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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...

Plants defy Mendel's inheritance laws, may prompt textbook changes

Contrary to inheritance laws the scientific world has accepted for more than 100 years, some plants revert to normal traits carried by their grandparents, bypassing genetic abnormalities carried by both parents. These mutant parent plants apparently have hidden templates containing genetic information from the preceding generation that can be transferred to their offspring, even though the...

PET/CT can identify new cancer lesions at early stage, allowing for prompt treatment

A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Md., reports that whole-body positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scans may help physicians identify new, unexpected malignant cancerous tumors in patients, according to an article in the May issue of the Society of Nuclear Medicine's Journal of Nuclear Medicine. "PET/CT can help find additional...

Plant defenses prompt bacterial countermeasure in the form of 'island' DNA excision

Seeking to catch an arms-race maneuver in action, researchers have uncovered new evidence to explain how bacteria in the process of infecting a plant can shift molecular gears by excising specific genes from its genome to overcome the host plant's specific defenses. Throughout evolution ?in the wild and in crops cultivated by humans ?plants have developed systems for resisting the attack o...

Just like us, social stress prompts hamsters to overeat, gain weight

Put a mouse or a rat under stress and what does it do? It stops eating. Humans should be so lucky. When people suffer nontraumatic stress they often head for the refrigerator, producing unhealthy extra pounds. When Syrian hamsters, which are normally solitary, are placed in a group-living situation, they also gain weight. So scientists at the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Georgia S...

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Growth prompts new location for scientific instrument manufacturer

manufacturers scientific instruments and consumables used by research chemists developing new drug compounds during the drug discovery and deve...

GE Medicals Acquisitions May Prompt More Purchases

General Electric made clear this week -- with a one-two punch of an acquisition and a merger in a matter of hours -- that it intends to grow its division. But in some cases, the acquisitions may actually induce the Fairfield, Conn.-based giant to make additional acquisitions in order to own market leader st...

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TV drug commercials prompt prescriptions

Television commercials for drugs to treat everything from heartburn to impotence have prompted one in eight viewers to get a prescription. But many viewers fail to retain critical information about the drug and possible side effects. TV commercials for prescription drugs have become commonplace since the Food and Drug Administration set up rules and made them legal. // The pervasive...

Bird Flu Threat Prompts Stockpiling Of Food And Medicine In America

It has been urged by the Federal Government to stockpile medicines and food owing to the possibility of potential bird flu pandemic in America.// A pandemic is said to occur when a new strain of the influenza virus gets transmitted from one person to the other, thereby causing serious human illness. Warning has already been issued regarding the mutation of the H5N1 virus into a more p...

HIV Virus Emerging Drug Resistant In UK, Prompting Fear Of A Second Epidemic

Reports of highest resistance rates of the HIV virus in the UK has come just in time before the World AIDS Day that is to be celebrated on December 1st. This has created panic // among the scientific community, raising a possibility of a second wave epidemic of resistant virus. Anti-retroviral drugs are currently used in the management of AIDS victims. The currently available drugs are...

Bird Flu Infection Of Chinese Girl Prompts Fear Of Spread Across Asia

With increasing global fear regarding the spread of the deadly bird flu, official reports from China has reported that a 10-year-old Chinese girl is the latest victim to be infected with the disease//. The victim hails from the southern Guangxi region and has been suffering from fever and pneumonia since November 23. A test done to analyze her infection status revealed that she had a...

Advertisements Prompt Youth To Drink

A study conducted in the US has revealed that seeing advertisements related to alcohol prompts teenagers to start drinking. The UK has one // of the highest youth drinking rates in the European Continent, with nearly 20% of those aged between 11 and 15 years drinking at least once a week, up from 13% in 1990. Several studies have found an association between drinking and advertisin...

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Hemaprompt Fecal Occult Blood Test

Description:The use of guaiac as a test for the presence of blood is based on the oxidation of phenolic compounds present in guaiac to quinones, resulting in the production of a blue color. If blood is present, the heme portion of the hemoglobin molecule can function in a pseudoenzymatic manner, catalyzing the release of oxygen from hydrogen peroxide which in turn causes the oxidation of guaiac. HemaPrompt i...
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Hemaprompt FG Gastric and Fecal Occult Blood Test

Description:The use of guaiac as a test for the presence of blood is based on the oxidation of phenolic compounds present in guaiac to quinones, resulting in the production of a blue color. If blood is present, the heme portion of the hemoglobin molecule can function...
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Positive Results Prompt US National Cancer Institute to Make Glivec Available to Patients in Post-Surgical GIST Study

* Glivec found to dramatically reduce the risk of cancerreturning after surgery for Kit-positive gastrointestinal stromaltumors (GIST) * Patients receiving placebo in this trial will now be offeredGlivec * Global regulatory submissions planned for use of Glivec asadjuvant therapy in GIST patients following surgery to removeprimary tumor * Glivec already approved as ef...

Positive Results Prompt US National Cancer Institute to Make Gleevec Available To Patients in Post-Surgical Gist Study

- Gleevec found to dramatically reduce the risk of cancer returningafter surgery for Kit-positive gastrointestinal stromal tumors(GIST) EAST HANOVER, N.J., April 12, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Investigatorswill begin offering Gleevec(R) (imatinib mesylate)* tablets topatients receiving placebo in a major North American clinical trialafter an interim analysis showed participants with Kit-positiv...