Byline: BY MICHELLE O'KEEFFEThe Mirror (London, England)
The rationale for the Orphan Drug Act, which was passed in the United States by the US Congress in 1983, and the Orphan Regulation, which was passed by the European Commission in 2000, are that adequate drugs have not been developed for many rare diseases and conditions. Because very few i...
a low-priced and sterile, cloned banana that’s extremely susceptible to a deadly fungus called Tropical Race 4 (TR4). However, most banana varieties co-evolve with the fungal diseases that try to take them down, each one trying to outmaneuver the other. In Uganda, where bananas are ...
I gave nebulized morphine to a sweet old lady who was dying very painfully in front of her family. There were about 12 of us in the room including me, the PA for to pulmonary group that was covering the icu for the weekend that ordered it and her family. 12 of us in a tiny ...
of Threatened Species, once ranged throughout large areas of South and mainland Southeast Asia, but has suffered regional population decimations due to hunting, habitat loss and degradation. Cambodia is home to the only known wild populations of the Axis porcinus annamiticus subspecies of the deer...
Additionally, captive cheetahs are susceptible to a number ofdiseases, so breeding for conservation is a constant uphill battle. An Uncertain Future for the King of Cheetahs Originating from a place of myths, legends and supposed love affairs between unlikely animals, the king cheetah’s story is...
Known as NWA 7325, the fist-size, greenish space rock is a rarity among rarities: there just aren't many verified planetary meteorites. Scientists know of about 70 from Mars and, until now, none from any of the other planets in Earth's solar system. There are about 180 known meteorites...
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