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Clinton Foundation Eases Over-Pricing Of AIDS Drugs Once More

Former US president Bill Clinton has once again lent a helping hand to HIV/ AIDS victims. After a fallout between the Brazil government and drug giant Merck over pricey anti-retroviral drugs, the Clinton foundation has helped diffuse the situation. Clinching a deal with two Indian pharma...

Resident Bacteria May Help Clean Phosphorous From Lakes

...mental engineering. 'Phosphorus is something that, once it gets into the lakes, it's very hard to get out,' she says. She will use her expertise in wastewater engineering and in biological systems to study the bacterial community in different eutrophied lakes-two in Madison and one in China-to learn mor...

Britains Complacent Attitude To Uptake Of New Cancer Drugs Revealed

...thorization of new cancer drugs and ensuring that, once this is obtained, the drug is available without further delays. A Department of Health spokesman was quoted: "We are making good progress in ensuring cancer patients have access to the drugs they need. A report published by the national cancer dire...

HIV Survival Improves If Patients Stay in Care

...f dying than those who saw the physicians at least once each quarter. Patients with visits in one quarter had nearly twice the risk of dying compared to patients with visits in all four quarters. "The next step is to figure out how to get them to stay in care," said Giordano. He plans to look for ways t...

New Vaccine to Control Blood Pressure

...months. A booster shot every six months, or even once a year, would keep blood pressure low, the researchers said. People who have tried it have suffered a few side effects, although one in ten did complain of a brief flu-like illness. Protherics is planning trials of an improved version of the vacc...

Mumps Breaks Out In Canada

...at those vaccinated years ago are getting infected once more. Ontario's Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care confirmed yesterday that the cases, two of which are in Toronto, are linked to the outbreak in Nova Scotia. The outbreak, which began in late February, has also infected 34 people in New Brunsw...

Man Keeps Wife and Sons in Maggot-infested House

... interview at her home. She claimed her son was once a wealthy owner of several convenience stores, paying for anything his wife requested, including baby sitters and house cleaners. Her son installed the cameras for the family's security when he renovated the home in a rural town near the North Caroli...

National Rural Health Mission Project Requires 200,000 Nurses

...lam had conferred to revive the achievement awards once again. He further said: I consider myself fortunate for organizing this ceremony in its own grace and also to name it as "Florence Nightingale Award". His Excellency Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam the President of India, presented the awards to seventeen nu...

Bird Flu Outbreak Expands in Vietnam

...have been reported in the new outbreaks. Vietnam once had the highest number of human bird flu fatalities at 42 people dead since 2003 - but no human cases have been confirmed since October 2005. Human infection by H5N1 is still rare, transmitted by close contact with sick birds and not easily passed ...

Outrage Against Gay PartnersInCrime Kept Together

... his anger over the situation: "I am appalled that once again the Department of Corrective Services had made a decision not in line with the thinking and wishes of the general public. "I think parents will be absolutely disgusted that this could be allowed to happen. "I appreciate that they have to b...

Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Checked Through Testosterone Gel

...g 100 milligrams of testosterone to his upper arms once daily for 12 months. "We saw an improvement which was exciting," said study co-author Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl, professor of neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles. "This looks like it would be neuroprotective, which would be great." Th...

Scientists Saying Against Trees Sparks Debate

...et unpublished research would confirm his findings once and for all. Keppler's unexpected discovery has caused heated debate among biologists and atmospheric chemists. Though bacteria in soil or decaying matter produce methane in anaerobic conditions, there seems to be no reason or mechanism for living ...

Our Ancestors Possessed Much Smaller Brains Than It was Thought

...ing male. Aegyptopithecus' brain is smaller than once thought. But other features in these skulls, and in many other Aegyptopithecus fossil pieces collected at the Egyptian site over four decades, suggest that this primate was already branching away from its lemurlike ancestry," said Simons. "We also ...

Extremist Christian Preacher Dies of Heart Problems

...the laws of nature, as well as the laws of God, he once said. Even President George Bush was embarrassed when Falwell famously said in the wake of September 11, the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyl...

Being Overzealous With Multivitamins May Lead To Prostate Cancer

...t of men in his study took multivitamins more than once a day. The authors found no increase in the risk of early prostate tumors among heavy vitamin users. The researchers speculate that perhaps high-dose vitamins had little effect until a tumor appeared, and then could spur its growth.They also found...

Risk of Traumatic Workplace Injury Increased by Obesity

...ded in the study, 29 percent were injured at least once between January 2, 2002, and December 31, 2004. Approximately 85 percent of the injured workers were classified as overweight or obese. More than 28 percent of injuries occurred among employees classified as overweight, 30 percent in the obese I a...

Suicide Gene Therapy Kills Bowel Cancer Cells

...nd the activated drug the two work in tandem. And once activated, the drug has the added bonus of causing the virus to produce more of the activating protein, which activates more of the drug, and so on. Its the first time weve seen a positive feedback loop like this in a GDEPT therapy." The drug damag...

30-year-old Woman Survives 'internal Decapitation'

...ade the progress that she's made.' 'I've seen it once before,' Ghiselli said, 'and, unfortunately, the patient didn't make it.' Physicians in Nebraska, where Malloy lives, told relatives they should prepare to say their goodbyes. Ghiselli said a will to survive kept Malloy, 30, alive long enough for...

Workplace Stress Leads to Rising Suicide Rate in Japan

...n social attitudes toward mental illness. Though once seen as shameful, more Japanese are willing to acknowledge they suffer from depression or stress-related illnesses now than in the past, and the government has begun easing its compensation restrictions to allow more people to qualify. Financial wo...

Australia Agonising Over the Problem of Cocaine Use by Lawyers

...l system in disarray. Peter Hayes, for instance, once hailed as a brilliant advocate, is lying critically ill in an Adelaide hospital. He was found naked and unconscious last Friday in a hotel room by the client he was in Adelaide to represent.. Following a police investigation of Hayes' collapse, a yo...

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