Comments From
Cornwall
by John de Rivaz
Introduction:
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- More on Diagnostic Testing
- Chemistry Labs on a Chip
- The Old Establishment View on
Ulcers is Slow to Go
- Cryonic Suspension and the World Wide
Web
- Blow to Vomit Therapies for
Cancer
- Genetic Engineering Hope for
Diabetics
- Test for Risk of Osteoporosis Launched in
Britain
- Mail Order Drugs Get
Overheated
- Weight Gain Found to Raise Risk of
Breast Cancer
- Dhea May Not Be 'Fountain of
Youth' Hormone
- UNESCO Unveils Guidelines for
Limiting Genetic Research
- Researchers Closer to Test for Mad
Cow Disease
- Parents Can Choose Sex of
Children, Doctor Says
- Scientists in Breakthrough to
Replace Brain Cells
- U.S. FDA Makes Drug Information
Available on Web
- Cold Virus Blamed for Heart
Inflammation
- Doctors to Test New Plaque Buster
Heart Drug
- Researchers Report Surprising Cholesterol
Findings
- New Technique Will Let Doctors Peek At
Strokes
- New enzyme linked to death
defying cancer cells
- Doctors crack fiber code in colon
cancer
- Human lifespan has risen 30 years
this century
- U.S. FDA considers osteoporosis
drug
- FDA reform aims to speed drug,
device approval
- Genetic Engineering for
Diabetes
- Researchers may have found
Achilles heel of cancer
- Hong Kong steps up fight against killer
``bird flu''
- British doctors treat stomach bug in
bid to beat cancer
- House Calls
- Risks of Invasive Diagnosis
- Hospital Test Suspected of Causing
Mad Cow Disease in Humans
- Viruses in 'overcoats' pave way for
biofactories
- A Humanized Monoclonal Antibody to
Treat Patients Suffering Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Protecting Bone Marrow From the Toxic
Effects of Cancer
- Eating Fish Prevents Sudden Heart Attack
- Study
- Stress Can Affect Breast Cancer, Study
Finds
- A gel to Dissolve Tooth Decay
- Study Links Secondhand Smoke to
Artery Damage
- New Research Sheds Light on the Body's
Clock
- Telomere Report
- Warner Lambert ncreases Research
Spend yet Again
- New Breast Cancer Test May
Reduce Need for Surgery
- U.K Doctors Probe Vitamin D Uses in
Cancer Cases
- Britain Proposes Life Sentence for Passing
on AIDS
- Ultrasound Transmitter May Improve
Hearing - Doctor
- Child Nutrition Vital in Cancer Prevention
- Study
- New Osteoporosis
Drug
- Infectious Diseases Big Threat -
Surgeon-general
- French Health Authorities Discover
New Disease
- New Ultrasound May Detect Heart
Attacks and Cancer
- Study Links Uncooked Hamburgers to
Food Poisoning
- Drug Can Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
45% - Trial
- Longevity Report Now Available Almost
in its Entirety on the Word Wide Web
- New
blood test may help cancer detection.
- Anti-depressant sales
jump
-
Study links high-fat breakfasts to blood clotting
- Exercise
injuries up among U.S. elderly
- Endangered creatures could save us, if we save them
- Cystic
fibrosis gene guards against typhoid
- Plague
protein may help treat arthritis
- Scientists find switch that counterattacks HIV
- Pressure chamber could ease stroke damage
- Too
many cancer patients have mastectomies
- Cancer, osteoporosis drugs may prevent breast cancer
- Vitamin C find could lead to more nutritious food
- Sound of blood flow can indicate clogged arteries
- Australian
firm sneezes at common cold
- Obesity
will be hard to treat, experts say
- Colon cancer gene
discovery
- Ischemia damaged limited by Alexion product
- Scientists say they a step closer to asthma vaccine
- Franco-British team crack tuberculosis gene code
- Western U.S. States' Biotechnology Lead
Threatened by Regulation
- Bone Healing Drug May Help Strokes,
Alzheimer's
- New U.S. Rules Aim to Boost Organ Availability
- Scientists Hope to Grow Organs Inside Human Body
- Genetic
Testing and Life Insurance
- Researchers Link Alzheimer's to Vascular
Disorders
- Light Therapy May Help Alzheimer's Sleep
Disorder
- UK's PPL Therapeutics Clones Transgenic Lamb
- Cloners of Dolly, Mice, Team Up to Make Pigs
- Genes may be to blame for chronic Lyme effects
- Elan And Scherer Announce Licence for Zydis®
Formulation
- Experimental drug may be shot in dark for gymnast
- British study finds more reasons to drink red wine
- U.S. scientists say drug may help cocaine addicts
- Blood substitute test in trauma patients a success
- Tamoxifen as Preventative - FDA to Speed up
Approval
- Common Cold Microbe May Have Role in Alzheimer's -
Study
- Sackcloth and Ashes Cryonics
- Reducing Cholesterol and Breast
Cancer
- Study links Alzheimer's risk to father's
age
- Birds Hold New Clues About Human
Memory
- WHO Pinpoints Smoking As Huge Global
Health Threat
- Aspirin may help lower cancer risk
- Superbugs
- Limb Transplants - Body
Transplants?
