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Winter bug prompts hospital ban
15 December 2012 Last updated at 10:03 ET Hospitals around the UK have been closing wards to visitors in the hope of preventing the spread of the winter vomiting bug, norovirus. Birmingham’s City Hospital, Maidstone Hospital in Kent, and George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, all have patients with the infection. At Southampton more than 400 virus-infected passengers disembarked from a cruise ship
Winter bug prompts hospital ban
15 December 2012 Last updated at 10:03 ET Hospitals around the UK have been closing wards to visitors in the hope of preventing the spread of the winter vomiting bug, norovirus. Birmingham’s City Hospital, Maidstone Hospital in Kent, and George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, all have patients with the infection. At Southampton more than 400 virus-infected passengers disembarked from a cruise ship
Fragile X protein linked to nearly 100 genes involved in autism
Dec. 12, 2012 Doctors have known for many years that patients with fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited intellectual disability, are often also diagnosed with autism. But little has been known about how the two diagnoses are related.
Opiates already in body may encourage cancer growth, certain medications could slow it
Dec. 12, 2012 A study led by University of Chicago researcher Patrick A.
Biologists engineer algae to make complex anti-cancer ‘designer’ drug
Dec. 10, 2012 Biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in genetically engineering algae to produce a complex and expensive human therapeutic drug used to treat cancer. Their achievement, detailed in a paper in this week’s early online issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , opens the door for making these and other “designer” proteins in larger quantities and much more cheaply than can now be made from mammalian cells
Digested formula, but not breast milk, is toxic to cells, in vitro study finds
Dec. 10, 2012 Free fatty acids created during the digestion of infant formula cause cellular death that may contribute to necrotizing enterocolitis, a severe intestinal condition that is often fatal and occurs most commonly in premature infants, according to a study by University of California, San Diego bioengineers. Their report, which was based on in vitro tests comparing the digestion of fresh human breast milk and nine different infant formulas, was published online in the journal Pediatric Research .
To make old skin cells act young again, boost their surroundings
Dec. 10, 2012 As we get older, the trillions of cells in our body do too
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