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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Scientist: Anti-doping tests don’t pass statistical muster

07-Aug-08

PARIS (AFP) — Anti-doping tests used at the Olympics and other major sporting events are too often based on faulty science and statistical methods that can yield erroneous results, a researcher charged Wednesday in a leading scientific journal.
Donald Berry, an expert in biostatistics at the University of Texas, used the case of American cyclist Floyd [...]

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Scientist intrigues kids with mysteries of survival

07-Aug-08

Hugh Montgomery, a genetics researcher and senior lecturer at University College London, employed various tactics Wednesday to fascinate a Christmas Lecture audiences mainly comprising children, with the mysteries of how the human body can survive in extreme conditions.
Shortly after the start of the lecture, titled “Back from the Brink–the Science of Survival,” a large bang [...]

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AIDS May Be Curable, Preventable by 2031 : Top Scientist Says

07-Aug-08

By Shannon Pettypiece

Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) — Patients infected with HIV might be able to live symptom free without medicines as aggressive treatment with newer drugs better control the disease, the head of U.S. infectious disease research said today.
While research on a vaccine continues, early treatment with the current AIDS drugs also could prevent some people [...]

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Dead US scientist seen as lone culprit in anthrax attacks

07-Aug-08

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US authorities have expressed confidence that a US bioweapons expert who committed suicide was the lone culprit behind the 2001 anthrax attacks that terrorized the United States.
Bruce Ivins, 62, killed himself with a prescription drug overdose last week as prosecutors were preparing to charge him in the attacks that left five people [...]

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