New therapy for HIV/AIDS eliminates needles and excessive toxicity
A team led by Johns Hopkins scientists hasfound the first clear evidence that the process behind the human immunesystem's remarkable ability to recognize and respond to a milliondifferent proteins might have originated from a family of genes whoseonly apparent function is to jump around in genetic material. essentially cut...High carbon dioxide levels spur Southern pines to grow more needles
A Duke University study has found that maturing stands of pines exposed to the higher levels of carbon dioxide expected by mid-century produce more needles than those absorbing today's levels of the gas, even under drought conditions. However, the study also found that lack of soil nutrients may impose limitations in many forests. Duke graduate student Heather McCarthy will describe result...Delivery of needles in the Capitol missed the point about stem-cell research
If Churchill was around to describe the July 19 delivery of 1,400 used syringes to the Capitol o...Nurses In Ontario demands Safe Disposable Needles
Nurses in the Ontario province of Canada are demanding strict laws to ensure the use of sterile disposable safety needles as they feel that are in the risk of unwanted transmission of blood pathogens. Risk of hospital workers // to blood borne diseases is high due to accidental needle pricks of unsafe needles. The three unions of Ontario, The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), the Service Employe...Fat Patients Require Longer Needles
Longer needles are required to inject fat people with intra-muscular injections due to the fatty tissues which prevent people from deriving the full benefits //of the dosage. This has been revealed by Victoria Chan, a scientist at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Dublin. This conclusion was arrived at after studying 50 patients who came for a CT scan. The patients were administered an intra-mus...Needles Given To Drug Addicts Go Missing In Scotland
Statistics released by the Scottish Executive show that around 2.9 million clean needles were dispensed for drug users, but only 1.9 million were returned thus sparking a shortage of a million needles and concerns over hepatitis C as well. //...Longer Needles Best for Infant Immunisation
Infants vaccinated with a long needle experience fewer reactions but get the same protection (immunogenicity) as a shorter needle, finds a study published on bmj.com// today. In the UK, primary care practitioners administer infant immunisations at 2, 3 and 4 months of age. Despite recommendations for use of a wide-long (23G, 25mm) needle, many UK practitioners immunise infants using a...Eighty Children Die Of Aids Due To Tainted Blood, Dirty Needles In Southern Kazakhstan
The death toll of HIV-infected children in South Kazakhstan has reached 80 with the recent death //of a 5-year old boy in Sairam district – said the officials and non-governmental groups. It is believed that the five-year-old boy had a severe inborn cardiac defect, which caused the death. Chief physician of the regional HIV/ AIDS prevention and treatment center, Natalia Babina told the...