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BioMed Central welcomes the new National Institutes of Health public access policy

...Central anticipates that many other funding bodies worldwide will now follow the example set by NIH. All NIH grantees now have a new factor to take into account when choosing where they wish to publish their research. To fulfil the NIH request, authors publishing with most of the traditional subscription publ...

Biodiversity hotspots identify conservation priorities

... new book Hotspots Revisited identifies 34 regions worldwide where 75 percent of the planet's most threatened mammals, birds, and amphibians survive within habitat covering just 2.3 percent of the Earth's surface (roughly equivalent to the combined areas of the five largest U.S. states). This habitat originall...

New Drugs For Bad Bugs: UF Approach Could Bolster Antibiotic Arsenal

... Florida researchers. In recent years, scientists worldwide have sounded the alarm: There simply aren’t enough drugs to combat bad bugs. Bacteria are increasingly adept at outwitting the traditional antibiotic arsenal. Yet designing and testing new antibiotics can be a maddeningly slow and costly process ?if...

Light therapy may combat fungal infections, new evidence suggests

...he increase in immunosuppressive therapies and the worldwide HIV/AIDS epidemic. Light normally inhibits mating of C. neoformans. The Duke team has now identified two genes responsible for that light response. Loss of the same genes also reduces fungal virulence in mice, they reported. Earlier studies had lin...

Researchers uncover sequence of major rice pathogen

...he grisea is the most destructive pathogen of rice worldwide and the principal model organism for elucidating the molecular basis of fungal disease of plants. Here, we report the draft sequence of the M. grisea genome. Analysis of the gene set provides an insight into the adaptations required by a fungus to ca...

Researchers make gains in understanding antibiotic resistance

...ineered to circumvent resistance, which is a major worldwide health problem. Led by Thomas A. Steitz, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Yale University, and Peter B. Moore, a professor of chemistry at Yale, the research team published its findings in the April 22, 2005, issue of the journal Ce...

FDA Announces Series of Changes to the Class of Marketed Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)

... of NSAIDs began after Merck conducted a voluntary worldwide withdrawal of its COX-2 selective NSAID, Vioxx (rofecoxib), in September 2004. FDA will carefully review any proposal from Merck for resumption of marketing of Vioxx. These actions are based on the available scientific data, including data accumulat...

New Estimates For The Causes Of Child Deaths Worldwide

...d in the March 26, 2005 of THE LANCET, reveal that worldwide more than 70% of the 10.6 million child deaths that occur annually are attributable to six causes: pneumonia (19%), diarrhoea (18%), malaria (8%), neonatal sepsis or pneumonia (10%), preterm delivery (10%), and asphyxia at birth (8%). Robert Black (...

Same-Sex Mating Discovered in a Toxic Fungus

...h the increased use of such therapies and with the worldwide HIV/AIDS pandemic. In plants and animals, sexual identity is governed by sex chromosomes. In fungi, however, sexual identity is determined by so-called "mating type loci," genes arranged contiguously, but which typically do not span an entire chromo...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

...he UK in 1994, there has been a total of 172 cases worldwide in Ireland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States (US), Japan and Saudi Arabia, with the vast majority (155) in the UK. Since vCJD can be asymptomatic for about 10 to 16 years, there is no accurate way to determine how many people...

OneWorld Health drug receives 'Orphan' designation from U.S. and European regulatory agencies

...k internal organs. An estimated 1.5 million people worldwide are currently infected; the number of new VL cases per year is estimated at 500,000; and as many as 200,000 people die annually. More than 90 percent of VL cases occur in five countries: India, which bears the greatest disease burden, Bangladesh, Nep...

Activation of thermoreceptors mediates raw garlic's burning pungency

The worldwide popularity of garlic as a food ingredient and its therapeutic stature in folklore both stem in part from the distinctive pungency associated with its raw, uncooked state. Researchers this week report that this pungency, manifested as a characteristic...

Cousin of Asian super termite invades Florida

...ing millions of termites. The control is marketed worldwide as the Sentricon Termite Colony Elimination System by Dow AgroSciences. ...

UCLA study assesses cost-effectiveness of Hepatitis B drugs

...f Internal Medicine, the study may help physicians worldwide in making treatment decisions. Researchers note that a degree of uncertainly exists on how to best initiate hepatitis B treatment due to a constant influx of newer, more expensive drugs that all have varying risks and benefits. "We need to develop a...

Next Generation Body Scanner Launched By The University Of Manchester

...iversity of Manchester remains at the forefront of worldwide medical research," he added. As well as offering higher quality images, the quick scanning time means that more patients will be able to take advantage of the equipment, such as severely ill people who have previously been unable to tolerate the lon...

Shark attack worries? Driving to the beach is more deadly

...note that far more people die each year - about 90 worldwide - from an allergic reaction to eating peanuts. De... Shark Attack File, only seven fatalities occurred worldwide due to shark attack in 2004, there were only four in 2003, and only three in 2002. Florida, with it...

New HIV drug candidate developed in Sweden

...note that far more people die each year - about 90 worldwide - from an allergic reaction to eating peanuts. De... Shark Attack File, only seven fatalities occurred worldwide due to shark attack in 2004, there were only four in 2003, and only three in 2002. Florida, with it...

Agilent Technologies introduces advanced zebrafish, mouse microarrays for stem cell and developmental biology research

...note that far more people die each year - about 90 worldwide - from an allergic reaction to eating peanuts. De... Shark Attack File, only seven fatalities occurred worldwide due to shark attack in 2004, there were only four in 2003, and only three in 2002. Florida, with it...

$5.1 billion would save 6 million children

...t two-thirds of the almost 11 million child deaths worldwide could be prevented with existing knowledge and tre...y. They found that at least 6 million child deaths worldwide could be prevented with existing interventions to prevent and treat pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, ne...

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

...he rich biodiversity surprising deep-sea explorers worldwide exists as well in deep Arctic waters, the most under-studied area of the ocean world." Baseline data about such long-inaccessible marine species will have growing importance for measuring impacts of climate change and, should polar caps continue rec...

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