Grocery shopping is something we have to do every week, for some it's a chore, for others it's a chance to see what's new and hunt for bargains. Which of the following is your favourite supermarket e.g. the one that
Revised entry by Peter Menzies on March 30, 2008. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, figure1.jpg, figure2.jpg] The basic idea of counterfactual theories of causation is that the meaning of causal claims can be explained in terms of counterfactual conditionals of
NASA has selected the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, for the management and operations of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center.
NASA released Friday a photograph of the nearly 20,000-pound Orion space capsule mock-up being loaded into a C-17 cargo aircraft on Thursday, March 27, at NASA's Langley Research Center.
A novel strategy based on targeted immune suppression using human umbilical cord blood cells may improve the pathology and cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease, based on the results of a study in a mouse model of this currently untreatable
The settlement is something of a surprise, coming three weeks into a trial over the state's claims in Anchorage. The state sued to recoup medical bills it said were generated by Medicaid patients who developed diabetes while taking Zyprexa. The
Sir Ian Wilmut, who led the team which created the clone Dolly the sheep, said he respected the views of religious figures such as Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, who has condemned the use
Drugs approved in that just-before-deadline period had a four- to five-fold higher rate of later being withdrawn or requiring serious safety warnings, compared with drugs approved faster — presumably slam-dunks — or those that miss the deadline, Carpenter concluded. (AP)
The death of the girl has shocked the community and raised profound moral and legal questions over when medicine should trump faith, especially when the life of a child is at stake. (JS Online)
The 2006 amendment approved by voters made it a crime to "clone or attempt to clone a human being." But it allowed a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer as long as a cloned embryo is not implanted in
The paternity kits have taken their place on store shelves next to other diagnostic tests that don't rely on DNA, including those for pregnancy, HIV and blood sugar, said Michael S. Watson, executive director of the American College of Medical
She said, for instance, that it "might be appropriate" to require insurers to spend a heavy proportion of every premium dollar on health care as opposed to overhead and profit. Several governors, including Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Edward G.
Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are genetically unstable over time in culture, which raises concerns about their clinical safety. Epigenetic changes, heritable controls over gene expression that do not alter DNA sequence, in hESCs may contribute significantly to this instability.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it was investigating the possibility of an increased risk of mood changes and suicidal behavior among those who take the highly popular asthma drug Singulair. (HealthDay)
A survey released this week came to the unsurprising conclusion that people are having a hard time paying for healthcare. The totally nonrandom sample of more than 26,000 people who took the online survey skewed heavily toward the insured (77
The promise of drugs based on small-interfering RNA was that they would be able to very specifically "turn off" genes to treat a range of diseases. Researchers report in Nature, though, that these molecules actually are much more broadly acting
The CIRM has a policy against buying eggs for cloning and other biomedical research. But...I warned a bit ago that some bioethicists and bioscientists were agitating to change that policy. Now, the new head of the CIRM, Alan Trounson, has
These "embryo clauses" will allow the creation of human embryos for no other purpose than to harvest their body parts. Similarly, a growing number of MPs have concerns about clauses that will allow human tissue to be fertilised with animal
Dr. David Wolford, a UK researcher, said that the development and distribution of renewable source of energy in Eritrea, especially the introduction of modern oven, is showing an encouraging outcome vis-à-vis improving the living standard of the people and promoting
