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30-year-old Woman Survives 'internal Decapitation'

... Malloy still has a long, costly recovery ahead. A fund has been set up in her name....

Students Devise Oral Quick-dissolve Strips for Rotavirus Vaccine

...livered.' Truong said his company is in talks to fund further research in Maos lab to refine the strips so that they can dispense the Aridis rotavirus vaccine. Animal testing could begin later this year, he said. 'This is probably the second-most important childhood vaccine needed in the developing worl...

UK Scientists Identify Gene Mutations That Trigger Breast Cancer

... disease, said Cancer Research UK, which helped to fund the study. Professor Bruce Ponder, one of the leaders of the study and director of Cancer Research UK's Cambridge research institute, said that the new technique has greatly accelerated the rate at which cancer genes can be found. "We have been abl...

Bush Seeks Doubling of AIDS-fighting Funds

...House said that PEPFAR, as of March 31, had helped fund treatment for 1.1 million people in its focus countries -- Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia. The program pays for anti-retroviral treat...

New Strains of TB Can Be Used as a Powerful Bioterror Weapon

...our IRA, and now! You can use current IRA money to fund this investment. 'Any major terrorist attack that disrupts the financial markets will result in the Federal Reserve pumping liquidity into the economy, which will send precious metals skyrocketing. In this kind of environment, rare gold silver and ...

Gene Responsible for Blindness in Infants and Children Identified

...oundation Fighting Blindness in Canada is proud to fund quality vision research at the MUCH that is giving hope to families affected by blindness, says Sharon Colle, National Executive Director of the FFB-C....

Iowa to Receive Grant Funding for Youth Suicide Prevention, Early Intervention

...vention. The Iowa Department of Public Health will fund grants to local high schools or educational regions. Schools and their community partners will provide early identification programs to high school youth and make appropriate referrals for services. The project also includes a public awareness campai...

Germany Pledges 5.4 Billion Dollars for AIDS Fund

...lso promised more German contributions to a global fund for the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. US President George W. Bush asked lawmakers last week to set aside 30 billion dollars over five years to fight AIDS worldwide, doubling the funding for his President's Emergency Program for AIDS...

India to Propose Global Fund for Clean Energy Technologies

...mate change, India will propose a dedicated global fund at the G8 Outreach Summit Friday to finance the d... like biomass can be financed by a venture capital fund located with a multilateral financing institution, which will also have the rights to intellectual p...

US Court Asked to Decide Whether Childhood Vaccines can Cause Autism

...t system that has a $US2.5 billion ($A2.9 billion) fund built up from a tax on vaccines of 75 cents a dose. The battle royal is a test case having wide ramifications. Since 1999, more than 4,800 families have filed claims with the government alleging their children developed autism as a result of rou...

The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

...orldwide to pay up the $3 billion a year needed to fund existing TB programs and an additional $1 billion a year to combat XDR TB. In the U.S., Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and others proposed spending $300 million on TB next year, much of it on research. Given that isolating and treating a single XDR pat...

Catholics Should Halt Amnesty Support Over Abortion Issue: Vatican

...n cutting off aid to the United Nations childrens' fund UNICEF, also accused of promoting abortion. UNICEF was distributing in refugee camps around the world a post-intercourse spermicide for young women or teenage girls who had been raped. Vatican aid to UNICEF totalled 2,000 dollars a year....

Indonesia's Acehnese Suffer High Rates of Mental Trauma

...mmunity." The report calls on the government to fund mental health services, as well as on the international community involved in Aceh's post-tsunami reconstruction to incorporate psychosocial care as part of their programmes. "Developing a mental health system that reaches these traumatised indivi...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

...tion's Chemical Oceanography Program, which helped fund the research. GPL/V...

Smokers to Be Taxed to Fund Healthcare for Uninsured

...the order of 200 million dollars a year would help fund several health programs. Most of the tax increase would be directed toward a plan to provide health care coverage for about 132,000 adults. The plan would be available to people without employer-provided health insurance and who earn less than doub...

Health Expert’s Appeal to Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB and Malari

...und to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. They appeal to fund the salaries of health workers or else risk a situ...and colleagues urge the Global Fund to step in and fund such a workforce. Source-Eurekalert...

Thailand Approves Strategic Plan To Reduce HIV Prevalence Among Youth

...ai National Health Insurance Office initially will fund the plan with about 500 million baht, or $15,550, and additional funds are expected from the Health Promotion Fund. About 17,000 new HIV cases occur annually in Thailand, and about half of all new cases occur among youth ages 18 and 19, the Thai N...

Pain – Researchers Take Pains to Understand the Aches of Older Peopl

...cts in 2007. Unfortunately for each project we can fund a further four must be turned away, so we need more donations to enable us to fund as many of the best projects as possible. We must prevent a situation that sees much of this life-ch...

U.N. Officials Call on Countries To Strengthen HIV/AIDS Prevention Efforts

...t would have to increase to $23 billion by 2010 to fund prevention, care and treatment programs. Individual countries also should take responsibility for HIV/AIDS treatment targets, De Cock said, adding that some African countries are not exhibiting adequate leadership on the issue. According to the...

Moratorium Proposed on Advertisements of Newly Approved Drugs

...e next five years to help speed reviews and partly fund safety checks. "The bill establishes a new way to oversee drug safety that is flexible enough to be tailored to each new drug, yet strong enough to allow decisive action when problems are discovered," said Senator Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts De...

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