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DelSite Working Toward Solving Delivery of Influenza Vaccine in Pandemic Situations

...ce, cold storage does not significantly extend the short shelf life of influenza antigens and vaccines. DelSite's GelVac(TM) powder vaccine system has been shown to stabilize and preserve an influenza antigen at room temperature for more than two (2) years without loss of potency. 2. The capability to im...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...be soon forgotten. They have produced more than 60 short films, 30 public service announcements featuring stars such as Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz, and a book, The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook by David de Rothschild, that will be published in Britain this week....

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

...in the rate of heart failure and death over such a short time in this population. The study finds that the change occurred at the same time that hospitals increased their use of certain drugs, tests and procedures that have been proven to help reduce the immediate and long-term impact of acute heart pro...

Anti-inflammatory Drug Fails to Improve COPD Symptoms

...hey also concede that six months may simply be too short a time period to see improvement. However, an increased number of malignancies observed in infliximab-treated subjects, the authors said, raised concern about the safety of this drug in lung patients. Although the malignancies may have been present...

Is It Worth Having Surgery to Remove Your Tonsils?

...ats may benefit from having a tonsillectomy in the short term, but the overall longer term benefit is still unclear, and any benefits have to be balanced against the side effects of the operation. A small study of adults from Finland showed that tonsillectomy significantly reduced the likelihood of fur...

Vitamin Extends Life in Yeast, Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Find

...t is vital for all life. The factor, called NAD, short for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, is elevated by calorie restriction. So the researchers set out to develop an intervention to elevate NAD, using yeast cells, whose genes are easy to manipulate. Its surprising that no one was be able to elevate ...

Hazardous Medical Waste Discovered Again In San Jose

...onder about the frequency of the mix-ups in such a short time period, and why the untreated waste has so far been discovered only at one landfill in the county. Landfills across California have stepped up their monitoring of incoming trash in recent months over environmental concerns and potential health...

Thailand Unfazed As US Worries Over Copyright Violations

...verride patents of two HIV/AIDS drugs, but stopped short of threatening action at the World Trade Organization. The U.S. Trade Representative's office (USTR), said it was elevating Thailand to its "priority watch list" because of an "overall deterioration in the protection and enforcement" of intellectua...

Novel Technology to Locate and Treat Tumors

...ay to target and potentially treat tumors using a short piece of protein that acts like a nanosyringe to deliver tags or therapy to cells, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers show that, the protein fragment, called pHLIP (pH (Low) Insertion Pep...

Diet for Autism

...ims are based on hope, lack factual basis and fall short of the required scientific evidence. Early studies did observe improvements in behavior and cognitive skills in autistic children who were placed on special diets. But the research lacked specificity, as it was not corroborated with a control ...

New Survey List Out Cities That Take Sun Protection Seriously

...ied about skin cancer implying that somehow their short period of sun exposure during the summer months could not cause enough damage to their skin to develop skin cancer. "The notion that only people living in year-round sunny climates are prone to developing skin cancer is completely untrue," explained ...

Various Civil Society Groups Form Alliance to Fight HIV/AIDS

...around 100,000 people on treatment. "This is far short of the total need," the report said....

Family Planning Initiatives Central To Reducing Child Mortality in Developing Countries

...hysically depleted by having too many infants in a short time, according to the Times. The report also found that political will is important in reducing child mortality. According to the report, Egypt made the most progress in reducing child mortality - a 68% decline since 1990 - while Iraq had the highes...

Many Hours on Computer may Harm Eyes

...n harm your eyes, say experts, who advise frequent short breaks every half hour or so to minimise the damag...ymptoms," he said. You should also take frequent short breaks, every half hour or so, Beebe and Weaver said. During those breaks, which can last just a min...

Many Hours on Computer may Harm Eyes

...n harm your eyes, say experts, who advise frequent short breaks every half hour or so to minimise the damag...ymptoms," he said. You should also take frequent short breaks, every half hour or so, Beebe and Weaver said. During those breaks, which can last just a min...

Nurturing Our Nurses for Healthcare Par Excellence

... life of a nurse wonderfully, 'Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, and energy... nurses are rarely short on caring'. All we need to do is nurture this trait and allow it to blossom in all the Florence Nigh...

Transplanted Heart Goes to a Second Recipient in a Rare Surgery

...age the heart muscle further. Czer said that the short time the heart spent in the first recipient may have been critical to the success of the retransplantation. With longer periods, there may have been more significant immune issues. The new recipient is now several weeks out from the transplantation...

Study Revises Dynamin's Role in Nerve Cell Function

... low level enough to keep the mice alive over the short term without dynamin 1. 'The enzyme's function appears to be much more subtle than we had imagined,' Dr. Ryan says. 'It may not be necessary under conditions of low synaptic activity. In those cases, we suspect that other related enzymes, such as ...

Novel Catheter Technique Successfully Patches Holes in the Heart

...e experiencing such severe heart failure they were short of breath at rest or with minimal activity, and we...n able to climb a flight of stairs before becoming short of breath. All patients were ranked in New York Heart Association class 2 or better....

ENDEAVOR III Trial Reports Key Findings on New-generation Stent

...ent. However, at 8 months, the Endeavor stent fell short in angiographic studies, showing significantly greater scar tissue growth, or late loss, in the inner diameter of the artery as compared to the Cypher stent. At 12 months, clinical outcomes were equivalent with the two stents: The combined rates of d...

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