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Experimental vaccine protects nonhuman primates when given after exposure to Marburg virus

...ral drugs in the United States and other developed countries has significantly improved the health, survival, and functioning of HIV-infected individuals. But since people are living longer with the virus, the overall prevalence of neuroAIDS appears to be increasing. "Now that we're better at treating the im...

Immune response to HIV in the brain

...ral drugs in the United States and other developed countries has significantly improved the health, survival, and functioning of HIV-infected individuals. But since people are living longer with the virus, the overall prevalence of neuroAIDS appears to be increasing. "Now that we're better at treating the im...

Free access to a digital library for developing countries

...nt, health and nutrition information in developing countries is a matter of course for us. We already particip...ater, Air, & Soil Pollution. OARE will enable countries to build their own higher education programs in the environmental sciences, educate their own leader...

New male contraceptive clears hurdle

...rry more weight internationally. Then men in other countries -- such as the US -- can hope for faster government approval." Currently, RISUG's developers are arranging a collaboration with US researchers. Lissner says that to gain FDA approval, US researchers will have to begin with animal tests, so studies i...

Parents need to be educated about HPV vaccinations for daughters

... about 80% of these deaths occurring in developing countries where there is little or no access to cervical screening programmes.[1] "HPV vaccination has the potential to make a huge difference to women's lives, particularly in developing countries," said Professor Kitchener. "Cervical cancer is a major kill...

Predators keep the world green, ecologists find

...portant implications for the debate raging in many countries over reintroduction of top predators such as wolves. "The take-home message is clear: the presence of a viable carnivore guild is fundamental to maintaining biodiversity," the authors wrote. Information collected for the Journal of Ecology report is...

Contagious obesity? Identifying the human adenoviruses that may make us fat

...eous increase in the prevalence of obesity in most countries of the world is difficult to explain by changes in food intake and exercise alone, and suggest that adenoviruses could have contributed," the study said. "The role of adenoviruses in the worldwide epidemic of obesity is a critical question that deman...

Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide

...t is particularly severe in middle- and low-income countries where more than 94 percent of births with serious ... to the differences between low- and middle-income countries and those with higher incomes. "Our report identifies for the first time the severe, and previously...

Tropical Atlantic cooling and African deforestation correlate to drought, report scientists

...ughts is unpredictable. "People in less developed countries live from rain, harvests and animal husbandry," says Weldeab. "Drought directly affects them; they run out of food for people and animals." ...

Open Source Biotechnology alliance for international agriculture

...legal rights, and are usually tailored for wealthy countries and well-heeled scientists," said IRRI's Director ...ies, including China, Korea, and India. These same countries are growing powerhouses of innovation, poised to play lead roles in the next generation of biologica...

Pretreating rogue cancer cells with aspirin cripples their resistance to targeted therapy

...hors state. The United States ranks among the ten countries with the most sites. These include Torrey Pines in California, a cave in West Virginia, a pond in Mississippi, and six sites in Hawaii. The whooping crane and the recently rediscovered ivory-billed woodpecker are two spectacular American species that...

New study pinpoints epicenters of Earth's imminent extinctions

...hors state. The United States ranks among the ten countries with the most sites. These include Torrey Pines in California, a cave in West Virginia, a pond in Mississippi, and six sites in Hawaii. The whooping crane and the recently rediscovered ivory-billed woodpecker are two spectacular American species that...

Hepatitis B accounts for 40 percent of 'missing' Asian women

...elative number of males is higher in certain Asian countries than in the West, where it is close to unity. A number of authors have suggested that this imbalance reflects neglect of female children and poor conditions for women and, as a result, have argued that as many as 100 million women are "missing." H...

UK sperm donor crisis

...said named donations had been practised in several countries for some years and the UK is having to learn how to make the transition from anonymity. It would help recruitment, she believed, if uncertainties about the eventual release of identifiable information could be clarified and fears allayed. "As yet th...

Sahara's edge studied from ground, air and space to improve water management

...ing national remote sensing institutes in the SASS countries ?most prominently Tunisia's Centre National de Télédétection (CNT) and the European partners GAF AG, the University of Munich, Munich-based company Vista GmbH and Toulouse-based company Scot. While DLR concentrates on the analysis and interpretatio...

Do the Europeans turn ill sitting up so late?

...s from UK, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. Many countries are involved in sleep research, but especially in the smaller countries it is very difficult to acquire the funding. This sleep restriction project brings together research...

Polio vaccination strategies assessed as eradication nears

...that this issue would be a particular challenge in countries with high HIV prevalence. Karen Hennessey, PhD, MSPH, and colleagues in Cote d'Ivoire and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examined the duration of shedding of oral poliomyelitis vaccine by individuals with HIV infection. Dr. Hen...

New book highlights world's borderless conservation areas

...and local levels. They can reduce tensions between countries and help rebuild peaceful cooperation. Peace parks celebrate historically good relations along with a shared commitment to managing precious natural resources. "Transboundary Conservation: A New Vision for Protected Areas" was produced in partnershi...

A New Era of Hope for the World's Most Neglected Diseases

... are even more reasons for optimism. Firstly, many countries affected by neglected diseases, such as Brazil, Eg... infrastructure, and manufacturing capacity. These countries can begin controlling their endemic tropical diseases themselves by developing their own treatments ...

Report focuses on challenges to unlocking future promise of vaccines

... public health problems particularly in developing countries where vaccines are unavailable, unaffordable, or both," says James Kaper of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, co-author of the report, Vaccine Development: Current Status and Future Needs. The report is the outcome of a colloquium conve...

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