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Why were the HIV prevention trials in commercial sex workers abandoned?

...cally efficacious as a PREP, today's irresponsible reporting and activism surrounding tenofovir could cause those in need to snub the drug if, or when, it becomes licensed for use as a PREP." In a commentary on the essay, Joep Lange, who was the President of the International AIDS Society at the time of the B...

Mayan stingless bee keeping: Going, going, gone?

...re are so many extinctions, that they are not even reporting them anymore." The article, presenting a very cogent conservation strategy for saving the Mayan 'royal lady', will appear in the June, 2005, "Bee World," published by the International Bee Research Association. ...

Naturally occurring asbestos linked to lung cancer

...posures. California has required statewide cancer reporting since 1985 and established the California Cancer Registry in 1988. One of the largest cancer databases in the world, the registry is responsible for collecting cancer incidence and mortality statistics for more than one tenth of the United States pop...

Several minute intermediate stage in virus-cell fusion discovered; opportunity for drug development

...ever, a multi-institutional team of researchers is reporting that it has detected an intermediate stage between the virus' merger with the cell membrane and the microbe's delivery of its genetic contents into the cell, when the fate of the host cell still hangs in the balance. This intermediate stage, which c...

Women cautioned against using herbal supplements

...focused safety testing of herbal medicines or even reporting system for adverse effects, so when people do have adverse effects, there's no mechanism to pool that data." Warren said that researchers used to think that estrogen-like compounds from plants, called phytoestrogens, could possibly block the effect ...

Menopause Symptoms May Come Back After Stopping Menopausal Hormone Therapy

...focused safety testing of herbal medicines or even reporting system for adverse effects, so when people do have adverse effects, there's no mechanism to pool that data." Warren said that researchers used to think that estrogen-like compounds from plants, called phytoestrogens, could possibly block the effect ...

Drug resistant avian influenza viruses more common in Southeast Asia than North America

...oring Emerging Diseases) is an electronic outbreak reporting system established by the International Society for Infectious Diseases to permit rapid and accurate monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks globally; and to serve as a central location for news, updates, and discussions of infectious disease outb...

New study shows measles immunization may prevent fatal brain infection

...osed measles cases, despite clinical guidelines on reporting infections. Other possibilities include a higher incidence of measles during the 1989-1991 resurgence in the population with the highest risk for SSPE, namely children under the age of five, or because wild-type viruses of the genotype identified are...

Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now

...ng and the actual go-ahead in February 2003, it is reporting these substantive results. Interpreting Complicated Data One of CRESP's challenges was to analyze biological samples for a long enough time to know what levels of radionuclides were actually there (since some radionuclides are present in any marine...

Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic

...ike fingers and genitals turning black, and people reporting being able to literally smell the body decaying before the patient died." At the time, limited scientific and medical knowledge led some - including prominent governmental health officials -- to identify the cause of the disease to arcane notions su...

Hand sanitizer gel works

... children in the household. In addition, families reporting higher amounts sanitizer usage (more than 2 oz in 2 weeks, indicating 4-5 uses per day) were about 20 percent less likely to transmit respiratory illnesses, but this effect didn't reach statistical significance. "We think that's probably because peo...

Careless reporting on HIV 'could cost lives'

...". Mills says that given the role of the media in reporting on future trials, the purpose of his team's study is "not to blame the media, but to encourage [researchers] to engage with the media". Bruce Lewenstein, professor of science communication at Cornell University in the United States, told SciDev.Net ...

Mammalian Transcriptome Mapped

...he Scripps Research Institute's Florida campus, is reporting the results of a massive multi-year project to map the mammalian "transcriptome" in this week's issue of the journal Science. The transcriptome, or transcriptional landscape as it is sometimes called, is the totality of RNA transcripts produced from...

CO2 sensing proves critical for fungal pathogens to adapt to life in air and human hosts

...ing fungal diseases, two groups of researchers are reporting new work that offers insight into how carbon dioxide (CO2) governs the morphogenic changes that allow pathogenic fungi to survive in different environments and invade the human body, and they provide new evidence for how CO2 sensing and metabolism ut...

Serious adverse reactions to smallpox vaccine appear to be limited

...rse events following smallpox vaccination (overall reporting rate, 217 per 10,000 vaccinees). A total of 590 adverse events (72 percent) were reported within 14 days of vaccination. Nonserious adverse events (n = 722) included multiple signs and symptoms of mild and self-limited local reactions. One hundred a...

A salty tale: New bacterial genome sequenced from ancient salterns

...hat manage to survive in such briny environs. Now, reporting in the November 28-December 2 early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at The Institute for Genomic Research and collaborators reveal the genome of one bacterium at home in the salty Spanish ponds. The...

Overfishing in inland waters reduces biodiversity and threatens health

...ldwide but is largely unrecognized because of weak reporting and because other pressures can obscure fishery declines, according to an article in the December 2005 issue of BioScience. Although the status of inland waters and their fish species should be of broad concern, threats to freshwater fisheries and a...

Alleged 40,000-year-old human footprints in Mexico much, much older than thought

...t contribute to the new work that Renne's group is reporting in Nature. "The evidence Paul has produced by dating basically means that this argument is over, unless indisputable footprints can be found sealed within the ash." Renne determined the new date using the argon/argon dating technique, which reliably...

Mobile phone use not linked to increased risk of glioma brain tumours

...e use to the side of the tumour and therefore over reporting the use of a phone on the same side as their tumour. This results in under reporting use on the opposite side of the head, say the authors. Mobile phones have been available in the UK ...

Honeybee decision-making ability rivals any department committee

... all 4,000 bees in a swarm and recorded the scouts reporting on their site visits. At first, no one site dominated the dancing, but toward the end of the 16-hour decision-making process, one site was advertised much more heavily and eventually became the chosen home. offered bees both mediocre and superb nes...

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