New Hampshire Union Leader – by Dave Solomon

SUNAPEE — An 80-year-old Georges Mills woman is recovering at home after being jumped by a bobcat in an attack that required 50 to 60 stitches to her face, back and arm at New London Hospital, according to her son.

Elsie Dabrowski went out to her chicken coop Sunday night as she does every night around dusk, closed up the coop and bent down to cut weeds with a sickle, said her son, Gene Dabrowski.   Continue reading “80-year-old former Marine used sickle to defend herself from rabid bobcat”

Northwestern University – by Amanda Morris

Called the “window of vulnerability,” the first year of a newborn baby’s life is when they are highly susceptible to infectious diseases. This window could narrow or even close completely, if it were possible to vaccinate infants immediately after birth. Instead, two million babies worldwide die each year from infectious diseases before they turn six months old.

“The time of birth is the most reliable point of care for newborns and an efficient opportunity for immunization,” said Northwestern Engineering’s Evan Scott. “The majority of vaccines simply aren’t effective for infants because their immune systems haven’t sufficiently developed.”   Continue reading “Engineering Vaccines for Newborns”

Reading Eagle – by Jennifer Peltz

NEW YORK (AP) — Wanted: 10,000 New Yorkers interested in advancing science by sharing a trove of personal information, from cellphone locations and credit-card swipes to blood samples and life-changing events. For 20 years.

Researchers are gearing up to start recruiting participants from across the city next year for a study so sweeping it’s called “The Human Project .” It aims to channel different data streams into a river of insight on health, aging, education and many other aspects of human life.   Continue reading “‘Human Project’ study will ask 10,000 to share life’s data”

My Champlain Valley – by Rebecca Reese

Burlington, Vt. – According to the Department of Homeland Security, a person bleeding can die from blood loss after just five minutes. This makes it crucial to be able to stop bleeding as quickly as possible.

A tourniquet, or an item such as a belt or tie used as one, cuts off blood flow from a serious injury until professional help is available. The University of Vermont Medical Center is working on a way to streamline this medical tool for the public.   Continue reading “UVM Medical Center Pushing Life Saving Tools”

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Business Wire

PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CARMA Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company developing cellular immunotherapies, co-founded by the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), announced today that it has closed an initial financing. The financing was co-led by AbbVie Ventures and HealthCap with participation by Grazia Equity and IP Group Inc. CARMA Therapeutics is building a pipeline of cancer programs using its proprietary CARMA platform, combining chimeric antigen receptor targeting with macrophages to tackle solid tumors. The proceeds will be used primarily to advance the development of its first product, CARMA-0508, an adoptive cellular immunotherapy using chimeric antigen receptor macrophages (CARMA) for the treatment of metastatic solid tumors. Specific terms of the financing transaction were not disclosed.   Continue reading “CARMA Therapeutics Closes Initial Funding to Advance Chimeric Antigen Receptor Macrophages (CARMA) to Treat Solid Tumors”

CBC News – by Priscilla Hwang

Melinda Laboucan lost her mother to cancer a few years ago.

Today, she’s out on the land with elders collecting spruce gum, buds and chaga mushrooms to help cancer patients in her community find traditional remedies.   Continue reading “Community works with elders to learn traditional remedies for cancer patients”

NPR – by Jeff Koehler

On April 6, 1917, the U.S. declared war on Germany and formally entered World War I. By late June, American infantry troops began arriving in Europe. One thing they couldn’t do without? Coffee.

“Coffee was as important as beef and bread,” a high-ranking Army official concluded after the war. A postwar review of the military’s coffee supply concurred, stating that it “restored courage and strength” and “kept up the morale.”   Continue reading “In WWI Trenches, Instant Coffee Gave Troops A Much-Needed Boost”

BBC News

Hundreds were welcomed to explore a nearly 13-meter long inflatable colon – complete with unhealthy polyps and lesions – on Saturday in Kahnawake, a Mohawk reserve near Montreal.

The colon, which was outside of the Knights of Columbus Club, is on tour with the Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada. Organizers say the giant inflatable section of the digestive system is a way to bring awareness to colon cancer.   Continue reading “Inside your backside: Giant inflatable colon helps demystify colon cancer”

CBC News

Lovers of handwriting have long cursed computers for spelling the end of the ancient craft, but a new crowdsourcing program from the Nova Scotia Archives lets them put their passion for penmanship to work in deciphering historic documents.

