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Pigs get scapegoated for swine flu

next to regular flu, which infects up to one-fifth of people in the U.S. each winter, swine flu in people is rare. Virologists have documented about 50 cases in the last 35 years. It looked like an open-and-shut case. More than half the genes in the ...

From ALAN ZAREMBO AND KAREN KAPLAN, The San Jose Mercury News,  9 May 2009
Related Topics: Robert Webster

Scientists: Flu strain relatively mild

evidence from genetics labs, epidemiology models and simple mathematics suggests that the worst-case scenarios are likely to be avoided in the current outbreak. Medical personnel work in tents set up outside the Sutter Delta Medical Center emergency ...

From KAREN KAPLAN AND ALAN ZAREMBO, Inside Bay Area,  1 May 2009
Related Topics: World Health Organization,  National Institutes of Health,  Kathleen Sebelius

Scientists: Flu strain as relatively mild

evidence from genetics labs, epidemiology models and simple mathematics suggests that the worst-case scenarios are likely to be avoided in the current outbreak. LOS ANGELES — As the World Health Organization raised its infectious disease alert level ...

From KAREN KAPLAN AND ALAN ZAREMBO, Contra Costa Times,  30 Apr 2009
Related Topics: World Health Organization,  National Institutes of Health,  Kathleen Sebelius

Scientists see this flu strain as relatively mild

severe. But mounting preliminary evidence from genetics labs, epidemiology models and simple mathematics suggests that the worst-case scenarios are likely to be avoided in the current outbreak. LOS ANGELES — As the World Health Organization raised its ...

From KAREN KAPLAN AND ALAN ZAREMBO, Contra Costa Times,  30 Apr 2009
Related Topics: World Health Organization,  National Institutes of Health,  Kathleen Sebelius

In surrogacy business, there are no customer guarantees

to earn the trust of doctors, others come and go. Their owners, many former surrogates themselves, often have little experience managing the hundreds of thousands of dollars that even the tiniest agencies attract. LOS ANGELES — Not even jail could ...

From ALAN ZAREMBO AND KIMI YOSHINO, Inside Bay Area,  29 Mar 2009

Scans revolutionary, possibly dangerous

When Maureen Scanlan had a painful kidney stone episode four years ago, she was pleased that her doctor ordered an annual regimen of CT scans to monitor her condition. economic engine for hospitals and doctors, and the once-exotic million-dollar ...

From ALAN ZAREMBO, Monterey County Herald,  17 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Stanford University,  Harvard Medical School,  American Medical Association

Herbal medicines tainted

of the samples showed no detectable metal content. Ayurvedic medicines - herbal mixtures dating back thousands of years in India and increasingly popular in the West - are frequently contaminated with lead, mercury or arsenic, according to a study ...

From ALAN ZAREMBO, The San Jose Mercury News,  27 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration

United Kingdom: Some birds adjust to rising temperatures, study finds

flexibility seems to have limits. In the Netherlands, great tits are on the decline because the birds have been unable to adjust their breeding schedules to temperature changes, according to a 2005 study. Researchers have found that at least one bird ...

From ALAN ZAREMBO, EcoEarth News,  10 May 2008

Sucking up carbon dioxide to combat global warming

to block sunlight, either by constructing artificial volcanoes to blast sulfur particles into the atmosphere or by launching millions of tiny satellites into space and arranging them into a giant mirror. Here's a simple solution to global warming: ...

From ALAN ZAREMBO, The San Jose Mercury News,  6 May 2008
Related Topics: Columbia University,  David Keith,  John Wayne,  Bill Gates,  New York University

Global warming: Just deal with it, some scientists say

The disastrous hurricanes of recent years have become the poster children of global warming. But Roger A. Pielke Jr., an environmental policy expert at the University of Colorado at Boulder, wondered whether the billions of dollars of damage was ...

From ALAN ZAREMBO, EcoEarth News,  26 Mar 2008
Related Topics: United Nations,  Stanford University,  Stephen Schneider

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