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Unexpected drop in jobless rate sparks optimism

WASHINGTON — Two years of steep job cuts all but ended last month, unexpectedly pulling down the unemployment rate and raising hopes for a lasting economic recovery.

Federal figures released Friday showed that the rate fell from 10.2 percent in October to 10 percent as employers shed the fewest number of jobs since the recession began two years ago. The government also said far fewer jobs were lost in September and October than first reported.


NOV-002 Injection Supplements Chemo to Kill Breast Cancer Faster & Ease Side Effects

Full article with link to video.

It could be a huge breakthough for breast cancer patients. An experimental drug is zapping tumors quickly and helping patients escape the terrible side effects of chemotherapy.

With NOV-002, patients inject themselves once a day with the drug and then it's also added to their routine chemo treatments. Other than sitting through the hours of treatments, it's made chemotherapy a breeze for patient, Lillian Mills.


A Good Year in the Fight Against AIDS

TUESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- While the war against HIV/AIDS is still far from over, 2009 could prove to be a watershed year in terms of advances in prevention and treatment, experts say.

In fact, earlier this month a United Nations report found that the number of people infected with HIV globally has remained unchanged, at about 33 million, for the past two years, and may have peaked in the late 1990s... Read More


Global Warming Scandal Makes Scientific Progress More Difficult, Experts Say

The trustworthiness of the scientific community's global warming data pool is being called into question as the scandal over doctored data continues to unfold.

The latest revelation came on Sunday with the publication of a report by The Sunday Times of London that scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit in the United Kingdom confessed to throwing out most of the raw temperature data on which the theory of global warming is founded... Read More


Technology On the Horizon for 2010: Wirless Electricity, Invisible Speakers

Wireless electricity. Invisible speakers. A mind-reading headset. See what's coming in 2010.

Next Little Thing 2010


Early Relationships Influence Teen Pain And Depression

Angst could be more than a rite of passage for insecure teenagers, according to a study published in The Journal of Pain. Researchers from the Université de Montréal, the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center and McGill University have discovered that insecure adolescents experience more intense pain in the form of frequent headaches, abdominal pain and joint pain. These teens are also more likely to be depressed than peers with secure attachments...


A Cup Of Brazilian Mint For Pain Relief

For thousands of years it has been prescribed by traditional healers in Brazil to treat a range of ailments from headaches and stomach pain to fever and flu. Now for the first time, researchers at Newcastle University have been able to scientifically prove the pain relieving properties of Hyptis crenata - otherwise known as Brazilian mint...

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/172159.php


First Effective Medical Therapy For Rare Stomach Disorder Reported By Vanderbilt Scientists

A drug used to treat colorectal cancer also can reverse a rare stomach disorder and should be considered first-line therapy for the disease, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center report this week. Ménétrier's disease causes thickening of the stomach lining, severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, as well as anemia and swelling in the feet and ankles due to protein loss. Patients are at increased risk for gastric cancer...

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/172277.php


Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics

A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers at IBM...

http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=35562


Dubai exposure to hit UAE banks hardest

Every bank in UAE has at least $1 bln of exposure to Dubai and companies, with some more than $3 bln -analyst.

http://business.maktoob.com/20090000400846/VIDEO_Mecca_undergoes_expansion/Article.htm


Review Shows that Migraine with Aura Poses a High Risk for Ischemic Stroke

A recent systematic review and meta-analysis performed by Harvard Medical School researchers reports that people suffering from migraine with aura (MA) have a two-fold increased risk for ischemic stroke...

http://medinewsdirect.com/?p=725


The Shocking Ingredients in Cigarettes

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/the-shocking-ingredients-in-cigarettes....

f you think cigarettes are simply dried tobacco leaves rolled in paper, you’re about 597 ingredients off. The tobacco industry has become master mixologists with the additives. Some ingredients are added for flavor, but research has shown that the key purpose of using additives is to improve tobacco’s potency resulting in increased addictiveness–and the additives they choose to use are dreadful.


New Culprit for Viral Infections Among Elderly—An Overactive Immune Response

http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=7610&utm_source=feedburner&...

New Haven, Conn. — Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that exaggerated responses of the immune system explain why the elderly succumb to viral infections more readily than younger people. Published in the November 19 Cell Host & Microbe, the study bucks the general belief that declining immune responses are to blame for susceptibility to viral infections.


Rodman & Renshaw, R&R's Week in Review: Oncology and Stem Cell Sectors, Life Sciences

http://ex7.myhosting.com/owa/?ae=Item&t=IPM.Note&id=RgAAAAAfeWcZCkyGRZ5Y...

REVIEW IN ONCOLOGY

During the weeks of October 25, 2009, November 1, 2009 and November 8, 2009 (from October 25, 2009 to November 14, 2009) significant news items pertaining to the oncology sector were reported including:


Sun Pharma's Leukaemia Drug Receives Tentative Approval From FDA

http://regulatoryaffairs.pharmaceutical-business-review.com/news/sun_pha...

Drug, therapeutically equal to Gleevec tablets from Novartis

Sun Pharma announced that the FDA has granted tentative approval to an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for generic Gleevec, imatinib mesylate tablets.


Heart and Bone Damage from Low Vitamin D Tied to Declines in Sex Hormones

http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=7576&utm_source=feedburner&...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins are reporting what is believed to be the first conclusive evidence in men that the long-term ill effects of vitamin D deficiency are amplified by lower levels of the key sex hormone estrogen, but not testosterone.


Zero Stage Breast Cancer

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Zero Stage Breast Cancer has not invaded surrounding tissue or organs.


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