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Sleeping Sickness Epidemic Spreading in Uganda

...-patient basis, the misoprostol treatment was less expensive and could provide women more privacy and convenience than vacuum aspiration. Roughly one in four women experience miscarriage, so the availability of a non-surgical treatment may provide an effective alternative for many women, he added. “Misoprosto...

Drug Offers Alternative to Surgical Treatment After Miscarriage

...-patient basis, the misoprostol treatment was less expensive and could provide women more privacy and convenience than vacuum aspiration. Roughly one in four women experience miscarriage, so the availability of a non-surgical treatment may provide an effective alternative for many women, he added. “Misoprosto...

Scientists turn tobacco against cancer

... tobacco-derived antibody should be safer and less expensive to produce. The Jefferson scientists are seeking industry partners to begin mass production of the antibody. The next step in the work, Dr. Koprowski notes, would be to conduct a phase 1 clinical trial of the monoclonal antibody in colorectal cancer...

First production of human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs published in Nature Biotechnology

...uld make medicines and health insurance plans less expensive for all of us." ...

New method shows it is possible to grow bone for grafts within a patient's body

...d success but have proven to be extremely complex, expensive and unreliable. Shastri's and his colleagues took a new approach that has proven to be surprisingly simple. They decided to take advantage of the body's natural wound-healing response and create a special zone on the surface of a healthy bone in hop...

FDA approves more generic AIDS drugs

... make them more resistant to pathogens using fewer expensive and polluting chemicals." A report on the findings appears in this week's edition (June 24) of Science Express, the online, early-release version of the journal Science. Other authors are postdoctoral fellow Dr. Ben F. Holt III and Ph.D. student You...

UNC plant researchers discover proteins interact to form hair-trigger protection against invaders

... make them more resistant to pathogens using fewer expensive and polluting chemicals." A report on the findings appears in this week's edition (June 24) of Science Express, the online, early-release version of the journal Science. Other authors are postdoctoral fellow Dr. Ben F. Holt III and Ph.D. student You...

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

...here is a well developed market and you don't need expensive infrastructure like refineries and processing. So,...r for health and better for climate, they are more expensive and a lot harder to get out." Charcoal burns cleaner and produces less indoor pollution than wood, ...

Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC

...ns of different ones, he said. It would be far too expensive and time-consuming, however, to characterize the genomes of all of them experimentally. "Many plants are impractical to work with experimentally because they have genomes full of material that serves no known function," Vision said. "For example, th...

Major new UNC-based drinking water study suggests pregnancy fears may be overstated

... miscarriage rates, that would be a very big, very expensive problem to solve. Reducing exposure would be quite expensive for the water utilities and ultimately their customers." The methods used in the new work make it t...

Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures

...e scientists operated around the clock to maximize expensive ship time, sampling at 14 locations in all; five i...found. Research in the Southern Ocean is the most expensive in the world. The recent ANDEEP III expedition by icebreaker cost one Euro per second. The Antarcti...

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

... to recover naturally before countries launch into expensive restoration plans, according to some of the world's leading scientists. The scientists, led by a researcher from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and who set out their views in an advisory brief for the World Bank, point to historical records ...

Chemists synthesize molecule that helps body battle cancers, malaria

...he molecule could therefore save patients money on expensive drugs and stretch limited supplies of antigens and vaccines. Gin and his collaborators are now exploring ways to improve the molecule. By investigating structure activity relationships, they want to strip away nonessential structures, leaving a simp...

UCLA study assesses cost-effectiveness of Hepatitis B drugs

... treatment due to a constant influx of newer, more expensive drugs that all have varying risks and benefits. "...We found that the newer, more 'sexy' drugs are too expensive and better to use only after other first line therapies have failed," said Dr. Brennan M. R. Spiegel...

To Stop Evolution: New Way Of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated By Scripps Scientists

...t bacterial infections can be a hundred times more expensive than treating normal infections, and the WHO estimates the total cost of treating all hospital-borne antibiotic resistant bacterial infections is around $10 billion a year. Worse, with modern rapid transit and world travel, multiple drug-resistant ba...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

...ave health concerns, and are based on increasingly expensive petroleum. "This technology looks extremely promising in a variety of markets," said Brian Wall of the OSU Office of Technology Transfer, which has already reached the first licensing agreement with a company on a product that will be in commercial ...

Stealth Worms May Improve Insect Pest Control

...ed and commercialized," Stock says. "They are more expensive than a chemical product, but so far they have been demonstrated not to harm humans, livestock, beneficial insects or the environment. Nematodes usually have to be underground; their targets are soil insects." The formulations keep improving as newer...

Could microbes solve Russia's chemical weapons conundrum?

...to deal with RMs, how-ever both methods are highly expensive and pose environmental risks. Mustard is a blistering agent that was first used in World War I. Found in both liquid and aerosol form (mustard gas), it can cause severe burns to the skin, and severe damage to the respiratory system and internal orga...

Double triumph in stem cell quest

...le for legal reasons in many countries and is very expensive in countries where it is legal, such as the US. By contrast, there is a virtually limitless supply of existing ESCs for fusion with adult cells. Then there is the ethical issue, which is again exercising Congress. With Verlinsky's method, federally ...

Different microarray systems more alike than previously thought

..., for example, the commercially available and most expensive of the three platforms tested, provided different ...forms were in general agreement and the quality of expensive and inexpensive platforms was similar across the board. The researchers also note that although the...

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