John MacLeod, senior archivist at the archives, said they’ve put scans of many documents online, but reading them can be tricky.   Continue reading “Nova Scotia Archives is recruiting online volunteers to transcribe documents to make the past searchable”

NCPR – by Paul Hetzler

My earliest memory of St. Patrick’s Day is how angry it made my mother, who holds dual Irish-American citizenship and strongly identifies with her Celtic roots. It was not the day itself which got her Irish up, so to speak, but rather the way it was depicted in popular American culture: Green-beer drink specials at the bars and St. Patrick’s Day sales in every store, all endorsed by grinning, green-clad, marginally sober leprechauns.   Continue reading “Hawthorn: good for tea, jelly, and of course, leprechauns”

NPR

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) States are finding out the hard way that closed prisons can be a tough sell.

A recent national study found at least 94 state correctional facilities have been shut down since 2011, and only a few have been sold.

Developers say cell blocks and dormitories tend to be too expensive to tear down, and too restrictive to repurpose.   Continue reading “Slammer Sale: States find closed prisons can be a tough sell”

CBC News

A tiny community of about 200 people on Nova Scotia’s south shore is rallying behind a husband and wife from the U.S. who are under a deportation order to leave Canada.

David and Kathryn Wright say they’re heartbroken at the thought of leaving Voglers Cove, a picturesque hamlet on the Medway River that they’ve called home for five years.  Continue reading “Couple in N.S. hopes for last-minute reprieve from ‘devastating’ deportation”

New York Times, August 10, 1983

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 9— Dr. Rolla N. Harger, who in 1931 invented the Drunkometer to test intoxicated drivers, died Monday at his home here. He was 93 years old.

Dr. Harger had been a professor emeritus of biochemistry and toxicology at Indiana University since 1960 and a consultant on toxicology to the university’s School of Medicine since 1963.   Continue reading “1983: Rolla N. Harger Dies; Invented Drunkometer”

NewsOK

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a psychiatrist at a Veterans Affairs hospital in western New York bilked a health care provider out of nearly $200,000 by charging for private services he didn’t provide.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Rochester says 52-year-old Dr. Xingjia Cui, of Pittsford, has been charged with health care fraud, money laundering and tax fraud.   Continue reading “Feds: VA psychiatrist bilked $198K from health care provider”

CBC News – by Lisa Johnson

A U.S. federal proposal that could see B.C. grizzly bears captured and shipped south to Washington State has drawn such a huge response, the public comment period has been extended for more than a month.

More than 100,000 people have weighed in on the proposal to reintroduce grizzly bears to the North Cascades ecosystem in Washington State, said the National Parks Service.

That number has seen a huge boost in the past week, due to an online campaign by the popular Seattle cartoonist Matthew Inman, better known as The Oatmeal, who supports the plan to move grizzlies.   Continue reading “Border-crossing bears? U.S. proposal to transplant B.C. grizzlies gets huge response”

New York Times – by Rick Rojas

CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. — Roxham Road is a quiet country road jutting off another quiet country road, where a couple of horses munch on soggy hay and a ditch running along the muddy pavement flows with melted snow. It cuts through a thicket of dormant trees, passing a half-dozen trailer homes and after almost a mile runs into a line of boulders and a rusted railing with a sign: Road Closed.

Continue reading “Since Trump, Quiet Upstate Road Becomes a Busy Exit From U.S.”

Calemeo – by Robert Palletier

THE CONSPIRACY IS as nefarious as it is ingenious: daily, thousands of commercial aircraft crisscross the skies, spewing out poisonous “chemtrails” that eventually settle earthward.  The main component of this toxic vapor is aluminum oxide, and its purpose is to poison the world’s organic crops and create an environment where only aluminum tolerant crops can survive.  The owner of a patent for aluminum resistance genes would therefore garner huge profits, and eventually acquire global domination of the food supply.  That evil entity is, of course, Monsanto, the agribusiness behemoth best known for its line of herbicide-resistant and insect-resistant genetically modified crops.   Continue reading “Foiling the Great Aluminum Conspiracy”