The News Review:
- ACP publishes ‘Medicine in Quotations,’ second edition
- Watching New Blood Vessels Grow Using Engineered Viral Nanoparticles
- Avian Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Contact Lens Users at Increased Risk for Vision Threatening Condition;…
- Ocean Vesivirus found in human blood samples
- International Sovereign Energy Corp.: Drilling Update
ACP publishes ‘Medicine in Quotations,’ second edition
EurekAlert - EurekAlert (press release) - Mar 28, 2006
In reviewing 5,000 quotations for the final 3,500 that would become the second edition, Drs. Huth and Murray found that some medical concepts and practices have developed and changed over time, yet some have stayed remarkably constant. “Cultures change through time, but human nature probably changes little,” they write in the book’s introduction. The second edition has more than 450 new quotations. Huth and Murray, in addition to maintaining their own quotation collections and searching for more, accepted many contributions from colleagues in the United States and abroad. The quotations are organized by topic and fully referenced to their original sources… His books include Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease, and three books on the treatment of multiple sclerosis. In addition, he has written numerous articles on medical history and has contributed to several textbooks. “Medicine in Quotations” is available from the American College of Physicians. Ordering information is available at.
Watching New Blood Vessels Grow Using Engineered Viral Nanoparticles
AZoNano.com - Mar 28, 2006
More importantly for cancer researchers, these same particles can also track angiogenesis, or new blood vessel growth, triggered by tumors. Reporting its work in the journal Nature Medicine, a research team headed by Heidi Stuhlmann, Ph. , and Marianne Manchester, Ph. , developed chemical methods for attaching between 70 and 120 molecules of a fluorescent dye to the surface of cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV).
Avian Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Nation - The Nation. - Mar 28, 2006
tools –> Is it Mother Nature or Father Human Greed whom we have to blame foravian flu?RelatedAlso By. section-nav –> Drugged-Up Nation. Blame the surfeit of drugs in our system on a confusion between illness and suffering… Thus the don’t-fence-me-in, don’t-regulate-me cowboys of the foodbusiness may kill us by breeding sick chickens and may kill thechickens by feeding them contaminated food–which, of course, they sell. Yippeee-ay-yea, bring on the pandemic! But there is yet another way ofwringing legitimate profits out of this disease, which, if the mostpessimistic predictions turn out to be true, may cause one out of fiveof us to turn up our toes and head for the great chicken factory in thesky. That other way is selling us expensive medicine that does not work incase we come down with avian flu. The medicine in question is. Nevertheless, they can’t make the stuff fastenough.
Contact Lens Users at Increased Risk for Vision Threatening Condition;…
Free with registration - Business Wire - AccessMyLibrary.com - Mar 29, 2006
Contact Lens Users at Increased Risk for Vision Threatening Condition; Bascom Palmer Ophthalmologist Reports Notable Increase in Number of Serious Eye Infections in South Florida and Throughout the World. | Business Wire (March, 2006).
Ocean Vesivirus found in human blood samples
News-Medical.net - Mar 28, 2006
In separate tests that looked for actual virus in the blood, rather than antibodies, 5 percent of blood samples from normal donors showed Vesivirus. Among persons with evidence of liver damage, researchers found 11 percent had Vesivirus-contaminated blood. “This study clearly demonstrates that both Vesivirus and the antibodies against it are fairly common in humans,” said Alvin Smith, a professor of veterinary medicine at OSU and one of the world’s leading experts on caliciviruses. “Vesivirus is widely distributed in many animal species, but this is a previously unrecognized relationship between Vesivirus and humans. ”
“This research also shows an increasing prevalence of Vesivirus antibody in persons who have hepatitis of unknown cause,” Smith said. “This suggests there is a broader potential for Vesivirus infection and illness in humans than previously recognized. ”
Previous individual case reports have documented human disease with Vesivirus, said Dr… It concluded that Vesivirus infection in cattle is widespread, and in various studies has been “associated” - identified to be statistically relevant but not yet proven as a cause - with abortion, diarrhea, severe respiratory disease and vesicular disease. In another study to be published soon, a population of Thoroughbred mares on horse farms in Kentucky, which was having an unusually high level of spontaneous abortions, was also found to have 81 percent positive testing for Vesivirus antibodies - far higher than a normal population. Because of its endemic nature and prevalence, possible sources of Vesivirus infection in humans could include meat, seafood, contaminated water, contact exposure and blood transfusions, researchers say. Evidence suggests that Vesiviruses and other disease-causing caliciviruses are world wide, they said.
International Sovereign Energy Corp.: Drilling Update
CCNMatthews - CCNMatthews (press release) - Mar 28, 2006
(TSX:ISR) is pleased to report that the early indications of the logs as well as gas detection equipment used while drilling Medicine River, 5 - 30 - 38 - 2W5 and Grimshaw, 10 - 17 - 84 - 22W5 wells were positive, both wells are to be cased as potential gas wells. Medicine River, Alberta 5 - 30 - 38 - 2W5 (64% W… International Sovereign Energy Corp. is an oil and gas exploration development and production company with offices in Vancouver, British Columbia, Calgary, Alberta and Islamabad, Pakistan and is active in the exploration and development of hydrocarbon reserves in Western Canada and internationally. Certain information provided in this press release contains forward-looking statements that by their nature are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties and readers are cautioned that actual results may vary considerably from those forecasted. Shares Outstanding: 13,242,130The Toronto Stock Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. For more information, please contact
International Sovereign Energy Corp. Waseem RahmanDirector(604) 684-7372(604) 684-2407 (FAX)Website:.
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