Zoo ups conservation efforts, admission price (WHAS 11 Louisville)
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007Zoo ups conservation efforts, admission price (WHAS 11 Louisville)
The Louisville Zoo is committed to bettering the bond between the people and our planet, and starting July 1, $.15 of every admission to the Zoo will go straight to supporting conservation efforts.
Skystar Receives Approval For 36 New Veterinary Medicines
Skystar Bio-Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (OTC Bulletin Board: SKBI) (”Skystar”), a leading bio-pharmaceutical company in the People’s Republic of China (”PRC”), today announced that it received approval for the production of 36 new veterinary medicines from the PRC Ministry of Agriculture. The addition of these new products increases the total number of Skystar’s veterinary medicines to over 70. [click link for full article]
Snake Venom As Medication?
A chemist at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) is looking for unusual structures in snake venom and plans to prove their medical effectiveness. What in the 1950s led to the development of Captopril, a drug for the treatment of hypertension, is being continued in an interesting new chapter with the analysis of venom from South American pit vipers and tropical rattlesnakes. Vienna (TU). [click link for full article]