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...diabetes treatment. Type I diabetes patients are locked in a constant struggle to maintain their body's insulin levels. Since their beta cells no longer produce the hormone on their own, patients must supply it themselves with multiple injections throughout the day and night, or using an insulin pump that dispenses insulin automatically through a permanent tube under the skin. Voltarelli's stem cell strategy provides a life-changing alternative that would take the burden off the patient and put it back where it belongs, on the beta cells...
With its own supplies evaporating, Mexico City relies on the Cutzamala system, a network of reservoirs and treatment plants that pump in water from hundreds of miles around. However, this year Cutzamala itself is running dry amid low levels of rainfall in the area. Its main basin is only 47% full, compared to an annual average of 70% for early April. "This could be caused by climate change and deforestation. These are difficult factors to understand and predict," says Felipe Arreguin, under director of the National Water Commission. "We had to have the stoppages now to make sure that some...
Where there’s email, there’s spam. With a plethora of list-servs at their fingertips, Harvard students have gotten pretty adept at sending out provocative, enticing, and downright ludicrous statements in order to pump up attendance for whatever a cappella jam/dance show/charity event/speakers’ panel/massive orgy that is going on at the moment. It's all spam to FlyBy. But, you know what they say: one man's trash is another man's treasure. So here are some of the most weird, funny, and heartbreaking spam excerpts that FlyBy found in its recent...
...impression for a long time that in some patients with asthma, if you treated their reflux, their asthma got better," says Dr. John Mastronarde, an author of the new study and the director of the asthma center at Ohio State University, who has prescribed the medications known as proton pump inhibitors (PPI) to about a quarter of his asthma patients...
...were holding 72 civilians (including Fujimori's brother) at the embassy residence, who enjoyed the support of the country's poor. At one shantytown he rolled down his window and basked in the thank-yous for the new streets and microbuses. One woman called out, "Fuji, the new water pumps you gave us aren't working!" Ever the engineer, Fujimori shot back, "Do you have the pressure set right?" He opened the Toyota's door and was about to step out until he stopped, as if remembering that he was a President, not a plumber. But Fujimori clearly wanted...