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New push for public health, AIDS spending at African Union summit

... Efforts to provide low-cost drugs to African HIV sufferers received a major boost this month when the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first ARV cocktail, which could open the taps on the promised $US15 billion that President George W Bush promised two years ago for the fight against AIDS. ...

Hope for Alzheimer's blossoms

... Welsh national flower, which could offer hope for sufferers of Alzheimer's disease, is being supported for large scale manufacture by Cardiff University's Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC). Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, making up 55 per cent of all cases of dementia. Dementia ...

Discovering the first steps in transcription-coupled repair

...by window filters and protective clothing, many XP sufferers can lead seemingly normal lives. XP results from m... in the first year of life. As they grow older, CS sufferers look increasingly aged, with faces marked by sunken eyes. Average life expectancy is only 12 years a...

How 'hot' emotional brain interferes with 'cool' processing

...eviate, for example, the haunting memories of PTSD sufferers will be aided by the fMRI technique the researchers developed to precisely measure this distraction, they said. The researchers, Florin Dolcos and Gregory McCarthy, published their findings in the Feb. 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of Neuroscience....

World first research to speed up cure for ear infections

...new techniques to speed up the healing process for sufferers of ear infections. "Ear infections are a major worldwide health problem and it is common for an average person to take up to 10 years before they receive medical treatment. "We tend to ignore ear infections thinking they will go away or we might ha...

New device could cut chemotherapy deaths

...ith ovarian cancer, soon we hope that other cancer sufferers with solid tumours will benefit. "Give that around one in eight people worldwide die of cancer, this could be a vitally important step in the treatment of this disease. "We have now assembled an extremely experienced team to develop the Fibrasorb t...

Pest control research leads to pain control discovery

...logical pest controls, may lead to pain relief for sufferers of arthritis and other inflammatory diseases, say ... However, the class of drugs benefits millions of sufferers from inflammation and pain, Hammock said. The UC Davis study may mean a solution to the dilemma of w...

Allergy battle could be won in five years, says scientist

... treat established symptoms already found in adult sufferers and, in due course, could be used to prevent allergies in children. "Prevention of allergies has never before been possible," said Professor Garrod. "Current medicines don't act against the allergen at this early stage ?they only ease the symptoms ...

Why we could all do with a siesta

...on of orexin neurons can lead to narcolepsy, where sufferers cannot stay awake, and obesity; there is also evidence that orexin neurons play a role in learning, reward-seeking and addiction. "We have identified the pore in the membrane of orexin-producing cells that is responsible for the inhibiting effect of...

Why Popeye only has eyes for spinach

...carotenoids. "AMD is a devastating disease where sufferers slowly lose central vision making reading and most day-to-day activities virtually impossible. The main risk factors for the disease are age and heritance but it is also linked to controllable factors such as poor diet, smoking and obesity. "Having...

Pilot study successful in taming allergic reactions to food

...as. The goal, Burks said, is to offer food allergy sufferers protection from accidental ingestion of items that...commonly used method for treating seasonal allergy sufferers to alleviate symptoms. In this approach, called immunotherapy, physicians give patients shots contai...

Embryonic selection of sex avoids conceiving blind children

...s of Retinosis Pigmentaria. In Spain the number of sufferers is over 15,000, with some 60,000 being carriers of the defective gene and, thereby, possible transmitters of the condition. ...

The biggest bug in gut discomfort

...strikes 2.4 million Americans a year. While most sufferers recover after a few unpleasant days, it can be life threatening to those with compromised immune systems. A rare but serious complication of C. jejuni infection is the triggering of the autoimmune disorder, Guillain-Barré paralysis. Yale researche...

New research shows big improvement in survival after stroke

...level of stroke care has directly benefited stroke sufferers across New Zealand." However, as the death rate declines, there has been a significant increase in the number of patients with an impaired level of consciousness and motor deficits following stroke. Dr Kristie Carter, Research Fellow for the stud...

New technology to speed up research into Huntington's disease

...reakthrough in the race to find treatments to help sufferers with Huntington's disease. Researchers have developed an effective new method of testing cognitive decline in mice with the disease, using an automated touch screen. It is hoped the screen will also allow researchers to study more effectively the c...

Computer with brain connections changing quality of life of paralyzed

...ding consciousness, emotion and quality of life in sufferers of paralysis from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, also known as 'Lou Gerhig's disease') are being challenged based on new research on brain-computer interaction. ALS is a progressive disease that destroys neurons affecting movement. The study app...

Clues to gene expression in cystic fibrosis will guide research

... in BMC Medicine show how a small percentage of CF sufferers with a rare genetic stop mutation responded positively to gentamicin treatment. Aleksander Edelman and Isabelle Sermet-Gaudelus of Faculté de Médicine Necker in Paris led collaborators from several French institutions studying how the antibiotic gen...

Non-GMO solution to seafood allergies

Seafood allergy sufferers may soon be able to eat prawns without the fear of an adverse reaction. Chinese scientists have taken a promising step towards removing from prawns the proteins that cause an allergic response without resorting to genetic manipulation, reports Lisa R...

Cornell researcher helping develop quick, cheap HIV/AIDS test

...le in the developing world. It could help HIV/AIDS sufferers in the poorest countries get appropriate treatment to extend their lives, possibly by as much as 10 to 15 years. The work is part of an $8.6 million international consortium, called the CD4 Initiative, led by Imperial College in London and funded by...

Cartilage discovery offers arthritis hope

...entually, the cartilage breaks down altogether and sufferers experience severe pain as the two ends of the bones rub against each other." The team's findings ?published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ?also explain why mutations in cartilage collagen genes cause osteoarthritis....

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