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Antiretroviral Therapy May Prevent HIV Transmission From Breastfeeding Mothers To Infants

...breastfeed rather than use formula due to the high cost of formula, lack of a safe water supply, and cultural norms. Roger L. Shapiro, MD, MPH, of the Harvard School of Public Health, led the research in Botswana. In the first study, the researchers measured the concentrations of three antiretroviral dru...

Grass makes environmentally friendly biofuel

... the hay is not required for pelleting, making the cost of processing less than with wood pelleting," says...me and small business heating requirements at less cost than all available alternatives." ...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

...ey and a co-author of the paper. "But the economic cost to most African nations - collectively the poorest region of the globe - of that switch is impossible." Majid Ezzati, assistant professor of international health at the Harvard School of Public Health and a co-author of the paper, added that "it's a...

Team Invents Device For Weighing Individual Molecules

...ectrometers that fill an entire laboratory and can cost upwards of a million dollars each, Roukes adds. By contrast, future nanodevice-based systems should cost a small fraction of today's technology, and an entire massively-parallel nanodevice system will prob...

Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century

...he article, however, problems with vaccine supply, cost and safety threaten to derail the vaccine successe...d are manufactured by only one company. The rising cost of vaccines, due partly to compliance with regulations and liability concerns, threatens the widespr...

Certain fish have a special mating preference

...nts gonopodia size was larger, as there is minimal cost for large genitalia in that environment. Bigger is better for mating, but smaller is better for avoiding predation." Langerhans and colleagues reported their findings in the May 9 on-line issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. La...

IMF Launches World’s First DNA Database for Myeloma Patients

...nts gonopodia size was larger, as there is minimal cost for large genitalia in that environment. Bigger is better for mating, but smaller is better for avoiding predation." Langerhans and colleagues reported their findings in the May 9 on-line issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. La...

Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees

...ms needed to halt declines in ape populations will cost just under $30 million. The measures include anti-poaching activities, improved monitoring and response to Ebola outbreaks, increased training, and tourism development. "As dire as the threats are to the survival of great apes, it's important for ...

Researchers develop new method for facile identification of proteins in bacterial cells

...es PMF faster and more economical. By reducing the cost of protein identification, they believe PMF can become an economical tool for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of microorganisms used in environmental cleanup. The researchers used a dioxin-eating organism to demonstrate the capabilities o...

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

...s, Tidwell said. "We have been able to reduce the cost of drug discovery to a fraction of the cost it would take a large drug company to do it, but we're not cutting corners, and we're using some of ...

Redesigned protein accelerates blood clotting

...at effectively with a lower dose, would reduce the cost and, potentially, avert immune reactions," Fay said. Study Details Blood clotting involves more than a dozen clotting factors, many named with roman numerals. They form a cascade of chemical reactions inside blood vessels following injury, with eac...

Engineered molecule amplifies body's immune response

...h lower doses of interferon to be used, decreasing cost and side effect profile. In terms of diagnosis, it may be possible to screen patients for the level of Stat1 responsiveness to interferon, and if found to be low, that would make them candidates for a strategy to improve Stat1 responsiveness using ou...

Drug resistance testing in treatment-naive HIV patients is cost-effective

...ck of data on its benefits and its relatively high cost compared with other routine blood tests. A cost-...e of just over 8 percent, the analysis estimated a cost of $23,900 per quality-adjusted life year gained, which is within the range of other commonly accept...

New imaging technology shown to detect pancreatic inflammation in type 1 diabetes

...ich might be very useful for reducing the time and cost of clinical trials. "Because the results in mice looked so good, and because our MGH colleagues have already successfully used essentially the same drug on many patients with prostate cancer," said Dr. Benoist, "we have been able to move relatively q...

Hunt for human genes involved in cell division under way

...of reach for academic labs because of the enormous cost and the ever-changing annotation of the human genome. But being part of the large EU project MitoCheck allowed us to work with one of the leading suppliers of siRNAs, Ambion Europe, Ltd., to produce a genome-wide library for this project," says Dr. J...

Shampoo detergent added to paint makes surfaces self-sterilizing

...r spreading common upper respiratory diseases that cost the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars annually in lost productivity. While it has long been known that our coinage possesses the quality of being self-sterilizing, little previous thought has been given to making frequently handled surfaces such a...

New technique may speed DNA analysis

...hod requires only three steps and could reduce the cost of each microarray to under $50. "This would completely revolutionize diagnostics," said Stellacci. With the ability to mass produce these devices and thus make DNA analysis routine, "we could know years in advance of cancer, hepatitis, or Alzheimer'...

New technique helps identify multiple DNA regulatory sites

...hod requires only three steps and could reduce the cost of each microarray to under $50. "This would completely revolutionize diagnostics," said Stellacci. With the ability to mass produce these devices and thus make DNA analysis routine, "we could know years in advance of cancer, hepatitis, or Alzheimer'...

Hospitalizations because of chicken pox down dramatically since implementation of vaccine

...nally anticipated, for several reasons. First, the cost of the vaccine has increased more than $10 per dos...al and meningococcal conjugate vaccines), indirect cost savings with varicella vaccine were expected to be larger than savings in direct medical costs." "T...

Ships bring alien jellyfish invaders to our shores

...an coastlines. Introduced species are believed to cost the United States $122 billion per year. About 3,000 species of marine organisms are believed to travel the world in ships' ballast water each day. Ships take in water for stability before a voyage and despite preventative measures such as mid-ocean ...

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