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• Bush critic Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel
The Nobels in medicine, chemistry, physics, literature and economics will be handed out in Stockholm by Sweden's King Carl XVI on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896. The Nobel Peace Prize is handed out in Oslo, Norway, on the same date ...
• Docs double kids' vitamin D recommendations
The Institute of Medicine, a government advisory group that sets dietary standards, is discussing with federal agencies whether those recommendations should be changed based on emerging research, said spokeswoman Christine Stencel. The recommendations ...
• Vioxx risk lingers at least 1 year after using drug
... in those complications was roughly the same as what was found during the three-year trial and the first two weeks after the study ended — the period included when Merck first reported results of APPROVe in the New England Journal of Medicine in ...
• Nobel Prize winner Dr. George Palade dies at 95
The work of Palade and his fellow scientists earned them the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In 1973, he left Rockefeller for Yale University, where he was chairman of the new department of cell biology. In 1990, he came to UCSD, where he ...
• Treatment helps hard-to-transplant get kidney
Cedars-Sinai researchers reported the first preliminary but promising evidence in the New England Journal of Medicine this summer: Rituxan helped slash antibody levels enough that 16 of 20 patients could be transplanted, and all but one of the new ...