Old Stone Oven 4467 14-Inch by 16-Inch Baking Stone (PIZZA/BREAD) Professional pizza and traditional European bread ovens are often lined with stone or brick. This is so heat is stored up and redistributed evenly. The resulting blast of heat from the Old Stone Oven rectangular pizza stone gives bread and pizza a nice chewy […]

Laurey No Inset Face Mount Self-Closing Hinge, Satin Chrome, 2-Pack #28739 - I’m not sure why anyone would do this. But here is the world’s first fully trained giant pumpkin attack dog. She goes by the codename Dixie. It’s gruesome. Watch at your own risk:… Outsourcing means fast efficient turnover […]

The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA has announced a partnership with the integrated global biopharmaceutical company Abraxis BioScience Inc. to collaborate on nanobiotechnology research for the advancement of new technologies in medicine. [click link for full article]
Medicare Online Search and Information Resource - Medicare - Eds Over the past three years, […]

“If we raise the tax on cigarettes, we will save lives” Gov. Jim Doyle today used a new report on tobacco taxes to renew his call for a statewide smoking ban and a $1.25 per-pack hike in the cigarette tax. via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Gas food & Lodging American independent director Allison Anders made her name with this keenly observed tale of a single mother and her two daughters stuck in the truck-stop town of Laramie, New Mexico, barely a fly speck on the never-ending desert horizon. Ione Skye and Fairuza Balk star as sisters Trudi and Shade, […]

Forbes - Among the winners is Artists for a New South Africa’s innovative program “Help African Children Orphaned by aids,” the only orphan or aids effort in the Top 25. The next voting round to select the Top 5 runs July 17 through July 22. Cardmembers may Malawi urges national aids test […]

No one can ever be sure when they may one day be responsible for the daily or even hourly care of another. A parent who is aging, a spouse with a chronic illness, a loved one with a disability resulting from an accident - are all situations where one can suddenly be called on as […]

Dr. Eric Daar reports from the 3rd International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. July 26, 2005. Hundreds of presentations were made on day 2 of this meeting with many being informative about the disease itself, select side-effects and treatment. Topics such as Genetic Factors and HIV and […]

Several newspapers recently published articles about Medicare. Summaries of the coverage appear below.Errors: About 138,000 Medicare beneficiaries nationwide are “stuck in bureaucratic gridlock” while prescription drug plan premiums are “erroneously” deducted from their Social Security checks, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. [click link for full article]
medical Errors Increase Physicians’ Stress Levels, Study Finds Physicians […]

“The potential benefits of successful xenotransplantation to large numbers of patients with very differing clinical conditions remain immense, fully warranting the current efforts being made to work towards its clinical introduction” Science Daily - Experiments using pigs genetically engineered for compatibility with the human immune system have raised hopes that cross-species transplantation could soon […]