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Tag: "targets" at medical news

Doctors Call for Opt-out Approach to HIV Testing

.... While the current policy in France successfully targets at risk groups, they say it fails to reach low risk groups, who tend to be older, mainly men, heterosexual, with a partner and children. Low risk groups are the most likely to test late. They say late testing could play an important role in the spre...

Loss of Antenna Leads to Cancer in Insects

...un, so learning more about the mechanisms of their targets is important in understanding how these agents work and who might benefit from them. It is also tantalizing to consider that closer connections exist between dysplastic disorders leading to cysts and cancer than have previously been appreciated, th...

Hate Crimes Against Gays and Lesbians Rising in US

...Men are generally more likely than women to be the targets of most kinds of violent crime, and this pattern s...greater visibility probably also makes them easier targets for discrimination than bisexuals." In the new study, survey respondents had an average age of 39....

Gene Responsible for Ageing Process Discovered and Calorie Restriction Could Help

...enetic treasure-chest of potential pharmacological targets for developing drugs that can extend the human lifespan without having to follow a rigorous and difficult diet. The first experiments in calorie-restricted diets go back to the 1930s. Laboratory rats and mice fed a severely calorie-restricted diet,...

UK Scientists to Undertake Seven Year Study of Peanut Allergy

... enable scientists to identify important treatment targets to try and develop cures for children who already suffer from peanut allergy."...

Study Shows Continued Success for New HPV Vaccine Against Virus

...ference in preventing cervical cancer. The vaccine targets HPV types 16 and 18, which cause about 70 percent of all cases of cervical cancer. It also targets HPV types 6 and 11, which together cause about 90 percent of all cases of genital warts. Researche...

Researchers Discover How Antibiotic Inhibits Bacterial Growth

...drug worked was not known. Until now. "Linezolid targets ribosomes, inhibits protein synthesis, and kills bacteria," said Alexander Mankin, professor and associate director of UIC's Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and lead investigator of the study. "If we know exactly where the drug binds, we can ...

Mumps Breaks Out In Canada

...h to review an expanded immunization strategy that targets the vulnerable cohort. Those infected are asked to isolate themselves at home for nine days. According to Neil Rau, an infectious disease specialist at Halton Healthcare Services in Ontario, the current strain of mumps originated in Britain, where...

Spending on Diabetes Drugs Soars in US

...he report said. Some newer drugs that act on new targets are increasingly being prescribed as first-line therapy and are frequently being used in combination with other drugs, driving up costs this year and going forward, the report said. Use of lower cost generic drugs could mitigate pricing pressures, ...

Pediatric Cancer Stem Cell Identified

...d an animal model to identify and test therapeutic targets of human ERMS. The scientists artificially activated the RAS pathways to induce ERMS in a strain of genetically engineered zebrafish. Some transgenic zebrafish developed visible tumors by 10 days of age. Through their model, Dr. Zon and colleagues...

Nanomedicine Gives the Way for Nerve Cell Regeneration

...gment and then work their way through to their end targets (skin, muscle, etc). Usually, when the gap between the severed nerve endings is larger than a few millimeters, the nerve does not regenerate on its own. If left untreated, the end result is permanent sensory and motor paralysis. A few hundred thous...

Drug Eluting Nanostructured Coatings Enable Targeted Drug Therapy for Orthopedic Patients

...ht at the site of implantation. This method, which targets the drug where it is needed, can avoid the side effects due to high dosages normally given to patients. Further, in cases where a very long treatment regimen is needed, such as in growth factor therapy, nanotubes may provide superior performance. A...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Renews Goal To Reverse Spread of HIV by 2015

...er countries last year renewed pledges and set new targets to provide universal access to HIV prevention, tre...e spread of the virus. Ban added that meeting U.N. targets "means mustering the political will to address the factors that drive the epidemic -- including gend...

Five Servings of Fruits, Vegetables a Day Not Mandatory

...e idea that you must meet some vitamin and mineral targets every day of your life is a marketing myth," she said. Collins's advice flies in the face of Britain's Five A Day campaign which encourages people to eat five pieces of fruit and vegetables every day to be healthy....

Doctors Strike Paralysed Health Services in Bihar

...usinessmen and school students have been the prime targets of abductors for ransom. Earlier this year, the Patna High Court had directed the state government to trace 144 children and 581 women who had been missing since 2001....

Scientist Found New Mechanism for Brain Learning

...pplying this technology, we also found biochemical targets that hold promise for future treatments of a variety of cognitive disorders," Dr. Bibb said. He, however, admitted that the long-term effects of deleting the Cdk5 enzyme are yet to be determined. He also said that studies were going on to develop d...

How Plague-Causing Bacteria Disarm Host Defense

...line in the May 25 issue of Molecular Cell. YpkA targets a host protein called Gq, the messenger that transmits extracellular signals (we are under attack!) into the host cell, so that it can mount a defense. The alarm signal sent by Gq is intercepted by YpkA, which sets up a roadblock along several cell...

Brain Cells Activity: New Treatment Target for Psychiatric Diseases

... occur, he says. They also provide new treatment targets for psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and neurological disorders such as epilepsy, researchers say. The genes are both associated with schizophrenia, a disease that affects about 1 percent of the population, but the exact role of malfuncti...

EU Pushes Asian Nations on Climate Change Goals

...arp cuts, Yang said that China already had its own targets and made clear that Beijing believes it is up to industrialized countries to cut world emissions. "China is a developing country, and per capita emission of greenhouse gases in China is much lower than in developed nations," he said. "China is real...

Malaria and HIV Jointly Affects Pregnant Women and Their Infants

...Public Library of Science) pins down how the virus targets the immune response in pregnant women. "PAM can be a deadly condition that leaves mothers and their children particularly vulnerable. We set out to understand how women acquire protection against malaria during pregnancy and how HIV infection impai...

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