Artist finds inspiration for work from cadaver Oct 5, 2005
At the University of Calgary, Carreiro works in an anatomy lab teaching students how to dissect bodies. She said that although she experiences trepidation and anxiety when she enters the lab, she finds "excitement in peeling back the layers" of the body -- literally referring to skin, muscles and bones ... She uses each piece of the body -- which she explores in depth during her anatomy lab -- as a metaphor for her life. (The Daily Pennsylvanian, PA)
Health Calendar Oct 5, 2005
Fitness profile lab panel, call for details, Mondays-Fridays. Health Resource Center at Saint Agnes Hospital, 1111 E. Spruce Ave., 450-2000. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
CMU tech transfer office spawns 50 start-ups Oct 5, 2005
The university was touting its prowess as a regional innovator and start-up company generator at a daylong conference designed to help local economic development officials learn more about how university-bred technologies can go from the lab to the marketplace. The conference was hosted by , which is charged with bringing inventions created at the university to market, via licenses to university-related start-ups or to established firms looking to develop new products. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
A great sports drink? It's chocolate milk! Oct 5, 2005
He walked through a grocery store until he found the label he was looking for -- on a carton of chocolate milk. "We knew before we took this into the lab that it was going to work," he said. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Polio case in Minnesota confounds health officials Oct 5, 2005
The Health Department was asked to run lab tests to find out whether a virus was making the child sick. When no routine viruses showed up, they started looking for obscure ones and found the polio virus. (Albert Lea Tribune, MN)
Cooking can be dangerous Oct 5, 2005
In the summer of 1992, a methamphetamine lab was seized in the city of Big Bear Lake, found in a shed on property behind the old Boulder Bay drive-in theater. The lab was a super lab suspected of producing more than a pound of meth a week with a street value of 10,000 per pound ... Meth labs pose a danger not just to the self-proclaimed chemists, also called cooks, who are at risk of blowing off their own arms or burning alive in explosions caused by improper chemical handling. (Big Bear Grizzly, CA)
Bear Valley Community Hospital bursting at the seams Oct 5, 2005
Moving the doctor's sleep room gives way to a waiting area for the lab. Patients waiting to have blood work or other outpatient lab services will no longer have to sit in the hall until their number is called ... And the final phase includes addition of the lab waiting room and remodeling storage areas. (Big Bear Grizzly, CA)
Huntsman Cancer Institute looks for new ways to fight pancreatic cancer Oct 5, 2005
The oncology team is also working on better understanding the biology of pancreatic tumors by experimenting with lab rats that have been injected with the cancer and the cancer cells. Pancreatic cancer accounts for 2 percent of all new invasive cancer diagnoses but has the highest fatality rate, killing more than 15,000 people each year. (Daily Utah Chronicle, UT)
They're human guinea pigs for a price Oct 5, 2005
Blogger: Man About Town. to premium or sold out events. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Maybe yes, maybe no: When's a doc needed? Oct 5, 2005
On the health information site WebMD.com, Sharon Horesh, instructor of clinical medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, elaborates on these rules of thumb ... To correctly assess your condition, a doctor may need to conduct a physical examination, order lab work or X-rays or just get a good look at you. (Billings Gazette, MT)
Health guide Oct 5, 2005
"Welcome Baby." Labor and birth class ... 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Sleep Center lab ... Fee required, with scholarships available. (Billings Gazette, MT)
Australians Win Nobel Prize in Medicine Oct 5, 2005
Marshall also succeeded in cultivating the previously unknown bacterium from patient biopsies, in part because he accidentally left a sample in his lab over the Easter holiday in 1982 - unwittingly giving his cultures time enough for success. Together, the two men found H. pylori present in almost all patients with stomach inflammation or ulcers in the stomach or the part of the small intestine called the duodenum. (Guardian Unlimited)
Proposed city budget adds police employees Oct 5, 2005
Next year, the city will hire 20 more police employees: 16 officers and four nonsworn positions, such as crime lab technologists and a traffic unit clerk. Together, that will cost about $900,000 next year since most won't be hired until midyear. (Anchorage Daily News)
Single father brings home surrogate baby Oct 5, 2005
The baby was created in a lab out of Amit's sperm and an unknown donor's egg and nurtured for nine months in a stranger's womb. Newest member. (NDTV.com)
Sticking with it Oct 5, 2005
After all, you can't find qi under a microscope or study it in the lab. Skeptics say that any positive results that acupuncture patients feel are due to the placebo effect, and that the pain would have eventually gone away without treatment. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Genzyme thinks 'green' for new labs Oct 5, 2005
