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Just a quick one on the Gail Porter watch. The Epoch Times has this nice photo of Gail’s daughter, Honey, giving Winnie the Pooh a smooch both to launch the UK’s National Cuddle Day and also to celebrate Pooh’s 80th birthday. First picture I’ve seen of the younger Ms. Porter. She seems a sweet little […]
Back in April I told you about IGI, a Jersey based company that was trying to develop a treatment that prevented chemotherapy related alopecia. Well, it seems things aren’t going real well for the small firm. On Friday IGI were given a warning by the American Stock Exchange that their financials weren’t up to snuff. […]
I’ll admit it: I’m a softy at heart, and I like stories like this one from the Naniamo News Bulletin.
And the winners are … Courtenay Crucil of Dover secondary and Jessa McGregor, of Nanaimo District secondary school.
Both graduating students were recognized with cash entrance awards from the Millennium Foundation this month for leadership and outstanding […]
Couple news items come to my attention today.
GlaxoSmithKline Announces Expanded Indication for Hycamtin - “GlaxoSmithKline announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Hycamtin (topotecan HCl) in combination with cisplatin, for the treatment of stage IV-B, recurrent, or persistent carcinoma of the cervix, which is not amenable to curative treatment with surgery […]
An ode from the Beatles…
When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I’d been out ’till quarter to three, would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?
Hmm——mmm—mmmh.
You’ll be older, too. Aaah, and […]
Father’s Day is tomorrow here in the US. Let’s take a moment to appreciate him… and his lessons on finance. He was always trying to teach you how to be wise with your money. You may never have realized how deep his love went. It went all the way to the genes he passed onto […]
From the Johns Hopkins Gazette:
A protein long thought to provide only mechanical support for keeping cells and tissues from literally falling apart turns out to have much wider utility. In a pair of reports, the protein K17 has been found to also influence wound healing and maintain the structural integrity of hair follicles, according to […]
Gail Porter has thrown her support behind the Global Campaign for Education’s (GCE), “My Friend Needs a Teacher” campaign. The effort. working thru UK schoolchildren, is attempting to address the 100 million children worldwide who miss out on school.
From the Community Newswire.
Gail Porter, TV presenter, said: “Last year when I travelled to India with ActionAid […]
Golfers in the Clarksville, TN, area, how about hitting the links for charity? From The Leaf-Chronicle:
Poorman’s Country Club is presenting Link of Locks four-man golf scramble on July 15 at Swan Lake Golf Course. All proceeds will benefit the National Alopecia Association. Entry fee is $50 per player, which includes green fees, cart and meal. […]
Genetic Engineering News reports than Curis has received a US patent “which covers screening assays for antagonists and agonists of the Hedgehog signaling pathway.”
Back in March, Curis received an injection of cash from Proctor & Gamble as part of a joint product development targeting baldness. Needless to say, their Q1 2006 financials looked good.
For much […]
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