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Supercomputer Grid Enlists PCs To Combat AIDS

A new project, launched with the aim to combat AIDS will exploit the unused power of thousands of...e world to aid research and identify drugs used to combat the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).// The Internet-based initiative, called FightAIDS@Home, a...

Fewer People Die Due To Cancer

...vantage of the innate ability of the human body to combat cancer. As of now, the only treatments available for cancer are surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy....

AIDS More Prevalent Among Teenage Girls In The US

...significant challenge rather than devising ways to combat the deadly virus. People less than 25 years of age represent only one-thrid of the U.S. population. But yet they account for nearly 50% of all new cases of HIV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While considering individu...

WHO Calls For Greater Emphasis On Combating AIDS

...ong will and sufficient resources were required to combat AIDS. Omi lamented that despite measures designed to prevent the virus from spreading, five million people worldwide were 'needlessly infected' in 2004, adding to the 40 million already living with the HIV virus. 'We know what works and what doesn'...

Vatican’s Message For World AIDS Day Condemns ‘Pansexual Cultur’

...e who advocate the use of condoms as a way to help combat the spread of the HIV virus have criticized the Vatican’s opposition to condoms. The message has strongly urged legal reforms to give more equitable health care to AIDS patients in developing countries and asked pharmaceutical companies to make an...

Russian Miss HIV Positive Says Victims Are Treated Like Prostitutes

...oblem and devoting sufficient funds, that helps to combat the epidemic," said Joost van der Meer, the Moscow chief of the AIDS Foundation East-West.. "But also they should show their leadership in terms of attitude that they are not afraid to speak about it, to show that it is a very serious disease but peo...

Protein Linked To Accelerating Rheumatoid Arthritis

... a pointer towards the development of new drugs to combat the disease. Type II Collagen (CII) is a major protein found abundantly in cartilage, bone and tendons. The team felt that CII could trigger RA when it is stressed by inflammation. They say that when inflammatory cells enter normal tissue they tend...

African Conference to Combat AIDS

...ountability part of the funds that are received to combat AIDS. Most of the healthcare systems in Africa are in a poor shape, and the Continent receives billions of dollars by way of aid from foreign donors towards education campaigns and life-prolonging drugs. The Continent is facing an unprecedented AID...

US Officials To Discuss Effectiveness Of Plan To Face Bird Flu Threat

...effectiveness of the federal government’s plans to combat the bird flu pandemic that may arise in the United States, the White House is hosting a top-level exercise this Saturday//. It is believed to last for four hours and would be attended by Cabinet Secretaries and other important Government Officials. ...

Fewer Breast Cancer Patients to Get Chemo

...itors, a new class of medications can successfully combat those cancers — whether or not they have spread to lymph nodes. On the other hand, women before menopause often have tumors that are ER-negative and orchestrated by bad genes. Hormones do not help in that case; these women benefit most from chemothe...

A herbal drug addiction releiver

...een found that a herbal supplement can effectively combat cocaine addiction. The combater is N-acetylcysteine (NAC) which is a potential agent to modulate the effects of cocaine addiction.// This has been successfully tried in animal models for the treatment of heroin addiction, and possibly alcoholism. ...

UK Committee Warns on Food Shortages Due to Flu Epidemic

...ked the Government to prepare alternative plans to combat an epidemic should the need arise. As staff continue to take leave and supermarket deliveries are not made on time, the Committee felt that food shortages would hit the country badly. 'A flu pandemic looks likelier now than at any time since the 1960...

Artemisinin May Prevent Breast Cancer

...sity of Washington.// Artemisinin has been used to combat malaria since early times. Henry Lai, who conducted the study with fellow UW bioengineer Narendra P. Singh, said that the findings had shown that the substance was selectively toxic to cancer cells. “Based on earlier studies, artemisinin is sel...

Playing Didgeridoo can cure sleep apnoea

... believed it could help train the upper airways to combat the symptoms of obstructive sleep apnoea. After hearing anecdotal reports of how playing the didgeridoo reduced snoring, Swiss sleep experts decided to study how it could be applied clinically. They studied 25 patients with moderate obstructive sle...

Serum Institute Launches New Tetanus-Diphtheria Vaccine

...cines // . The vaccine is called Td-Vac and will combat the deadly diphtheria and tetanus among both adolescents and adults. The new vaccine will replace the existing TT (Tetanus) vaccine, which is normally administered after an injury. Td-Vac is priced at Rs 7.50 whereas the TT vaccine costs Rs.6.50. Re...

Queensland Bans OTC Sales Of Cold And Flu Drugs

...le control on these medicines is necessary to help combat the manufacture of illicit drugs in Queensland," Mr Robertson said. “The continued diversion of medicines containing pseudoephedrine for use as a precursor to manufacture methamphetamine is an issue of grave concern for health regulators and law enfo...

The Slow And Steady Race To Eradicate Polio Offers Hope

...o vaccination program using an improved vaccine to combat the dominant strain of the polio virus has been responsible for elimination of the dreaded disease in Egypt. This effect would soon be observed in India, where there has been a considerable reduction in the incidence of paralytic polio. From 200, 0...

The HIV Bug infects and alarms Beijing

...g the financial and human resources // needed to combat a new wave of HIV/Aids infections. The problem is more severe in southern and western regions. "We have not been able to control it," Mr Wu a top Aids official at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said. "If you have seen some of...

HIV/AIDS Throws Family Relationships Out Of Gear In Uganda

...s of being cared by their children and are left to combat the challenges of old age all by themselves. ...

Officials In Turkey Confirm Deaths Due To Bird Flu

...o meet on Thursday and discuss various measures to combat bird flu. The birds in Turkey, Romania, Russia and Croatia were all tested positive for H5N1 strain of bird flu....

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