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Expert sees peanut allergy solution within 5 years
source: Reuthers
A form of immunotherapy that could get rid of a person's allergy to peanuts is likely within five years, even as the condition appears to grow more and more common, a U.S. expert said on Thursday. Peanut allergy often appears in the first three years of life, with the allergic reaction to eating peanuts ranging from a minor irritation all the way to a life-threatening, whole-body allergic response called anaphylaxis.
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Dr. Farmer's Remedy for World Health: Byron Pitts Meets a Man Who Dedicates His Life to Bringing Healthcare to the Poor
source: CBS News
The great innovators of our time are said to be the titans of technology -- the inventors of the microchip, the founders of Microsoft, the guys behind Google. But far from Silicon Valley another great thinker and innovator is changing the world with far less fanfare. His name is Dr. Paul Farmer. As Byron Pitts reports, more than 20 years ago Dr. Farmer and a few other great minds created a charity called "Partners In Health." In the years since, they revolutionized the delivery of healthcare worldwide, saving millions of
lives in places where no one thought there was any reason for hope.
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Idaho Team Readies Artificial Beak for Wounded Bald Eagle: Volunteers in Idaho Hope Prosthesis Will Replace Eagle's Beak Lost to Gunshot
source: ABC News
She has been named Beauty, though this eagle is anything but. Part of Beauty's beak was shot off several years ago, leaving her with a stump that is useless for hunting food. A team of volunteers is working to attach an artificial beak to the disfigured bird, in an effort to keep her alive. "For Beauty it's like using only one chopstick to eat. It can't be done" said biologist Jane Fink Cantwell, who operates a raptor recovery center in this Idaho Panhandle town. "She has trouble drinking. She can't preen her feathers. That's all about to change."
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Gene Therapy Could Reverse Blindness -- Research Breakthrough: Technique Improved Eyesight In Four Blind People
source: CBS News
Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy
to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form
of blindness, a development experts called a major
advance for the experimental technique. Some vision was
restored in four of the six young people who got the
treatment, teams of researchers in the United States and
Britain reported Sunday. Two of the volunteers who could
only see hand motions were able to read a few lines of
an eye chart within weeks.
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More businesses embrace greener commuting: Employee incentives sometimes include free bikes or monthly prizes
source: MSNBC
High gas prices and the ongoing concern for the environment have prompted an increasing number of environmentally sensitive businesses to focus attention outside of the workplace and on those carpool lanes, bike lanes and even sidewalks. Many businesses are now encouraging and rewarding employees who use alternate forms of transportation to get to and from work. For some companies, it means paying the daily fares and footing the bill for mass transit for their employees.
Other companies are rewarding carpoolers with prizes such as gift cards to local businesses.
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Custom wetsuit protects patchy penguin
source: CNN
What's black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally. Sounds like a joke, but it's quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things. Pierre, a venerable 25 years old, was going bald, which left him with an
embarrassingly exposed, pale pink behind.
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Economic slowdown not stalling start-ups
source: ABC News
Entrepreneurs in the USA launched more small businesses in 2007 than the year before in the West, the Midwest and the South --
apparently not scared of the economic slowdown that began last year, according to a report released Thursday. Regions and states with stronger economic and population growth last year saw an upsurge in entrepreneurs launching businesses, says Robert Fairlie, an economics professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and co-author of an annual report on entrepreneurs by the
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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Tips from Washington's self-help manual
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