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Swedish Rub down Benefits Osteoarthritis Patients
Rub down therapy is a safe and effectual way to reduce pain and improve function in adults with osteoarthritis of the knee, researchers at the Yale Prevention Research Center and at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) report in the beginning clinical trial to measure the effectualness of this treatment. [click link for full article] [SHOW]

Birth command for squirrels
David Pescovitz: The Scots government is funding research on birth command for squirrels. They hope that immunocontraception will demonstrate to be a safe and effective way to command the expanding population of grey squirrels that´s putting red squirrels at risk. From the Scotsman.com:

(A Scots Executive spokesman) said scientists were experimenting with a "fertility command agent" which had been used successfully in the US and was now being tried and true on a lay out of species, not just squirrels.

The squirrels are caught in humane traps before being given the contraceptive.

The spokesman said: "The materials are administered by injection, and recent formulations can render an animal sterile for a number of years with a single dose."

He stressed there were a number of problems still to be overcome, one of which was to make sure the contraceptives were not ingested by other species.

Link (via Fortean Times)

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