| Duke Physician-Scientist Receives Shaw Award
DURHAM, N.C. -- Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Duke University Medical Center, has received the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine for 2007 for his research into understanding the receptor system that controls the bodys response to drugs and hormones. The announcement was made today in Hong Kong by the Shaw Prize Foundation. Lefkowitz will receive the award, which includes a $1 million prize, during a ceremony in Hong Kong on Sept. 11. The annual prize, which was first granted in 2004, was established by Run Run Shaw, a Chinese native who founded the film company Shaw Brothers Limited in Hong Kong in the 1950s. Shaw also serves as executive chairman of Television Broadcasts Limited, also in Hong Kong. Lefkowitz, a Duke faculty member since 1972, received the award for his "relentless elucidation" of what are known as seven-transmembrane-spanning receptors.
The Beginnings Of Traditional Chinese Medicine
The foundations of many holistic practices are the philosophies and ideals that come from Chinese medicine. Alternative and natural healing are based on concepts and philosophies of an ancient science and from the beginnings of this practice there has been a growth in natural methods to help promote healing and balance. Herbal remedies that were most significant in helping with holistic healing were first recorded in 800 BC in a book known as the "Huang Di Nei Jeng" or "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine." The origins of Chinese medicine as a practice come from this year even though the practice began before this. .
Tuning Into Opposites For Health
According to the discoveries made for holistic health within Chinese medicine the principle of Yin and Yang is the foundation of the entire universe. It underlies everything in creation and determining whether Yin or Yang predominates is important to restoring any imbalances that are present within the body system. Yin and Yang is one of the many principles that are at the root of Chinese medicine and it's functioning and was applied through Taoism, one of the religious practices in the Orient. From this philosophy, the Chinese discovered that the laws of the universe could be applied to each individual in order to gain optimum health. .
Two injured in collision with combine
A head-on collision involving a combine harvester and a pickup truck early Saturday morning in Van Buren County sent the driver of the truck and his female passenger to Bronson Methodist Hospital.
The accident occurred near the intersection of M-51 and 54th Street in Hamilton Township, according to a press release from the Michigan State Police post in Paw Paw. Police said the accident occurred when the driver of the combine attempted to turn south onto 54th Street from M-51 and collided with the truck.
The 23-year-old driver of the combine, who was not identified, was not injured.
The 29-year-old driver of the truck and his 28-year-old passenger, also were not identified.
Troopers at the Paw Paw post were unable to provide further information.
p0244 BC-China-TaintedProducts 08-08 0556 8/8/2007 China claims progress in $1 billion project to set up food, drug ...
Eds: Moving on financial services. AP Photo XHG119 By AUDRA ANG Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) -- A $1.1 billion project to improve supervision of China's scandal-ridden food and drug industries by next year is progressing, an official said Wednesday. The project -- given the green light in late 2005 by the central government -- is aimed at improving oversight by renovating facilities like inspection offices and testing labs, and upgrading technological capabilities, said Yan Jiangying, a State Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman. "The foundation is weak and infrastructure and technology still lag behind," Yan said at a regular briefing. "The goal is to raise the levels and ability of supervision of food and drugs," she said.
Westminster snubs SNP's amnesty plan for asylum seekers in Scotland
AN ATTEMPT by the SNP-led Scottish Executive to secure an amnesty for 1,400 asylum-seeking families in Scotland has been rejected by UK ministers, it emerged last night. Fiona Hyslop, the education secretary, set out the Executive's approach to asylum seekers yesterday, calling for all families who had been in Scotland since March 2006 to be given leave to remain indefinitely. .
Downtown Eastside Women Ask Politicians for Housing Swap
Human Rights Commission and Ministry of Women's Equality, both considered tools to fight discrimination, have been eliminated and pay equity provisions in B.C. have been repealed. This means that there is no longer a requirement that women receive equal pay for work of comparable value to that performed by men. Women working low-income jobs, whether or not they have dependants, often live below the poverty line and seldom have the time or energy to investigate the reasons behind the scarcity they encounter on a daily basis. .
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