Sanctions cut flu shot supply amid US rationing plan
Washington reports half the flu vaccine supply cut as Britain shuts down Chiron, forcing US health officials to reserve doses for the elderly and high risk. Healthy adults urged to delay shots. 1 million FluMist inhaled doses available for healthy 5 to 49 year olds.
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Britain
U.S
Gregory Poland
Mayo Clinic
Department of Health and Human Services
Klaus Stohr
World Health Organization
Chiron Corp
Liverpool
England
Chiron
United States
Aventis Pasteur
Aventis
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
CDC
Julie Gerberding
MedImmune Inc
Obesity hormone leptin eyed as infertility aid
Boston researchers report leptin may help women with hypothalamic amenorrhea regain menses and improve bone density. The small study, from Beth Israel Deaconess and Massachusetts General Hospital, noted menstrual restoration in several female athletes after leptin treatment, with potential implications for thin or eating-disorder affected women.
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Boston
Jean Chan
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
New England Journal of Medicine
Americans claim 2004 Nobel Prize in physics
American physicists David J. Gross H David Politzer and Frank Wilczek win the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for explaining the strong force that binds quarks inside protons and neutrons. The trio’s 1973 breakthrough linked their work at UC Santa Barbara Caltech and MIT to a potential theory for everything.
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Stockholm
Sweden
David J. Gross
H. David Politzer
Frank Wilczek
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara
California Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts
Wilczek
Nobel Prize honors three physicists for strong force work
American physicists David J. Gross H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in physics for advancing quantum chromodynamics the theory of quark interactions within the nucleus. Their work underpins the Standard Model while edging science toward unifying it with general relativity and the grand dream of a single framework.
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Wilczek
Politzer
Gross
Swedish Academy
Oticon Syncro AI hearing aid debuts for better speech in noise
Oticon Syncro uses artificial intelligence to mimic brain sound processing with up to 17 000 calculations per second. It distinguishes voice from noise, localizes sound, and suppresses unwanted noise to help hearing loss patients hear more clearly in busy environments. Certified professionals Randy Pat Russell and Kathleen T. Hietpas are among the first in the United States to fit the new device at Audio Acoustics Hearing Center in Odessa with evaluations available by contacting (432) 335-9514 or (800) 281-7788.
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Randy Pat Russell
Kathleen T. Hietpas
United States
Oticon Syncro
Kathleen Hietpas
Audio Acoustics Hearing Center
East 11Th Street
Odessa
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