Month: May 2012

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The journal Nature has published the first of two controversial papers about laboratory-enhanced versions of the deadly bird flu virus that initially sparked fears among U.S. biosecurity experts that it could be used as a recipe for a bioterrorism weapon. The publication of the paper by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on Wednesday follows months of acrimonious debate that pitted the need for science to be free of censorship against the obligation to protect the public from a potentially devastating flu pandemic. …

Four months ago the U.S. government sought to block publication of two studies about how scientists created an easily spread form of bird flu. Now a revised version of one paper is seeing the light of day with the government’s blessing.

An organ donation group says more than 100,000 people used a new Facebook feature the first day to declare they are donors.

About 15 million premature babies are born every year — more than 1 in 10 of the world’s births and a bigger problem than previously believed, according to the first country-by-country estimates of this obstetric epidemic.

TULSA, Okla., May 2, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — The hCG weight loss diet is designed to help patients who suffer from conditioned hyper eating, a condition where patients struggle to lose weight even when the exercise and eat healthy.
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By Anonymous Did you know a study shows eating just one additional daily serving of French fries can led to a 3.35-pound weight gain over a four-year period? And guess what else? Adding yogurt to your diet is linked to a 0.82-pound loss over the same …
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