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Researchers from the Pennsylvania School of Medicine claim to have “engineered” a cultured system of human nerve cells that could be transplanted. The research is published in the Journal of Neurosurgery.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated that living human nerve cells can be engineered into a network that could one [...]

FDA and GlaxoSmithKline notified pharmacists and physicians of a new safety Medication Guide for Avandia (rosiglitazone maleate).
FDA regulations require a Medication Guide to be provided with each prescription that is dispensed for products that FDA determines pose a serious and significant public health concern.
Primary concern is heart failure. Read the guide at:
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FDA notified dental healthcare professionals and patients of the risk of serious allergic reactions in users of denture cleansers.
These adverse events, including abdominal pain, vomiting, seizures, hypotension and difficulty breathing, have occurred both when the product has been used properly as well as from improper use.
These events can occur soon after first use or after [...]

The effectiveness of the flu vaccine is gamble. Months before the flu season, officials at the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services take a guess as to what flu virus strain will hit in the coming winter. Even if they quess right, the effectiveness of the vaccine has been [...]

The consumer member of the FDA Vaccine safety review committee gave a thumbs down on approval of the new rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix) for infants. The vaccine is for diarrhea caused by the rotavirus.
Vicky Debold as registered nurse and Ph. D was not convinced that the clinical trials of the new infant vaccine showed it was [...]

Researcher Nat Scholz, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), examined how widely used pesticides that run off the land and mix in rivers and streams combine to have a greater than expected toxic effect on the salmon nervous system. The occurrence of these pesticides as mixtures in the human food supply may also [...]

“We’re now seeing low oxygen levels that are much more widespread and far more intense than what has been recorded in the past,” according to William Peterson, one of the researchers and an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service’s science center in Newport, Ore.
A team of scientists studying the California [...]

After an exhaustive seven-year research effort, Canadian biologists found that miniscule amounts of estrogen present in municipal wastewater discharges can decimate wild fish populations living downstream.
Male fish exposed to estrogen become feminized, producing egg protein normally synthesized by females. In female fish, estrogen often retards normal sexual maturation, including egg production.
The research, led by Dr. [...]

Putting romance on paper could be one of the secrets of lasting love, say researchers at The University of Texas at Austin in a report published in Psychological Science.
In a study titled “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Words,” Psychology Professor James Pennebaker and graduate student Richard Slatcher analyzed writing samples from [...]

Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) refers to a variety of conditions that primarily affect the arteries of the body, with the exception of the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart. A main clinical symptom is intermittent claudication, is pain in the legs caused by atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) of the lower extremities. It [...]