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Emergency contraception fails to halt abortions

.... Ten different studies carried out in different countries showed that giving women a supply of emergency contraception to keep at home increased its use by twofold or threefold, but had no measurable effect on rates of pregnancy or abortion. Most women who did not use their supply, said they did not rea...

World-wide warning of highly drug-resistant tuberculosis

...ive tuberculosis control strategies, especially in countries where tuberculosis control practices have been inadequate. Research is also needed to assess the extent of the spread of these highly drug resistant strains of tuberculosis worldwide and improved means of diagnosis of tuberculosis and early detecti...

First-time analysis reveals millions of Europeans left at risk from influenza

...ber 2006, the WHO followed this with a call to all countries preparing for a pandemic to increase use of season...8,537 fewer influenza related deaths for all EU-25 countries Implementing a 100% vaccination rate programme for all risk groups in France, Germany, Italy, Spa...

Professors to develop hand-held pathogen testing device

...the lower cost, there also will be applications in countries where fewer resources are available for drinking water safety," Hashsham said. Looking toward the future, Hashsham has been in touch with several organizations that might be interested in the device. AquaBioChip LLC, a Lansing-based company formed...

Recurrence of a flu pandemic similar to infamous 1918 flu could kill 62 million

...ensland in Australia have re-analyzed data from 27 countries around the world to estimate both the global morta...ia, 7.8 percent, which was the highest rate of the countries and regions analyzed. According to this data then, from Denmark to central India, death rates from t...

Study shows interruption of antiretroviral therapy increases risk of disease and death

... In the SMART Study, researchers from more than 30 countries around the world randomly assigned 5,472 participants infected with HIV with a CD4+ cell count of more than 350 per cubic millimeter to the continuous use of antiretroviral therapy or to the episodic use of antiretroviral therapy. The participants?,7...

Rhesus monkeys in Nepal may provide new alternative for HIV/AIDS research

...research. The rhesus macaque is prevalent in many countries and is not considered an endangered species. An a...ind of program has been effective in other habitat countries and is supported by the World Health Organization and the World Conservation Union," he said. ...

Air travel and pandemic flu

Restricting air travel from countries where there is a serious influenza outbreak will do little to hold back the spread of the infection, according to the findings of a study conducted at the UK Health Protection Agency and published in the journal PLoS Medicine. Sometimes a new type ...

African wetland managers armed with new technology

...n specific requests of users across 50 sites in 21 countries worldwide. Based on user requirements, GlobWetla...and water authorities. In support of all African countries participating in the project, GlobWetland ?which is funded by ESA's Data User Element (DUE) ?hosted ...

Study defines effective microbicide design for HIV/AIDS prevention

... for Disease Control and Prevention. In developing countries particularly, cultural and socioeconomic inequities between the sexes also can leave women more susceptible. "In many cases, women lack control over their abilities to protect themselves against the virus," Katz said. "Microbicide development is a ...

A cleaner, greener rice industry

...search Institute (IRRI) is working with the member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations (AS... and strengthening partnerships among ASEAN member countries as well as the private sector, civil society and nongovernmental organizations in addressing environ...

New study reveals structure of E. coli multidrug transporter protein

... as much as "$33,000 per patient in industrialized countries compared to $84 for first-line drugs." In addition, the centers noted, second-line drugs need to be taken for longer periods of time-from 18 to 36 months-and may require substantial patient monitoring, making these treatments difficult if not impossi...

New understanding of parasite cell structures may provide treatments for serious tropical diseases

...more than 66 million women, men and children in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The parasite is transmitted...This debilitating disease is found is more than 88 countries where a third of a billion people are at risk to contract it. In the same set of experiments, the r...

DNA to the defense

...e have dangerous side effects or are scarce in the countries most heavily afflicted. Each day, the disease kills approximately 100 people. In order to avoid destruction by mammalian immune systems, T. brucei continually changes the expression of the proteins on its outer surface. These proteins are enc...

Global warming may have damaged coral reefs forever

...se reefs but this research shows the importance of countries tackling greenhouse gas emissions and trying to reduce global warming and its effect on some of the world's finest and most diverse wildlife." ...

Mapping the protein world

...More than 1,000 research laboratories from over 50 countries are holding ARP/wARP licenses and by June this year our paper that described the key innovative feature of ARP/wARP in Nature Structural Biology in 1999 has reached the magic number of 1,000 citations in the scientific literature. This has created an...

Metal homeostasis research in plants will lead to nutrient-rich food and higher yielding crops

... 50 percent. Rice is a staple food in many of the countries with widespread Iron deficiencies in human diets. Guerinot's lab has previously identified the essential Iron transporter responsible for Iron uptake from the soil. This Iron transporter is IRT1. In addition to transporting iron, IRT1 can also tra...

Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says

...supply was safe. However, after Japan and 52 other countries banned U.S. beef, the USDA started a program to test half of the nation's 450,000 "downer" cows, or cows that could not walk. The surveillance program found no cases of mad cow disease until June 24, 2005. "This cow was of American origin," Berlowit...

New flood-tolerant rice offers relief for world's poorest farmers

...conventional and organic rice farmers in developed countries like theUnited States. If water can be left on the rice for an additionalweek, it is expected that weed populations will be reduced. The research team is now trying to identify all the genes that areregulated by Sub1A and to use this information to...

UN review shows need to halt destructive fishing practice

...nd of the year. Marine scientists and developing countries have called for a moratorium against high seas bottom trawling, which targets deep sea fish species such as orange roughy by dragging heavy gear across the seafloor, causing widespread and potentially irreversible damage to deep sea life. Sylvia Ea...

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