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NYC's First Rapid HIV Drug-resistant AIDS Case Prompts Call to Step Up HIV Prevention

...lic Health Department today issued a public health advisory after reporting the first documented case of an alarming, new, rapidly-progressing and highly drug resistant strain of HIV in a New York man who progressed from his initial HIV infection, thought to have occurred in mid-October 2004, to a largely unt...

FDA Warns About Antipsychotic Drugs and Elderly

... Administration (FDA) today issued a public health advisory to alert health care providers, patients, and pati...atients receiving a placebo (sugar pill). Today's advisory applies to such antipsychotic drugs as Abilify (aripiprazole), Zyprexa (olanzapine), Seroquel (queti...

NHGRI targets 12 more organisms for genome sequencing

...ommittee are then reviewed and approved by NHGRI's advisory council, which in turn forwards its recommendations regarding sequencing strategy to NHGRI leadership. The genomes of a number of organisms have been or are being sequenced by the large-scale sequencing capacity developed by the Human Genome Project...

Tsunami-damaged coral reefs should be left to recover naturally, say scientists

...astle upon Tyne, and who set out their views in an advisory brief for the World Bank, point to historical records of major coral reef devastation by cyclones and typhoons, which show that reefs recovered without human intervention. Although the devastation caused by the tsunami was on a much larger scale, th...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

...op New Drugs for Protozoan Diseases established an advisory board chaired by Dr. Frederick Sparling at UNC, with Drs. Terry Shapiro at Johns Hopkins University, Ann Moore at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Thomas Brewer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as board members. Laboratori...

NHGRI Selects 13 More Organisms for Genome Sequencing

...ommittee are then reviewed and approved by NHGRI’s advisory council, which in turn forwards its recommendations regarding sequencing strategy to NHGRI leadership. The genomes of a number of organisms have been or are being sequenced by the large-scale sequencing capacity developed by the Human Genome Project...

Possible treatment found for 'chemobrain'

...ommittee are then reviewed and approved by NHGRI’s advisory council, which in turn forwards its recommendations regarding sequencing strategy to NHGRI leadership. The genomes of a number of organisms have been or are being sequenced by the large-scale sequencing capacity developed by the Human Genome Project...

NHGRI announces new sequencing targets

...mittee are reviewed and approved by one of NHGRI's advisory groups, The National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research, which in turn forwards its recommendations to NHGRI leadership. For more on the selection process, go to: www.genome.gov/Sequencing/OrganismSelection . A complete list of organisms an...

Suicide risk does not increase when adults start using antidepressants, study finds

...der medications. These findings challenge a 2004 advisory by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which warned that suicidal behavior may emerge after treatment with the newer antidepressant drugs has begun. "Our findings show that, fortunately, suicide attempts and death by suicide are rare follo...

Five surprising facts about starvation that could change the international agenda

...so the chair of a World Health Organization expert advisory panel on household food and nutrition security. ...

UCLA study finds same genes act differently in males and females

...CLA Women's Health Center. The center's executive advisory board, a group of businesswomen interested in advancing women's health, helped fund the study. "Many of the genes we identified relate to processes that influence common diseases," said Yang. "This is crucial, because once we understand the gender...

New HIV statistics indicate increasing toll of AIDS on African American community

...commendations are endorsed by a blue-ribbon expert advisory panel of some 30 African-American leaders that includes, among others, Julian Bond (chairman, NAACP), Dr. Louis Sullivan (former Secretary of Health and Human Services), Dr. David Satcher (former U.S. Surgeon General), Marian Wright Edelman (presiden...

ASU researchers test antibacterial effects of healing clays

... deceased, approached the WHO in 2002 at its fifth advisory group meeting on Buruli ulcer, having documented more than 50 cases of successful healing with the clay treatments. WHO documents indicate that the organization was receptive, calling her results "impressive," yet, Williams notes, funding was denied ...

Music genes and musical geniuses

...golia, the Festival’s guest Country. Scientific advisory committee G. Barbujani (Ferrara-Italy), D. Drayna (Rockville-USA), T. Fitch (St. Andrews-UK), L. Lopez (Rome-Italy), I. Peretz (Montréal-Canada), D. Pettener (Bologna, Italy). ...

Transfusion expert urges wider use of filtered blood

...n. But despite the recommendations of two national advisory committees in 10 years that voted in favor of all patients in the United States receiving leukoreduced blood, ("universal leukoreduction"), the practice is still not wholly supported in the medical community, nor recommended by the Food and Drug Admi...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

... realizing this immense project. An international advisory board of distinguished individuals will also help guide the Encyclopedia. The effort is spurred by a $10 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and $2.5 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and will ultimately...

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