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Dec 19th 2008Drug InformationRadiology
Parion Sciences, Inc., a privately-held, development-stage pharmaceutical company dedicated to treating diseases resulting from the failure of the body’s mucosal defenses, today announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded the company a biodefense grant in excess of $850,000.
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Dec 19th 2008Drug InformationRadiology
While the danger of magnets for children is increasingly recognized, they don’t receive treatment for swallowing them as quickly as needed, and parents don’t receive sufficient warning on toys, according to a new study. The Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center work shows that a growing number of adults know about the potential risk of swallowing magnets, but medical complications from magnets continue to be extensive worldwide and throughout childhood.
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Dec 19th 2008Drug InformationRadiology
Airline pilots who have flown for many years may be at risk of DNA damage from prolonged exposure to cosmic ionising radiation, suggests a study published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The research team compared the rate of chromosomal (DNA) abnormalities in blood samples taken from 83 airline pilots and 50 university faculty members from the same US city.
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