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Thomas H. Weller, a tropical-medicine specialist whose tissue-culture research in 1949 made development of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines possible and won him a share in a Nobel Prize, died on Aug. 23 at his home in Needham, Mass. He was 93.

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China is considered as the foundation of herbal medicines in the known world. In fact, modern societies today are incorporating the use of curative plant and animal parts into their treatment methods in addressing health-related problems.

Can the new Wii Fit by Nintendo get people off the couch and exercising in a way that could truly improve cardiovascular health? That's the question that marathon runner and NuMetrex marketing director, Meg Burich, set out to answer yesterday when the pr