News: [Entry posted at 30th April 2009 04:27 PM GMT] Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles--most of which presented data favorable to Merck ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 29th April 2009 04:51 PM GMT] As news of the first American swine flu death--a 23-month-old baby in Texas--broke yesterday, the US Senate confirmed Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius's appointment to head the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and she got right to ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 27th April 2009 05:32 PM GMT] As reported cases of swine flu continue to accumulate (as of today, 40 had been reported in the US) and mainstream media outlets dust off their foreboding music tracks and positively scary taglines, a ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 22nd April 2009 06:00 PM GMT] Researchers have found a fossilized ancestor of modern seals and sea lions that they say represents an evolutionary step in the organisms' transition from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic creatures they are today. The fossil skeleton is thought ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 21st April 2009 10:02 PM GMT] A Los Angeles County grand jury arraigned two animal rights activists yesterday (Apr. 20) charged with ten felonies, including stalking and conspiracy to threaten a public officer or school employee, for ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 21st April 2009 07:20 PM GMT] Kathleen Sebelius, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, has moved one step closer to being confirmed for the position by the US Senate.
Sebelius's nomination was endorsed by all the Democrats and two ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 21st April 2009 04:42 PM GMT] The US federal agency tasked with tackling cancer has laid out a plan to double the number of cancer research projects it funds, prioritizing first-time grants to young researchers and emphasizing genomic approaches to understanding the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 10th April 2009 04:17 PM GMT] Researchers have proposed an explanation for how three species of tiny fish manage to coexist despite having seemingly incompatible modes of reproduction, according to a study published in Oikos last week.
The Amazon molly ( Poecilia ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 2nd April 2009 09:12 PM GMT] In recent weeks the National Institutes of Health has been churning out new grant announcements tied to the handsome $10.4 billion sum the agency netted through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), otherwise known as the stimulus ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 2nd April 2009 06:00 PM GMT] New findings support a controversial hypothesis about the biological role of sleep: Snoozing may be a way for the brain to clear clutter accumulated after a hard day of synapse forming and strengthening. Two Science studies published today ... Click to continue
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