- Glaxo Produce Flu Preventative
- Scientists Isolate Immune System 'On/off
Switch'
- Drug Might Offer New Way to Diminish
Stroke Damage
- Protein Helps Plants Survive Deep Freeze
- FDA Approves Pill to Help Fight Gum Disease
- How Gene Can Predispose People to
Alzheimer's
- Virtual
Reality Autopsy on the Internet
- Common Virus May Be Key Factor in Heart Attacks
- Reducing the Spread of
Flu
- Nanotechnology memory application
- FDA Clears First Dental Device to
Use Laser-Powered Water for Cutting Teeth
- New margarine spread can lower cholesterol - study
- Dolly
cloners make deal with U.S. company
- Brain plaque linked to cell death in Alzheimer's
- Scientists use neutron beams on brain tumours
- Cancer drug helps paralysed mice walk again
- Internet revolution to sweep U.S. healthcare
- Breast
Cancer Prevention Drug Progress
- New data show up to 100 U.S. E.coli deaths yearly
- Colon cancer drug improves survival - studies
- French doctors report breakthrough in hepatitis C
- Doctors
regenerate human brain cells
- Gene marker could predict colon cancer, study finds
- Gene therapy grows new blood vessels on heart
- Tiny gene changes can mean big heart risk - studies
- Positive
results on arthritis drug reported
- Drug
Arava slows rheumatoid arthritis - study
- FDA
approves soy health labels on food
- Alexion Provides Step Forward for Neuro Patients
- 'Magic bullet' virus kills tumors in mice - study
- Self-diagnosis for recurrent urinary infection
- Trust Funds
- FDA advisers to consider first of new pain drugs
- Brain rewires itself in deaf, blind people - study
- Biotech companies face backlash if no ethical debate
- Anti-Aging
Medicine in Mainstream
- New Version of Prozac may be targeted to obesity
sufferers.
- Cervical Screening
Upgrade
- Scientists
Hunt Way to Rebuild Bone
- BBC News
Item on Genetic Screening
- Further work
on Diabetes and Obesity
- I still say
Exterminate the House Mites
- Pharmaceutical Investment, with Hindsight and Foresight.
