Day: January 3, 2008

Broadcasters get leeway on digital TV switch

The Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules giving broadcasters more flexibility in making the switch to digital television from traditional analog signals. The rules would, among other things, allow some broadcast stations to make a “phased transition” to digital broadcasting. Stations also will be allowed to reduce or terminate their analog service before the February 17, 2009, deadline for the transition, “if doing so is necessary to achieve their transition,” the FCC said Monday. For the rest of the story click here

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Honey Making a Comeback as Antibiotic Choice in Human Medicine

Amid growing concern over drug-resistant superbugs and nonhealing wounds that endanger diabetes patients, nature’s original antibiotic–honey–is making a comeback. More than 4,000 years after Egyptians began applying honey to wounds, Derma Sciences Inc., a New Jersey company that makes medicated and other advanced wound care products, began selling the first honey-based dressing this fall after it was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Called Medihoney, it is made from a highly absorbent seaweed-based material, saturated with manuka honey, a particularly potent type that experts say kills germs and speeds healing. Also called Leptospermum honey, manuka

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