expanded 1 8

Tag: "expanded" at medical news

Trial of VivaGel in Sexually Active Young Women Commences

...or the prevention of HIV and genital herpes. The expanded safety study is being conducted at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, and the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico, through a collaboration between the MTN (an HIV/AIDS clinical trials network established by the National...

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

... the city grew -- from 1991 to 2001 its population expanded by 47 percent -- and now a third of Delhi's waste, the biggest cause of the river's pollution, goes into the Yamuna untreated, the pollution monitoring board says. The city is playing a game of catch-up, and losing it could be deadly, environmental...

Newborn Screening Tests for Babies

...s, legislatures, and parent groups to advocate for expanded newborn screening on a state-by-state basis. In Pennsylvania, newborn screening is offered at most hospitals, but it is not required by law. Therefore it is not a guarantee and, potentially, screening could be eliminated or reduced. Massachusetts...

Completely Neutral Evolutionary Changes Helped Shape Our Genome

...hondrial sequences are known as numts. When they expanded their study across the whole human genome, they found more than 1200 such pieces of mitochondrial DNA of various lengths embedded into chromosomes. While chimps have a comparable number, mice and rats only have around 600 numts. Since they increase i...

Reduction in Antidepressant Leads to Suicidal Risks

...ong children and adolescents covered by Tennessees expanded Medicaid program. Antidepressant medications are...patients age 2 to 17 years covered by the TennCare expanded Medicare program. The study included the 45 months from Jan. 1, 2002, through Sept. 30, 2005, 12 mon...

Support for Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act given to House leaders by ACP

...s by: Providing funding to assure continued and expanded coverage for millions of children from lower-income families through the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Protecting access to Medicare by funding positive physician payment updates in 2008 and 2009 instead of allowing devastating ...

A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...sing it, they increased it. The investigators then expanded their search to look more closely at compounds related to NSAIDs that might lower AB42 but result in greatly reduced COX activity. So they tested a compound called r-flurbiprofen. R-flurbiprofen is the mirror image of the COX-inhibiting drug s-fl...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8