprayed fields increases risk too, researchers find
California researchers who first established a link between two commonly used pesticides and Parkinson's disease have found a third crop-enhancing chemical -- ziram -- that appears to raise the risk of developing the movement disorder. And they have found...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Parkinson's Disease, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, University of California, Los Angeles
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Eugene Goldwasser dies at 88; biochemist was known for anemia drug
Eugene Goldwasser, the biochemist who isolated and purified the anti- anemia protein erythropoietin — arguably the most important biological drug since insulin — died Friday at his home in Chicago of kidney failure associated with prostate...Tags: Sports, World War II (1939-1945), University of Chicago, Health Treatments, Colleges and Universities
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Weekend TV Talk Shows: Senate Healthcare debate is the weekend's hot topic
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Nov. 22 - 28 in PDF format This week's TV Movies TODAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer Fort Hood shooting: Rep. Peter...... -
Dr. Robert M. Chanock dies at 86; virologist broke ground in respiratory virus research
Dr. Robert M. Chanock, a virologist who made a remarkable series of discoveries about respiratory viruses in the 1960s and 1970s, including the isolation of the deadly respiratory syncytial virus and four para- influenza viruses, died Aug. 4 at a...Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), World War II (1939-1945), University of Chicago, Children, Environmental Illness
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Sunday shows: Singh, Fiorina, Coburn, Nelson, Kyl
Top of the TicketAlso, Joe Lieberman, Lamar Alexander, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Sherrod Brown, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Dianne Feinstein.... -
Social media wrap: John McCain goes from targeting pork to stimulus waste
Top of the TicketSenators Tom Coburn and John McCain release report attacking stimulus "waste" called 'Summertime Blues." More than 100 examples are highlighted.... -
New human embryonic stem cell lines eligible for federal research dollars for the first time since 2001
Booster ShotsThe number of human embryonic stem cell lines eligible to be used in government-funded research just went up by 13. The National Institutes of Health announced today that 11 new cell lines from Dr. George Daley at Childrenâs Hospital Boston...... -
For cluster headaches, oxygen is good medicine, study finds
Booster Shots"Cluster headache is probably the most severe pain known to humans. Most female patients describe each attack as worse than childbirth." Youâd think that such an excruciating condition would require some mighty strong medicine. But a study coming out... -
Fewer dollars for smoking prevention
Booster ShotsEven as states pull in billions of dollars in tobacco settlement money â part of which is typically used to fund anti-smoking programs â they're slashing the amount they spend on such programs by 15%. Altogether, states will spend $567.5...... -
Blood pressure drugs need to match the situation
For some people, lifestyle measures are enough to keep blood pressure under control. But they're not enough for everyone.
For one thing, "many patients are not willing to change their lifestyle," says Dr. Peter Rudd, professor of medicine emeritus at the...Tags: Heart Failure, Pharmaceuticals, Novartis AG, Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities
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Marshall Nirenberg dies at 82; biochemist won Nobel for deciphering genetic code
Marshall Nirenberg, the Nobel laureate who deciphered the genetic code that allows the information contained in genes to be translated into proteins, died Jan. 15 at his home in New York City. He was 82 and had been battling cancer.
Nirenberg, who...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Social Issues, Colleges and Universities, Biotechnology Industry, Nobel Prize Awards
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On different wavelengths over EMFs
Three years ago, at the age of 48, Camilla Rees had to leave her apartment in downtown San Francisco. Not because of the rent, she says, but because of the radiation.
Her personal radiation meter -- yes, such things exist -- spiked after a lawyer...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Social Issues, Colleges and Universities, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), University of Pennsylvania
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