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Youth With HIV Take More Risks After New Meds Introduced

...oot. "Simultaneously, evidence suggests that many people living with HIV believe that sexual behaviors that...infections in the United States each year occur in people under age 21. ...

Medical whistleblowers speak out

...inance Committee, Graham said that, "Nearly 60,000 people probably died from that drug. That's as many of ou... has to be dismantled," he said, "and the American people have to insist on that, otherwise we're going to have disasters like Vioxx that happen in the future...

Canada approves marijuana-based pain spray

...on symptom of MS occurring in up to 86 per cent of people with MS. 1 Neuropathic or nerve pain can occur spo...e or movement. It is estimated that 50 per cent of people with MS suffer from chronic neuropathic pain. 2,3,4 The most common descriptions of neuropathic pain...

UNC launches study of liver injury caused by drugs

...ed. The main purpose of DILIN is to find and study people who have experienced liver injury due to medicatio... if enrolled within six months of the event. These people will be followed over time to find out what happens as a result of their injury. People who have not...

Leprosy microbes lead scientists to immune discovery

...solated immune cells in blood samples from healthy people and exposed the cells to a component of mycobacter...-presenting dendritic cells, are termed CD1b+). In people who have the form of leprosy known as tuberculoid, or T-lep, the body has made a strong immune respo...

Different microarray systems more alike than previously thought

...ure experiments, even if the technology changes or people make different choices in their platform." When t... choice of microarray platforms is a key issue for people who want to look at changes in gene expression. It is important for both cost and quality of data," ...

Brain Scans Reveal How Gene May Boost Schizophrenia Risk

...e it results in considerably weaker enzyme action, people with the met version are thought have more dopamin...pside-down "U" (see diagram below). In this model, people with val fall on the left (rising) slope, with lower dopamine levels, while those with met fall on t...

Live vaccines more effective against horse herpes virus

...r more widely used vaccines. "It's important that people know that the MLV has been in use for decades, has proven to be reasonably safe, and in -- my opinion -- it should be the vaccine of choice, at least in non-pregnant animals," said Klaus Osterrieder, associate professor of virology in the College of ...

Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe

...chocardiography (TEE), is conducted on hundreds of people each day in the United States. The technique entails inserting a probe down the patient's throat and behind the heart to capture ultrasound heart images. The images can reveal the condition of the heart chambers, valves, major blood vessels and heart...

Aggressive aquatic species invading Great Lakes

...ake Erie, the first lake to be invaded. "Obviously people are concerned about the effects on native species in the other lakes that gobies have now spread to," says Balshine. ...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

...oblem of hearing loss in humans. It turns out that people with hearing impairments develop a much greater ta...itivity in the auditory cortex of their brain than people with normal hearing. Working in the laboratory of Christopher Contag, an associate professor of pedi...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

...ns may no longer be a concern for the thousands of people who require a transfusion. Pall Corporation (NYSE:...rs, there is no accurate way to determine how many people could currently be harboring the disease or the magnitude of future cases. Variant CJD is transmitte...

Cooperation is key—a new way of looking at MicroRNA and how it controls gene expression

...e and death, and this is exactly what happens when people are stricken with septic shock. Likewise, the loss of control of genetic expression is the underlying cause of various forms of cancer--for instance the overexpression of genes that cause the cell to grow and the suppression of genes that curb cell g...

Decoding the logic of olfaction

...ponses in different individuals. For example, most people don't like the smell of skunk odor, but they do like the smell of chocolate," she said. The researchers also found that the spatial representations of the odors in the cortex expanded with increased concentrations of the odorants. Buck said this phe...

Genpathway and Baylor College of Medicine Identify New Genes in Breast Cancer

...ponses in different individuals. For example, most people don't like the smell of skunk odor, but they do like the smell of chocolate," she said. The researchers also found that the spatial representations of the odors in the cortex expanded with increased concentrations of the odorants. Buck said this phe...

Mouse gene shows new mechanism behind cardiac infarction in man

...the human homologue of the gene was more common in people who had a history of cardiac infarction than those without. “This is an example of how an unbiased genetic strategy based on a mice model can teach us more about common human diseases,?says researcher Jacob Lagercrantz of the Gustav V research insti...

The evolutionary triumph of flower power

...prettier flowers got to survive and thrive because people didn't destroy them when they cleared land for agriculture. Instead, they cultivated them and have been doing so for more than 5,000 years. Ironically, many domesticated flowers have been so selected by humans that nature's pollinators ?the bugs and...

Are rice and wheat behind China's population boom?

...lative popularity across the country and how these people may have been managing their local ecology." Craw...g rice production to the extent that these ancient people did, in combination with millet and wheat, helps explain the foundation of China's huge population t...

Grizzlies set to invade high Arctic?

... have bear safety courses when we go up there, and people would normally say you don't have to worry about grizzlies because it's really just polar bear country," he says. "But I think that's no longer the case." Dr. England notes that the grizzly bear find is a highly visible example of important changes ...

MUHC scientists describe genetic resistance to rampant virus

...s of 80% of the human population. Although healthy people suffer only mild symptoms, infection can trigger fatal reactions in those with a compromised immune system, such as organ transplant recipients, newborns and persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Dr. Vidal believes her groundbreak...

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