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WHO To Recommend Countries Stop Testing For H1N1
Within the next few days, the WHO "will recommend that countries stop trying to test all suspected cases of swine flu, said Keiji Fukuda, the agency"s assistant director-general of health security and environment," Tuesday during a conference call with reporters, Bloomberg reports. Instead, countries who have previously confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus in their population should diagnose the flu based on symptoms alone, opening up "laboratories to test samples in unusual or severe cases, clusters of illnesses and cases with odd symptoms, he said," Bloomberg writes (Serafino/Hallam, 7/7).

Teens' Risk Factors For Heart Disease, Diabetes Reduced By Lap Band Weight Loss Surgery
In teenagers, laparoscopic gastric banding surgery for treatment of extreme obesity can significantly improve and even reverse the metabolic syndrome, a new study found. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society"s 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
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Health Canada Approves Innovotech Application For AgressTM Field Testing

The Pest Management Regulatory Agency of Health Canada has granted Innovotech (TSV VENTURE:IOT) a Research Authorization for large-scale field trials for the 2009 season to test its novel seed treatment, AgressTM. This Research Authorization provides growers with an opportunity to assess the real-world ability of AgressTM to fight bacterial disease and its ease of use. In conjunction with cooperating growers, dry beans treated with AgressTM have been planted on farms in Alberta. "These large-scale field trials give us an opportunity to test AgressTM on a commercial scale that would be used by a grower," says Damian Sowa, Product Manager, Innovotech. "We will also use the trials to validate our small plot results that showed AgressTM to be a superior and long sought replacement for Streptomycin in bacterial infestations of beans." Research is currently underway to expand the applications of AgressTM to include the major crops in North America and additional disease classes. Innovotech Inc


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