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10 ANIMATED SHORTS MOVE AHEAD IN 2009 OSCAR® RACE

Beverly Hills, CA 11/20/09 · — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...

Congress provides $7.7 billion in funding to combat H1N1 flu virus

Washington, DC 11/20/09 · In April, the first case of H1N1 influenza...

Soledad O'Brien, Rep. Waters, Rev. Sharpton, Other Honorees At Black Star News's

NEW YORK 11/20/09 · Soledad O'Brien, Rep. Waters, Rev. Sharpton, Other Honorees...

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending November 20, 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C. 11/20/09 · 1.  Washington Field: Twenty-Six Charged in Nationwide Scheme to...

Account Director Philip Keightley Takes Clean Sweep At Punch Annual Awards

LONDON, UK 11/20/09 · Search and PR company Punch Communications has announced...

IBM Moves Closer To Creating Computer Based on Insights From The Brain

Portland, OR (RPRN) 11/20/09 — By RushPRnews
Scientists perform cat-scale cortical simulations and map the human brain in effort to build advanced chip technology November 18, 2009 at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM (NYSE:  IBM) announced...

Wise Star and Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Topic Of NASA Briefing

Washington (RPRN) 11/13/09 — By RushPRnews
NASA will hold a media briefing on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at noon EST, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission. WISE is scheduled...

PETA Calls On Feds to Pull Funding for Deadly Dog Experiments at Ohio State Univ

Norfolk, VA (RPRN) 09/21/09 — By Ian Smith, RPRN Writer
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling on  the director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a branch of the National Institutes of Health,...

Cancer-Killing Virus May Be The Answer For Patients With KRAS Mutated Tumors

Calgary, AB (RPRN) 7/28/2009--According to the American Cancer Society, about 150,000 Americans will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2009.  These patients are widely treated with a drug regimen that...

‘Angels and Demons’: Good vs. Bad in Prescription Medication

by Andrea Frascione, staff writer WASHINGTON, D.C. (RPRN) 7/22/2009 - In the wake of Michael Jackson’s death and much regretted untimely passing of Heath Ledger on January 2008 and of Anna...

Going Batty, Helpful Hints on Beating Summer Bugs

By Andrea Frascione, staff writer N-B., CANADA (RPRN) 7/06/2009 - You are relaxing peacefully in a hammock amid a beautiful, lush forest replete with moist, sweet-smelling coniferous vegetation when along comes...

Innovative New Book Highlights the Threat of Climate Change

LONDON (RPRN) 6/25/2009--Dr. Tammy Boyce, formerly of Cardiff University and now at The King’s Fund, London and Dr. Justin Lewis of Cardiff University have co-edited a groundbreaking new study on...

White Light For Green Architecture Is Changing California

Sustainable Architecture Is Changing the Face of Way Homes Are Built in California By Andrea Frascione, staff-writer BIG SUR, CA (RPRN) 6/23/2009 - Scientifically speaking, white light is created by the presence...

Published Study Shows Novel Compounds May Help Protect Against Respiratory Depression

Irvine, CA – (RPRN) 6/22/2009 -- A paper that appears in the June 2009 issue of Anesthesiology details how AMPAKINE CX717, a Phase II compound created by Irvine, California-based neuroscience...

Green Tea May Affect Prostate Cancer Progression

Phase II study showed effects of short-term green tea use on prostate cancer; Green tea reduced incidence, progression of prostate cancer; Right combination of polyphenols can slow prostate cancer growth Philadelphia,...