Placenta Harbors bacteria, may impact fetal health

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Placenta Harbors bacteria, may impact fetal health - three harmony parts. a new study finds that the placenta is home to a small community of bacteria. Illustration (animation) © Science / AAAS The researchers found a small community of bacteria living in...

Mission MERS

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Malaysia is trying to follow the path of Australia

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Malaysia is trying to follow the path of Australia - A senior researcher and advocate pushes for change special section on HIV in 1997, a year after Adeeba Kamarulzaman returned here with a medical degree from Australia and a specialty in infectious diseases,...

HIV resurfaces in "Mississippi baby" good healed assumed number

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HIV resurfaces in "Mississippi baby" good healed assumed number - virus returned in a child in Mississippi thought to have been cured of HIV infection, dashing hopes that scientists had found a strategy that would have a broad impact. After the girl was 27 months with no detectable virus in the blood,...

Smoking mothers may change the DNA of their children

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Smoking mothers may change the DNA of their children - Pregnant women who smoke do not just harm the health of their baby, they can actually harm their DNA child, according to a new study. The discovery may explain why children of smokers continue to suffer from health complications later in life....

outstanding issues hang the success of IVF

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WHO reports death of Ebola in DRC

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WHO reports death of Ebola in DRC - International aid organizations already stretched to the limit of the largest Ebola outbreak on record, face a second, probably clusters without case report in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ministry of Health yesterday DRC notified the World Health Organization...

Gut bugs can increase the effects of the flu shot

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Gut bugs can increase the effects of the flu shot - Every year some unlucky people get the flu even if they had their chance season. One reason, according to a new study, could be their intestinal bacteria. The researchers showed that, at least in mice, a strong immune response to the vaccine against...

Ebola vaccine trials raise ethical questions

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Ebola vaccine trials raise ethical questions - Come January, up to 20 000 doses of an Ebola vaccine candidate could be ready for testing in the unprecedented epidemic running through West Africa. The vaccine and another whose development is 6 weeks behind could...

Just a poliovirus left to go?

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Just a poliovirus left to go? - the global eradication effort on the long-term polio years behind and shaken by reverses, got a shot of good news this week. Its leaders said the effort was probably eradicated the second of three varieties of the virus. The feat,...

Why the bodies of men women abort during difficult times

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Why the bodies of men women abort during difficult times - In hard times, several studies have shown, more girls are born than boys. Nobody knows why, but men should not fear being invaded by women. An analysis of old parish registers in Finland found that boys born in stressful times survive better...