'Sex & the City' Gets Serious About HIV and AIDS in South Africa - Kristin Davis Helps Oxfam Break the Stigma and Close the Treatment Gaps Fuelling AIDS

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Kristin Davis, star of US hit TV show Sex & the City, will join with Oxfam and leading AIDS activists at a Johannesburg press conference tomorrow, Saturday, February 2, to support community efforts in addressing the HIV and AIDS epidemic in So...

Cosmetic Genital Surgery may Be Fuelling Womens Insecurity About Their Bodies

Cosmetic genital surgery may be fuelling womens insecurity about their body and their body parts, argue two senior doctors in this weeks BMJ. They believe that women should be warned about the risks of cosmetic genital surgery, and that alternative solutions to concerns about the appearanc...

Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs Honors MTV Executive for Outstanding Contribution to Health Communication

... to HIV and AIDS. The pilot program provides youth targeted information, promoting safer lifestyle choices, and fighting the stigma and discrimination fuelling the HIV epidemic in Kenya, Tanzania and Trinidad & Tobago. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, "Staying Alive" is develop...

Frost & Sullivan: Clinical and Cost Benefits to Promote Uptake of Advanced Wound Management Technologies Across Europe

...sing. The rising incidence of chronic wounds due to an expanding diabetic population, together with an ageing population across Western Europe is also fuelling the uptake of advanced wound care devices. Changing healthcare systems across Europe are promoting the growth of the advanced wound care products...

Kenyan Pharmaceutical Industry Can Expect Significant Growth Despite Global Conditions, Finds Frost & Sullivan

...eness on the symptoms of diabetes and mobilising the population to visit diabetes clinics. This would ultimately improve the ratio of diagnosed cases, fuelling the growth of anti-diabetic treatments. "Thirty nine main clinics and 113 mini clinics have been set up by the DMI and MoH in recent years," says...

Frost & Sullivan: Novel Diagnostics Methods Driving the European Cancer IVD Market Towards Early Detection and Prevention

...eveloped to detect the mutated genes responsible for cancer," explains Ramachandran. "Sizeable funding for cancer disease research programmes is also fuelling the development of cancer diagnostic tests." However, most cancer markers are not indicative of the progression of the disease or its incidence...

Investing in personalized medicine will benefit Canada

...sed on an individual's genetic and health needs, rather than a blanket approach across the population. Human genome sequencing and genetic research is fuelling knowledge in this area. "Canadians have been involved in the first wave of translation leading to personalized medicine: discovery of genes, mutati...

CryoCath Announces Fiscal 2008 Second Quarter Results

...es in the weeks following." said Jan Keltjens, President and CEO of CryoCath. "The uptake of Arctic Front in Europe and other markets is strong and is fuelling global growth. Achieving the 270 consented patients milestone in the STOP AF trial is a significant step towards achieving our goal of U.S. approval. ...

Health and Fashion - Dow Corning Predicts the Top Trends Driving Consumers to the Beauty Counters

... MIDLAND, Mich., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Rising concerns about potential skin damage are fuelling an increase in sales of sun care products among health-conscious American women who still want a sun-kissed look. But across the globe, whitening prod...

Christina Aguilera's Silence Fuels Pregnancy Rumours

... Singer/songwriter Christina Aguilera is fuelling her pregnancy rumours by keeping mum about her expected mommyhood . The 26-year-old is reportedly pregnant with hubby Jordan Bratman's child and ...

Fuelling in Medical Technology

Vastox Awarded £400,000 Grant to Support R&D at Carbohydrate Chemistry Facility

...es. This library is expected to provide the Company with opportunities to create new drug programmes across a broad range of therapeutic areas thereby fuelling its drug pipeline. Steven Lee, PhD, CEO of VASTox added: "VASTox seeks to find different sources of funding to strengthen the business and the aw...

Fuelling in Biological News

Plants are political hot potatoes

...food, energy and climate systems. The politics of plants is likely to get increasingly complicated in the coming decades. "Lack of coordination is fuelling the emerging politics of plants, and new efforts are essential to develop more integrated and sustainable solutions," stresses Professor David Ingram,...

New studies predict record land grab as demand soars for new sources of food, energy and wood fiber

...e in and around the forests. "Unless we initiate such changes," Cario added, "the next generation will be denied food, medicine and cultural identity, fuelling greater and more violent conflicts, and the destruction of their forest homelands." Kyeretwie Opoku, an attorney and coordinator of Civic Response ...

Crew oxygen for ISS loaded on Jules Verne

... Three weeks into delicate fuelling operations, Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle...perations. These operations take place in the huge fuelling chamber inside the vast S5 integration building at...luding approximately 1 338 kg of dry cargo. During fuelling and oxygen operations, the ATV is electrically com...

Earliest European Farmers Left Little Genetic Mark On Modern Europe

...ing HIV prevention New data show that in Latin America, Eastern Europe and particularly Asia, the combination of injecting drug use and sex work is fuelling epidemics, and prevention programmes are falling short of addressing this overlap. The report shows how sustained, intensive programmes in diverse set...

2005 AIDS figures released by WHO and UNAIDS

...ing HIV prevention New data show that in Latin America, Eastern Europe and particularly Asia, the combination of injecting drug use and sex work is fuelling epidemics, and prevention programmes are falling short of addressing this overlap. The report shows how sustained, intensive programmes in diverse set...

Butterfly migration could be largest known

...umbers. This year, however, exceptionally high winter rainfall in southern California has created a bumper crop of plants for the caterpillars to eat, fuelling a population boom, Shapiro said. The butterflies take about three days to reach the Central Valley, and the current generation will fly as far as s...

Fuelling in Biological Technology

Frost & Sullivan Sees Microdosing as Compelling Advantage for Big Pharma

...ence of niche capability providers in preclinical testing and technology dependence is also expected to result in numerous partnerships and alliances, fuelling growth opportunities in this sector. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO ) "There is every reason to believe that th...

Microplate Instrumentation & Supplies Market to Exceed $5.0 Billion by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc

...nce of multimode readers capable of functioning with multiple detection techniques, especially a combination of fluorescence and luminescence, is also fuelling growth in the segment market. Microplate readers market in Europe is projected to register sales of US$305 million by the year 2010. Leading pla...

The Wal-Mart-ization of e-commerce

...impact will be felt much later. The influx of new business sites with new ideas, the new entrepreneurial spirit and the new exposure to innovation are fuelling this American grassroots revolution in silence. Until each and every one of us will end up with a site, a portal with full e-commerce tools making us ...