Riding a wave of acquisitions and upbeat financial news, will start construction next month on its largest research facility, a six-story glass-walled laboratory in Framingham that the company hopes will be the first American research lab to win a ''green building" certification.The building is part of a $210 million manufacturing and research expansion for the Cambridge biotechnology company, which is also adding new labs in Waltham and two bioreactors to its flagship factory along the Allston... (Boston Globe)
Researchers fraudulently subsidized Oct 5, 2005
The Keio University professor, for example, had received 43 million yen in fraudulent money from the ministries over several years, saying the sum was to finance the purchase of such things as laboratory mice used for research on the human immune system ... 43 mill for lab micejussg (Oct 5 2005 - 14:32). (Japan Today, Japan)
Lacking in soul Oct 5, 2005
His second-in-command is Dr Natalie Durant (Kelli Williams, formerly of The Practice), who is more comfortable in the lab researching diseases than interacting with stricken patients. The cast of Medical Investigation (from left): Neal McDonough as Dr Stephen Connor, Kelli Williams as Dr Natalie Durant, Troy Winbush as Frank Powell, Christopher Gorham as Dr Miles McCabe and Anna Belknap as Eva Rossi. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Joslin study sheds light on birth defect cause in pregnant women with diabetes Oct 5, 2005
"Until recently, it was not understood how diabetic pregnancy could cause birth defects. My laboratory wanted to explore this research because the more we know about the effects of the mother's diabetes on the embryo, the more tools we have to identify therapies that may prevent birth defects in diabetic pregnancy," says the study's lead investigator, Mary R. Loeken, Ph ... Working in collaboration with Peter Smith, Ph ... D., Director of the BioCurrents Research Center at the Marine Biological... (EurekAlert!)
Toronto mystery illness claims 4 more lives Oct 5, 2005
Maybe he has spent too much time in labs and not enough with the humans he purportedly cares for because that sentence could easily be interpreted as him speaking about lab rats just as easily as humans. Another troubling sidebar to this story is how close in proximity a day care center is to a seniors residence,most of whom I understand are infirmed. (Globe and Mail)
Molecular Research Suggest Shift Needed In How Some Drugs Are Created Oct 5, 2005
Researchers in Nairs lab already are looking at the complexs structure in humans. Mark M. Gajjar, an undergraduate student who now works in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Chicago, also was a co-author. (Science Daily)
Discovery of Ulcer's Germ Etiology Wins Medicine Nobel Oct 5, 2005
Dr. Marshall, currently a researcher at the University of Western Australia, near Perth, was intrigued by Dr. Warren's work and tried unsuccessfully to grow the bacteria in the lab ... When Dr. Marshall returned to the lab, he found that colonies of what would later be named Helicobacter pylori ... Lansoprazole 30 mg TID + amoxicillin 1 g TID x 2 weeks (this has restrictive labelling, it is indicated for patients who are either allergic or intolerant to Biaxin or for infections that are... (MedPage Today)
NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 4 October 2005 Oct 5, 2005
Observed by his U.S. successor, Phillips collected coolant samples from the Lab TCS MTL (thermal control system/moderate temperature loop) for analysis on the ground ... At ~1:20pm EDT, all five crewmembers participated in a live interactive TV news conference with U.S. and Russian media assembled at NASA Centers and TsUP/Moscow, via U.S. assets (Ku-band with S/G2) from the Lab module. (Space Ref)
Ariz. health officials worry they can't stop an epidemic Oct 5, 2005
It does include plans to discharge all but critically ill patients to make hospital beds available. Other details include ramping up state lab testing to help identify flu strains, and isolating or quarantining the sick ... During an outbreak, any available vaccine and anti-viral medication would be given out on a priority basis, according to Arizona's draft plan. (Tucson Citizen, AZ)
Post-Katrina landscape turned into wireless lab Oct 5, 2005
How cavalries of geeks connected storm-ravaged areas to the outside world. Morry Gash / APNaval Postgraduate School students Lt. Tom Haines, sitting, Petty Officer Mark Mollere, standing, and Lt. Andy Dittmer put communications equipment on the roof of Hancock Medical Center last month inBay St. Louis, Miss. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Help for Info Age Have-Nots Oct 5, 2005
The device, called the Personal Internet Communicator, was originally developed for markets underserved by the computer industry and is widely available in Mexico, India, Brazil, and the Caribbean ... It's something he and Nicholas Negroponte, director of MIT's Media Lab, had discussed several times during their 40-year friendship ... The new phones should be available at the end of this year and will retail for less than $100 each -- a bargain, with features like messaging, Web browsing, games,... (MSNBC -- Business)
Caltech President Who Raised School's Profile to Step Down (Los Angeles Times) Oct 5, 2005
