Europe Unlikely to Meet Measles Goals: Report
Suboptimum vaccination rates cast doubt on ability to eliminate disease by 2010 WEDNESDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Hope is fading for the elimination of measles in Europe by 2010, as a new report reveals lower-than-optimal vaccination rates in five countries where outbreaks have oc...Supply of board-certified emergency physicians unlikely to meet projected needs
The number of physicians with board certification in emergency medicine is unlikely to meet the staffing needs of U.S. emergency departments in the foreseeable future, if ever; according to a study from a research team based at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). In the December issue of Acade...AMA Finds High Fructose Syrup Unlikely to Be More Harmful to Health Than Other Caloric Sweeteners
CHICAGO, June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After studying current research, the American Medical Association (AMA) today concluded that high fructose syrup does not appear to contribute more to obesity than other caloric sweeteners, but called for further independent research to be done on th...U.S. Unlikely to Meet Target for TB Elimination
Survey says latent infections among immigrants, minorities, poor thwart reaching 2010 benchmark SATURDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- It appears that the United States will fall far short of its benchmark goals toward eliminating tuberculosis, according to an analysis of National Health...Switching to MA Coverage Unlikely for Current Beneficiaries With MediGap or Medicare Only
FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- DSS Research announced the findings of the latest wave of its quarterly, national SeniorTrax(R) survey. The survey was completed in late June and found that just 2.6% of those with MediGap or Medicare Only coverage are definitely or very likely to swit...Clinical Update - Debio 025 in Hepatitis C
...38 log (-99.5%) when co-administered with Peg-IFN alpha-2a and ribavirin in previous null responders. "These results in patients who are highly unlikely to respond to re-treatment with an interferon-based regimen, are very important to us, as they confirm that Debio 025 is a potent anti-HCV agent," sai...Discovery's Edge Spring Issue - http://discoverysedge.mayo.edu
...to ensure breathing capability in SCI patients. http://discoverysedge.mayo.edu/de09-1-mssk-sieck-respsci/ Glitches in Ion Transporters -- An unlikely Link Between Kidney Diseases and Glaucoma A tale of coincidence and collaboration: the peculiar case of the kidney researcher and the eye expert fi...When it comes to sleep research, fruit flies and people make unlikely bedfellows
You may never hear fruit flies snore, but rest assured that when you're asleep they are too. According to research published in the January 2009 issue of the journal GENETICS ( http://www.genetics.org ), scientists from the University of Missouri-Kansas City have shown that the circadian rhythms...Stem cell chicken and egg debate moves to unlikely arena: the testes
LA JOLLA, CA Logic says it has to be the niche. As air and water preceded life, so the niche, that hospitable environment that shelters adult stem cells in many tissues and provides factors necessary to keep them young and vital, must have emerged before its stem cell dependents. A team of sc...Coral reefs unlikely to survive in acid oceans
Stanford, CA Carbon emissions from human activities are not just heating up the globe, they are changing the oceans chemistry. This could soon be fatal to coral reefs, which are havens for marine biodiversity and underpin the economies of many coastal communities. Scientists from the Carnegie I...Ozone recovering, but unlikely to stabilize at pre-1980 levels, says study
When given extra shots of the plant steroid brassinolide, plants "pump up" like major league baseball players do on steroids. Tracing brassinolide's signal deep into the cell's nucleus, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have unraveled how the growth-boosting hormone accomplis...Access to antiretrovirals unlikely to reduce HIV infection rates
A new study by Rebecca Baggaley, Neil Ferguson, and Geoff Garnett (of Imperial College London) suggests that the HIV epidemic in poor countries will not be controlled through antiretroviral drugs alone, even if universal access is achieved. As they demonstrate in an article in the open-access inter...Storytelling makes a comeback in an unlikely place
Lori Silverman Source: Partners for Progress MADISON, Wis. Members of the World Future Society came together recently to hear a story of an emerging trend in the corporate world the use of storytelling as a business tool. Lori Silverman, owner of the consulting firm Partners for Progress a...First genetically engineered malaria vaccine to enter human trials
...eveloping a whole organism malaria vaccine." Professor Cowman said it was unlikely the weakened parasites used in the vaccine would regain their potency as th... 'one-two punch' approach of deleting two essential genes make it extremely unlikely that the attenuated parasite vaccine could restore its capacity to multiply...Sunesis Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter 2009
...Evaluation of VorEloxin in AmL) is a Phase 2 dose regimen optimization study of single agent voreloxin in newly diagnosed elderly AML patients who are unlikely to benefit from standard induction chemotherapy. Interim clinical data from this study continue to show that voreloxin can induce durable complete rem...Monitoring water through a snake's eyes
... the United States to provide protection from chemoterrorism attacks ― a threat to which U.S. water supplies are particularly susceptible. "It's unlikely that someone will poison the water supply in Afghanistan," says Prof. Katzir, "but America is in grave danger and needs to arm itself against chemical...