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View Article  Acne drug gets tough new safety restrictions
Everyone who uses the acne drug Accutane will have to enroll in a national registry, along with every doctor who prescribes it and every drugstore that sells it - tough new restrictions aimed at preventing women from becoming pregnant with this birth defect-causing drug.

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View Article  Data Mine: Treating Cancer
New hopes for combating the disease. By Stacy Lawrence

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View Article  Second drug may be effective against bird flu
A second influenza drug, GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza, should be stockpiled in readiness for a feared global pandemic of avian flu, researchers said.

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View Article  PiggyBac Paves Way for Better Understanding of Human Genes
 

PiggyBac Paves Way for Better Understanding of Human Genes

 

August 12, 2005 -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have harnessed a mobile gene from the cabbage looper moth and modified it for routine use to determine the function of genes in mice and other vertebrates.

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View Article  Zhuoshui Journal: This Wormwood Is Sweet to Farmers and the Malarial
By HOWARD W. FRENCH

A new crop grown in the valleys of central China has been crowned king, driven by a desperate need for new malaria treatments.

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