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Peptide Found in Human Blood Inhibits 60 Strains of HIV, Study Says

... biotechnology company Viro Pharmaceuticals, whose scientific director is a co-author of the study. According to the Chronicle, Viro is conducting animal studies to determine if VIRIP is safe to test among humans. Although the results so far "look promising," it will take at least five years of animal and hum...

HIV/AIDS- Possible Cure From Within

The scientific world is abuzz with excitement about a possible cure for HIV/AIDS – all natural, from the human body itself. // Announcing the discovery of a peptide (chain of amino acids) derived from filtrate residues of kidney dialysis patients, lead researcher...

Electronic Mosquito Repellents Fail to Prevent Malaria Transmission

... for any sound. The authors say that 30 years of scientific skepticism and a successful prosecution in the 198...Cochrane report,” said Joel Breman, M.D., a senior scientific advisor at the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health. “There is no evide...

Chondroitin may Not Have Any Beneficial Effect on Arthritis, New Study Says

...Business Journal. Andrew Shao, vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs with the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a supplement industry group, says he doesn't think the analysis was fair in the criteria it used to exclude numerous studies that found chondroitin beneficial."Consumers speak with th...

MS Drug Helps Reduce Vision Loss

...ed in the April 17, 2007, issue of Neurology?, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The analyses were performed on data from the AFFIRM and SENTINEL studies, which involved 2,138 men and women with relapsing multiple sclerosis from clinics in Europe, North American, Australia, and New ...

US Professor Helping India Deal With Global Warming

... an observation system could deliver the necessary scientific foundation for the development of long-term govern...servation systems are critical to provide the best scientific understanding of a changing earth system for prudent policy decisions that influence our health, our...

Queensland Men Need Push To Use Colorectal Cancer Screening

...ening for colorectal cancer currently has stronger scientific evidence for reducing the risk of death than screening for prostate or skin cancer, but a new study in the Medical Journal of Australia has found that fewer Queensland men undergo the colorectal cancer test than the other two. Dr Monika Janda, a s...

Doctors Advised: Don’t Ignore Deat

...er-emphasises, to our detriment, the reductionist, scientific nature of death and suffering,' he says. He says perhaps such letters are too confronting for doctors as they may think, wrongly, that they might have failed. Source-AMABR>SRM...

Anti-wrinkle Compound Causes Pathological Reaction in Skin Cells

...MAE is similar to medication, there is very little scientific documentation about its pharmacological and toxicological effects," explains Dr. Marceau, who stresses his goal is not to condemn the use of this compound. "We’re not saying DMAE is dangerous to people exposed to it, but our results indicate it’s tim...

Merck's Pain Reliever Arcoxia Rejected by US Federal Advisory Panel

...d Merck for using what they called poorly designed scientific studies in an attempt to put Arcoxia in the best possible light. Bruce Psaty, director of the cardiovascular health research unit at the University of Washington, says manufacturers can "rig" trials by comparing their drug to one known to be relati...

Ramadoss Vows to Set Up Food Regulatory Body in India

...at will be administered by a single autonomous and scientific regulatory body," Ramadoss said while inaugurating an international food summit. "The body will be set up in four to five months and it will be headed by a food commissioner," he added. He said all tobacco products would from June 1 bear photog...

Brain Structured to Make Human Beings Religious, Claims a US Scientist

...erent forms of palm reading, Atran notes. Today, scientific images can track our thoughts on God all right, but the question why we think of God in the first place remains unsolved. GPL/B...

Use Filtered Blood for Transfusion: Expert

...on of a patient," Blumberg said. "But despite much scientific evidence that supports this notion, millions of people today are still receiving transfusions that might needlessly be harmful to them. The single most effective and overdue safety measure the FDA could take at this time is to mandate leukoreduction ...

Unique Models Help Teach Nanoscience to the Blind

At the root of scientific study are observations made with the eyes; yet in nanoscience, our eyes fail// us. The smallest object we can see still looms thousands of times larger than a typical nano-sized structure. Even the most powerful microscopes can't peer into the nan...

Patent Problems in US – Over Stem Cell Researc

... obvious variations of, cells described in earlier scientific papers or in patents issued to others. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) shocked but up a brave front saying finally they would win back the patents. Invoking almost the same arguments used by anti-Novartis activists, the Public Pat...

Genetic Technology and Eugenics

...to the pages of a science fiction novel. It is a scientific 'bomb' that has the ability to reduce the nuclea... It does seem a hard task to control this emerging scientific scenario and the scientific community, the world over, should handle it with the gravity it deserves...

Promoting Circumcision to Prevent HIV is Misguided and Will Backfire: ICGI

...arried out with the same aseptic conditions of the scientific experiments, education programs, and emphasis on condom use. And a 2007 study by Brewer published in 'Annals of Epidemiology' says circumcised men are three times as likely to transmit HIV to their partners. Some areas of Africa have high rates of...

Transplanted Pig Cells in Human Produce Insulin

...fter receiving a pig islet cell transplant. The scientific paper published in the March 2007 issue of the international journal Xenotransplantation outlines how LCT has demonstrated the long-term safety, viability and function of its encapsulated porcine islets in a human patient over an extended period of t...

GlaxoSmithKline Signs Outsourcing Deal With TCS

...ng to tap into India's pool of high-quality IT and scientific talent and is aiming to trim costs through outsourcing. GSK is also involved in research collaboration with India's Ranbaxy Laboratories, to jointly develop drugs in areas such as urology, diabetes and asthma. Earlier this year, GSK announced that p...

UF Launches Project to Bridge the Regeneration Gap

..., according to Arlene Y. Chiu, Ph.D., director for scientific activities at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. "We are all excited by the great potential of stem cells to repair damage and return function," Chiu said. "It remains a great mystery, however, why some organisms are able to renew t...

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