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Murray, a former official at the World Health Organization (WHO), published an article in the British Medical Journal last fall outlining the need for a global health monitoring organization independent of the WHO and government influences...
...professor at the faculty meeting said that the Murray’s description of the functions of the global monitoring project were similar to the blueprint sketched out in his journal article...
...should have been at least partly settled by a study conducted by a group of Australian, U.S. and Indonesian scientists (including Brown and Morwood) earlier this year that used computer tomography and 3-D reconstruction techniques to model the brain of H. floresiensis. The resulting paper, published in the journal Science in March, contended that the findings supported the theory of a new species and strongly downplayed the possibility of a disease like microcephaly playing a role. But critics remained unconvinced, citing flaws in the study, such as the suitability of skulls used for comparison. Even one of the paper...
...deep trouble if the [avian flu] pandemic were to strike in the next few years. It has a moral obligation to its own people, and to the world, to rectify the situation as soon as possible." DR. DAVID HO, U.S. aids researcher, warning in an article in the medical journal Nature that China is dangerously unprepared for an outbreak of the h5n1 virus...
...been a lot of news lately about the blood that remains in umbilical cords after they are cut; this fluid is a rich source of stem cells that can be used to treat a variety of diseases, from leukemia to sickle-cell anemia. Two weeks ago, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that children with a fatal genetic disorder called Krabbe's disease had been saved with stem cells from cord blood. And last week the House of Representatives, struggling with a hotly contested bill that would loosen restrictions on embryonic-stem-cell research, easily passed a bill freeing...