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About 4 per cent of the Irish population has now been infected with the H1N1 virus, said Dr Darina O’Flanagan, Director of Health Protection Surveillance Centre.

http://www.IMT.ie/blogs/irish-Medical-Times-Blog/2009/11/swine-flu-update-total-infecti.html

Muscular monkeys prompt sports doping fears - Short Sharp Science

Blog | www.newscientist.com | Nov 11, 2009

Science Blog: In the new study, Janaiah Kota and colleagues at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, used gene therapy to add extra copies of the follistatin gene into the leg muscles of monkeys. Follistatin has been previously shown in mice to block myostatin, a protein that decreases

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/11/muscular-monkeys-prompt-sports.html

Sanofi Promises Regeneron $980 Million For Research (at Forbes.com)

Blog | blogs.forbes.com | Nov 10, 2009

Y.-based biotech, offering more than $1 billion in funding aimed at getting at least 32 experimental medicines into human clinical trials over the next eight years. Already, Sanofi was committed to giving Regeneron $100 million a year through 2012.

http://blogs.forbes.com/sciencebizblog/2009/11/sanofi-promises-regeneron-1-billion-for-research/?partner=yahootix

Unclog the Innovation Bottleneck at our Nation’s Universities

Blog | www.genengnews.com | Nov 9, 2009

[i]Unclog the Innovation Bottleneck at our Nation’s Universities [pg] [pg] By Renee Kaswan [/i][pg] [pg] Choice and open competition in a free market – they’re the pillars on which the U.S. economy re

http://www.genengnews.com/blog/item.aspx?id=574

Readers Ask: Ulcers

Blog | consults.blogs.nytimes.com | Nov 5, 2009

Ingfei Chen, a contributor to The New York Times, writes about “The New Face of Ulcer Disease,” a problem that remains a life-threatening hazard for millions around the world:

http://consults.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/readers-ask-peptic-ulcer-disease/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Merck: We're Number Two (at Barrons.com)

Blog | blogs.barrons.com | Nov 4, 2009

Merck (MRK) re-asserted its claim on the place in the drug-maker firmament that it held down a decade ago, as it closed its deal to acquire Schering-Plough and moved into second place among drug companies, measured by sales.

http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2009/11/04/merck-were-number-two/?mod=yahoobarrons

Obese? Your Doctor May Have Less Respect For You

Blog | weblogs.baltimoresun.com | Oct 28, 2009

Anyone who has struggled with their weight knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of fat jokes. Despite a national obesity epidemic, our society isn't particularly sensitive to overweight people. Doctors included.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/health/2009/10/physicians_have_less_respect_f.html

Blue light-filtering increases macular pigment, may protect against age-related vision loss |

Blog | www.scienceblog.com | Oct 26, 2009

The study, conducted by leading ophthalmology and vision researchers from the Macular Pigment Research Group at the Waterford Institute of Technology, is published in the October 2009 issue of the high impact journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS).1

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/blue-light-filtering-increases-macular-pigment-may-protect-against-age-related-vision-loss-26572.html