Jamie Hacking, Author at The Westside Story

Was Global Warming Responsible For Ending the African Drought?

Jun 7, 2015

What are the spin offs of global warming? Al Gore in a 2006 interview with the Sierra Club talked about his movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” and the devastation of hundreds of thousands of people in New Orleans a...

Doctors Perform world’s first skull and scalp transplant, plus a new kidney and pancreas

Jamie Hacking

Jun 5, 2015

Health

James Boysen’s had every major organ of his body falling apart when he went into the operation theater at the Houston Methodist Hospital two weeks ago. With a damaged pancreas, a worsening kidney and a radiatio...

Time to Look at Saturn’s spongy moon Hyperion in new light, says NASA

Jamie Hacking

Jun 2, 2015

Innovation

It is time to see Hyperion – the odd, spongy and tumbling moon through the eyes of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft which made its final fly by across the moon on Sunday. According to information provided by NASA, the...

Russia to Sell S-300 missile system to Iran, Israel seems not at all happy

Jamie Hacking

Jun 2, 2015

World

It seems Russia is once again going to have the west fuming as it irons out a missile sale deal with Iran. According to arms firm Almaz-Antey, the political hurdles have been solved and it is time for the final...

Scientists say Blocking HIV Sugar Supply Kills its Growth

Jamie Hacking

Jun 1, 2015

Health

The battle against HIV is getting keener and it seems that mankind has for the first time got an upper hand. A groundbreaking study reveals that cutting off the supply of sugar can halt the reproduction of HIV....

Google Joins Hands With Levi Strauss To Make Smart Clothes

Jamie Hacking

May 31, 2015

Innovation

Wearable Technology has come of age and has started to become a part of our daily life. A number of people are seeing the benefits of wearable technologies with both Android Wear and Apple Watch hitting the ...

Greece Amenable to Concession, to Seal Deal This Week

Jamie Hacking

May 30, 2015

World

As the world waits, Greece Government is sure of clinching a deal with its creditors this week. It has also said that it is amenable to pushing back parts of its anti-austerity program to make that happen. Gree...

Unknown Disease wipes out 120000 Rare Kazakhstan Saigas in Central Asia Loses

Jamie Hacking

May 30, 2015

Innovation

A mysterious disease has struck more than 100,000 Saigas in Central Asia. This figure accounts for a third of their population which has been designated as critically endangered. Saigas (Saiga tatarica) once...

Pfizer Ibrance and Astrazeneca Faslodex slows Progression of Breast Cancer together

Jamie Hacking

May 30, 2015

Health

The latest targeted drug from the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, ‘palbociclib’ has been able to stop the progression of the most common form of advanced breast cancer. This was reported by researchers on Saturday...

AstraZeneca Ropes in Eli Lilly as one more of its Immuno-Oncology Collaborators

Jamie Hacking

May 29, 2015

Health

AstraZeneca has roped in Eli Lilly in its long list of partners with eyes on kicking off a combination cancer trial. AstraZeneca feels that it will have to rope in more partners and collaborators for its top on...

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