Day: February 22, 2017

SpaceX, Russian cargo ships heading for space station

As a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship closed in on the International Space Station early Wednesday, a Russian Soyuz-U rocket making the venerable booster’s final flight successfully lifted a Progress supply ship into orbit, three months after an upper stage failure destroyed another station-bound freighter. Mounted atop a snow-covered launch pad — the same pad used by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at the dawn of the Space Age — the Soyuz-U rocket carrying the Progress MS-05/66P cargo ship thundered to life at 12:58 a.m. EST and climbed away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Rashford eyes Chelsea revenge after huge FA Cup draw

Zlatan Ibrahimovic continued his impressive scoring run for Manchester United, netting a second half victor for his side in their fifth round FA Cup tie against Blackburn Rovers. Mourinho’s side now have a chance to exact revenge in the FA Cup after Sunday’s quarter-final draw pitted them against Antonio Conte’s runaway Premier League leaders.

Celltrion’s Rituxan biosimilar wins Eur…

South Korea’s Celltrion announced Wednesday that the European Medicines Agency has granted sales approval to Truxima, its biosimilar drug referencing Roche’s blockbuster lymphatic cancer drug Rituxan. Truxima is the first ever Rituxan biosimilar to be approved by the European drug regulator, as well as the first ever Europe-approved biosimilar monoclonal antibody used to target cancer.

When is it okay to discriminate?

… actuarial, it’s much, much worse, at least partly because individual practices have been sold to hospitals and large health care groups because they can’t afford the time and the cost for the regulatory paperwork and documentation. And physicians …

Scientists explore role of salt and immune system in raising blood pressure of females

Now scientists are exploring how high salt intake can also make cells throughout the body of females swell, rupture, dump their contents and die, triggering an immune reaction that contributes to chronic high blood pressure. “If you are salt-sensitive, you retain salt, you retain water, you have an increase in volume, you start to stretch things and stretch is bad for cells,” said Dr. Jennifer C. Sullivan, pharmacologist and physiologist in the Department of Physiology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

A month into new leadership, Medicare future still in question

“In particular, we are hopeful that he will stick with that promise,” Lamkins said, “and that he will encourage Congress to stop some of these plans they have to turn Medicare into a voucher program.” “We’re really concerned that that repeal will mean older Americans are going to have to pay more for their health insurance,” Lamkins said.

How to Make Amazing Yogi Tea Health Tonic

Add 1/4 tsp of Black Tea. 8. Strain the tea. Either use it or store it away. When you are ready to drink, sweeten to taste with honey or maple syrup, add soy, rice or milk and drink in good health! Beta-1, 3D Glucan boosts the immune system to provide support and balance.

Prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury in patients…

To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. Interventional diagnostic and therapeutic procedures requiring intravascular iodinated contrast steadily increase patient exposure to the risks of contrast-induced acute kidney injury , which is associated with death, nonfatal cardiovascular events, and prolonged hospitalization.

New service in Portsmouth area will support adults with ADHD

Mental health provider Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has been selected to expand its existing autistic spectrum disorder service and deliver the new ADHD project. The Hampshire Autism and ADHD Service will provide the trust’s nationally-recognised model of diagnosis and support for adults with the conditions.

.com | Logistics nightmare: Helping the Boko Haram displaced

Not a single car remains in the town of Dikwa in northeast Nigeria and there’s no way to communicate to the outside world, as all the telephone lines have been blown up. But it is here that humanitarian groups are trying to bring aid to at least 57 000 people forced out of their homes by Boko Haram Islamists, whose insurgency has devastated the remote region since 2009.