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		<title>Fearing flu, finding vaccine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flu vaccine is made in eggs, but that's too slow for a major epidemic. How are vaccines made inside animal cells? What other methods can protect us against a fast-changing, deadly virus?]]></description>
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		<title>Apnea treatment = Golfer&#8217;s glory?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=3518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Golfer-doctor finds that treating apnea cuts golf scores; sees new motivator for wearing nighttime masks.]]></description>
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		<title>Untangling cancer&#8217;s genetic trajectory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until now, getting a picture of genetic change in a tumor over time has been next to impossible. A new study reveals that cancer's genetic tangle gets more complicated with time.]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2009/swine-flu-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virologists have been working late since swine flu appeared in April. With flu running amok in South America, what can we expect when the epidemic returns north this fall?]]></description>
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		<title>Genetic tests go mainstream</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=2383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies are marketing genetic tests direct to consumers.  Some tests can be lifesavers. But many tests return confusing results, which even doctors have a hard time interpreting.]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=1927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The epidemic fades, with 61 confirmed deaths and 5,251 cases so far. Were the public health warnings overdone? Or did they help stem the pandemic? Your guide to the time of finger-pointing, flu-style.]]></description>
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		<title>Brain battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=1886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the day wears on, both sleep pressure and the brain's alerting signal rise, until sleep pressure triumphs. [Nod]. New brain study explains why night owls don't get as sleepy during the day.]]></description>
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		<title>HIV infection caught on videotape</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2009/hiv-infection-caught-on-videotape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New video captures AIDS moving inside immune cells: HIV enters pods that form on the surface, then jumps across into a healthy immune cell that is now doomed to spread HIV -- and die.]]></description>
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		<title>Embryonic stem cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Pres. Obama revoked the limits on studies of cells that can become any body cell. What was lost in eight years of limits on embryonic stem cells? What's ahead?]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving! We celebrate eating &#8212; and food.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving! We celebrate eating -- and food. Hungry: Is that your "food clock" ringing? Why does a fruitfly need to smell? How does bitter taste to you? And could eating MSG make you fat?]]></description>
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