Archive for March 2021

Court case on football injuries

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Court case on football injuries - A case of California court seems to want to test whether the National Football League can be held responsible for the care of former players suffering from dementia. Growing evidence suggests that head injuries on the ground may contribute to cognitive and emotional...

"A vaccine against cancer" First US approved

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"A vaccine against cancer" First US approved - After years of speculation about the promise of vaccines against cancer as a way to use the immune system against the tumor, States STATES will soon see its first cancer vaccine hit the market. earlier today the US Food and Drug Administration announced...

Life Insurance for Ebola The scientists

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Life Insurance for Ebola The scientists - Help needed. that the new treatment can benefit patients such as Ebola victim of this epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 07 remains to be seen. World Health Organization When a German scientist accidentally...

genetic screening program Berkeley Scaled Back

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genetic screening program Berkeley Scaled Back - A new experiment at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, which was to analyze the genomes of new students into legal trouble. Academics who came up with the idea, including UC Berkeley geneticist Jasper Rine, saying they wanted to create an...

How Fish Oil Fights Inflammation

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How Fish Oil Fights Inflammation - through the low, please. Omega-3 fatty acids, a main component of fish oil, are known to be powerful anti-inflammatory agents. Now researchers think they know how the acids block this immune response. They also found that omega-3 can help fight against diabetes...

Spurious accusations against researchers

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Spurious accusations against researchers - stem cells Stem cells researchers in Boston and Stockholm facing a strange and uncomfortable situation last week: scientific fraud accusations from an anonymous email sent not only for researchers in question but also to other leading biologists of stem...

Pill Protects against HIV AIDS

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Pill Protects against HIV AIDS - (See transcript of our Q & A online study and the drug below the story.) for the first time, a study has shown that anti-HIV pill can protect uninfected people from contracting the AIDS virus through sex. The eagerly awaited results show that a drug already...

fetal DNA sequenced Blood of the mother

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fetal DNA sequenced Blood of the mother - DNA hunting. A pregnant woman undergoes an amniocentesis for fetal cells. Yoav Levy / MedNet / Corbis A baby could have the eyes of his mother, but the mother's DNA in the child's blood, less during pregnancy. Researchers...

British Medical Journal fraud charges in Autism-Vaccine Paper

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British Medical Journal fraud charges in Autism-Vaccine Paper - A 1998 paper linking autism to vaccines, which triggered a panic about the vaccination of children continues today, was based on falsification of data, according to a survey conducted by a journalist British Medical Journal ( BMJ )...

Achilles Heel of Staph Bug

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Achilles Heel of Staph Bug - Staphylococcus aureus is a difficult bug to kill. The bacterium is responsible for more American deaths each year as HIV / AIDS, partly because it is rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics. Scientists have struggled to understand how it ticks, but the researchers...

Death Warrant Signed by NIH Research Center

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Death Warrant Signed by NIH Research Center - Consultants A decision by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) leaders to abolish one of the agency's institutes ran into little opposition today a key advisory board. A member of the board of directors asked if his fellow panelists should consider...

Appointment with an earthquake for a Hiroshima native

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Appointment with an earthquake for a Hiroshima native - Ritsuko Komaki, 67, grew up in Hiroshima after the atomic bombing there. Her experience led her to become a radiation oncologist, and she now works at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, the treatment of lung cancer. Komaki was minutes...

Expenses 2011 offers replacement parts NIH Major Cuts

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Expenses 2011 offers replacement parts NIH Major Cuts - Like the leaders of the White House promised the weekend, the 2011 finance bill agreed by Congress and White House last Friday savings biomedical large cuts. Details released today indicate that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would...

Two candidates nominated to lead California Stem Cell Agency

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Two candidates nominated to lead California Stem Cell Agency - Southern California investor Jonathan Thomas and cardiologist turned entrepreneur Frank Litvack was appointed to lead the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). A person elected by the board of the Stem Cell Institute at...

Clues Emerge on autism in the protein network

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Clues Emerge on autism in the protein network - Autism is also puzzling to scientists because it is heartbreaking for parents. Some patients function well despite some behavioral quirks, while others are profoundly disabled. The dozens of "suspicious genes" are scattered among different types of...

Financier Bond Elected President California Stem Cell Agency

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Financier Bond Elected President California Stem Cell Agency - investor southern California The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) elected Jonathan Thomas to be its next president. Thomas will succeed Robert Klein, the real estate investor that led to the desire to create the public...

DeGette stem cells reintroduced Bill

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DeGette stem cells reintroduced Bill - In what may be a futile exercise, representing Diana DeGette (D-CO) this week reintroduced his bill that would codify 09 political restrictions easing of the Obama administration on federal funding of research on human embryonic stem cells. She also found a...

Fat Molecule can cause water on the brain "

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Fat Molecule can cause water on the brain " - Fluid filled. compared to a healthy human fetus ( left ), a fetus with hydrocephalus can not drain the fluid he needs from his brain. J. P. McAllister Science Translational Medicine Many premature babies suffer...

Top Canada court maintains open drug injection site

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Top Canada court maintains open drug injection site - The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a "safe injection site" in Vancouver, which aims to counter the spread HIV can continue to operate, providing a place for people to inject drugs under medical supervision and without the threat of arrest....

NIH seeks the advice Budget Crunch

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NIH seeks the advice Budget Crunch - The bleak outlook for the financing of biomedical research is causing much anxiety to $ 30.7 billion National Institutes of Health (NIH). In an unusual gesture candid this week, the NIH has described some of the hard choices in detail and reached out to the scientific...

HIV Vaginal Gel inaugural African Nets

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HIV Vaginal Gel inaugural African Nets - Price of Sciences The development of a vaginal gel that can cut the risk of HIV infection in a woman over 50% has was one of the few unqualified victories amid a decade of setbacks in research against HIV / AIDS. Tomorrow, the husband and wife team of researchers...
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