‘Biosensors’ on four feet detect animals infected with bird flu Blood hounds, cadaver dogs, and other canines who serve humanity may soon have a new partner -- disease detector dogs -- thanks to an unusual experiment in which scientists trained mice to identify feces of ducks infected with bird influenza. The proof-of-concept study may pave the way for development of "biosensors on four feet" that warn of infection with influenza and other diseases. [News Source]

Evergreen source of Tamiflu Pine and spruce needles brim with flu-drug precursor [News Source]

Egg Safety: More Retail Grocers Follow FDA Advice and Stock Pasteurized Shell Eggs LANSING, Ill., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer demand for safe eggs has driven retail sales of pasteurized shell eggs up by more than 50% since Aug. 16 when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended their use to prevent illness from egg-related Salmonella Enteritidis, announced National Pasteurized Eggs (NPE). New retailers now adding NPE's Davidson's Safest Choice brand of pasteurized ... [News Source]

County offers financial status update The word at the July 13 meeting of the Wright County Board at the midway point of the 2010 budget year is “so far, so good.” Auditor Bob Hiivala presented the board with the June revenue/expenditure guidelines and, while the numbers aren’t fantastic, they are where they were expected to be. [News Source]

Health testing way down at California beaches. Health testing of California's beaches has slumped to its lowest level since ocean monitoring became law more than a decade ago, putting swimmers, surfers and divers at greater risk of exposure to contaminated water, a Times investigation has found. [News Source]

Nanotherapeutics files NanoDTPA IND for treatment of radiation exposure Nanotherapeutics, Inc., announced that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for NanoDTPA™ an orally administered capsule that is a less invasive treatment alternative to the FDA approved injectable Zn-DTPA (diethylenetriamine pentacetic acid). DTPA is used to remove radioactive compounds from the body to help eliminate the ... [News Source]

Egg Safety: More Retail Grocers Follow FDA Advice and Stock Pasteurized Shell Eggs Consumer demand for safe eggs has driven retail sales of pasteurized shell eggs up by more than 50% since Aug. 16 when the Food and Drug Administration recommended their use to prevent illness from egg-related Salmonella Enteritidis, announced National Pasteurized Eggs . [News Source]

Experts To Map Data On Extent Of Oil And Chemical Impact On Wildlife Following The Gulf Oil Spill To establish a baseline for measuring and predicting the biological impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a LSU ichthyologist and an Ohio biomedical informatics researcher are using Ohio Supercomputer Center, or OSC, systems to help map data on the extent of the spill and chemicals and the distribution of various fish species. "We know very little about deep-sea life and even less about the ... [News Source]

Careful with those flu jabs on children Alarm bells have started ringing after it was found that children under five in Australia who had been given seasonal flu jabs suffered from fits at a rate that was ten times higher than normal. [News Source]

5-year anniversary of Katrina’s wrath somber, reflective Five years ago Sunday, the water rushed in, the lights went out and for thousands of Gulf Coast residents nothing was ever the same. [News Source]

Are we ready for green dining? Sometimes restaurants can be the goliaths nutritionists have to face. Let’s face it, nutritionists have no way of defeating them. [News Source]

Air travel sector fears recovery may be derailed The local air travel sector’s recovery from several crises has been put in jeopardy by the recent hostage-taking incident in Manila that ended in the tragic death of several tourists from Hong Kong. [News Source]