- Study:
Radical Heart Regimen Works
- Heinz Touts
Benefits of Ketchup
- Making Surgery
Safer
- A Highly Disturbing
Tale
- Viagra Invigorates
Pfizer
- Israel bans genetic
cloning
- Study Suggests
Magnets Ease Pain
- Study:
Boomers to Alter Health Care
- Scientists Show Exercise is A Waste of Time
- Hand Transplant
- Condiment
Could Ward Off Bacteria
- Help Against
Elderly Blindness
- Scans Study
Brain Damage in Strokes
- Wine
Labels May Tout Health Benefits
- Anti-cancer Drug to
Be Tested
- Study
Questions Some Transfusions
- UN
Conference on Aging Concludes
- Wall St. Celebrates
Celebrex
- Diet May
Prevent Second Heart Attacks
- Stem Cell Research
Criticized
- 'Supergerm'
Kills Hong Kong Woman
- Pigs Grown with
Human Genes
- Drug Prices Up
for Insured Patients
- Fired JAMA
Editor Lads Job Online
- FDA Aids Cold
Viruses
- Doctors Cutting
Rate of Delirium
- Migraine Cure
- Heart Attack
Treatment
- Former French Leader Acquitted of AIDS Charge
- Cold Virus
May Cause Heart Damage
- New Hong
Kong Bird Flu Appears
- Mainstream Company Adds to Herbal Supplement Portfolio
- FDA
Approves Another Estrogen
- Study:
Estrogen May Improve Memory
- Study Backs
Longer Clot Treatment
- FDA
Functional Food Rules Sought
- Rice Extract
Lowers Cholesterol
- Brain Wave
Device Spells Messages
- Herbal-infertility
Link Explored
- Arthritis A Risk for
Exercisers
- Comment on
"Cryo-Trusts"
- Center Studies
Ideas on Food Safety
- Medicare
HMO Coverage Info Lacking
- Singapore
Killer Bacterium on Rise
- External Device An Alternative to Defibrillator Implant
Surgery
- New Stress Test Predicts Heart Risk Without Dangerous
Surgery
- Philadelphia Offering Organ Donor Incentives
- Lilly to Develop
Cancer Treatment
- Study Suggests Eating
Eggs
- New
Asthma Drug May Fight Allergies
- Obese Women
Risk Heart Disease
- Savings Likely
If Kids Get Flu Shot
- Is
There a Future for the Pharmaceutical Giants
- Rapid Drug
Discovery Technology
- Exercise
Helps Women Quit Smoking
- Advertising - Paid
for by Results
- Marrow
May Reduce Organ Rejection
- Cells May
Help Parkinson's Patients
- New, Safer
Diabetes Drug Coming
- Organ
Implanted After Being Trashed
- FDA approves
fat-blocking diet drug
- WHO: Cigarettes
Are Like Drugs
- Researchers
Report Cloning Goats
- Vitamin D
Said Important for Bones
- Timing Treatments
for Patients
- Prostate Blood
Test in Development
- Anti-cancer
Research Uses Soybeans
- UN: Global
diseases on the rise
- Worm
Enzyme May Help Extend Life
- Folic acid deficiency
improves
- N. Ireland
Surgeon Dies At Age 98
- Testing for
Influenza
- Flu Season
Was Deadlier Than Usual
- Test Planned
for New Cancer Drug
- Cholesterol-lowering Margarine OK'd
- Scientists
Discover Bone Mass Gene
- Drug May Fight
Common Cold
- Research Spending
- Mormons Offer
Online Family Tree
- Gates
Gives $20 Mln to Johns Hopkins
- Bird Flu Virus
May Strike Again
- Breast Cancer
Study Needs Women
- FDA Approves
New Diabetes Drug
- Thymus Could
Be Key in Aids Fight
- Study
Backs Lower Doses of Hormones
- Gene Study
Might Help Hemophiliacs
- FDA
Approves 3-day Diabetes Monitor
- More Americans
Living Past 100
- Effort to
Improve End-of-life Care
- Man Gets Cardiac
Gene Therapy
- Exercise Can Reduce Diabetes Risk
- Surgeons Transplant Cadaver's Bone
- Britain Bans Human Organ Cloning Research
- FTC Battling Internet Health Fraud
- 100 Cups of Coffee Protects from Radioactivity
- Study Sheds New Light on Insomnia
- Internet Links Doctors, Insurers
- Hi-tech Donation-backed Project Fails
- CDC Warns of Alaskan Flu Outbreak
- Cornwell Gives $1.5 Mln to Science
- The Dilemma of Schering Ploughing Profits Into Research
- CDC Diverts Chronic Fatigue Funds
- A Vaccine for Alzheimer's Disease?
- Authorities Attempt to Set Aside Fears that Gastroscopy May Spread CJD
- Inhaled Drug Effective Against Flu
- News Item Demonstrates How Cremation Defeats Future Technology
- Alternative to Angioplasty Surgery
- Human Genome Project Reveals New Immune System Booster
- U.S. Philanthropy Boosted by High-tech Billions
- Doctor to Exterminate Unclaimed Embryos
- Nasal Spray Effective in Preventing Flu
- Chemical Process May Aid Computers
- U.S. Seeks Government Finance for Limited Cell Research
- Changes in dental practises.
