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First Vaccine Designed for Africa Cleared for Testing in Humans

...ther parts of Africa. Recruitment for the trial, involving 18 volunteers, will begin in Oxford in August, and, pending local approvals, another trial is expected to follow in Nairobi three to six months later. McMichael, one of the world's leading researchers in cellular immunity, said: "We are excited to ...

Drug May Make Breathing Easier for Millions

...mpasses emphysema and chronic bronchitis. In tests involving 500 people who had suffered from COPD for more than a decade, the drug appeared to be safer and better at improving breathing and at reducing infections and hospital visits than the best current treatment, researchers said. They were addressing scien...

Virus Combats Brain Tumour

...and colleagues report that in a set of experiments involving cancer cell lines grown in the laboratory, reovirus destroyed cancer cells in 20 out of the 24 cell lines. It was also found that these virus killed the tumour cells that were taken from the humans and grown in the laboratory. In their study, mice t...

Heart disease threat starts early in life for Diabetics

...ia and Children's Hospital Los Angeles did a study involving 57 diabetics ages 12 to 21 and a group of adolescents without the disease. They found that the ateries of type I diabetics was associated with aterosclerotic plaques regardless of body weight, family history, smoking and length of time with diabetes....

GlaxoSmithKline - Changes Lamictal(R) Label Appearance and Packaging

...fort to reduce the potential for dispensing errors involving its antiepileptic drug Lamictal(lamotrigene). As a result, GlaxoSmithKline has worked closely with the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) in an effort to educate pharmacists and physicians about the potential for Lamictal dispensing errors. The cont...

Breast milk is essential

... the development of movement skills, such as those involving co-ordination. Dr Torstein Vik, of the University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, and scientists from the Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, followed 345 randomly selected children to test out the idea that br...

Obesity a risk for pancreatic cancer

...ta from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study - involving nearly 47,000 men - and the Nurses' Health Study, which covers nearly 120,000 women.// They find that people who are obese have a 72 per cent higher risk of pancreatic cancer compared to those who are of normal weight or slightly underweight.This m...

Right drugs drastically cut stroke risk

...rugs that keeps blood pressure in check. The study involving about 6,000 patients over six years in many countries showed that strokes were cut by at least a quarter among patients given the drugs. // The drugs are inexpensive and easily available. Use of the drugs cut both strokes and heart attacks and co...

Supply of Radiopharmaceuticals Hampered by Attacks

...clear pharmacies, so that appropriate medical care involving radiopharmaceuticals can be provided. Mallinckrodt, a leading maker and supplier of radiopharmaceuticals, spent a large number of man-hours getting products in from outside the United States for processing, and even more time in arranging special l...

New pancreatic surgery

... City, describe 19 cases of this kind of operation involving patients with benign disease of the pancreas. There were very few problems, and a decreased stay in hospital for all of them. And there are ways of reducing complications - using different methods to heal the surgical wound....

Diabetes on the rise

...falls on the adoption of a more Western lifestyle, involving fatty food and too little exercise. Obesity is a known risk factor for the development of diabetes. Dr Mohan, Medical Director of the MV Diabetes Research centre in Chennai, told the annual conference of the Association of Physicians of India: "By 20...

Stay away from strenouous work

...rth. Physically demanding work was defined as work involving repetitive lifting, load-carrying or other significant physical exertion.// The study of 230,000 working women was carried out at the University of Michigan.Dr Ellen Scheinder, who headed the research, said: "Activities that women engage in at work...

Music aids in curing dementia

... the surface. "One would hope so because it is not involving high tech equipment or very expensive or toxic drugs."...

A new treatment for liver cancer

..., and less well with larger liver tumours or those involving the bile duct. An exciting development is that the researchers have found they can dramatically decrease side effects by better targetting of the beads and by splitting the dose, so that only certain sections of liver are irradiated. It is also eas...

Protein and fat improve memory

... - consumed each type of drink.‘Other memory tests involving attention and non-verbal tasks showed variable effects, he says, suggesting that specific types of food energy enhance specific aspects of brian function.Further research is necessary to unravel the unique connections between each nutrient and brain ...

The brain wave

...d a consistent pattern of increased brain activity involving the superior temporal gyrus, as well as differential activity in the two hemispheres within the inferior parietal cortex when imitation was involved. The left inferior parietal cortex showed increased activity when the subjects were imitating another...

Staying mentally energitic prevents Alzheimer's

...ort is part of the ongoing Religious Orders Study, involving the cognitive health of older Catholic nuns, priests and brothers across the nation. The researchers asked 500 participants, free of dementia at the start, about participation in a range of mental activities. These included reading, doing crossword...

Vitamin C to put off cataract

...d "cortical opacities", a common form of cataracts involving a particular type of lens cell. The researchers also revealed that the use of vitamin C supplements for at least 10 years was associated with a 60% reduction in the risk of cataracts, compared to women who took no supplements. A UK expert, Dr Chris...

Parasite infections linked to organ transplants

...ndards for preventing contamination. In the report involving the parasitic disease, all of the organs came from the cadaver of a Central American immigrant who was apparently infected with T. cruzi. The parasite causes Chagas disease, which was previously confined to Latin America. The disease can cause heart ...

Tomato Sauce reduces Cancer Risk- Study

...r of the study, said it supported earlier research involving foods such as tomatoes that were high in lycopene, a powerful antioxidant. According to the author, these most recent findings add support to the notion that a diet rich in tomatoes and lycopene-containing foods, as well as other fruits and vegetabl...

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