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Apropos-of-Nothing Wednesday: #26
Thanks to insomnia and NBC's late-night/early-morning coverage of the Beijing Olympics, BMX racing now has at least one more fan. 真牛! Photo of BMX race crash: Carl de Souza/Getty Images.......
Synthetic Heparin on the Distant Horizon
How and when the potentially fatal contaminant oversulfated chondroitin sulfate wound up in lots of Baxter's Chinese-made heparin remain unknown. The synthetic contaminant, probably introduced at the workshop level, is believed to have caused more th...
Despite FBI Anthrax Briefing, Media and Blogging Arguably Foment "Grassy Knollers"
Yesterday's FBI press briefing on the 2001 "anthrax" letter attacks was intended to rectify a few erroneous pieces of information in press reports and to bolster confidence in the science linking Bruce Ivins to the mailed Bacillus anthracis spores......
40+ WF Seeks Childless Professional Existence
The percentage of childless American women aged 40-44 years doubled during the last 30 years—from 10% to 20%—according to 2006 survey data released yesterday by the US Census Bureau. The survey also revealed that women of this age ...
First Drug Approved in US for Huntington's Chorea
Despite the discovery in 1993 of the altered gene that causes Huntington's disease (HD), treatment for this dismal illness remains purely symptomatic and supportive. In the United States, medical therapy for HD chorea has been limited to traditional ...
