Word: birminghams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Identified by neurobiologist Harald Sontheimer, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, chlorotoxin targets glioma cells and blocks their fluid-balancing chloride channels, preventing them from shrinking and then migrating elsewhere in the brain. Sontheimer's group is about to submit a clinical-trial protocol to the FDA. If approved, as many as 30 glioma patients could begin receiving chlorotoxin tagged with radioactive iodine as early as July. If the strategy works, Sontheimer says, "chlorotoxin could become a platform for delivering all sorts of drugs...
EATING YOUR CAKE Stock investors leery of market volatility who still want to play might consider market-indexed CDs. Crown Bank of Orlando, Fla., and New South Federal Savings of Birmingham, Ala., offer FDIC-insured CDs tied to the NASDAQ 100 or the S&P 500. Based on the past two decades, both would have done worse than the market but better than non-indexed...
...downside, he adds, Meehan "doesn't compare" with Birmingham...
...number of other Democrats have said they might challenge Cellucci in 2002, including Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72, Secretary of State William Galvin, Treasurer Shannon O'Brien, former Democratic National Committee chair Steve Grossman and former state Sen. Warren Tolman...
...This was part of a deal," said Alison Franklin '90, an aid to Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72, who has been one of the strongest champions of education reform...