NEW YORK – Resverlogix Corp., without a marketed product, may accomplish what Pfizer Inc., the worlds biggest drugmaker, couldnt: Creating a new medicine that fights heart disease by raising so-called good cholesterol. If the treatment, dubbed RVX-208, ...
Researchers analyzed the genes of 275 dogs in 10 breeds to see how breeding practices have altered their DNA, the hereditary template in their cells. The results, reported last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that some ...
A 31-state salmonella outbreak first detected in Utah was linked to pet frogs, U.S. health officials said Thursday, suggesting that public-health efforts to educate children about the proper handling of reptiles should be expanded to amphibians. The ...
Two-thirds of cocaine smuggled into the U.S. is laced with a cattle-worming drug linked to a rare immune disorder in a rash of cases, a report says. The veterinary drug, levamisole, was connected to new cases of the immune disorder agranulocytosis in ...
NEW YORK - Sickle cell disease, which affects 70,000 Americans, was reversed in 9 of 10 patients given bone marrow transplants using a new technique, according to a study that may expand the therapy to adults. People with the disease have misshapen red ...
Trying to meet people on MySpace or Facebook is like participating in one of those office gift exchanges: you have no idea what you're going to get. Witness the rise of niche social networks, where hamster enthusiasts, mustache lovers, even lonely ...
For one rebate recipient, “this picture sums it up.” She spent the money on groceries and gas. Buffalo Bills season tickets, Obama campaign donations, cannabis indica, a "mom" tattoo, lottery tickets, two leather-bound bibles, Terminator collectibles, ...
NBC's Heroes racked up the network's top-selling DVD for 2007 by cultivating die-hard fans with extensions of the show's fantasy world across every form of media (while selling plenty of additional advertising against those extensions along the way). ...
We knew our ranking of the world's 50 most innovative companies would be controversial. For an unassailable list, we would have used some dull quantitative metric, like number of new patents. Instead, we polled experts, researched products, and spent ...
Browse events in April, from the world's biggest lighting show to, inevitably, Tax Day. tuesday, april 1 Read Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio If you've ever overpaid for concert tickets or bemoaned the ...
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