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Alexion: Profile From The Company's 2012 Annual Report
Overview Alexion is a biopharmaceutical company focused on serving patients with severe and ultra-rare disorders through the innovation, development and commercialization of life-transforming therapeutic products. Our marketed product Soliris®...Tags: Kidney Disease, Kidney, Social Sciences, Marketing, Health and Safety at Work
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Treatment improves for age-related sight loss
Peter Miller was a high-powered businessman who owned several electronic security firms when he was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration in 1999. Like so many people who lose their central vision, Miller couldn't imagine life without the...
Tags: University of Chicago, Rush University Medical Center, Psychotherapy, Book, Medical Specialization
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Some nutrients can stave off vision loss and eye disease that occurs as we age
Even if you are reading this without glasses, it's not too early to start taking your eye vitamins. Some nutrients can stave off the burdensome vision loss and eye disease that occur as we age, mounting research suggests. But claims by supplement...
Tags: Fatty Acids, Nutrition, Fish Oil (dietary supplement), Vitamin D, Dietary Supplements
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Edgar C. Aguilar, O.D., Advanced Eye Care Optometry
Imperial Valley Press Staff Writer/Copy EditorAdvanced Eye Care Optometry 2151 Ross Ave. El Centro 760-352-3505 www.stopsquinting.com Tell us how you ended up in this line of work. At five years old I was in a car accident on La Brucherie Road and Main Street in El Centro. My eyes were damaged...Tags: Diabetes, Eyes and Vision, Glaucoma, High Blood Pressure, Human Body
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Elaine A. Weller
janeth@herald-mail.comElaine Weller knew how to stretch a dime, raising six children on a limited income. “That woman could take a dime and turn it into a dollar,” said the youngest of her children, Michelle McCarty of Hagerstown. “You know what, she was...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Washington, DC, Amputation, Polio, Anglicanism
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Former wrangler looks back on nearly 99 years of experiences
janeth@herald-mail.comJohn Schlosser has managed to fill his almost 99 years with a variety of careers and experiences. From his childhood days on a Montana ranch, to a stint in Florida building warships, to the construction of buildings in Washington, D.C., Schlosser got a...Tags: The Pentagon, Water Slalom Skiing, House Building, Home Improvement, Entertainment Events
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Early detection is the best key to fight glaucoma
marieg@herald-mail.comAnetta Jackson begins most days as she ends them — reading. Fiction, nonfiction, magazines, newspapers. It doesn't matter. She always has had a love of the written word, the Hagerstown woman said. Now retired, Jackson, 68, has even more time to...Tags: Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Human Body, Diseases and Illnesses, Symptoms
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Thelma J. Barron
Thelma J. Barron (nee Fuhrer) died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. She was the beloved wife of the late Thomas F. Barron Sr.; and loving mother of Kathleen B. Laferriere, Thomas F. Barron Jr., Colleen A. Bell and Michael J. Barron. She is survived by nine...Tags: Harford Road
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Stem cells show promise correcting poor vision
Los Angeles Times / For the Booster Shots blogTwo patients with vision problems who received injections of retinal cells made from human embryonic stem cells have seen marked improvement in their vision four months later, according to a preliminary study on the safety and efficacy of the pioneering...Tags: Diabetes, Medical Research, University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Research, Agricultural Research and Technology
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Stem cell trial's cancellation disappoints paraplegic patient and a Northwestern researcher
Dr. Richard Fessler leaned over his patient's back and sliced through skin, muscle and bone until he exposed the man's spinal cord, crushed just days earlier in a motorcycle crash.
He then inserted a syringe into the cable of nerves and injected about...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Medical Specialization, Diseases and Illnesses, Hospitals and Clinics, Diseases and Illnesses
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