Baltimore was her most prominent collaborator and quickly became her chief defender as the dispute escalated into a bitter public clash over government probes of alleged research misconduct. Although he was never directly accused of wrongdoing the work in question had not been performed in his lab Baltimore was singled out during congressional hearings into charges that important research findings had been fabricated. (RSS - Yahoo News - Top Stories)
Arizona, world may not be ready for flu outbreak Oct 5, 2005
Ramping up state health lab testing to identify flu pandemic strains ... It's also unclear when the vaccine and other experimental vaccines against new flu strains will be available for use, reports the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, part of the National Institutes of Health. (AZCentral -- News)
Hair Samples Can Test For Mercury Levels Oct 5, 2005
Hoeffner and Tarczynski are both fish-eaters and are donating samples of their hair to be tested at a lab in North Carolina as part of a Greenpeace and Sierra Club project. It's estimated that 1 in 6 pre-menopausal women has enough mercury in her body to put her unborn baby at risk for neurological impairments such as mental retardation and cerebral palsy. (CBS2Chicago.com, IL)
Genzyme thinks 'green' for new labs Oct 5, 2005
Riding a wave of acquisitions and upbeat financial news, will start construction next month on its largest research facility, a six-story glass-walled laboratory in Framingham that the company hopes will be the first American research lab to win a ''green building" certification.The building is part of a $210 million manufacturing and research expansion for the Cambridge biotechnology company, which is also adding new labs in Waltham and two bioreactors to its flagship factory along the Allston... (Boston Globe -- Business)
Don't make lab rats out of evacuees Oct 5, 2005
Don't make lab rats out of evacuees. By , September 20, 2005. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
KENYA: Caring for Nairobi's HIV-positive orphans Oct 5, 2005
Nyumbani also has a laboratory, with the ability to test for HIV and several other infectious diseases. The state of the art lab provides services to other labs hospitals throughout Kenya. (IRINnews.org)
I-TEAM: The Real Cost Of A Cup Of Coffee Oct 5, 2005
"The I-TEAM searched years of records and found Stanley started receiving calls from consumers almost three years ago -- more than a year before Dan's incident and almost two years before the Greenbergs. We found families from Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Alabama. Families like the Danfords from Alabama tell the I-TEAM they've had to replace everything in their home: their carpet, blinds, furniture and even their kitchen cabinets.For the Greenbergs, the Stanley thermos left them... (WCCO.com, MN)
All Too Conceivable Oct 5, 2005
The scenarios were often far-fetched, and there was lots of fudging with science and with normal lab procedure ... Before the series started, I happened to be meeting with Robert Stillman, a doctor at Shady Grove Fertility, one of the largest practices in the country, who in response to Inconceivable had drawn up a detailed description of the clinic's lab practices, anticipating that patients would be unduly worried. (Slate)
Body part theft claims hit forensic lab Oct 5, 2005
"They hadn't contacted us before going to publication, so we had no opportunity to research that particular matter but needless to say, given the article in this morning's paper, I have called for an urgent report on that and we'll obviously make details available as they come to light.". Queensland Health officials will be asked to explain to the Minister what has been done in response to the allegations. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Health)
Neighbor kills FW woman's dog Oct 5, 2005
But neighbors said the Chow/yellow Lab mix got out of her garage and went on a tear around the neighborhood. One nearby resident said she confronted the dog in her backyard. (KHOU.com, TX)
Business briefs Oct 5, 2005
The course will be available via instructional television at Bloomer High School, WITC Rice Lake, WITC New Richmond and North Central Technical College Wausau ... Sessions are held in the Cargill Computer Lab, Schneider Hall, on the UW-Eau Claire campus ... A discount is available for attending both workshops. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Battling Obesity Oct 5, 2005
"Before" and "after" photos, available on the centers Web site, show her dramatic transformation ... Lab work, costing $65, is required for the first visit. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Not a lotta Liotta, but a few big deals Oct 5, 2005
Genome Canada, the national funding and information resource body for genomics and proteomics research, took a fair amount of flack for its financial support of The Score, a delightful, groundbreaking musical drama about a genetics-based cancer research lab that had its world premiere at VIFF on Saturday and will be broadcast on CBC Television's Opening Night in January ... Much of the drama in the film, including a competition to clone a gene and a sex scene between two scientists, is based on... (Globe and Mail -- EntertainmentTP)
Junior's discovery of potential West Nile mosquito a 'surprise' Oct 5, 2005
As for the future, Gallitano said that the lab is "considering doing further research," though specific plans are currently unknown. Forum. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
