Archive for April 2018

Bloomberg Health Prize Celebrated With Mayor

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Bloomberg Health Prize Celebrated With Mayor - with researchers studying reprogramming and doctors who developed the revolutionary drug against leukemia, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg won a price of the public Service of the Lasker Foundation nuclear today. The honor recognizes public health Bloomberg-policy...

Massive study vaccine against AIDS: a "modest" success

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Massive study vaccine against AIDS: a "modest" success - A large clinical trial of a vaccine against AIDS, for the first time, gave positive results. But once the researchers questioned the relevance of the data, indicating that the vaccine offered only modest protection against...

Swine Flu Complacency and a victory for Biotech

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Swine Flu Complacency and a victory for Biotech - Here is an overview of some of the stories that we followed on science political blog of science Insider: as the availability of vaccine against swine flu is increasing steadily, the US Centers for Disease Control...

Where Stimulus Money Went NIH

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Where Stimulus Money Went NIH - the results are for the national Institutes of challenge much discussed health grants and news is slightly better than expected: the agency has funded 840 projects, which puts the part of the mind boggling 20,000-plus applications...

In Asia, a discussion on Making cancer a global health priority

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In Asia, a discussion on Making cancer a global health priority - Not surprisingly, cancer researchers in Asia think their specialty deserves a higher priority global health . Today, during a discussion Forum Asia Cancer in Tsukuba, Japan, one speaker after another emphasized statistics showing that...

University of Nebraska may restrict the use of stem cells

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University of Nebraska may restrict the use of stem cells - Nebraska citizens do not like the new open policy Obama on research with human embryonic stem cells. So, in response to public pressure, the board of regents of the University of Nebraska will vote tomorrow on whether to limit its research...

Asian mutation protects against malaria

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Asian mutation protects against malaria - Selected to survive. Many people in Southeast Asia - including the Karen - have a mutation that provides some protection against Plasmodium vivax . Gertha / Wikimedia A mutation common in Southeast Asia which causes...

Egyptian eyeliner can have conspirator disease

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Egyptian eyeliner can have conspirator disease - Get the lead in. ancient Egyptians added lead salts to their black eyeliner to prevent bacterial infections. D. Vigears / C2RMF Obviously, the ancient Egyptians did not get the memo about lead poisoning. Their...

Canada's vision for research Alzheimer hits a Snag

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Canada's vision for research Alzheimer hits a Snag - OTTAWA Alain Beaudet, almost from the moment he became president of the Health Research Institutes Canada 2 years ago, spoke of the need for an initiative of several billion dollars to fight against disease and Alzheimer's dementia. (In Canada...

New Criteria for Diagnosing psychiatric proposed

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New Criteria for Diagnosing psychiatric proposed - Today, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released the proposed revisions to the most influential book in psychiatry: the and diagnostic manual statistical of mental disorders ( DSM ). These draft criteria for diagnosing mental disorders...

New Science to Bolster FDA approval of drugs

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New Science to Bolster FDA approval of drugs - Two federal agencies today announced a new initiative to support regulatory science, tools and standards used to evaluate new drugs and devices. The National Institutes of Health and the US Food and Drug Administration say they are joining forces to...

Varmus to Cancer Institute Head After All?

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Varmus to Cancer Institute Head After All? - The Letter cancer , a newsletter based in Washington DC, confidence, reports that the White House intends to appoint Nobel laureate Harold Varmus in as director of the National cancer Institute. Varmus, former director of the National Institutes of Health...

A New Culprit in the spread of cancer

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A New Culprit in the spread of cancer - cancer index. mice injected with breast cancer cells make a lot of a long strand of RNA called Hotair developed 10 times more lung tumors as controls ( left ) did. Adapted from Gupta et al., Nature, 464 (15 April 2010)...

A molecular signature of cognitive decline

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A molecular signature of cognitive decline - Where did I leave my car keys? Do I come in this room to get something? And what was the name of that person? Aging often means getting a little forgetful. Now researchers working with mice believe they have found a new reason. They identified the molecular...

By monitoring of diseases Mosquito Slobber

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By monitoring of diseases Mosquito Slobber - This is not to spit on: Scientists say they may be able to track diseases transmitted by mosquitoes fatal studying saliva insects leave behind when they feed sweet bait. diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are a major health hazard worldwide. Some, such...

Do you parasites Dumber?

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Do you parasites Dumber? - What can you do to make your children smarter? The maintenance of good health might help. A new study suggests that differences in the world of intelligence can be explained by disparities in infectious diseases. The researchers found that the most severely affected by...

HIV gel also effective against herpes viruses

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HIV gel also effective against herpes viruses - Vienna- A highly anticipated presentation here at the 18th International AIDS Conference proved to be doubly sweet. As Science reported yesterday, researchers announced that South African women who received a vaginal gel containing the anti-HIV...

Calling the US government stem cell injunction-Again

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Calling the US government stem cell injunction-Again - In the latest twist in a complex legal battle, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has appealed refusal of a judge Tuesday to lift the ban on funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. Wednesday night, government lawyers have filed a...

Twofer for larger bioterrorism threats?

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Twofer for larger bioterrorism threats? - If you ask biodefense experts to name two diseases that prevent them from sleeping at night, there's a good chance they mention smallpox and anthrax. Both are highly lethal, and current vaccines have major problems. Now researchers have found a way to target...

brain to stop Hurting

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brain to stop Hurting - road to recovery? New ideas about how the brain repairs itself may help patients recover better after a stroke. Catherine Yeulet / Thinkstock A third of stroke survivors never recover enough brain function to live on their own. Now...

NIH Researchers defends cancer sponsored travel

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NIH Researchers defends cancer sponsored travel - Voyages researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has agreed to nonfederal sponsors to present data in meetings or scientific institutions were a valid part of the realization of science and does not violate federal rules. That is the gist...

Malaria Report shows success is possible and Fragile

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Malaria Report shows success is possible and Fragile - WHO muscled investments in malaria control have a major impact, according to the new global malaria Report, released yesterday by the World health Organization (WHO). But the report also shows the fragility...

NIH plan to break a center

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NIH plan to break a center - Anxiety continues to destabilize the biomedical community on a decision last month by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a new translational research center and, in the process of dismantling an existing center. Sunday, NIH deputy director Lawrence Tabak...

Pfizer plan to reduce spending on R & D rattles some cages

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Pfizer plan to reduce spending on R & D rattles some cages - Pfizer, the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, and is proud of his scientific insight, announced yesterday it will reduce spending on R & D in 2012 by about 20%, from $ 8.5 billion to $ 7 billion. The company also said...

First US cowpox infection: Acquired From Lab Contamination

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First US cowpox infection: Acquired From Lab Contamination - A lab worker student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is the first person in the US to come down with cowpox, a less dangerous relative of smallpox, and the culprit is the laboratory contamination. Researchers from the Centers...

Former MIT researcher convicted of fraud

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Former MIT researcher convicted of fraud - The test is not over for the biologist Luk van Parijs, who was fired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 05 after entering processing research data. Yesterday, Van Parijs, 40, pleaded guilty in US District Court in Boston to one count of...

Good News About a Very Bad Cancer

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Good News About a Very Bad Cancer - Go. pancreatic tumor that had spread to the liver ( left ) disappeared after the patient has received chemotherapy and an antibody that stimulates macrophages ( right ). G. Beatty et al., Science, 331 (25 March 2011) Pancreatic...
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