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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...

President Bush's cut to AIDS prevention in Africa would be devastating

Twenty-eight years after intense selective logging stopped in the region now known as Uganda's Kibale National Park, the red-tailed guenon (Cercophithecus ascanius) is a primate still in decline. The logging practice, scientists report in a new study, changed the ecological balance for these monkeys, leading to behavioral changes and opening the door for multiple parasitic infections. The...

Vaginal gel may provide a new approach to HIV prevention

Research with female monkeys at the Tulane National Primate Research Center has for the first time shown that three different anti-viral agents in a vaginal gel protect the animals against an HIV-like virus. The research suggests that a microbicide using compounds that inhibit the processes by which HIV attaches to and enters target cells could potentially provide a safe, effective and practical...

Why were the HIV prevention trials in commercial sex workers abandoned?

One promising approach to help stem the global HIV epidemic is to give commercial sex workers an HIV medication (such as the drug tenofovir) before they have high risk sex in the hope of reducing their chances of becoming infected, an approach called "pre-exposure prophylaxis" (PREP). But activist groups, including Act Up-Paris have "halted the progress of at least two important clinical trials o...

WCS says avian flu prevention should focus on farms, markets

Wildlife health experts from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) warn that efforts to control the spread of avian flu across Asia and beyond must focus on better management practices on farms and in markets. WCS is currently working with Mongolian agencies on the ground in Mongolia's Kovsgol province, collecting samples from wild birds that have recently contracted the...

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GeneAmp PCR Carry-over Prevention Kit from Applied Biosystems

Description:Enzymatic method stops PCR carry-over contamination, which prevents false positive results Designed to degrade PCR products from previous PCR amplifications without degrading native nucleic acid templates, which improves amplification Optimized for use with GeneAmp PCR core reagents and GeneAmp instrument systems The GeneAmp PCR Carry-over Prevention Kit provides reagents for a simple yet...
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Combine High Yield, Great Accuracy and the Prevention of Carry-over Contamination by Using the Novel Expand High FidelityPLUS PCR System

Roche Applied Science pioneered the blending of thermostableDNA polymerases and the associated buffersystems. The well-known Expand High Fidelity andExpand Long Template PCR Systems were the first commerciallyavailable blends to provide amplification offragments up t...
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Prevention is better than cure

Common cold is the most 'common'illness during the change of weather from winter to summer. People can catch cold from the coughs and sneezes of...

Prevention of cataracts

A new study provides further evidence that nutrient antioxidants play a role in the prevention of cataracts. Researchers from Tufts University studied more than 575 women ages 53 to 77 from the Nurses' Health Study. The women did not have diabetes nor did they have previously diagnosed cataracts. During a 15-year period, the women answered questionnaires about their food intake.// The...

Aspirin and Warfarin Are Equally Effective for Stroke Prevention

A study aimed at settling a long-standing question among doctors has found that aspirin works just as well as Warfarin, in helping most patients avoid recurrent strokes. Many doctors suspected that Warfarin was more effective but that aspirin was safer. This study challenges both views, showing the two drugs are equals in both respects. Both drugs slow clotting of the blood, and blood...

Awakening call for fall prevention

According to Orthopaedic researchers, it is important that older people escape falls, because fracture treatment may be slow and complex. As people age, they are more likely to have a fall because// of decreased agility and an overall decline in general health. And since an older person's bones are often thinner, treatment is difficult and healing slow. American Academy of Orthopaedic...

Stem Cells, Tumor Cells Share Similar Properties: Scope For Treatment and Prevention?

Stem cells are one of the fascinating areas for research in biology today. Vigorous research on stem cells is adding new information to the scientific body of knowledge everyday.// Researchers have now added key evidence to claims that some types of cancer originate with defects in stem cells. The study reveals that if molecules crucial to the functioning of these stem cells are not plac...

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Phase III Trial Results Show Superiority of Rivaroxaban over Enoxaparin for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Undergoing Knee Replacement Surgery

Rivaroxaban, a New Oral, Once-Daily Direct Factor Xa Inhibitor,Shows a Significant Reduction in Deep Vein Thrombosis and PulmonaryEmbolism Compared with Enoxaparin with Similarly Low BleedingRates GENEVA, July 8, 2007 - Late-breaking Phase III clinical trialdata presented today at the XXI International Society on Thrombosisand Haemostasis (ISTH) Congress demonstrate that once-daily...

Phase III Trial Results Show Superiority of Rivaroxaban over Enoxaparin for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Undergoing Knee Replacement Surgery

GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 8, 2007 - Late-breaking Phase IIIclinical trial data presented today at the XXI InternationalSociety on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) Congress demonstratethat once-daily rivaroxaban achieved superior efficacy in theprevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients undergoingknee replacement surgery in a head-to-head comparison withenoxaparin, the curren...

Peer Reviewed Journal Article Indicates Repros' Proellex Exhibits Potential for New Approach to the Treatment and Prevention of Breast Cancer

THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 5, 2007 - ReprosTherapeutics Inc. (NasdaqGM:RPRX) today announced that an articlehas been published in the July 1, 2007 issue of Oncology Reportsindicating a potential for a new approach to the treatment ofbreast cancer using Proellex. The article reviews the findings froma study conducted in an accepted in vivo rat model of breastcancer. The study...

Insmed Inc. Welcomes Studies Linking IGFBP-3 to Prevention of Blindness in Premature Infants

RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 26, 2007 - Insmed Incorporated(Nasdaq:INSM), a biopharmaceutical company focused on thedevelopment and approval of drugs for the treatment of metabolicdiseases with unmet medical needs, today noted the publication ofpromising results of research from three universities regarding thepotential role of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3(IGFBP-3) in...

Accera, Inc. Announces Open-Label Data from Phase II Study in Alzheimer's Disease at International Conference on Prevention of Dementia

BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 11, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Accera, Inc.today is presenting data from an open-label extension of its PhaseIIb clinical trial of AC-1202 (Ketasyn) in Alzheimer's disease (AD)at the Alzheimer's Association's International Conference onPrevention of Dementia in Washington, D.C. Consistent with thefindings of earlier clinical and preclinical studies, AC-1202 wasshown to...

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