Archive for March 2020

Pertussis Vaccine Beats

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Pertussis Vaccine Beats - Bounce. Bordetella pertussis is on the rise. ORLANDO, Florida- - A vaccine against pertussis has lost its edge because new slightly different strains of the bacteria have emerged, say researchers. . The conclusion emphasizes the...

Second Look at Arsenic Finds Higher risk

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Second Look at Arsenic Finds Higher risk - National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel found that the risk of cancer arsenic in drinking water are even greater that we thought. The panel report, published on 11 September, just six months after the Bush administration shelved the proposal (EPA) Environmental...

How special is Cipro?

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How special is Cipro? - Drug of the day. But other cheaper drugs can treat anthrax, too. Everyone loves Cipro. Following the deadly bioterrorist attacks on the floor of the United States, many people are suspected of hoarding or even sinking, and supplies in...

bed nets prove their bravery

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bed nets prove their bravery - net gain. nets can reduce malaria mortality in young children, the new study shows font size = -1> ATLANTA -. Insecticide-treated nets can save the lives of many children, even in areas where there is intense transmission...

Health Food Supplement up to Hype

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Health Food Supplement up to Hype - Researchers studying a popular supplement that lines the shelves of health food stores have determined that, in mice at least, it lives up to its claim to lower cholesterol. In addition, the supplement - known guggulsterone - seems to control cholesterol in a different...

Hormone Therapy Trial Stopped

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Hormone Therapy Trial Stopped - A massive trial to test the effects of hormones in postmenopausal women was abruptly halted today after an interim analysis showed that hormones increased the risk breast cancer, coronary heart disease, and stroke. Experts say the findings mean that millions of women...

The Best of Estrogen

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The Best of Estrogen - Choosing the right message. synthetic hormones that bypass the traditional route of estrogen (left) and activate the "nongenotropic" track (right) could prevent bone loss without side effects. despite concerns about the risks of hormone...

Metastasis a calling card?

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Metastasis a calling card? - A perennial puzzle to cancer researchers is why some tumors spread to other parts of the body, or metastasize, while others do not. Because most cancer deaths result from metastasis, the answer to this question could help doctors predict metastatic disease and help choose...

Sweet Oblivion

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Sweet Oblivion - As many people age, their sugar levels in the blood crawl. In extreme cases, this can lead to diabetes. But a new study suggests that sugar levels in the blood, even moderately high can cause memory impairment and reduce the hippocampus -. Part of the brain critical to store new...

The final nail in the coffin of HRT?

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The final nail in the coffin of HRT? - In a flash. RAPTOR (left) and KAIT saw a gamma ray burst less than 2 minutes after satellite alert. New evidence shows that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) does not improve the quality of life for postmenopausal women....

Avoiding Failures in Outbreaks

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Avoiding Failures in Outbreaks - SARS city. Canadian authorities are warning travelers to Toronto airport. China has shown the world how not to face a life-threatening epidemic by initially refusing to acknowledge the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome...

Study African AIDS Closing

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Study African AIDS Closing - The Dutch government ends support for a research and training on AIDS 10 years in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, leaving its laboratories and scientists in limbo. It is not known if another funder resume the tab. The Ethiopian-Netherlands AIDS Research Project (ENARP) was established...

Agonizing nervous healers touch

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Agonizing nervous healers touch - relieve pain. drugs that block a receptor on microglia can help relieve chronic pain. most pain is a result -up call danger, designed to ensure that your hand does not linger over a hot stove, for example. But the endless pain...

A Puzzling case of SARS

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A Puzzling case of SARS - not yet. researchers hope that the new SARS case is not a sign of an epidemic like those seen earlier this year. The World Health today recognized as a man of 27 Organisation in Singapore was probably infected by severe acute respiratory...

Narrowing Gap cancer

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Narrowing Gap cancer - a winding path. Only a handful of breast cancers are linked to BRCA genes, but a common BRCA pathway can bind much more. a mystery for breast cancer specialists is why genetic mutations that cause cancer when inherited not appear to...

