Study looks at Fatal Familiar Insomnia (News-Medical-Net) Fatal Familiar Insomnia (FFI) is one of the diseases considered as rare - there are less than 100 cases described throughout the world. [News Source]

Learning from the past (The Greene County Record) News events making headlines in The Record years ago [News Source]

Mad Cow (Novinite.com) Two cows are standing in a field. One says to the other "Are you worried about Mad Cow Disease?" The other one says "No, It doesn't worry me, I'm a horse!" [News Source]

Humane Society opposes meat industry challenge (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin) The National Humane Society has criticized a legal challenge from major meat industry trade groups against an amended California law designed to prevent animals too sick to stand from entering the meat supply. Special Report: Chino Slaughterhouse Scandal, videos, photo galleries, related stories & documents [News Source]

Staff Writer (BioWorld) UK-based Oxford BioMedica Plc. said its board unanimously rejected an offer from GeneThera Inc. to buy the company for £188 million (US$350 million), at a price of 35 pence per share. [News Source]

Why Are Deer Being Smuggled into Texas? (Time Magazine) The hunting industry is going for more trophy-worthy prey, prompting some to import illegal stock -- along with the threat of disease [News Source]

Why Are Deer Being Smuggled into Texas? (Time Magazine) The hunting industry goes for more trophy-worthy prey, prompting some to import illegal stock - along with the threat of disease [News Source]

Seniors, Other Parkinson Patients Gain from Deep Brain Stimulation but Take Serious Risk (Senior Journal) Jan. 7, 2009 - Patients with advanced Parkinson disease (PD) – 25 percent of them age 70 or older - who received deep brain stimulation treatment had more improvement in movement skills and quality of life after six months than patients who received other medical therapy, but they also had a higher risk of a serious adverse event, according to a study in today’s issue of the Journal of the ... [News Source]

Origin Of Mutation That Causes Fatal Familiar Insomnia (Science Daily) Researchers have studied the origin of the mutation that causes Fatal Familiar Insomnia (FFI). In the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country there is a high rate of carriers of this mutation — 50%of all the cases registered in the whole of Spain. [News Source]

Study on origin of mutation that causes fatal familiar insomnia (PhysOrg) A PhD thesis at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has studied the origin of the mutation that causes Fatal Familiar Insomnia (FFI). In the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country there is a high rate of carriers of this mutation — 50% of all the cases registered in the whole of Spain. [News Source]