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...receive a diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) will die within two years of getting it, regardless of whether they take "conventional blood medications" or azacitidine. Of the estimated 60,000 people living with MDS in the U.S., 75% have a lower-risk diagnosis, providing a much less ominous prognosis. Research indicates that lower-risk MDS patients under age 70 survive, on average, four to nine years after diagnosis, meaning that some MDS patients live much longer. Richard M. Stone, Mikkael A. Sekeres, Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation Rockville...
...that Baidu's shareholders are likely to complain. The company already collects 64% of the revenue generated by search engines in China via advertising, according to Analysys International, a market-research firm, and claims 76% of overall search traffic. The comparable figures for Google are 31% and 20%. If Google soon shuts down its Chinese search engine (Google.cn) - as most analysts believe it will - Baidu will grab even more. Dick Wei, senior analyst at JPMorgan Securities in Hong Kong, estimates that if Google loses a quarter of its China traffic, Baidu will reap a 6% gain in revenue; the gain...
...graduate of the Parkinson's workshop, Linda Morgan, a pharmacist in Asheville, N.C., who has participated in 10 research trials since her 2005 diagnosis, spends a lot of time not only figuring out which trials to enroll in but also urging fellow patients to become part of formal studies. Parkinson's clinical trials historically have had low participation levels, which delays the approval of new therapies. Morgan says she credits the workshop with making her feel as if she's "on the cutting edge," adding, "I like to know as much...
Finally, if online giving grows at the expense of offline donations, causes that don’t get much news coverage, like ending homelessness or stopping deforestation, may begin to lose funding as public attention shifts to the issue of the week. Some research shows that online donors tend to spend less when they later send an offline donation, although it is unclear how this will affect the overall distribution of charity dollars in the long...
This is just one of the “astonishing” results of the research done by Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. for his new four-part television series for PBS, “Faces of America.” The series traces the family trees of 12 famous Americans, using both historical documentation and DNA analysis, and is challenging Americans to reexamine their history in a uniquely personal...