Forecast cholera outbreaks

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Forecast cholera outbreaks - red flag. satellite images of warmer water (red) may indicate when cholera epidemics are likely to strike. SEATTLE - Between epidemics, cholera lies in coastal waters and rivers. Although this means that it is impossible to eradicate...

IOM recommends action on supplements

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IOM recommends action on supplements - Dietary supplements can supposedly handle almost any human ailment, but some have hidden dangers. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rarely takes aggressive measures, such as its recent ban on ephedra compound "fat-burning". A new report from the Institute...

Put the flu on the map

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Put the flu on the map - all over the map. influenza virus strains come together in 11 groups on the new antigenic map. The letters refer to the location (Hong Kong, England, Victoria, Texas, Bangkok, Suchan, Beijing, Wuhan, Sydney, and Fujian) and numbers to the...

Hidden cost to treated water?

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Hidden cost to treated water? - Safe to drink? A new study raises concerns about drinking water disinfected with chloramines. [water disinfecting drinking with chloramines, a mixture of chlorine and ammonia, which is used to treat about a third of drinking water...

Exposure study of children Hold

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Exposure study of children Hold - Arrested in the way. EPA has suspended a study on the health effects of pesticides in the children. The protection Agency (EPA) ended recently launched a study on health risks for children of pesticides in and plans to give...

Cameroon suspends the study of AIDS

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Cameroon suspends the study of AIDS - Belly Aching? Militants led by ACT UP Paris, holding signs that say "Tenofovir makes me sick," staged protests in Bangkok last summer at the 15th International AIDS Conference. The Ministry of Health in Cameroon yesterday...

Study finds little benefit from Low-Fat Diets ...

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Study finds little benefit from Low-Fat Diets ... - no miracle solution. A low-fat diet does not appear to reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease in women. ARS / USDA A massive study of nearly 49,000 older women examining the links between diet and...

Building a better beam

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Building a better beam - Getting the right dose. The colored contours indicate the intensity of the IMRT radiation: the tumor bed (red) gets the most, chest (orange) receives less, and heart (green) and other areas that also receive little can [ Jinsheng Li /...

AIDS program Bush Draws Mixed Reviews

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AIDS program Bush Draws Mixed Reviews - A detailed independent assessment of President Bush's program to fight against AIDS worldwide effort gives high marks for its aggressive attempts to fight the epidemic in poor countries. But the report, released today, also criticized the initiative to allow...

Lab reports Blame Foot-and-Mouth Fiasco

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Lab reports Blame Foot-and-Mouth Fiasco - Neglected, leaky pipes and humid summer record of England probably combined to cause recent outbreak of FMD countries ( FMD), according to two reports published Friday. The virus probably escaped from a company, Merial, who grew up large amounts of it for...

Cancer May Be Fighter Fertility Helper

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Cancer May Be Fighter Fertility Helper - A protein known primarily for its role in the fight against cancer also contributes embryo implants in the womb, according to a study in mice. The discovery may explain why some women have difficulty becoming pregnant. The p53 protein has been widely studied...

Pesticide Brew Spells Trouble for Salmon

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Pesticide Brew Spells Trouble for Salmon - deadly mix. In laboratory studies, some combinations of pesticides were far more lethal exposure to simple compounds. NOAA / Doug Walker of salmon in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and elsewhere, were...

Monkey model of Huntington's disease

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Monkey model of Huntington's disease - Model monkeys. These two monkeys are among the first genetically modified primates with signs of human neurological disease. Yerkes National Primate Research Center Researchers often rely on mice to study a range of...

Combo Therapy adds years to the life of HIV patients

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Combo Therapy adds years to the life of HIV patients - pills Fistful. A man holds a cocktail of drugs against HIV Bruce Forster / Getty Images Loads of studies have shown that effective anti-drug combinations HIV introduced in 1996 can potently suppress the...

Conquer malaria once and for all

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Conquer malaria once and for all - Beating back malaria. dignitaries, heads of state and celebrities, including U2 frontman Bono, meeting at the UN to approve the new global plan of action against malaria. Kathy Willens / AP Photos an international partnership...
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