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First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 32 mins ago - 5 reports

Ministry of Defence

British court says dead soldiers’ families can sue government

The controversial ruling says the government has a duty to protect soldiers in combat.EnlargeA funeral in Scotland for a soldier killed in Afghanistan earlier this year. Deploying troops with inadequate training and insufficient armor may now be legally ... [Published GlobalPost - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Ministry of Defence, Human Rights, Immunity, Phillip Hewett, Litigation

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 38 mins ago - 3 reports

Hyaluronan

The Latest Update on Naked Mole Rat Cancer Immunity

Naked mole rats are exceedingly long lived in comparison to similarly sized rodents, and furthermore appear to be immune to cancer . A number of researchers are engaged in uncovering the reasons why the species has these characteristics. On the ... [Published Fight Aging! - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Naked Mole Rat, Cancer, Immunity, Hyaluronan, Chemical

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

Feds seek immunity for two witnesses in Whitey Bulger trial

Federal prosecutors are seeking immunity for two government witnesses against mobster James "Whitey" Bulger who they fear will otherwise take the Fifth if put on the witness stand.If U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper grants immunity to Ralph ... [Published Big News Network - 3 hours ago]

Entities: James J. Bulger, Immunity, Witness, Kelly Kelly, Brian Kelly

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 2 reports

Google Inc

More Details Emerge As States' Attorneys General Seek To Hold Back Innovation On The Internet

We already wrote about how various states' attorneys general (AGs) are seeking to get Congress to give them an exception to Section 230 of the CDA, which would let them pin liability on internet companies for the actions of their users. Now, more details ... [Published Techdirt - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Jim Hood, Criminal, Google Inc

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 2 reports

Oregon

Oregon House approves bill tightening rules for parents who opt children out of immunizations

SALEM -- After an emotional discussion filled with personal stories about lives touched by serious diseases, the House passed a bill tightening rules for parents who opt their children out of vaccinations.The House voted 45-15 to approve Senate Bill 132. ... [Published Oregonian - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Immunity, Vaccine, Bob Jenson, Oregon

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 3 reports

Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen to face prosecution to comparing Muslims to Nazis

Marine Le Pen faces prosecution for comparing Muslim immigration to the Nazi occupation of France after the European Parliament's legal committee recommended that the far-Right leader be stripped of her immunity. The full parliament is now expected to ... [Published Telegraph - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Marine Le Pen, Immunity, National Front (FR)

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 6 hours ago - 3 reports

South Sudan president suspends two ministers in fraud inquiry

Western donors have warned South Sudan's government that aid payments are at risk unless it tackles the corruption undermining development in a country devastated from decades of civil war with Sudan, from which it seceded in 2011.Last year, Kiir wrote ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - 10 hours ago]

Entities: South Sudan, Fraud, Kosti Manibe Ngai, Deng Alor Kuol

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 reports

CEL expands optocoupler line

Through its North American sales and marketing partner, California Eastern Laboratories (CEL), Renesas Electronics is offering three isolated gate drive optocouplers, which were specifically designed to meet the demanding isolation requirements of motor ... [Published EE Times - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Immunity, Renesas Electronics Corporation, Transient

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 7 hours ago - 2 reports

Scientists discover new mechanism to protect body from harmful bacteria

Scientists at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine have discovered a mechanism that is used to protect the body from harmful bacteria. Platelets, a component of blood typically associated with clotting, were discovered to actively search for ... [Published News-Medical.Net - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Bacteria, thrombocyte, Immunity, Infection

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 2 reports

Vaccine set to vanquish Delhi belly

British scientists have discovered a vaccine that creates an immunity to Traveller's Diarrhoea - the global curse with a handful of names, but one certain unpleasant effect on businessmen and holidaymakers alike who venture far from their native land ... [Published Abu Dhabi National - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Vaccine, Bacteria, Nigel Slater

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 2 reports

Governmental Immunity – City entitled to dismissal of highway claim based on lack of notice

Plaintiff’s personal injury claim against the city of Detroit based on the highway exception to governmental immunity should have been dismissed because the city lacked notice of a defective condition where plaintiff was injured. “On February 20, 2008, ... [Published Michigan Lawyers Weekly - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Immunity, Dismissal, Plaintiff

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 3 reports

Commentary: soldier deaths ruling will open floodgates - but where will litigation end?

The court upheld the view that the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights is valid even on the battlefield. The MoD had heavily contested this, and pleaded immunity from liability because of conditions of war.The case brought today ... [Published London Evening Standard - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Land Rover, Litigation, SAS Special Air Service

Quotes

"Our unique circumstances - highly urbanised environment, comparatively low levels of adult mosquitoes, low herd immunity to dengue - require us to make careful evaluation of these novel approaches to ensure they can achieve a demonstrable impact on dengue without negatively impacting our natural ecology" said the NEA spokesman

Scientists looking at combating mosquito epidemic [Published Asiaone - 12 mins ago]

...Rasmussen said: "NATO and Afghanistan, along with our partners, will continue this journey together, based on a new relationship that will remain strong for the years to come." The continued presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan will be an obstacle to gaining a peace agreement since the Taliban demand that all foreign troops...

President Karzai pulls out of talks with Taliban US troops killed [Published Digital Journal - 53 mins ago]

"This is simply unacceptable," he said. "Our low vaccination rates represent 50,000 preventable tragedies. There are 50,000 girls alive today will develop cervical cancer that would have been prevented if we had reached our goal of 87 percent vaccination rates. In fact, for every single year we delay in reaching that rate, another 4,400 women will develop cervical cancer despite good screening."

HPV infections drop dramatically because of vaccination, CDC says [Published Somerset Reporter - 1 hour ago]

...than a 50 percent reduction even where vaccination rates are low," said Huh, who is also a senior scientist at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. "We've passed the era of speculation and officially entered into one where we actually have evidence the vaccine works."

