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Thursday, 07 April 2011

If you are allergic to cats there is new hope.

If you are allergic to cats, you may be in luck. According to a report in Science Daily, McMaster University immunologist Mark Larché, professor in the Department of Medicine in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and Canada...

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Toxic Food Production Increases as Canada Okays GMO Wheat Newsvine

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Keeping track of dangerous foods, drugs Star Tribune

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He turned 90; auto policy jumped $100 Star Tribune

Don Radzak of Brooklyn Park recently noticed his auto insurance had gone up about $100 a year. Radzak called State Farm to...

Meditation instead of morphine -- not so fast Hartford Courant

Meditation appears to be a powerful way to take away pain -- just a short session is more potent than even morphine, if we’re to believe the -- but let’s take a closer look. In a new study , meditation rookies reported feeling less pain after meditation training...

Research and Markets: Advances in Peptide Therapeutics - Streamlined Manufacturing Processes Ensure Strong Traction for Peptide Therapeutics Business Wire

DUBLIN - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/d731c7/advances_in_peptid) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Advances in Peptide Therapeutics - Technical Insights" to their offering. “Advances in Peptide Therapeutics - Technical...

For National Health Week: Falling and Older People Hartford Courant

It's National Public Health Week, and for the occasion, the folks at the state Department of Public Health have sent us some tips on ways to keep safe. Here are a few facts about falling, and the danger it poses for older people: For people 65 and older, falls account for...

Verastem to Present at the 2011 BD Biotech Conference Business Wire

BOSTON - Verastem, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel drugs to treat cancer by targeting cancer stem cells, announced today that the company will be presenting on “Accessing Biotech and Academia” at the 2011 BD Biotech Conference on Tuesday, April 12, 2011...

Carney Hospital to Ban the Sale of Sugar Sweetened Beverages Business Wire

Carney is the first hospital in the state to enact this ban BOSTON - Carney Hospital announced today that it will ban the sale and provision of sugar sweetened beverage throughout its campus as a demonstration of the hospital’s commitment to improving community health and stemming the increasing...

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