Breakthrough System for Understanding Ocean Plant Life Announced
Sixty million people in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa are threatened daily by a deadly parasitic disease known as African sleeping sickness. The disease is caused by organisms called trypanosomes, which are spread by the tsetse fly. African sleeping sickness affects approximately 500,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa, a quarter of whom will die this year. Because the trypanosome has an except...New Dane County airport links to Atlanta announced
"Atlanta is home to the federal Centers for Disease Control, Georgia Institute of Technology and literally...Wisconsin Development Fund awards announced
Golden Batch Sugar Wafers Source: Heritage Wafer awards. The awards were made at the W...Partnership Between Diabetes India And Elsevier Announced
A new publishing partnership has been announced between Elsevier and Diabetes India. The partnership would be marked by the launch of a new journal, named Diabetes Research & Metabolic Syndrome in June 2006. // The journal would focus on the importance of the relationship between diabetes and metabolic syndrome with special reference to the causes of vascular damage and a glucose centered...Chiefs Of Regional Commissions For Animal Health Announced
Dr. Robert Thwala, the Ministry of Agriculture Director of Veterinary and Livestock Services, was anointed as President of the African Regional Commission //for the International Committee of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). Dr. Barry O’Neil was earlier elected the President of OIE. This post is held for three years. The elections were held last month during the 74th An...Breakthrough Announced in Development of Bird flu drug
A breakthrough in the development of a bird flu drug that could treat humans in the event of an outbreak has been announced by scientists.// However they have warned that the final version of the drug to be used to treat the H5N1 virus would probably take another five years to be produced. The 238 cases of human infection have all been from direct contact with infected birds...Study Results on Stool DNA Testing for Colon Cancer Announced
Mount Sinai School of Medicine and EXACT Sciences Corporation announced today the publication// of results from a prospective, multi-center study of stool DNA testing. The study found that the test demonstrated an 88% sensitivity for colorectal cancer, and with equal detection across all stages of cancer, regardless of the cancer’s location in the colon. “This study confirms that sto...Potential Lifesaver Drug Announced
Can what is done be undone? In a part answer to that adage researchers have announced the developing //of a miracle drug to treat genetic disease- those which one is born with and which usually is not correctable. Obviously the scientific world is too thrilled for silence. The drug named as PTC124 and been worked upon by researchers from PTC Therapeutics in New Jersey and those from Uni...CeNeS Pharmaceuticals plc: Update on Successful Phase III results announced on Lead Product M6G
Further analysis of Phase III trial data underlines M6G'sbenefit compared to morphine in the treatment of post-operativepain CAMBRIDGE, England, 7th March 2007 - CeNeS Pharmaceuticals plc(AIM: CEN), the Cambridge based biopharmaceutical company todayannounces additional data from the pivotal Phase III trial (M6G022)of M6G (morphine-6-glucuronide) in over 500 patients withpost-oper...