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• U.S. Unveils Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants  07 Sep 2008
     [-The four-part rescue plan includes an open-ended guarantee to provide as much capital as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need to stave off insolvency.
  
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• High & Low Finance: A Tangled Web With Many Raveled Threads  07 Sep 2008
     [-There have been bailouts before, but none that seemed more crucial than that of Fannie and Freddie.
  
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• Your Money: The Rescue?s Effect on Consumers  07 Sep 2008
     [-Mortgage rates may fall a bit initially but probably not enough to quickly halt the decline in home prices.
  
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• Jets 20, Dolphins 14: Favre Wins in Jets Debut  07 Sep 2008
     [-The Jets kicked off the Favre era with a solid victory, a necessity in the eyes of many because New England and San Diego are next on the schedule.
  
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• Divergent Accounts of Afghan Strike Raise Tension  07 Sep 2008
     [-Villagers say 90 civilians were killed in an airstrike, but the U.S. accuses them of spreading Taliban propaganda.
  
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• US Government takes over mortgage giants
• Bush: Takeover of housing giants ‘critical’
• Killer Ike blasts Bahamas, aims at Cuba
• Iraqi parliament faces urgent national issues
• AP IMPACT: Liver disease plagues obese adolescents

• Ike downgraded to Category 3  07 Sep 2008
• U.S. seizes two mortgage giants  07 Sep 2008
• McCain vows to have Democrats in Cabinet  07 Sep 2008
• Candidates claim to be agents of change  07 Sep 2008
• Canadian PM dissolves Parliament  07 Sep 2008

• US takes over key mortgage firms  07 Sep 2008
• Caribbean lashed by Hurricane Ike  07 Sep 2008
• Flood fears ease as rains lighten  07 Sep 2008
• Israeli PM ‘should be indicted’  07 Sep 2008
• Canadian PM calls snap election  07 Sep 2008

• Can Physicists Be Funny?  06 Sep 2008
• African Dust Linked To Hurricane Strength  05 Sep 2008
• Study: Sea Levels Won’t Rise As Much As Predicted  05 Sep 2008
• Ex-Mexican Mafia Head Now Lives Under The Radar  07 Sep 2008
• Paulson: Action On Freddie, Frannie Was Necessary  07 Sep 2008
• Hurricane Ike Churns Through Caribbean  07 Sep 2008
• From Community Organizer To Presidential Nominee  06 Sep 2008
• Relief Efforts Under Way In Flood-Stricken Haiti  06 Sep 2008
• The Homefront Essay  06 Sep 2008
• Bacardi Biography Details The ‘Fight For Cuba’  08 Sep 2008
• Bhutto’s Widower Expected To Win Presidency  05 Sep 2008
• Pageant Protest Sparked Bra-Burning Myth  05 Sep 2008

• Judge to Unseal Documents on the Eli Lilly Drug Zyprexa  06 Sep 2008
• Paralympic Athletes Add Equality to Their Goals  06 Sep 2008
• For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving  05 Sep 2008
• Vaccinations of Toddlers Set a Record  04 Sep 2008
• Arthritis Drugs Linked to Risks From Infection  04 Sep 2008
• AP IMPACT: Liver disease plagues obese adolescents
• FDA posts list of potential problem drugs
• Review panel criticizes Great Lakes health study
• Gene domino effect behind brain, pancreatic tumors
• FDA orders stronger warnings for 4 arthritis drugs

• Arthritis  05 Sep 2008
• Scientists Discover How Osteoarthritis Destroys Cartilage  05 Sep 2008
• Research Unveils Earliest Cell Changes in Down Syndrome  05 Sep 2008
• Alzheimer’s Disease and Sundowning: A Caregivers’ Challenge  05 Sep 2008
• Colloidal Silver: FAQ  05 Sep 2008
• Omega-3s: Mixed Findings for Elderly  05 Sep 2008
• EARLY RELEASE: Stroke Prevention — Insights from Incoherence  27 Aug 2008
• EARLY RELEASE: Toll-like Receptor 3 and Geographic Atrophy in Age-Related Macular Degeneration  27 Aug 2008
• EARLY RELEASE: Telmisartan to Prevent Recurrent Stroke and Cardiovascular Events  27 Aug 2008
• May you not live in interesting times
• [FILLERS] Death in the air  05 Sep 2008
• [FILLERS] A tale of two families  05 Sep 2008
• [NEWS] Deaths from lung cancer in non-smokers are higher in men than in women  05 Sep 2008

• Extension of Expiration Date for PA-07-284 - Shared Neurobiology of Fragile X Syndrome and Autism (R01)  03 Sep 2008
• Change in Scientific Contact for PAR-07-086, Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01)  04 Sep 2008
• Clarification of NIH Policy on Late Submission of Grant Applications  02 Sep 2008
• All System-to-System Providers Can Now Use the Grants.gov 2007 System For Electronic Grant Application Submission  03 Sep 2008
• NIH Offers New Dual-Track Commercialization Assistance Program to SBIR Phase II Awardees  05 Sep 2008
• [[http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2008/niddk-05.htm|NIH Launches Unique Effort to Advance Study of Urologic Chronic Pelvic

