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First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 7 mins ago - 9 reports

Drug traffickers targeting Australia

SYDNEY - Australia seized a record 23 tonnes of illicit drugs in 2011-2012 with arrests at a 10-year high, data showed Monday, as officials warned the country had become a key target for traffickers.The annual Australian Crime Commission report showed ... [Published ENCA - 7 mins ago]

Entities: Australia, Drug Trafficking, Drugs, Seizures

First reported 28 mins ago - Updated 15 mins ago - 3 reports

Kaiser Permanente

Whole-cell vaccine was more effective than acellular vaccine during CA pertussis outbreak

Whole-cell pertussis vaccines were more effective at protecting against pertussis than acellular pertussis vaccines during a large recent outbreak, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published in Pediatrics. Whole-cell pertussis vaccines, also ... [Published EurekAlert! - 15 mins ago]

Entities: Pertussis, Vaccine, Kaiser Permanente

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 27 mins ago - 6 reports

Russia: Mice return from space, most of them dead

Most of the mice, gerbils and other animals Russia sent to space a month ago died in the flight meant to test the effects of extended periods of time in space.EnlargeMost of the mice, gerbils and other animals sent into space for a month by Russia died ... [Published GlobalPost - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Russia, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Orenburg, Iran, Snail

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 38 mins ago - 3 reports

Mother, daughter reflect on their experiences with cancer-causing gene mutation

FARMINGTON Last week, Angelina Jolie announced that she had undergone a double mastectomy after learning she had inherited a cancer-causing genetic mutation.In light of the news, one local woman and her mother who also share the same genetic link sat ... [Published Farmington New Mexico Daily Times - 38 mins ago]

Entities: Ovarian Cancer, Breast Cancer, Mutation

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 43 mins ago - 3 reports

Scottish women miss out on cancer testing

SCOTTISH women could miss out on access to the genetic testing for breast cancer that prompted actress Angelina Jolie to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.New National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines issued in England ... [Published Herald Scotland - 43 mins ago]

Entities: Cancer, genetic testing, Scotland, guidelines

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 53 mins ago - 6 reports

US adviser on board of firm that sold anthrax drug

Former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who has served as a bio-warfare adviser to the president, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security, urged the government to stockpile an anti-anthrax drug while serving as a director for the company ... [Published Cortez Journal - 53 mins ago]

Entities: Anthrax, Richard Danzig, Drugs

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 5 reports

WA second as drug lab capital

According to the Australian Crime Commissions (ACC) Illicit Drug Data Report 201112 there were 160 clandestine laboratories detected in Western Australia last financial year.Queensland detected the most clandestine laboratories with 379.The report released ... [Published The Sydney News - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Drugs, Illicit, John Lawler

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 reports

Ginger may help asthma sufferers

Spicing up asthma medications with ginger may make them more effective, a study has shown. Scientists found that components of the peppery root interacted with medicines called beta-agonists to relax the airways.Adding ginger compounds to the drugs increased ... [Published Belfast Telegraph - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Airway, American Thoracic Society, Involuntary muscle

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 4 reports

Bloomberg article: apan Biotech Ventures Surge as Abenomics Cash Spurs Speculation

By: Five of the 10 best-performing stocks this year are traded on JASDAQ. Bloomberg cite the example of Euglena, which is up 10-fold this year. The company said its developing single-cell algae based products, including jet fuel, which it expects to supply ... [Published FXstreet.com - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Biotechnology, Speculations, Japan Tissue Engineering Co, Euglena

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 4 reports

More hormones steroids being seized

A new report shows seizures of illegal performance and image enhancing drugs are at a ten-year high, says the head of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC). ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic says the commission's latest drug trends report, to be released ... [Published The Sydney News - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Steroid, Hormone, Drugs, Illicit, Seizures

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 6 reports

BRCA1 As a predictor for breast cancer: Relevance in the Philippine Setting

BY : DR. MARY JEAN LORECHE-DIAOThe Angelina Jolie interview on CNN and the cover story of a prominent magazine in the US of A, on her admission of undergoing a double mastectomy comes as no surprise at all.The procedure itself is not that uncommon considering ... [Published Business Week Mindanao - 9 hours ago]

Entities: BRCA1, Breast Cancer, Big C

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated 14 hours ago - 23 reports

Angelina Jolie and BBC spin

Michelle Roberts. Not a clue.Michelle Roberts, the BBC's worst health journalist, has taken to the airwaves to talk about Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy. Jolie decided to undergo the operation because she has inherited genes that make her very ... [Published Velvet Glove, Iron Fist - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Breast Cancer, Michelle Roberts, Obesity, BBC British Broadcasting Corp

Quotes

"But I think the higher rate of seizures we have actually made over the last 12 months shows enforcement is meeting that challenge head on."

Drug traffickers targeting Australia [Published ENCA - 7 mins ago]

...Klein said. "Despite this, boosting the newly emerging cohort of acellular pertussis vaccine-only teenagers with Tdap remains the best means currently available to help protect this group against disease."

Whole-cell vaccine was more effective than acellular vaccine during CA pertussis outbreak [Published EurekAlert! - 15 mins ago]

...plications for the future of oncology care," says Rocco, the Daniel Miller Associate Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School. "MATH offers a simple, quantitative way to test hypotheses about intratumor genetic heterogeneity, including the likelihood that targeted therapy will succeed. They also raise important questions about how genetic heterogeneity develops within a tumor and whether heterogeneity can be exploited therapeutically." Additional co-authors of the Cancer paper are Aaron Tward, MD, PhD, Mass...

Genetic diversity within tumors predicts outcome in head and neck cancer [Published EurekAlert! - 15 mins ago]

Klein NP, et al "Comparative effectiveness of acellular versus whole-cell pertussis vaccines in teenagers" Pediatrics 2013; 131: e1716-e1722

Newer Whooping Cough Vaccines Fall Flat [Published MedPage Today - 16 mins ago]

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