What to tell Alzheimer’s patients after a trial goes awry By New York Times News Service Friday, 3 Sep 2010 Dr. Joel Ross, the founder and chief executive of the Memory Enhancement Centers of New Jersey, makes his living enrolling subjects in drug company clinical trials that are testing drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, among others. [...]

All-oil diet By New York Times News Service Friday, 3 Sep 2010 How does the metabolism of oil-eating bacteria break down oil? And how do they survive when no oil is available? The most closely studied of these rod-shaped bacteria, Alcanivorax borkumensis, was first identified in 1998 near the Isle of Borkum in the North [...]

Foreign trips: Money-spinner for schools By OLUNIKE ASAOLU Friday, 3 Sep 2010 Gone are the days when parents seized the opportunity of long vacations to introduce their children to their roots. In those days, it was almost always the norm that once schools closed between June and September, parents would take their children to their [...]

Rethinking the FDA rule on barring gay men from giving blood By New York Times News Service Friday, 3 Sep 2010 For most people, donating blood is as simple as rolling up a sleeve. But not for gay men. Since 1983, the Food and Drug Administration has barred them from donating. The FDA has re-examined [...]

Independence Motor Rally holds in four states By Our Reader Friday, 3 Sep 2010 A special Argungun fishing festival motor rally will be staged in honour of Nigeria‘s foremost nationalists, Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa and Sir Ahmadu Bello. According to the CEO of Hemenga Grand Prix, Abdulrahman Agunbiade, the rally, [...]