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You are right in that xylitol is extremely toxic to dogs, but the dosage you mention is way off. In this study, for example, they gave 1 or 4 grams of xylitol per kg of weight to 12 adult Pekingese dogs. Since adult Pekingeses weight around 4.5 kg, that means that six of the dogs in the study received around 18 grams of xylitol. (Six other dogs received the lower dose, and six more were controls who received distilled water; the abstract is misleading as it suggests that all 18 dogs received xylitol).

All of the dogs who got xylitol showed significant effects, in several cases very severe. But... none of them died.

It's not odd at all. An advanced version of these experiments also run on goldfish tests a biochemical basis for memory.

Where'd my links go? (*sigh*) The IRS Section 530 3 point test, and the pre-530 20 point test which currently applies to software developers, drafters and other technical people.

Labar published an article describing the work in a scholarly, refereed journal and then distributed the code(he chose an executable) with a request for citation.

You could also look at the EMAN2 project
http://blake.bcm.tmc.edu/eman/eman2/

EMAN2 is distributed as open source. The authors also published the work in a scholarly, refereed journal.

If you haven't seen it yet, you might be interested in the ALLHAT study (http://allhat.uth.tmc.edu/). They looked at a bunch of blood pressure and cholesterol drugs. It was one of those rare pharmaceutical studies that wasn't commissioned by a company, and it's results are not exceptionally good for a lot of the drugs being marketed. Interesting read if you're into that kind of thing.

And just to extend Jurph's excellent factual information, this device has been approved and in use for treatement of epilepsy for 8 years. I spoke with a fellow this week whose wife has one; it reduces her seizures by a factor of 6.

There are some other interesting parallels between epilepsy and mood disorders. Many medications used to treat bipolar disorder are used "off-label" and are actually approved for controlling seizures (e.g., Depakote). And the same gent whose wife has a vagus stimulator mentioned that they could sometimes head off seizures by medicating when they noticed her moods were swinging out of whack.

In any case, I think this is a good step forward. I look forward to the day I can get my zone implant or my wellseeker.

It may help people that were blinded later in life through an accident or cataracts. However, if someone is blind from birth then their visual cortex never develops and vision would be impossible even with an artificial eye. Many studies have been done. Click here here and here for more info.

OK.

Bam. Kick it up a notch.

A portuguese link don't help too much =)
Not only Brazil doed that before India, Texas Heart Institute use this type os treatment on experimental scale.
Here the links.. googled in few seconds:
http://www.tmc.edu/thi/stemart1.html

http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/1 07/18/2294

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/n/a/2 005/02/02/international/i180707S22.DTL&type=health

Man.. don't take this too serious.. Times of India editors do not like to lost time doing resarch berfore publish someting.

According to this, Infective Endocarditis is an infection of the lining of the heart's chambers (called the endocardium) or the heart's valves. If left untreated, endocarditis can cause life-threatening complications.

If you have chronic endocarditis, which may last for months, you may feel feverish and chilled, be very tired, lose weight, and have joint pain, night sweats, or the symptoms of heart failure.

It's treated by antibiotics, and sometimes requires surgery. The incidence of IE is approximately 2-4 cases per 100,000 persons per year. This rate has not changed in the past 50 years.

Some terrestrial bugs make catalase to degrade peroxides, so no.

It's Staphyloccus aureus that made the bubbles on your skin when Mom treated your scrapes with H2O2. BTW, it's totally ineffective at killing Staph and casues more damage to your, already, injured tissues.

Catalase Test

Catalase: The Enzyme

Funny... this is more or less my situation, although I've advanced a little further. I hold an MD and have always loved computers and programming. I decided to enter the field, but instead of studying for a CS degree I decided to get a MS in Health Informatics.
Please don't listen to the SlashTrolls. This can be a very interesting field, and the majority of the people working in it are Computer Scientists. I have discovered that my medical background made me very valuable and useful. Clinical experience is VERY welcome.
I've also become a member of The American Medical Informatics Association and am currently a part of the Open Source Working Group, pushing for the embracement of Open Source in all things Medical.
If you want to ask some questions, please feel free to email me.

What I still cannot do (I used to be able to do it under Linux) :
* Synchronize my Zaurus to the Address Book and the Datebook

A quick Google for 'zaurus sync "mac os x"' turned up this page full of SourceForge-hosted approaches to your problem. Looks like you're not the first to complain.

I may have to withdraw my previous statement... Not just yet, I still have a little confidence in my memory, but I may have to...

Seriously, I have some weird genetic thing that kept me from having a lot of my teeth. I'm pretty sure what I have is the same as this.

Kinda weird when you get a half-set of false teeth at age 16.

Actually one thing that concerns me about this is the ACADEMIC use of the network. It's quite common these days for researchers who publish articles in the biggest general purpose scientific journals (Science and Nature) as well as lots of other more specialized journals to put additional information about their work such as additional, very large figures (most Science and Nature articles are 2-3 pages leaving very little room for complicated figures), specialized protocols, raw data sets, etc. on local servers.

If these researchers are penalized for having the results of their scientific research accessed online how does that advance the academic mission of universities? With "publish or perish" being the mantra at most US universities, those who actually do publish useful information will be punished.

What about folks that run mirrors for large databases like GenBank or BLAST? Baylor College of Medicine runs a hugely popular bioinformatics database/query server called Search Launcher. If they were at Cornell, they'd have to shut it down or put up a fucking "Donate With PayPal" button on the site in order to keep running. How exactly does this advance the academic/research mission of a university?

Sure, folks using the academic networks for amassing enormous pr0n databases and leeching warez should have caps on their usage but what about legitimate academic use?

BFL

There are some efforts with initial success. Take a look at this.

To set the facts straight, simdesk was selected by bid rigging and conflict of interest of a software contract in Houston....
It's about to be thrown out and legal action pursued against the IT contractor.

The funny thing is that Mayor Lee P. Brown has overspent all of the reserve funds in Houston so that any 'savings' from non-MS software will be much more than wasted on higher government spending. This hits everyone regressivly since all of the costs are added to each homeowner's property tax and water bill. This applies to renters since rent is based on direct taxes and water costs.

The reason for the overspending is that Mayor Lee P. Brown wanted to fund/back several downtown sports stadiums (baseball, football, and basketball).

This all ties into the 300+ million 2 mile light rail project which goes from one sports stadium to another.

Ridership on the bus line for this route is under 150 people a day. This project was sold as a way to revitalize that area of town. Funny how the sports stadium built in the early 1960s in the same area was sold as a way to revitalize that part of town.

It is almost like a burecrat/politician wants to accomplish some big $$ government project so that they can go on to a job with another city with more pay and do the same thing again.

I am always amazed at how generous liberal politicians are with the taxpayer's money.

Links:
Here is a guy who is working on it
Current status - it seems he's got some example USB driver source, but it doesn't work yet.
Of course, Sharp has claimed on a number of occasions to be working on OS X support along with Apple, but so far nothing appears to have come out of it.

Links:
Here is a guy who is working on it
Current status - it seems he's got some example USB driver source, but it doesn't work yet.
Of course, Sharp has claimed on a number of occasions to be working on OS X support along with Apple, but so far nothing appears to have come out of it.

Digitizing books can be done automatically by machine if you've got the cash - the machine even turns the page. It can also be done by Indians. If you want to Buy American, you could probably hire Sara and her Foveon Camera (check the bottom of the page)....

Digitizing books can be done automatically by machine if you've got the cash - the machine even turns the page. It can also be done by Indians. If you want to Buy American, you could probably hire Sara and her Foveon Camera (check the bottom of the page)....