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August 11, 2003

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-	Household Products Database New Information Service Provides Information On Health and Safety of Everyday Products
-	Fast-Acting Ebola Vaccine Protects Monkeys A single shot of a fast-acting ebola vaccine proves similar to strategy successfully used in the past against smallpox.
-	Creation of New Neurons Critical to Antidepressant Action in Mice Proposed role of neurogenesis in lifting mood finds support.
-	Newly Identified Tumor Suppressor Cooperates With p53 to Protect Mice Against Tumors Reduction or elimination of the H2AX gene in mice lacking p53 causes an increase in the number of tumors that develop.