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Thursday May 11, 12:30 pm ET

Worldwide Licensing and Sponsored Research Agreements Focused on Axon Regeneration for Functional Recovery in CNS Disorders Should Enhance BLSI’s Intellectual Property Portfolio

HOPKINTON, Mass., May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Boston Life Sciences, Inc., (Nasdaq: BLSI - News), a biotechnology company focused on diagnostic and therapeutic products for diseases of the Central Nervous System (CNS), today announced that it had entered into exclusive, worldwide license agreements and sponsored research agreements with Children’s Hospital Boston for axon regeneration technologies under development in the laboratories of Dr. Larry Benowitz and Dr. Zhigang He.

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By David Tisdale

Brooke Jorns Davis of Hattiesburg will walk the walk at graduation today at the University of Southern Mississippi, only because the university’s Children’s Center for Communication and Development enabled her to talk the talk.
As a child, Davis had an articulation disorder that prevented her from engaging in normal speech.

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AsiaNet 5/1/2006

NEUREN Pharmaceuticals Friday announced that it has jointly filed a new patent with the US Army’s Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) as a result of new experiments showing its compound, NNZ-2566, significantly reduces non-convulsive seizures following traumatic brain injury (TBI).

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A professor at the University of Houston and his research students are working with physicians and scientists at the Methodist Neurological Institute on new technology to help identify which brain aneurysms are at highest risk of rupture and could cause a stroke.

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Wednesday

Radiant Research-Akron — Offers free cholesterol, diabetes and blood pressure screenings, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, 754 S. Cleveland Ave., Suite 200, Mogadore. Call 330-628-6001 for an appointment.

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Anosmics - those without a sense of smell - miss something often taken for granted.
By Bryan David Finlayson
I was 13 when I lost my sense of smell.

Skateboarding downhill in Santa Barbara, Calif., my stepbrother Christian and I were racing. It was not important where we were going; there was no reward for winning, no punishment for losing.

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By Christine Dell`amore Apr 27, 2006, 0:12 GMT

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) — A new stem-cell technology has allowed rats with spinal-cord injuries to walk again within two weeks, an advance that could one day help people with traumatic spinal-cord injuries.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:46 AM CDT

Editor’s note: This is the last in a four-part, weekly series.

By Adam Hammer, staff writer

Hangovers are temporary, but cirrhosis of the liver is forever and often results in death.

“Alcohol is a contributor to the top three causes of death partially because the immune system is decreased,” Barb Meek, a certified nurse practitioner at Fountain Centers, said.

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4/26/2006 8:30:00 AM EST

BIOWIRE

Study Shows African Americans and Latinos Five Times More Likely to Become Injured Than Whites Health Disparities Experts, MADD to Visit Beacon Hill Today.

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After watching countless spy movies, Westerns, and TV cop shows, I wonder: how easy is it to knock someone out by smacking them on the back of the head with a pistol, club, etc.? Since I’m not willing to act as a test subject, although I’m pretty sure I’d have plenty of volunteers willing to do the smacking, I’m asking you as the next-best source.

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