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Marburg virus disease in Angola - update

As of 29 March 2005, the Ministry of Health has reported a total of 124 cases and 117 deaths in Cabinda, Luanda and Uige. All these cases had originated in Uige Province. Ten of these cases have been laboratory confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA. The team from WHO, including experts from the Inter-country programme for southern Africa, the Regio...

Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update

As of 20 April, the Ministry of Health in Angola has reported 266 cases of Marburg haemorrhagic fever. Of these cases, 244 were fatal. In Uige Province, which remains the epicentre of the outbreak, 253 cases, of which 233 have been fatal, were reported as of 21 April. The international response to the outbreak in Angola began one month ago, on 22 March. T...

Bird samples from Mongolia confirmed as H5N1 avian flu

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has positively identified the pathogenic form of avian flu--H5N1--in samples taken from birds last week in Mongolia by field veterinarians from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). It is the first instance of this viral strain occurring in wild migratory birds with no apparent contact to domestic poultry or waterfowl. Present in Mong...

Ohio University researchers discover evolutionary oddity in flamingos

With their spindly legs, long necks and bright plumage, flamingos are a curiosity of nature. Now a new discovery by a team of Ohio University researchers reveals an anatomical oddity that helps flamingos eat: erectile tissue. Flamingos are known for their peculiar feeding behavior. While standing in shallow water, they bend their necks, tilt their bills upside down in the water and swish t...

Ongoing collapse of coral reef shark populations

Investigators have revealed that coral reef shark populations are in the midst of rapid decline, and that “no-take zones”—reefs where fishing is prohibited—do protect sharks, but only when compliance with no-take regulations is high. The findings, reported by William Robbins and colleagues at James Cook University and its ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, appear in the December 5th...

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Isolation and Characterization of Anti-Viral Nucleoside Compounds from the Chinese Herb Taraxacum Mongolicum

Characterization of nucleotide and nucleoside analogs from Taraxacum mongolicum, a Chinese medicinal herb was achieved for the first time using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). The active ingredients in the herb were characterized using nucleotide and nucleoside standards with product and precursor scans of tandem mass spectrometry. The nucleoside analogs wer...

Online retailing "tango" is adding some steps

We've heard this for years, and most of us have adopted at least some of these changes (both good and bad) in the ways we disseminate and find information,...

Financing life science: The ongoing saga

Let's start with the Initial Public Offering (IPO) market, which is how many investors used to make money (those that had inve...

Doing the pharmaceutical tango

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Ebola-like virus is on the way to cause epidemic in Angola

As the death toll from the virus like Ebola rises in the country of Angola, people had been warned not to visit the country in Africa// for at least a week. The number of people who are affected by the virus till date is 132. According to the statistics available at World Health Organization, the two third of those affected by the virus are children. The virus which was...

Hangovers: why some people suffer and some don’

Japanese study had identified a mutant form of the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase// (ALDH)that is responsible for some people feeling less or no hangover from consuming alcohol. Researchers from Mitsukoshi Health and Welfare Foundation have found that the toxicity of acetaldehyde leads to hangovers in individuals who have a particular genetic makeup. Aldehyde dehydrogenase (...

Mango: the cancer combater

It’s definitely not that mango springs to mind the image of a medication. Rather it is the “king of fruits//” and a darling of all! Mango comes as a respite in the sweltering heat and charms one and all. Besides tantalising the taste buds it has been found to fight tumours and make cancer fret. Nutritionally mango is a rich source of beta-carotene, sugars and fibres. Now research cond...

US Doctors Association Gives away $110,000 To NGO

The Association of Tamilnadu Medical Graduates (ATMG) of the US has given $110,000 in aid to five NGOs for social causes in Tamil Nadu.// The ATMG-run Charitable Foundation collected the money from about 5,000 doctor members in the US. The Voluntary Health Services received $50,000 to be spent on tsunami relief. The other NGOs are the YWCA, Mary Clubwala Girls High School, the K...

Bird Flu Strains Detected In Wild Birds Of Mongolia

Scientists from US department of Agriculture had found the strains of bird flu disease in the wild migratory birds in Mongolia. This is for the first time the disease of avian influenza had been detected in any strain of wild birds // that have no contact with the domestic poultry, or waterfowl. The team of researchers from Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) had collected samples from...

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Pharmacyclics Announces Interim Results From Two Ongoing Phase 2 Trials Supporting Potential of Xcytrin Plus Chemotherapy to Treat Recurrent Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

WAILEA, Hawaii and SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 27, 2007/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharmacyclics, Inc. today announcedpreliminary results from two open-label, multi-center Phase 2clinical trials supporting the potential use of Xcytrin(R)(motexafin gadolinium) Injection, the company's lead productcandidate, in combination with Alimta(R) (pemetrexed) and incombination with Taxotere(R) (docetaxel...

Advanced Viral Research Corp. Announces Positive Preliminary Findings from Ongoing Phase II Dermatological Study

YONKERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 18, 2007 - Advanced ViralResearch Corp. (OTCBB: ADVR), a research based biopharmaceuticalcompany, announced today that preliminary findings from its ongoingPhase II dermatological study show topical treatment with AVR118appears to have clinical activity in reducing inflammation andredness associated with surgical incisions or dermatologicdermabrasion....

Novelos Therapeutics Announces Encouraging Results in Ongoing Phase 2 Ovarian Cancer Trial at Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 18, 2007 - NovelosTherapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: NVLT), a biopharmaceutical companyfocused on the development of therapeutics to treat cancer andhepatitis, today announced encouraging results in an ongoingDana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care (DF/PCC) Phase 2 trial of NOV-002in combination with carboplatin in platinum-resistant ovariancancer patients. To date, 10...

Lpath Demonstrates 'First-in-Class' AMD Results With Its Lead Drug Candidate, Sphingomab

Sphingomab Shows Near-Complete Mitigation of ChoroidalNeovascularization (CNV) in an AMD Model SAN DIEGO, May 22, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lpath, Inc. ,the category leader in therapeutic agents against bioactive lipids,reported compelling proof-of-concept data in a standard animalmodel of human age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The results were presented at the annual me...

Columbia Laboratories Reports Preliminary Findings from the Ongoing Data Analysis of the Phase III Clinical Study of PROCHIEVE 8% (progesterone gel) to Prevent Preterm Birth

LIVINGSTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 26, 2007 - ColumbiaLaboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBRX) today announced that preliminaryresults from the ongoing data analysis of the recently-completedrandomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind Phase III clinicaltrial of PROCHIEVE(R) 8% (progesterone gel) for the prevention ofpreterm birth in women with a previous preterm birth earlier than35 weeks ges...
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