Blood-brain barrier breached by new therapeutic strategy
A major obstacle in the treatment of infections and other diseases of the brain is the blood-brain barrier, which prevents systemically delivered therapeutic drugs from reaching the brain. Grantees of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, have now shown that a short protein (peptide) from the rabies virus can carry a strip of ther...HIV infections have reached a new high
The number of people infected with HIV in the UK is likely to increase by almost half over the first five years of the 21st century, according to public health experts.// New figures released by the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) predict that the number of people living with an HIV diagnosis may rise from around 23,000 in 2000 to almost 34,000 by the year 2005. In 2001, the nu...Subsidies For GPs' Visits : Agreement Reached
Dialogues between District Health Boards and Primary Health Organisations, (PHOs), which faced difficulties late last month, has now been resolved //, with both parties reaching an agreement on the extension of subsidies for doctors' visits. An estimated 680,000 New Zealanders who are GP patients, aged between 45 - 64 years, are expected to benefit from July 1. DHBs and...An All Important Breakthrough Reached In Understanding T cell response For Parasitic Diseases
Researchers from the University of Georgia have conducted a new study that gives vital information as to how the T cells in the body react to parasitic diseases that affect scores of people every year. // A study led by scientists at the University of Georgia, that has been just published in the online journal PLOS Pathogens, which is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by...Plateau Reached in the Battle against Breast Cancer
The decade long battle against breast cancer cases in American women appears to have finally reached a plateau, probably indicating// that a turning point may have reached in the nation against the feared malignancy. According to the latest federal data it was found that after a steep rise since the 1980s, the breast cancer rate stopped rising in 2001 and may have started to fall in 2003...Southern Oceans Ability to Absorb CO2 Has Reached a Saturation Point: Study
An international team of researchers from the University of East Anglia, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry have found that that the Southern Oceans ability to absorb carbon dioxide has reached a saturation point. During their four-year study, researchers found that an increase in winds over the Southern Ocean, caused by greenhouse g...