Posted on Tuesday, 7th September 2010 by Marcus Gollan
Nine years later, Brenda Coleman is cancer free. She’s one of the 40,000 people diagnosed each year with pancreatic cancer — one of the deadliest cancers and hardest to beat. “I believe at the time I think there was about a 2-percent chance of me surviving to five years,” Coleman said. But research helped her [...]
Posted on Saturday, 4th September 2010 by Marcus Gollan
There have been a lot of changes over the years that have helped with head injuries. Helmets have improved, mouth guards have improved and even improved field turf at a lot of high schools has helped. However, even with all the changes, no one is concussion-proof. St. Thomas Academy is finding that out the hard [...]
Tags: Head Injuries, Injuries
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Posted on Monday, 30th August 2010 by Marcus Gollan
Nurses in Duluth negotiating a labor contract with a local hospital say a proposed code of conduct could be used to silence or intimidate employees. The code proposed by St. Luke’s Hospital bans inappropriate behavior, such as profanity or sexual advances. Read full article…
Tags: Labor, Labor Talks
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Posted on Wednesday, 25th August 2010 by Marcus Gollan
A federal judge’s ruling against government funding of embryonic stem cell research could cost a handful of research projects at the University of Minnesota millions of dollars in federal grants. The director of the school’s Stem Cell Institute said eight projects could be affected by Monday’s ruling from U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, [...]
Tags: Cell Research, Ruling, Stem Cell, Stem Cell Research
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Posted on Saturday, 21st August 2010 by Marcus Gollan
Bloodsucking bedbugs are biting in New York, and Philadelphia, and all over Ohio. The pest control company Terminix released Tuesday a list of the 15 most bedbug-infested cities, based on an analysis of call volume reporting bedbug infestations and of confirmed bedbug cases reported by sales professionals in 350 of the company’s service centers. The [...]
Tags: Bedbugs, Nation Bedbugs
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