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First Reported 6 hours ago - Updated 7 mins ago - 14 Documents (in Health)

Drug resistant swine flu found in U.S. and U.K.

Epidemic experts say they are investigating the apparent spread of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu virus among four patients at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and five in a hospital in Wales.These clusters appear to be the first in which ... [USA Today - 7 mins ago]

Entities: Virus, Swine Flu, Antiviral, Relenza, Wales

First Reported 16 hours ago - Updated 22 mins ago - 14 Documents (in Health)

Guidelines for Cancer Screening Differ by Group

Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus ... [ABC News - 22 mins ago]

Entities: Mammography, breast self-exam, hysterectomy, Task Force

First Reported 5 hours ago - Updated 21 mins ago - 10 Documents (in Health)

Swine flu may be peaking in U.S. (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the United States, health experts said on Friday.But they stressed that influenza, especially a pandemic, could hit several peaks in a single season. They said weeks or months more ... [Yahoo! News - 21 mins ago]

Entities: Influenza A H1N1 Virus, Pandemic, Swine Flu

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 3 hours ago - 33 Documents (in Biology)

Scientists complete corn genome

After three years and $30 million, U.S. scientists have finished mapping the complete genome sequence of corn, the most widely eaten cereal after rice.A strain of corn called B73 may prove to be a textbook of how genes work, said Patrick Schnable, a geneticist ... [UPI - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Corn, Genome, Genome Sequencing, Iowa State University, National Science Foundation

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 3 hours ago - 20 Documents (in Politics)

NEAL STATEMENT ON BREAST CANCER SCREENING Urges women to continue routine screening

NEAL STATEMENT ON BREAST CANCER SCREENINGUrges women to continue routine screening(WASHINGTON) Congressman Richard E. Neal issued the following statement today after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced controversial new breast cancer screening ... [US House of Representatives - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Breast Cancer, Mammography, Health Insurance, Task Force

First Reported 9 hours ago - Updated 17 mins ago - 7 Documents (in Physics)

CERN

LHC back in action

Tonight scientists at CERN are rebooting the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) in an attempt to recreate the conditions fractions of a second after the Big Bang by crashing opposing proton beams, traveling at nearly the speed of light, into one ... [TED Blog - 17 mins ago]

Entities: Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Higgs Boson, Brian Cox

First Reported 11 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 19 Documents (in Market News)

Nokia Corporation

Nokia Streamlines R&D Operations in Finland and Denmark

Nokia plans to align its R&D operations in Finland and Denmark to be in line with the company's focused portfolio of future products. The planned changes are expected to affect up to 230 employees at Nokia's Oulu site in Finland and approximately 100 ... [PCB 007 - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Nokia Corporation, Finland, Denmark, Oulu (Finland)

First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 12 Documents (in Biology)

Scientists reconstruct epidermis from human embryonic stem cells

MedWire News: Scientists have succeeded in recreating a whole epidermis from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).They believe this technology could herald the development of temporary skin substitutes for burns victims awaiting skin grafts.Christine Baldeschi ... [MedWire News - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Epidermis, immunodeficiency, Grafting

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 12 Documents (in Environment)

Hundreds rescued after record rainfall in Britain

Lifeboats and military helicopters have rescued hundreds of people in northern England and a policeman was killed as torrential rain flooded homes, washed away bridges and closed roads.Police in the Lake District county of Cumbria said on Friday they ... [Radio New Zealand - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Flooding, United Kingdom, England, Met Office, Environment Agency

First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 10 Documents (in Health)

FDA approves injection formula of Revatio

NEW YORK (Nov. 20) The Food and Drug Administration has approved an injected formulation of a drug for pulmonary arterial hypertension.Pfizer announced Friday the approval of Revatio (sildenafil) for injection, saying the approval makes it the only FDA-approved ... [Drug Store News - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Food and Drug Administration, Hypertension, Sildenafil

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 33 Documents (in Space Science)

Atlantis docks for key mission

Get IOL on yourmobile at m.iol.co.zaCape Canaveral, Florida - The shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday to deliver spare parts needed to keep the outpost operational after the shuttles' retirement next year.Atlantis, ... [IOL - 11/19/2009]

Entities: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, The Atlantis Group, Jeff Williams, Cape Canaveral (United States)

First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 15 Documents (in Health)

H1N1 vaccine running out in Winnipeg

The adjuvanted form of the H1N1 vaccine is expected to run out at Winnipeg's 12 vaccination clinics. (CBC)Swine flu vaccine clinics in Winnipeg are likely to run out of one type of vaccine dose on Friday, say officials.The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority ... [CBC - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Vaccine, Swine Flu Vaccine, Winnipeg

Quotes

...more patients on the ward are being tested for drug-resistant virus; a ninth patient is infected with virus that is still susceptible to Tamiflu. "At present we believe the risk to the general healthy population is low" Britian's Health Protection Agency said in a statement, noting that there is no evidence that the resistant virus is any more virulent than any other...

Drug resistant swine flu found in U.S. and U.K. [USA Today - 7 mins ago]

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