- Study: Pharmacists Curb Drug Errors
- Vaccine Against "Gastric Flu"
- Nanometer Sized Dosage System
- Parkinson's Disease News
- Laughter Can Help When Facing Grief
- Giving Money Away
- Skin's Cancer Defence Explored
- Cutting the Risk of Stroke and Heart Attack
- For A Fit Brain, Drive with Mittens
- Religion Linked to Good Health
- Debate on Reuse of Medical Devices
- Secondhand Smoke Inreases Stroke Risk
- Crohn's Disease Treatment - US Ahead of Europe
- Osteoporosis Treatment
- More Gains for Pharmacological Treatment
- Preventative Pharmacology - strokes
- Scientists Create Smarter Mice
- Gases Could Show How Body Works
- Lower Leg Pain May Be Serious
- Human Genome Sciences
- FDA Approves New Antibiotic
- Stem Cells May Help Muscle Disease
- Cancer Gene May Attack Immunity
- Tired Teen-agers Need More Sleep
- Annual Flu Shots May Be Eliminated
- Six Scientists Win Lasker Awards
- Blocking Enzyme Could Help Cancer
- Volunteers Sign Up for Cancer Drug
- Antibiotic May Kill Resistant Germs
- Migraine Treatment
- Osteoporosis Reversal
- Gene-altered Vein Used in Bypass
- Men May Bid 'Hairwell' to Baldness
- Enzyme May Treat Some Disorders
- Weight: Genes Or Discipline?
- Researchers Diagnose Leukemia
- Hopkins Study Finds Prostate Cure
- Vitamin E May Lower Cancer Risk
- Microsoft CFO Quits for Telecom Job
- Scientists Grow Frog Eyes and Ears
- Twins May Age Differently
- Scientists create 'DNA computer'
- Lawyers Hold Back Implant Efficacy Studies
- Scientists Map Viruses to Atoms
- Drug Research Spending
- Canada Issues Graphic Smoke Warning
- Study Says Apples Help Breathing
- Ethicists Bypassed in Organ Cloning Research
- Study: Lyme Disease Treatments Claimed to be OK
- Forearm Transplant Therapy Begins
- Addictive Powers of Tobacco Examined
- New MRI Scans Reveal Strokes
- Genetic Liver Therapies Researched
- Pet DNA Stored for Future Cloning
- Pro-democracy Co. Links Web Sites
- Medicalogic Seeks More Web Exposure
- Funerals shown on the Internet
- The Opposite of Minoxidil?
- Laser Holes in Heart Ease Chest Pain
- Few Heart Patients Taking Aspirin
- Elan Corp Reduces the Level of Alzheimer's Amyloid Plaque
- Saliva, Urine May Give Cancer Clues
- Research: Genetic Errors Cause Aging
- Britons Offer to Sell Kidney
- Unwanted "Services" Are Also Unpopular Jobs
- Preventing Pre Cancerous Polyps
- Thai Transplant Docs Face Murder Charges
- Chemical Prolongs Gehrig's Mice
- An Ethicist's View of Life-extension
- Images of early universe revealed
- Friedman's comment re-enforces what I have been saying about legalism for decades.
- Report Finds Cancer Rates Declining
- Preventing Alzheimer's Disease in At Risk Patients
- Beecham's Have A Pill for Parkinson's Disease
- Genomics to Be Used Against Diabetes
- Letter to Comments from Cornwall
- Human Genome Sciences
- Life Expectancy Said to be Rising Faster
- Boston University to Sell Heart Study Info
- Cyberlabs for Pharmaceutical Research
Multiple Sclerosis Patients Denied Treatment
Mouse Brain Now Self Repairing
Study: Liver Cells From Bone Marrow
Diseases Said Biggest World Disaster
Study Examines Red Wine Antioxidant
EU: U.S. Can't Rule Out Mad Cow
Gates Blows Forty Million
Working Together to Defeat Alzheimer's Disease
Researchers Produce Nerve Cells
Human Cloning Urged in Cell Research
Tuberculosis Breakthrough Identified
An End to Anal Insertion of Scope Probes.
Fewer applying to med school
Protein Idendified as Alzheimer's Pathway
Controversial Transplant A Success
Cryolife Heart Valve progress
Gene May Affect Parkinson's Disease
Using Ultrasound to Battle Cancer
Study Heightens Worry About Germs
Heart Attacks Linked with Big Meals
France Bans T-bone Steaks
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