Sexually transmitted HPV infections plummet, provoking surprise and hope [Published al.com - 1 hour ago]

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NOPD officer acquitted of malfeasance in office [Published The Advocate - 6 mins ago]
Scientists looking at combating mosquito epidemic [Published Asiaone - 12 mins ago]
Vermont 2013: A good year for drug policy reform [Published Digital Journal - 33 mins ago]
President Karzai pulls out of talks with Taliba... [Published Digital Journal - 53 mins ago]
HPV Rate Drops Among Teen Girls, Doctors Give C... [Published Inquisitr - 1 hour ago]
HPV infections drop dramatically because of vac... [Published Somerset Reporter - 1 hour ago]
U.S. Government Assistance to Syria [Published GlobalSecurity.org - 1 hour ago]
Sexually transmitted HPV infections plummet, pr... [Published al.com - 1 hour ago]
Pneumococcal Serotypes before and after Introdu... [Published Center for Disease Control and Prevention - 1 hour ago]
Kiir suspends two top ministers over graft probe [Published Oman Tribune - 1 hour ago]
Naked Mole Rats don't get cancer - Here's why t... [Published ITechPost - 1 hour ago]
Dengue cases 'could top new high of 15,000' [Published Asiaone - 1 hour ago]
NORM PATTIS: Why do you owe chimp attack victim... [Published New Haven Register - 1 hour ago]
Wellmune-fueled infant formula supports immunity [Published New Hope 360 - 1 hour ago]
Rodent’s cell tissue could be cancer breakthrough [Published NewsRT.co.uk - 1 hour ago]
NOPD officer acquitted of taking payoffs from t... [Published NOLA Live - 2 hours ago]
Families of soldiers win right to sue Ministry ... [Published Scottish Daily Express - 2 hours ago]
City, county coverage on guns intact [Published Hutchinson News - 2 hours ago]
CJ rules …Opposition Leader, Finance Minister e... [Published Government Information Agency Guyana - 2 hours ago]
Allison Platt, MD, FAAP, Represents New York wi... [Published ECPlaza - 2 hours ago]
Use of FFT-based EMI Test Receivers for EMI com... [Published Electronics News Australia - 2 hours ago]
Discount vaccines to help combat parvo outbreak [Published ABC Online - 2 hours ago]
South Sudan?s Kiir determined to prosecute Alor... [Published Sudan Tribune - 2 hours ago]
Veterinarians studying PEDV [Published Brownfield Network - 2 hours ago]
Rodent’s cell tissue could be cancer breakthrough [Published The Scotsman - 2 hours ago]
More Details Emerge As States' Attorneys Genera... [Published Techdirt - 2 hours ago]
Graft case against President Zardari cannot be ... [Published Pakistan Newswire - 2 hours ago]
HPV Vaccine Reduces Cancer-Causing Virus In Tee... [Published WREG - 3 hours ago]
More Details Emerge As States' Attorneys Genera... [Published Techdirt - 3 hours ago]
ATSA Immunity: Supreme Court Grants Cert to Dec... [Published JD Supra - 3 hours ago]

Blogs

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More Details Emerge As States' Attorneys Genera... [Published Techdirt - 2 hours ago] We already wrote about how various states' attorneys general (AGs) are seeking to get Congress to give them an exception to Section 230 of the CDA, which would let them pin liability on internet companies for the actions of their users. Now, more details ...
More Details Emerge As States' Attorneys Genera... [Published Techdirt - 3 hours ago] We already wrote about how various states' attorneys general (AGs) are seeking to get Congress to give them an exception to Section 230 of the CDA, which would let them pin liability on internet companies for the actions of their users. Now, more details ...
The Latest Update on Naked Mole Rat Cancer Immu... [Published Fight Aging! - 3 hours ago] Naked mole rats are exceedingly long lived in comparison to similarly sized rodents, and furthermore appear to be immune to cancer . A number of researchers are engaged in uncovering the reasons why the species has these characteristics. On the ...
Supreme Court Says Patent Abuse Can Violate Ant... [Published Techdirt - 3 hours ago] We've been writing about the crazy world of pay for delay agreements by big pharmaceutical companies for years now. The short version of it is that big pharmaceutical companies pay off small generic pharma companies to prevent them from offering generic ...
Supreme Court Says Patent Abuse Can Violate Ant... [Published Techdirt - 4 hours ago] We've been writing about the crazy world of pay for delay agreements by big pharmaceutical companies for years now. The short version of it is that big pharmaceutical companies pay off small generic pharma companies to prevent them from offering generic ...

Audio/Video

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Domestic slavery that's not 'illegal'? [Published CNN.com - Video - 4 hours ago]
Do Companies Need Legal Immunity to Fight Cyber... [Published FOX Business - Video - 9 hours ago]
Chinese Hackers' Latest Target: Defense Contrac... [Published Bloomberg - YouTube - May 28 2013]
Latest Threat: Iran [Published FOX Business - Video - May 24 2013]
Obama's cybersecurity executive order: What you... [Published Fox News Channel - YouTube - Apr 06 2013]

Press Releases

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Bumbleroot Foods Launches Indiegogo Campaign [Published PR Newswire - 5 hours ago]
Rareform Labs, LLC Releases Tone'd, A Girl’s Ne... [Published PR.com - Jun 13 2013]
ImmuDyne Announces Primed For Immunity(TM) Rele... [Published GlobeNewswire: Advertising News - Jun 12 2013]
ViroPharma Receives Orphan Drug Designation For... [Published PR Newswire: Health - Jun 11 2013]
MD Now Urgent Care, South Florida’s Largest Pro... [Published PR.com Press Releases - Jun 04 2013]