Bird flu vaccine looks promising...

Yesterday Hong Kong health officials ordered the slaughter of all live poultry in street markets due to one of the largest outbreaks of avian flu in birds in years. AP

The first experimental bird flu vaccine, made from lab-grown cells instead of chicken eggs, shows promise in blocking the highly lethal virus, scientists report.

The advance is good news not just for preparations in c...

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Mom's high fat diet during pregnancy may be key to child's weight ......

HOUSTON -- (June 11, 2008) -- The notion that you are what you eat may go back even farther – to your mother, said a Baylor College of Medicine researcher in a report that appears in the current issue of the Journal of Molecular Endocrinology.

"We want to understand the mechanisms behind the current epidemic of childhood obesity," said Dr. Kjersti M. Aagaard-Tillery, assistant profe...

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