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Agdia growing in Elkhart
South Bend Tribune CorrespondentELKHART -- Agdia Inc. is growing because of the evolving agricultural market's high-tech ways to test for potentially devastating diseases. "It's been a constant growth area," said President Baziel Vrient, 61, who joined the Elkhart company as an...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Agriculture, Symptoms, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Companies and Corporations
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Long-serving police dog busy up to retirement
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Twenty-five days from retirement, Ralph was needed by police. A Fort Wayne patrol officer had pulled over a black Pontiac Bonneville on the city's south side, and soon enough Ralph was there, circling the car with his nose...
Tags: Cancer, Law Enforcement, Bank Robbery, Theft
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Michigan student with Down syndrome can play sports
DETROIT (AP) — The council that governs high school sports in Michigan has decided that a 19-year-old student with Down syndrome can participate in athletics during his senior year. Dean Dompierre says he found out Thursday that the Michigan High...Tags: Michigan High School Athletic Association, High School Sports, Down Syndrome, Schools, High Schools
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Pushing for answers: A mother's fight to find a diagnosis for her son
The mother of a local boy with a rare syndrome is speaking out after it took 8 years to get a diagnosis. She wants other parents to know, it is okay to keep pushing for answers. To most people, 9-year-old Alex Morlan, looks perfectly normal on the...
Tags: Genetic Condition, James Durbin
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Study ties fertility treatment, birth defect risk
Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself? A large new study from Australia suggests both may play a role. Compared to those conceived...Tags: In Vitro Fertilization, Infertility, Cornell University, Cleft Lip and Palate, Australia
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Hungry for relief
South Bend TribuneGreg Gaver is sitting at his family's dining room table in Granger, speaking congenially about his high hopes for his future, when his attention abruptly shifts and his head swivels toward his mother. “Can I have dinner?” the 21-year-old asks...Tags: Obesity, Parenting, Lifestyle and Leisure, Salads, Physiology
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What's to become of Prader-Willi adults?
South Bend TribuneWhen doctors first were coming to grips with the syndrome defined by an unstoppable urge to eat, those whose chromosomes created that urge rarely lived long enough for others to worry about what would happen to them as adults. With slow growth, low...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Autism, Diabetes, Fatigue, Health
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Notre Dame football recruiting: Keep an eye on Robinson
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterNote: Tribune staff writer Bob Wieneke early last week spoke with three analysts to discuss a number of topics concerning Notre Dame football recruiting. The following are answers from Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Mike Farrell, CBS Sports...Tags: Sports, Football, Mike Farrell
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Study: 6 pounds of bacteria live on 200-pound person
WASHINGTON (AP) — They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut — enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds. Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or...
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemical Industry, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Specialization, National Institutes of Health
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U-M: 6 new stem cell lines available for research
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Six new human embryonic stem cell lines derived at the University of Michigan are available for federal research. University of Michigan Health System officials say in a release Thursday that researchers can begin using...Tags: University of Michigan, Diseases and Illnesses, Science and Technology, National Institutes of Health, Hemophilia
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First of 2 papers on lab-made bird flu published
NEW YORK (AP) — Four months ago the U.S. government sought to block publication of two studies about how scientists created an easily spread form of bird flu. Now a revised version of one paper is seeing the light of day with the government's...
Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Preventative Medicine, Research, Bird Flu
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2 years later, fish sick near BP oil spill site
BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) — Open sores. Parasitic infections. Chewed-up-looking fins. Gashes. Mysterious black streaks. Two years after the drilling-rig explosion that touched off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, scientists are...
Tags: University of South Florida, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Environmental Pollution, Food and Drug Administration, Science and Technology
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