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July 19, 2005

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-	NIAAA Issues New Clinician's Guide for Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much The 2005 edition of the Guide provides new and revised materials that support clinicians in conducting alcohol screenings, assessments, and brief interventions.
-	New Lead Reported in Tumor Angiogenesis HGF induction of jagged1 gene product leads to insight into notch signaling in tumor angiogenesis.
-	Mouse Studies of Oseltamivir Show Promise Against H5N1 Influenza Virus Experiments in mice show that an antiviral drug currently used against annual influenza strains also can suppress the deadly influenza virus that has spread from birds to humans.
-	Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Online Education New Online Continuing Education Series on Complementary and Alternative Medicine from the NIH.