Archive for September 2018

$ 33 million from Alzheimer Gamble

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$ 33 million from Alzheimer Gamble - NIH Billions of dollars have been spent on clinical trials for Alzheimer's drugs that target amyloid plaques, tangles of proteins that clog stamp brain cells in people with the memory-stealing disease. So far, all have failed, leading some frustrated researchers...

Live chat: Spinal Cord Injury Treatment

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Live chat: Spinal Cord Injury Treatment - The spinal cord is the nerve of highway that connects the brain to the body. A car accident or a bad fall can partially or completely sever the spinal cord and paralyze the person below the injury site. In the US, more than 10,000 people are injured spinal...

The treatment for malaria Dormant Shows Promise

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The treatment for malaria Dormant Shows Promise - Stealthy enemy. vivax malaria, shown here in the bloodstream, can hide-undetectable in liver cells. CDC The first new drug in half a century to target malaria parasites in one of their best hiding showing...

New Staph promising vaccine in the rabbit

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New Staph promising vaccine in the rabbit - deadly strain. infections by MRSA bacteria (purple) highlight the need for S. aureus vaccine. NIH staph infections represent one of the most serious microbial threats to people. Yet efforts to prevent with vaccines...

A new killer virus in China?

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A new killer virus in China? - Hot on the trail. bloodhounds of the Chinese illness at work in the cave in Mojiang. Courtesy of Jin Qi in June 2012, three men remove slag of abandoned copper mine in southwest China fell ill severe pneumonia and died. Six...

Better health through intimidation

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Better health through intimidation - the long arm of the bully. aggression affects the health of the victims years later, but the savings tormentors. mactrunk / iStockphoto / Thinkstock The intimidation cast a shadow. Children who are bullied are more prone...

Promising new vaccine against malaria in mice

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Promising new vaccine against malaria in mice - containing the invader. A malaria parasite, completing this cell red blood separates into smaller components (four round shapes lined with white walls) before bursting and infect other cells. A new vaccine is based...

Turning red blood cells in the cargo ships

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Turning red blood cells in the cargo ships - As red blood cells zip through the vessels, they provide oxygen to almost every nook and cranny of your body. But oxygen is not anything they can tote around. By orchestrating the red blood cells to have 'sticky' proteins on their surface, a team of researchers...

monkey fever unrelated

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Bacteria shrink tumors in humans, dogs

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Bacteria shrink tumors in humans, dogs - A syringe full of harmful bacteria sounds like the last thing a cancer patient needs. But a new study of dogs with tumors, and even a human cancer patient, shows that the injection of some bacteria directly into tumors may reduce or even eliminate. The results...

Ebola's heavy toll on study authors

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Ebola's heavy toll on study authors - The Ongoing Ebola virus disease outbreak is Taking an appalling toll on health workers in West Africa. More than 240-have-been infected and more than 0-have died. At Kenema Government Hospital (KGH) in Sierra Leone, Where the country's first...

Ebola: "Wow, that is really hard"

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Ebola: "Wow, that is really hard" - Bruce Aylward is used to mobilize armies of health workers A Deputy Director General at the World Health Organization (. WHO) in charge of poliomyelitis and emergency situations, leading the massive global effort to eradicate polio. But Aylward said he never met...

US government should announce vague help Ebola epidemic

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US government should announce vague help Ebola epidemic - A week after strong criticism met the announcement of the US military that it plans to help Liberia fight the Ebola epidemic with a "deployable hospital" which has only 25 beds, tomorrow plans US President Barack Obama to unveil major new...
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