Pain Disorders]]  05 Sep 2008

• [[http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2008/nida-05.htm|NIDA Announces Recipients of New Avant-Garde Award for Innovative HIV/AIDS

Research]]  05 Sep 2008

• Study Reveals Link Between Apobec3 Gene and Neutralizing Antibody Response to Retrovirus  04 Sep 2008
• The Cancer Genome Atlas Reports First Results Of Comprehensive Study of Brain Tumors  04 Sep 2008

• FDA to Post Quarterly Report of Potential Safety Issues  05 Sep 2008
• FDA Approves DNA Test to Measure Hepatitis B Virus Levels  04 Sep 2008
• [[http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01879.html|FDA: Manufacturers of TNF-Blocker Drugs Must Highlight Risk of Fungal Infections

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• FDA Approves Software Update that Identifies Potential Defibrillator Lead Fractures  04 Sep 2008
• African countries to introduce new meningitis vaccine  04 Sep 2008
• African ministers to defend health from environmental harm  29 Aug 2008
• Inequities are killing people on a “grand scale” reports WHO’s Commission  28 Aug 2008
• The face of cancer is changing  26 Aug 2008

• International publications from the French geriatric teams: evolution in the course of last 22 years.
• Providers’ Experience with an Organizational Redesign Initiative to Promote Patient-Centered Access: A Qualitative Study.
• Sexual assault centers: attendance rates, and differences between early and late presenting cases.
• Concordance of genetic and breath tests for lactose intolerance in a tertiary referral centre.
• Direct access to physical therapy in the Netherlands: results from the first year in community-based physical therapy.
• Identification of factors limiting patient recruitment into phase I trials: a study from the Royal Marsden Hospital.
• Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and Openness  01 Sep 2008
• Automated de-identification of free-text medical records  01 Sep 2008
• Presence in Virtual Worlds Could Help Health Plans Achieve Real-World Behavior Change  01 Sep 2008
• DNA databases blocked from the public  01 Sep 2008
• Presentation: Health of the Population: Medical Informatics Applications is available  24 Apr 2007

• Digital Domain: How Many Reviewers Should Be in the Kitchen?  06 Sep 2008
• Unboxed: When Academia Puts Profit Ahead of Wonder  06 Sep 2008
• Practical Traveler | iPhone E-Guides: Clueless in Cleveland? Use Your Thumb  05 Sep 2008
• Microsoft Works to Perfect Windows Vista  05 Sep 2008
• Observatory: Marijuana Ingredient May Fight Bacteria  05 Sep 2008
• Observatory: Dual Citizenship for the Woolly Mammoth  05 Sep 2008
• Arctic Ice Hints at Warming, Specialists Say  07 Sep 2008
• For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving  05 Sep 2008
• Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims  05 Sep 2008
• Chrome’s JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight  05 Sep 2008
• EA’s ‘Spore’ aims to create new worlds, businesses  05 Sep 2008
• Ten key differences between Linux and Windows  04 Sep 2008

• Exercise may cut risk of various cancers
• Heart patients benefit from staying active: study
• Going off statins after heart attack risky: study
• Minorities more skeptical about joint replacements
• Nursing beats sugar water for easing baby’s pain

• Household Income Rises, Poverty Rate Unchanged, Number of Uninsured Down  26 Aug 2008
• Spanish Version — Household Income Rises, Poverty Rate Unchanged, Number of Uninsured Down  26 Aug 2008
• Media Advisory — Census Bureau to Hold News Conference on Income, Earnings, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage Findings  20 Aug 2008
• Media Advisory — Census Bureau to Hold News Conference on Income, Earnings, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage Findings  20 Aug 2008
• Profile of Older Workers — South Carolina  28 Aug 2008
• An Older and More Diverse Nation by Midcentury  14 Aug 2008
• Profiles of Older Workers: 2004 — Oklahoma  13 Aug 2008

• Care and quality indicators: QOF and public health priorities don’t improve care in ageing.
• Do surgical quality gaps cause healthcare disparities?
• The effects of head flexion on airway seal, quality of ventilation and orogastric tube placement using the ProSeal laryngeal mask airway.
• Medical records and quality of care in acute coronary syndromes: results from CRUSADE.

• Baseline serum cholesterol is selectively associated with motor speed and not rates of cognitive decline: the Women’s Health and Aging Study II.
• Role of DNA repair systems in malignant tumor development in the elderly
• Factors enabling home death of the elderly in an institution specializing in home medical care: Analysis of apprehension of the bereaved family
• Quality of life of the community-based patients with mild cognitive impairment
• Description of an orthopedicgeriatric model of care in Australia with 3years data
• White matter lesions as a feature of cognitive impairment, low vitality and other symptoms of geriatric syndrome in the elderly
• Editor’s view  28 Aug 2008
• What determines the ability to stop smoking in old age?  28 Aug 2008
• Economic evaluations of complex services for older people  28 Aug 2008
• Alcohol for the older person—friend or foe?  28 Aug 2008
• News and Reviews  28 Aug 2008

• Cool Technology of the Week
• The Wellesley Recycling Mystery
• Going live with Microsoft Healthvault
• Complex Issues Rarely Have Absolute Right Answers
• Cool Technology of the Week