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EKR Therapeutics, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on identifying, acquiring, and commercializing supportive care prescription products to enhance the quality-of-life for cancer patients, today announced the appointments of Susan C. Bacso as Vice President of Operations and Supply and William P. Zadinski as National Sales Director. Ms. Bacso and Mr. Zadinski report directly to Howard Weisman, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of EKR Therapeutics, who said, "Sue and Bill...

CHICAGO -- What do a T-Rex skull, two stuffed elephants and a meteorite from Australia have in common? They are among the more than 20 popular exhibits included in an adopt-an-artifact program begun this month by Chicago's Field Museum.Money raised from individuals or corporations will go toward the museum's endowment fund, now around $290 million, said Sheila Cawley, the museum's official in charge of the new sponsorship program.Donors get their names placed near the exhibit, a meeting with...

It's a girl - and she's pregnant! Paleontologists at North Carolina State University have determined that a 68 million year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil from Montana is that of a young female, and that she was producing eggs when she died. The proof, they say, is in the bones.In a case of a literal "lucky break," the scientists discovered unusual bone tissue lining the hollow cavity of the T. rex's broken leg bone. In a paper published in the June 3 issue of the journal Science, Dr. Mary...

WASHINGTON -- Scientists studying the mighty T. rex may have found a way to tell a she rex from a he rex. The dinosaurs knew the difference, of course. But scientists, with only fossilized bones to work from, have had little to go on as far as knowing which specimen was a male and which was a female. Now, a team led by Mary H. Schweitzer of North Carolina State University reports finding a layer of medullary bone inside the leg bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex discovered in Montana. Medullary...