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One-year sentence for HIV-positive woman

... serve her term at home. Jennifer, whose sexual exploits at a Canadian Forces base shook the military, is heading home to Newfoundland to serve her sentence. Justice Michele Fuerst also sentenced her to a three-year probation. Justice Fuerst said Murphy displayed 'extraordinarily poor judgment' in eng...

New Generation Clinical Trials Could Save Time And Money, Improve Patient Care

...istics. In the Bayesian approach, the trial design exploits the results as the trial is ongoing and adapts itself based on these interim results. This kind of approach is anathema in the standard approach. However, Berry argues, such flexibility is crucial to clinical trials in the 21st century...

Novel Technology For Early Detection of Gastrointestinal Cancer

...e-cancerous lesions much earlier. The technology exploits the potential of white light in the narrow bandwidth of blue and green region. Normal endoscopy uses white light illumination. This light is however scattered to a large extent, yielding very little useful clinical information. The use of the narrow ...

PharmaVentures Exploits Fastest Growing Media Channel to Launch First Pharmaceutical Business Television Show

...in various media formats, the television broadcast exploits the fastest growing media channel available. According to research carried out by Accustream iMedia Research in 2005, video streams viewed rose by 50.2% in 2005 and are forecast to grow by a further 32% this year. In addition to providing lively co...

Heart disease and strokes connected to a motor protein mechanism

...erve how proteins work in motion. NMR spectroscopy exploits the interaction of radio waves with matter to give scientists a moving picture of molecular structures within the body. The methodology used in Kalodimos group provides researchers with detailed, moving pictures rather than static images produced by ...

The Persona of Cancer Affected By Personality?

Cancer’s exploits are titillated by personality traits, contemplates a new school of thought, after experiments conducted on unwitting rodents//. The idea that personality types may increase the susceptibility to cancer is the cornerstone of this research. Research...

Cell Wall of Pneumonia Bacteria Can Cause Brain and Heart Damage

...ule on the bacteria’s cell wall, resembles PAF and exploits this similarity to bind to PAFr. The researchers demonstrated the role of PAFr by injecting fragments of S. pneumoniae cell wall into normal mice as well as mice that lacked the gene for PAFr (Pafr-/- mice). None of the regular mice survived after ...

Disabling Key Protein may Give Physicians Time to Treat Pneumonic Plague

...t follow-up studies to learn more about how plague exploits PLA. Source-Eurekalert...

Obese Prone to Colon Cancer

...he news with one more ailment added to its list of exploits – Colon Cancer. People who are obese carry an enhanced risk of colon cancer. // Scientists from the University of California, San Diego have unearthed the link between obesity and cancer of the colon. According to scientists, fat cells in the obese...

Scientists Discover How HIV Escapes Cells

...overed that the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) exploits a pre-existing transport system to leave one infected cell, and infect new ones. Published in Plos Biology, the new findings counter the prevailing belief that HIV and other retroviruses can only leave and enter cells by virus-specific mechanisms...

Hyperthermia With Chemotherapy Improves Sarcoma Healing

... developed at GSF and the Grohadern Medical Centre exploits the fact that tumour cells are more vulnerable at 40 C to the immune system and also to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. In the past years, the results gained in the treatment of sarcomas have encouraged the research group to apply their knowledge to ...

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