Summer reading program in Charleston to kick off June 4

Source: Journal Gazette & Times-Courier

CHARLESTON — The Summer Reading Program at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library will begin June 4, running eight weeks through July 29. The theme is “Reading is Sooooo Delicious.” Anyone age 3 and older can join the programs. No library card or reside ...
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Personhood vs. stem cell research

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution

The state of Georgia may be about to get a lot more populous. Recently, it was announced that Republican voters will have the opportunity to vote on a ballot question in the July 31 primary to declare that a “p ...
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Book reviews: Sic | The Art of Fielding | The Address Book | My Beautiful Game

Source: The Scotsman

William Leith looks at this week’s paperback releases In this wonderful memoir, Joshua Cody, a composer living in New York, tells us what happened when he was diagnosed with cancer. He became frantically engaged with life. He went out drink ...
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Annidis Corporation Reports 2012 First Quarter Results

Source: iStockAnalyst

OTTAWA, May 25, 2012 /CNW/ - Annidis Corporation (TSXV:RHA), creator of the Annidis RHA™ imaging technology that assists eye-care professionals screen, detect, diagnose and manage ocular diseases including glaucoma, age related macular de ...
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Former Notre Dame leader Hesburgh turns 95

Source: Northwest Indiana Post-Tribune

SOUTH BEND (AP) — Former University of Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh plans to go fishing on his 95th birthday. Friday is the Roman Catholic priest’s birthday. He tells the South Bend Tribune that he spends every birthday fishing in northern Wi ...
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Debate over eye drugs shows importance of patient choice

Source: Kaus Files

Macular degeneration is a common cause of blindness in older populations and a debilitating condition that affected my own mother later in life. Regulators around the world continue to debate whether Lucentis or ...
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Do Personal Genomics Pass the Spit Test?

Source: Ecoustics

About a year ago, the personal genomics firm 23andMe had a sale: for precisely $0 up front and a $9-per-month, one-year subscription, it would map my genome and give me access to the results. Now, I understand the li ...
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Ethics of lobbying and stem cells

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution Blogs

Bob Irvin, who served in the Georgia House of Representatives for 15 years, beginning in 1972, writes about efforts in the then-minority Republican Party to tackle the lobbyist-gift issue. Also, novelist Kira Peikoff ...
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Anticlotting therapeutic developer using aptamers raising $13 million

Source: Med City News

REG3, an antiplatelet therapy to treat diabetic vasculopathies, is in Phase 1development. An anticlotting therapeutics developer utilizing aptamers is raising $13.5 million as the company seeks to move its l ...
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