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NYC Mayor Raises Questions About Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention Method

...said the administration has not decided if it will pursue the campaign. UNAIDS and WHO released the recommendations in response to growing evidence that routine male circumcision could reduce a man's risk of contracting HIV through heterosexual sex. According to final data from two NIH-funded studies con...

Unique Models Help Teach Nanoscience to the Blind

...urage more blind and visually impaired students to pursue science, technology and engineering. Because current learning and research tools don't allow them to experience science on their own, many blind students don't consider science an attractive career choice. "One of the goals of our program is to bu...

PSivida, Pfizer Ink $165 Million Licensing Pact

...has been developing since its founding. We plan to pursue development and additional collaborations exploiting our innovative drug delivery technologies in other parts of the body.” Medidur is a tiny, injectable device designed for the sustained release of drugs and is currently being studied for the tre...

Phone-based Therapy Eases Depression Long Term

... negative thoughts (cognitive behavioral therapy), pursue activities they had enjoyed in the past (behavioral activation), and develop a plan to care for themselves. “The patients participated more fully in psychotherapy and completed more sessions than do most depressed people in the community,” said Lud...

Yale Researchers Named Ellison Foundation Senior Scholars in Aging

...ts with the resources, freedom, and flexibility to pursue high-risk research that could have a scientific impact worldwide. The Foundation expects that its programs will stimulate exciting innovative research that will improve lives and influence future discoveries.” Source-Bio-io Technology SRM...

Funds Increased for Treating Bhopal Gas Victims

...rovided to gas victims. "It has been decided to pursue with the central government so it declares the remaining 20 wards of Bhopal as gas- affected and compensates their residents too," Gaur said. Source-IANS...

Erroneous Laboratory Operation May Lead To a Cancer Drug

... cells to chemotherapy. Schaefer also intends to pursue this study further and conduct more trials with mice on the same subject. JYT...

Uterus Transplant- A Future Reality

...think this would be something she'd really want to pursue although the risks would have to be carefully weighed.' The transplant project is being led by Del Priore, a cancer specialist, and Dr. Jeanetta Stega, a gynecologic surgeon, at the New York Downtown Hospital, part of the New York-Presbyterian Healt...

Streamlined Claims a Boon to Patients, Doctors

... potential electronic claiming system providers to pursue the issue of system integration with software providers, as a priority,” he said. “We also urge all medical practices to implement integrated software into their practices as soon as it becomes available.” Sorce-AMA SRM...

Stem Cell Activity Deciphered in the Aging Brain

...sts said. "This discovery provides a new avenue to pursue in trying to combat the cognitive decline associated with conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and with aging in general," Hattiangady said. The team now is searching for ways to stimulate the brain to replace its own cells in order to improve le...

Durable Critters Provides Better Way to Human Egg Preservation

...is approach, however further research is needed to pursue clinical applications. The NIH grant enables him to use monkey eggs, which are similar to human eggs, to find the optimal mix of sugar, conventional cryprotectants and freezing to maximize egg preservation. Collaborators at Emory University are pro...

Risk Of Prostate Enlargement Reduced By Aspirin

... team said. Doctors at Mayo clinic are likely to pursue the study on NSAIDS as the recent findings have reported that the drugs reduce the risk of prostate cancer apart from preventing heart diseases and arthritis symptoms. NSAIDs are also associated with possible side effects like stomach ulcers, disr...

Obstacles to Reducing Human Injury and Death Due to Medical Error

...tort law, specifically medical malpractice law, to pursue a case against the health-care provider or hospital in which the error allegedly occurred. In Japan, injury or death due to medical error is often treated as a criminal matter. When medical error causes injury or death, patients or their family membe...

Indian Scientist Sues International Genetic Centre for $5 Million

...Mohan was asked to leave and he was not allowed to pursue another line of research within ICGEB, although this has been the practice. As further proof of victimisation, the lawyers said their client was removed from his teaching assignments without any notification and denied permission to go to on offic...

New data from NIH lab confirms protocol to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice

...nerating islets. As a research community we should pursue all avenues. We're excited to see what will happen in humans." In the 2001 and 2003 studies, Faustman and colleagues treated end-stage nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice with Freund's complete adjuvant, a substance that suppresses the activity of the imm...

Scientists Pursue New Treatment For Asthma Sufferers

...Fulkerson adds. “Now we and other researchers will pursue this to learn exactly what eosinophils are doing to those pathways and to see how we can block their contributions to asthma. Some of these genetic pathways were known to be important in asthma, says Fulkerson, but no one had previously attributed...

New Genetic Test Predicts Eye-Cancer Patients' Futures

...lp patients and their physicians decide whether to pursue clinical trials of experimental therapies that target metastasis. “Patients understand that no good treatment exists after their cancer spreads -- everyone wants to know what their metastasis risk is,” she added. “If the risk is low, it’s a giant r...

Biomarkers Found Harmful For Human Lupus

...on't know why,' he said. But he is continuing to pursue resetting part of the epigenetic code as a way to improve lupus treatment. 'We demonstrated that the response to bacterial and viral byproducts induce B-cell activation through the epigenetic mechanism,' he said. These changes lead to activation of...

Face – off! This ain’t no Sci-i

...nds that it was too risky. Efforts in the UK to pursue complete transplants faced opposition in 2003 from the Royal College of Surgeons who argued that the impact on the psyche in case of failure could be devastating and more research should go into the new domain of full face transplants. Prof. Butle...

Risk of Autism doubled with Single Gene Mutation

...ism-spectrum disorders is an important question to pursue and one that will likely lead to some debate." Thimerosol, theory which linked autism to thimerosol a form of mercury used as a vaccine preservative was rejected by an Institute of Medicine panel of experts. Now the MET gene may reopen investigatio...

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