Washington Post staff writer January W. Payne looks into a new line of GenSpec brand vitamins that, their Florida-based maker says, are formulated differently for sex and ancestry, with lines for men, women, and for blacks, whites, and hispanics. Products for Asians are next. Reporter Payne, judging by the story, could find no well-qualified experts […]
NYTImes: Beyond Swollen Limbs, a Disease’s Hidden Agony
A stupendously moving (and occasionally stomach-churning) once-a-week series, on five agonizing but eradicable diseases that plague some of the world’s poorest peoples, continues with reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. writing on lymphatic filariasis, one of whose manifestations is better known as elephantiasis. Read it Earlier installments, by McNeil and by Celia W. Dugger are here
BIRD FLU: AP on an edgy California state lab as it gets ready for its first human sufferer
One of these days there will be a lede like this with no twist in the story: The middle-age man with fever, cough and shallow breath told his doctor he had just returned to Northern California from a chicken farm in Vietnam. That rang the first alarm bell. False alarm, this time, as AP’s Scott […]
Chr. Science Monitor, Wash. Post, etc: VENUS, HO!
News is breaking on the looming arrival at Venus of the Venus Express Orbiter, a European Space Agency craft on target to arrive at Earth’s hot, cloudy neighbor on Tuesday. Peter N. Spotts in Christian Science Monitor (Sun 4/9) Guy Gugliotta in Washington Post (Mon 4/10) Warren E. Leary in NY Times (Mon 4/10) Other […]
Hartford Courant: Long Island Sound Warmer, Lobsters Don’t Like It
Staff Writer John Nickerson reports from the 16th annual Long Island Sound Summit, where he found researchers listing big changes in wildlife — cold water species down, warm water species up — and ascribing a lot of them to a warming climate. Read it
Sacramento Bee: Gas Tax to pay for CA Greenhouse Gas Cleanup?
California may have the most aggressive policies in the nation to put the brakes on its emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, but there is not much detail on how to pay for at least some of it, report Bee staff writers Chris Bowman and Edie Lau. Specifically, they report, Gov. Schwarzenegger has […]