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 Quest: Repairing more hearts with implanted pumpsWhen it comes to hearts, Taneal Wilson won the lottery. A small pump implanted to keep the 31-year-old alive long enough for a heart transplant somehow helped Wilson's ravaged heart completely recover instead.
Plans for large-scale AIDS vaccine trial dropped
Plans for a large-scale trial of a potential AIDS vaccine are being dropped in favor of a smaller, more focused study, the National Institutes of Health said Thursday.
Researchers report toadfish sing to attract mates
It's not exactly Tony serenading Maria in "West Side Story," but for all their homeliness toadfish also sing to attract mates.
Medicinal use of video games growing
This fall, East Carolina University researcher Carmen Russoniello will hand sickle cell anemia patients video game controllers and see whether playing the games helps them control stress and reduce pain caused by their disease.
St. Louis University to pay $1M lawsuit settlement
St. Louis University has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit claiming its School of Public Health tried to defraud the government by overstating faculty time spent on projects involving federal grants, officials said Tuesday.  Fringe autism treatment could get federal studyPressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine. |
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