Day: June 21, 2010

Share Your Father’s Lessons

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Sunday, June 20, is Father’s Day. As I was thinking about what I would say for my Father’s Day blog, I began thinking about my own dad. He died a couple of weeks after Father’s Day two years ago. Even though my dad only went to school through the 8th grade, I consider him to … Read more

Medicare Card: NIH Researchers Identify New Steps in Spread of Malaria Parasite Through Bloodstream

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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have observed two previously unknown steps in the spread of the malaria parasite through the bloodstream. And in laboratory cultures, the researchers interfered with one of these steps, raising the possibility that new drug treatments could be developed to combat the disease.