Children's In The News: October 2005
Some 'Alternative' Remedies Can Harm Kids
USA Today | October 12, 2005
Western medicine doesn’t have the market cornered on making children feel better: Some products from health food stores work like a charm with sick children, an expert on “alternative” remedies told fellow pediatricians Tuesday.
“Pediatricians should ask and parents should be open about what they’re giving kids,” says Cora Collete Breuner, a pediatrics professor at University of Washington Medical School in Seattle.
Children's GBS Researchers Identify Some Bacteria and Viruses With an Infinite Number of Genomes
PR Newswire | October 3, 2005
Ever since the genomics revolution took off, scientists have been busily deciphering vast numbers of genomes. Cataloging. Analyzing. Comparing. Public databases hold 239 complete bacterial genomes alone.
But scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) have come to a startling conclusion. Armed with the powerful tools of comparative genomics and mathematics, TIGR scientists have concluded that researchers might never fully describe some bacteria and viruses—because their genomes are infinite.
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