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FDA Refuses to Lift Ban on Blood Donation by Gays

...is infected with HIV, but may not have made enough virus or developed enough antibodies to be detected by available tests. For this reason, a person could test negative, even when they are actually HIV positive and infectious. However, it would change this policy if supported by scientific data showing ...

Suspected Human Infection of Birdflu Reported in Vietnam

... about 1.1 million will be the first victim of the virus in 14 months, deputy Health Minister Trinh Quan Hu...ion, as over 40 million domestic birds died of the virus or were culled. Japan, the European Union, and the World Bank pledged in April to allocate $35 mi...

Islamabad Culls Over 6,000 Birds Control Bird-flu Outbreak

...ary measure. Afzal ruled out the presence of the virus in other parts of the country. There have been 23 outbreaks of H5N1 in birds in Pakistan this year, but these have been quickly controlled. At least 185 people in 11 other Asian and African countries have died after contracting the deadly H5N1 viru...

Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Reverse Heart Failure in Animals

...homas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, used a virus to carry the gene for a protein, S100A1, into the heart cells of rats with heart failure. The virus expressed the S100A1 gene only in heart cells and not in other organs, essentially making it a tailo...

Super-oxidised Water Found Effective Against MRSA

...at generates the oxychlorine ions, kills bacteria, virus and fungi. The company claims that the solution is effective against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We would welcome any safe effective treatment which could help people with diabetes make a swift recovery, the BBC quoted Tra...

FDA Reaffirms Policy Barring MSM From Donating Blood

...ts are highly accurate but still cannot detect the virus 100% of the time. According to the AP/Times, opponents of the policy say it is discriminatory and prevents healthy donors from giving blood even as the need for donated blood increases. FDA has acknowledged that the policy prevents some healthy blo...

Most Parents in U.S. Not in Favor of HPV Vaccine Mandates

...otection against human papillomavirus, or HPV, the virus linked to cervical cancer and genital warts the majority of U.S. parents have already reached a decision on the issue: They do not want the vaccine to be mandated. According to a new report released today by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Ch...

Shortage of Doctors and Nurses Affects AIDS Treatment in Africa

...ha where about 30 percent of adults have the AIDS virus nearly 6,000 people are currently receiving anti-retroviral therapy. But the number of new patients starting treatment each month dropped from 270 in May 2006 to 100 last December mainly because of lack of health workers. South Africa has 393 nur...

Scientist Observes real Time Generation of Neurones in Mammals

...cial microscopic imaging techniques, combined with virus gene technology. The dendrites are the string-like extensions of the neurone that spread out to reach other neurones, and serve as the points of communication between them. The model employed in the research was the new-born neurone population ...

China Reports Bird Flu Infection in Military

...15 were fatal. Experts have long warned that the virus might be more widespread in China, where dozens of outbreaks of H5N1 have been reported in poultry, the most recent one last weekend in the central province of Hunan. H5N1 bird flu had infected 307 people, including 186 who died, in 12 mainly Asian...

Persons With HIV and Alcohol Problems Co-infected With Hepatitis C

...t persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), who also have alcohol problems, were negat...vely affected by co-infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). These findings appear in the June issue of Alcoholism: Clinical Experimental Research. Co-i...

Contact Lens Wearers Warned Against Using AMO Solution

... another form of keratitis, such as herpes simplex virus keratitis, who is not responding to therapy. Diagnosis is made on the basis of clinical picture and isolation of organisms from corneal culture or detection of trophozoites and/or cysts on histopathology. However, a negative culture does not nece...

Concern Expressed Over Poor Quality Bird Flu Vaccine Used in Nigeria

...troyed across Nigeria since February 2006 when the virus was first detected in the country. However, cases of the virus have since been confirmed in 22 of Nigeria's 36 states and infections still exist in 14 of those sta...

Pakistan Takes Steps to Contain Bird Flu Outbreak

...ficial said Saturday. The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus was detected in three farms May 22 and in two othe...nts in an area of three km from where the bird flu virus was detected as precautionary measures, according to the report. Besides, the poultry farm owners ...

New Respiratory Virus in Children Linked to Cancer Discovered

One more respiratory virus in children, and this one possibly linked to cance...luding 38 from Brisbane and six from the US. WU virus is a new virus associated with severe respiratory tract infection in children but also belongs to a ...

HIV Spreading Rapidly Among Gay Men in Hong Kong

...e sex, officials said Tuesday. Profiling of the virus acquired by HIV sufferers has revealed a cluster of cases with similar genetic sequencing which has risen from 34 to 53 cases since October last year. Department of Health expert Wong Ka-hing urged people with a history of unprotected sex to have H...

American Who Exposed Air Passengers to Drug Resistant TB Quarantined

...id. That patient had smallpox, a highly contagious virus -- since eradicated -- that killed about one of every three infected people....

Development of Broadly-protective HIV Vaccine is Possible

...t the myriad strains of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may be possible, according to a new study conducted at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU). Since HIV is extremely variable, its prevention requires a vaccine effective enough to stimulate the body to produce cros...

Malaria and HIV Jointly Affects Pregnant Women and Their Infants

...ainst malaria and have also discovered how the HIV virus works to counter this defence. The research could ...cine (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 ...

Thai 'Condom King's' NGO Wins Gates Award for Anti-AIDS Work

...o an 87 percent reduction in new infections of the virus that causes AIDS, the Foundation said. "Mechai Viravaidya is widely known as Thailand's 'Condom King,' a testament to his extraordinary popularity as well as his personal leadership in family planning and HIV prevention," said Nils Daulaire, presid...

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