Asthma - Genentech halts allergy drug trial

Genentech halts allergy drug trial
Alameda Times-Star - , FROM STAFF WRITER AND WIRE REPORTS Biotechnology company Genentech of South San Francisco has stopped a clinical trial of a peanut-allergy treatment over safety concerns about some reactions and not the drug itself. A so-called Phase II trial

Classroom animal kept teaching even after it died.
Wisconsin State Journal - When Cinnamon, one of two white mice in Gary Skiles' Madison classroom, died recently, it created a "teachable moment" that isn't part of the regular elementary science curriculum. After finding the dead animal in its cage one morning, Skiles' second

Toxic lead leaching from Ford sludge
Bergen Record - Ford paint sludge that was buried in Upper Ringwood lawns leached toxic lead at 20 times the federal standard for dangerous waste. That finding was released to the community Tuesday by a non-profit environmental group monitoring the cleanup of waste

Simple cough? Don't be so sure
Traverse City Record-Eagle - Dr. Brian Levine, medical director of the Cough Center in Mission Viejo, Calif., examines Betty Johnson. His ordeal began 24 years ago with an upper respiratory infection. That was when George Gharabeigie began to cough. And cough and cough. "At

Air Pollution Rises in Smaller Cities
Donga.com - Kim Byung-hwan (37), a resident of Pocheon City, Gyeonggi Province, couldn t stand his continuous coughing on his way to work and went to an emergency room a short time ago. He was diagnosed with acute