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

Activists hope this weekend's African Union (AU) summit will net commitments to boost government spending on public health, helping to curb the spread of AIDS, which killed 2.3 million Africans in 2004. "We are definitely optimistic that this time there will be some movement, that this time there will be not just talk about an HIV strategy for the AU but how to tackle an action-oriented p...

Drug That 'Tags' Decision-making Areas Of The Brain May Aid

Along with aiding efforts to study addictedsmokers, a new drug that attaches only to areas of the brain that havebeen implicated in may help studies of people battling other disorders such as Alzheimer’sdisease and schizophrenia.Developed by UC Irvine Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers...

A comprehensive response to HIV could prevent 10 million AIDS deaths in Africa by 2020

Based on successful animal studies, a novelvaccine that uses immune cells as factories to produce Her2/neu proteinmay offer a way to treat some human breast cancers, say researchers atThe University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. [Ed : is a protein often present / surexpressed in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/...

Same mutation aided evolution in many fish species, Stanford study finds

After decades of laboratory work studying how animals evolve, researchers sometimes need to put on the hip waders, pull out the fishing net and go learn how their theory compares to the real world. According to a Stanford University School of Medicine study published in the March 25 issue of Science, Mother Nature is more predictable than lab experiments suggest. In a diverse group of fish...

NYC's First Rapid HIV Drug-resistant AIDS Case Prompts Call to Step Up HIV Prevention

New York City's Public Health Department today issued a public health advisory after reporting the first documented case of an alarming, new, rapidly-progressing and highly drug resistant strain of HIV in a New York man who progressed from his initial HIV infection, thought to have occurred in mid-October 2004, to a largely untreatable strain of AIDS in just three months. According to City...

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BlockAid blocking solution *for use with microspheres* from Molecular Probes (Invitrogen)

Description:Molecular Probes intensely fluorescent and highly photostable FluoSpheres microspheres have enormous potential for use in a variety of applications requiring probes that can deliver a strong signal. Unfortunately, protein- and other macromolecule-labeled microspheres have hydrophobic regions that may cause them to bind to non-target surfaces in some applications. This nonspecific binding can be r...
Company:Molecular Probes (Invitrogen)

Polymer-Aide PCR Enhancer from Sigma-Aldrich

Description:Templates rich in GC content or with significant secondary structure are often very difficult to amplify, and when subjected to PCR result in little or no product. Yield, specificity and consistency can be increased by the addition of enhancing agents in PCR amplification reactions. Polymer-Aide is an effective PCR enhancer for GC-rich templates. Polymer-Aide is designed for molecular biolog...
Company:Sigma-Aldrich

Eppendorf capping aid from Sigma-Aldrich

Description:Practical tool for easy, effective sealing of 0.2ml PCR tubes and plates using cap strips....
Company:Sigma-Aldrich

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Bill would provide federal aid for healthcare IT

The bill, introduced by Sens. , R-Maine, is called the Health Information Technology Act of 200...

Stem cell and regenerative medicine center to aid education and commerce

The center initially will operate in virtual space, and w...

How Best Buy said bye to burnout, hello to results

It's about time. A large corporation with a strong workaholic and face-time culture and without a vested interest in flexible working...

RFID system aids hospital in tracking assets

- The biggest fear for a doctor may be losing a patient, but a significant annoyance is missing equipment. In the hectic environment of a hospital, there are hundreds of supplies to keep track of and no way to watch every one - a process that often leaves doctors rooting around in the supply closet for an IV stand or jumping from room to room in the hunt for a defib...

Applied Technology Centers to aid printing and manufacturing

These days, every company is a technology business, especially manufacturers and printers, and help for them is on the way in the form of Applied Technology Centers now under construction at Both facilities will offer technology ser...

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AIDS Disaster in India is Imminent

While concern over the AIDS crisis ravaging sub-Saharan Africa dominates much of the discussion at this week's XIII International AIDS Conference, researchers and AIDS workers are sounding the alarm for what many consider to be the next big trouble spot--India."We have a very serious catastrophe in the offing, and if there's an enemy of India it's not Pakistan, it's not China, and it's n...

Kissing can cause Kaposi’s Sarcoma in AID

Kisssing may be responsible for a form of the herpes virus that causes an AIDS-related skin cancer called Kaposi’s sarcoma. Kaposi’s sarcoma causes purple skin blotches and can also attack the internal organs. The virus rarely causes sickness among people with normal disease defenses but attacks those with weakened immune system as in AIDS. The virus known as herpes virus 8...

Now AIDS treatment comes dirt-cheap

The war of the pharmaceutical giants has just begun. After waging wars over many drug formulations the pharma majors are now locking horns over AIDS treatment. The ball was set in motion by the dramatic announcement of Indian firm Cipla that a three-drug combination for AIDS treatment would cost less than a U.S. dollar a day. Not to be left far behind rival firm Ranbaxy announced...

South Africa dilly-dallying on AIDS situation

South Africa, which is now the third most affected country by the AIDS virus, HIV, is in an unenviable position. One in every five South African is HIV positive. If this isn’t enough, the government is in the midst of a major controversy, as it refused a huge consignment of one million AIDS detecting kits free of cost estimated around seven million U.S. Dollars. Earlier last year the Sou...

Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

A NOVEL research-cum-manufacturing agreement between Chiron Corp, the US-based vaccine major, and an Indian company for the development of a potential AIDS vaccine to halt the spread of the deadly disease in the country is in an advanced stage of finalisation. Two Hyderabad-based biotechnology/pharma companies -- Shanta Biotechnics and Biological E -- are reportedly the front-runners f...

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Preface Braided Guiding Sheath

Description:The intended use of the percutaneous PREFACE Guiding Sheath is for the introduction of intravascular electrophysiology catheters into any cardiac chamber....
Company:Biosense Webster, a Johnson & Johnson Company

Qualcraft™ Back-Aid Apron

Description:Our popular Back-Aid Apron now comes standard with an improved Universal Back-Saver Belt that has firmer side supports to take more weight off your shoulders! Waist-hugging belt and back shoulder strap redistribute weight from the shoulders to the hips, so the apron feels lighter....
Company:AliMed, Inc.

Qualcraft™ Lead-Free Back-Aid Radiation Protection Apron

Description:This aron protects at 0.5 mm Pb equivalency and is 20% lighter than our Standard Back-Aid Apron - yet it contains no lead products that can be harmful to the environment!...
Company:AliMed, Inc.

Finnpipette BioMate Pipette Aid

Description:The Finnpipette BioMate pipetting aid excels when it comes to precise pipetting. The aspirate/dispense speed can be easily selected using the speed-setting slide switch. The powerful pump quickly fills even larger volume pipettes. The blow-out function guarantees that all liquid has been removed. BioMate can be used with all serological pipette brands covering a volume range of 1 ml to 100 ml....
Company:ThermoFisher Scientific

Eppendorf Easypet Pipetting Aid

Description:Precise, safe, and fatigue-free series pipetting using graduated pip...
Company:Brinkmann

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