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Drugs 'arsenal' could help end AIDS: WHOWashington (AFP) July 14, 2012 Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic, a cure remains elusive but a growing arsenal of drugs could someday help end new infections, the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS chief says. The key is figuring out how to best manage the latest advances, Gottfried Hirnschall said in an interview with AFP during a visit to Washington this week ahead of the International AIDS Conference that begins here July 22. Antiretroviral drugs may reduce the risk of infected people passing on the virus, and may prev ... read more |
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 Hopes high as AIDS conference returns to US A cure for AIDS remains a distant prospect but a host of drug treatments and other advances have fueled fresh hope that new human immunodeficiency virus infections may some day be halted for good. ... more | .. |
  Can robots improve patient care in the ICU? Remote presence robots are used in intensive care units (ICUs) to help critical care physicians supplement on-site patient visits and maintain more frequent patient interactions. Physicians wh ... more | .. |
 Pills to prevent HIV raise many questions: studies Various trials examining the use of anti-retroviral drugs in healthy heterosexuals as a way to prevent HIV have shown drastically different results, research showed Wednesday. ... more | .. |
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  Zebrafish reveal promising mechanism for healing spinal cord injury Yona Goldshmit, Ph.D., is a former physical therapist who worked in rehabilitation centers with spinal cord injury patients for many years before deciding to switch her focus to the underlying scien ... more | .. |
 Vaccine and antibiotics stabilized so refrigeration is not needed Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a new silk-based stabilizer that, in the laboratory, kept some vaccines and antibiotics stable up to temperatures of 140 degree ... more | .. |
 Mexico kills 2.5 million poultry to contain bird flu Officials have slain 2.5 million birds at poultry farms in western Mexico over the past three weeks in an attempt to contain a bird flu outbreak, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Keeping the flu away San Diego State University researchers at the Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center may have found the secret to helping the immune system fight off the flu before it gets you sick. A new study publish ... more |
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'Bombshell': What top general's fall means for China's military
Leonardo DRS infrared payloads selected for SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 3
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  Spaceflight may extend the lifespan of microscopic worm The effect of spaceflight on a microscopic worm - Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) - could help it to live longer. The discovery was made by an international group of scientists studying the loss ... more | .. |
 Embattled Sahel facing deadly cholera outbreak The conflict in Mali could turn a cholera outbreak that has already killed 60 people in the Sahel this year into a serious regional epidemic, the UN children's agency said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Laws that criminalize gays hurt HIV treatment: study Laws that criminalize gay behavior are among a host of legal tangles that waste resources and hinder an effective response to HIV/AIDS worldwide, an independent commission reported on Monday. ... more | .. |
Record number of Africans get AIDS drugs: UNAIDS chief A record number of Africans now have access to drugs to control the HIV virus, but the continent must work harder to strengthen the lifeline, the head of UNAIDS says. ... more |
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 Jekyll and Hyde bacteria aids or kills, depending on chance Living in the guts of worms are seemingly innocuous bacteria that contribute to their survival. With a flip of a switch, however, these same bacteria transform from harmless microbes into deadly ins ... more | .. |
 New study maps hotspots of human-animal infectious diseases and emerging disease outbreaks A new global study mapping human-animal diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and Rift Valley fever finds that an "unlucky" 13 zoonoses are responsible for 2.4 billion cases of human illness and 2.2 milli ... more | .. |
Discrimination fuels rise of HIV in Philippines Discrimination against homosexuals and people infected with HIV is contributing to the rapid rise of the incurable disease in the Philippines, officials and health activists said Friday. ... more | .. |
Hong Kong closes bird market over H5N1 virus Hong Kong on Thursday closed a popular tourist spot where hundreds of caged birds are on display after the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus was detected at one of the stalls. ... more |
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'Extraordinary' trove of ancient species found in China quarry
South Africa embraces water tastings as Washington reels from sewage leak
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 Acoustic tweezers capture tiny creatures with ultrasound A device about the size of a dime can manipulate living materials such as blood cells and entire small organisms, using sound waves, according to a team of bioengineers and biochemists from Penn Sta ... more | .. |
US approves over-the-counter HIV home testing kit The United States announced Tuesday it has authorized sales of the first over-the-counter home testing kit for HIV, the virus that leads to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). ... more | .. |
 Improving living tissues with 3D printed vascular networks made from sugar Researchers are hopeful that new advances in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine could one day make a replacement liver from a patient's own cells, or animal muscle tissue that could be cut ... more | .. |
 Mexico declares bird flu 'emergency' The Mexican government declared a national animal health emergency on Monday in the face of an aggressive bird flu epidemic that has infected nearly 1.7 million poultry. ... more |
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 China reports bird flu outbreak Authorities in China's remote northwestern region of Xinjiang have culled more than 150,000 chickens following an outbreak of bird flu, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Seeing inside tissue Imagine if doctors could perform surgery without ever having to cut through your skin. Or if they could diagnose cancer by seeing tumors inside the body with a procedure that is as simple as an ultr ... more | .. |
 Magnet helps target transplanted iron-loaded cells to key areas of heart Optimal stem cell therapy delivery to damaged areas of the heart after myocardial infarction has been hampered by inefficient homing of cells to the damaged site. However, using rat models, research ... more | .. |
Concern grows over H1N1 outbreak in Bolivia An epidemic of H1N1 flu has infected almost 900 people and claimed 11 lives in Bolivia, health officials said Tuesday. ... more |
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EU to show Google how to open up to rival AI services; Microsoft shares slide as AI spending surges
'Hard to survive': Kyiv's elderly shiver after Russian attacks on power and heat | .. |
 A step toward minute factories that produce medicine inside the body Scientists are reporting an advance toward treating disease with minute capsules containing not drugs - but the DNA and other biological machinery for making the drug. In an article in ACS' jo ... more | .. |
 Sri Lanka troops join battle against dengue fever Thousands of Sri Lankan troops Friday joined a massive clean up operation to eliminate mosquito-breeding grounds as part of a national effort to contain the dengue virus, officials said. ... more | .. |
Four-in-one AIDS drug gets the OK in clinical trial An experimental once-daily pill that combines four drugs to fight HIV is as safe and effective as commonly-prescribed treatments against the AIDS virus, researchers reported in The Lancet Friday. ... more | .. |
Seeing inside tissue Imagine if doctors could perform surgery without ever having to cut through your skin. Or if they could diagnose cancer by seeing tumors inside the body with a procedure that is as simple as an ultr ... more |
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Magnet helps target transplanted iron-loaded cells to key areas of heart Optimal stem cell therapy delivery to damaged areas of the heart after myocardial infarction has been hampered by inefficient homing of cells to the damaged site. However, using rat models, research ... more | .. |
 Infection biology: The elusive third factor Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) in Munich have identified an enzyme that is involved in a modification pathway that is essential for bacterial pathogenicity. Because it shows n ... more | .. |
 USRA Life Scientists' Proposals Selected to Support Astronaut Health on Missions The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is very pleased to congratulate its scientific staff at the Division of Space Life Sciences (DSLS), in Houston, TX, on their recently awarded resea ... more | .. |
Swine flu likely claimed quarter of a million lives: study The A(H1N1) "swine flu" 2009 pandemic probably claimed over a quarter of a million lives - 15 times more than the 18,500 reported, a paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal said Tuesday. ... more |
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