Finally the NIH pursues the Vitamin industry finding that manufacturers do not us independent verification of the their testing nor guaranteed calibration of their laboratory equipment. This is a must read is you use vitamins and other popular health dietary supplements.
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NIST scientists tested and certified the concentrations of 24 elements and 17 vitamins and carotenoid compounds in the tablets.
“We are not saying what a product should contain, but what it does contain,” Sharpless said. “Our SRMs are intended for analytical chemists to use to make sure their methods are working properly, not a benchmark for what a good product should be.” The SRM is standard Reference Materials. Get ready for true vitamins.
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Rex Ryan was introduced as the new head coach for the New York Jets.
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Ryan predicted a super bowl win in the near future, saying "With all the cameras and all that, I was looking for our new president back there. You know, I think we'll get to meet him in the next couple years anyway."
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Ryan was the defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens for the past four seasons.
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Ryan has no head coaching experience, but has been an assistant at the pro and college levels for over 20 years, the past 10 with Baltimore.
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Ryan's Baltimore defense has been ranked in the top six for four years, and led the NFL with 34 takeaways this season. He runs a 3-4 which the Jets currently have in place.
Shaquille O'Neal claims that his supposed feuds with Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson were a marketing gimmick.
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O'Neal also says that Kobe deserves the MVP this year, that he and Kobe were the greatest little-man, big-man 1-2 punch in the history of the game, and that Phil Jackson is the greatest coach ever.
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O'Neal, Bryant, and Jackson will re-unite on the Western Conference All-Star Team on February 15th.
A brain surgeon performed what he called a "life-saving" surgery on a teenager by removing a large brain tumor using a method he read about on CNN.com just three days earlier.
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Dr. Thomas Ellis, a senior neurosurgeon at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, the United States, said he had become "very demoralized" after an unsuccessful six-hour operation to remove a tumor from a 19-year-old named Brandon.
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Dr. Ellis read the article about "Omni directional dielectric mirror," a pen-shaped fiber-optic tool that allows surgeons to carry out minimally invasive surgery on areas too difficult or delicate to access.
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The tool allows surgeons to easily manipulate a CO2 laser and bend it to reach almost any tissue in the body, particularly in cases where scalpels may pose a danger.
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Ellis operated on Brandon for four hours and managed to remove the remaining 80 percent of the tumor by vaporizing it from the inside with the laser and then excising it. "The boy was then extubated [removing the tube to his airway] after about 30 minutes and that same evening he was eating normally," Wolf said.
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"I am very optimistic and so is his mother, although we still have to be careful and do regular check-ups to look for possible spreading of the tumor," Ellis said. He believes that "at the least, this device will become a valuable new tool for surgeons. But it may actually usher in a new generation of neurosurgeons who do microsurgery very differently." "Either way, this type of success story is what we neurosurgeons live for."
The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper stating he will not apologize "for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity" and posted a detailed explanation on a hoops Web site.
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"It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition," said the statement, signed by Queal and board chair Todd Doshier.
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"In response to the statement posted on The Covenant School Web site, I do not agree with the apology or the notion that the Covenant School girls basketball team should feel embarrassed or ashamed," Grimes wrote on www.flightbasketball.com.
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A parent who attended the game said Covenant continued to make 3-pointers -- even in the fourth quarter. She praised the Covenant players but said spectators and an assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points.
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Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. The team remains winless during the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia.