LUSAKA, Dec 1 (IPS) - Sixteen-year-old Andela Milambo* wants a husband. She is not looking for love, but for someone to share the burden of living with HIV. She wants to be able to take her medicine without having to hide, to discuss the recurring herpes with someone who understands.
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Men Loving Men: A World AIDS Day fundraiser @ The LGBT Center
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Men Loving Men: Images of Love, Lust and Longing A World AIDS Day fundraiser for HIV/AIDS Youth Prevention Program December 1 from 6:30-9:30 PM The Center 208 West 13th Street, NYC www.gaycenter.org
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World AIDS Day Exhibition @ CAMP Rehoboth
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The CAMP safe recognizes World AIDS Day with an exhibition by Greg Mitchell , Richard Renaldi and George Towne . Exhibition runs thru December 11, 2009. Reception is Dec. 1 from 4:30-6:00 PM . CAMP Rehoboth Community Center , 37 Baltimore Avenue, DE artwork: Greg Mitchel l
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Love in the time of HIV/AIDS
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In many ways, Shawn and Gwenn are like any other young couple. But in one important way they are not: Shawn is HIV-positive and Gwenn isn't. Now that an HIV diagnosis is not longer a death-sentence, their situation isn't that uncommon -- but there are some challenges.
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China Comes Late to AIDS Crisis
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Government officials in China, a nation where the response to HIV has long been hampered by a reticence to discuss sexual matters in public, are finally getting real about AIDS. The Ministry of Health's announcement last week that "sexual transmission is now the main cause of new HIV cases" made headlines around the country, and was underlined by ...
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U.N. chief warns of increasing HIV infections
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is warning on World AIDS Day that new infections are outpacing the gains from treating HIV sufferers.
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WHO Issues New HIV/AIDS Treatment Guidelines
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The WHO on Monday issued new recommendations that patients living with HIV/AIDS begin receiving antiretrovirals (ARVs) earlier than current HIV treatment advice suggests, the Associated Press reports. The recommendations - an update to 2006 treatment guidelines - come after several studies showed "people with HIV who start drugs earlier than ...
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HEALTH-BAHRAIN: Men Bring HIV Home
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MANAMA, Dec 2 (IPS) - Umbassil* is unlike other engaged women. Instead of planning her wedding she is wondering where she will have her baby. She is not pregnant but she knows that Bahrain's maternity hospitals will not admit her because she is HIV positive.
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World AIDS Day
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In 1983, a very smart English teacher at my high school found a way to reach me -- the disinterested pink haired kid who was fast tracking her way to alcoholism -- by slipping me books that had been forbidden by our school. The first book was The Color Purple by Alice Walker, a book even now I re-read once a year or so, that affected me deeply.
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SA vows to treat babies with HIV
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All South African babies testing HIV-positive will be treated, in a major change of policy announced by Jacob Zuma.
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South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies
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AP - South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS.
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South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies
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PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS....
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South Africa Plans to Treat All HIV-Positive Babies
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South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS.
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Europe's HIV infection rate doubles in 8 years
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LeapFrog Invests $6M in AllLife, Innovative African HIV and Diabetes Insurer
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- LeapFrog Investments has announced a ZAR 50 million (over US$6 million) investment in AllLife, the innovative South African insurer serving people living with HIV and diabetes. The investment brings together LeapFrog, the leading microinsurance investment fund, and AllLife, one of Africa's most innovative ...
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S. Africa to ramp up HIV treatment
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Pretoria, South Africa -- South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS.
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Phase I Study Of Preventive HIV Vaccine Shows Improved Immune Responses When The Vaccine Is Delivered By Electrical Impulses
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A Phase 1 study of a preventive HIV vaccine testing a novel delivery mechanism known as electroporation - the use of electrical pulses to increase the immune responses elicited by DNA vaccines - was recently completed in New York City. The results show that TriGrid™, a technology developed by Ichor Medical Systems, Inc., helped to enhance the ...
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Fiji Marks World AIDS Day
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Along with the rest of the world, businesses in Fiji and the private sector came together in the capital of Suva today to commemorate World AIDS Day. - (AHN)
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Red Ribbon Express Begins Journey To Educate Remote Corners Of India About HIV/AIDS
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India launched the second phase of the world's largest mass mobilization campaign on HIV/AIDS on Tuesday by flagging off the Red Ribbon Express - a train that will travel to remote corners of the country spreading awareness about HIV/AIDS. - (AHN)
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Achieving Universal Access: The Way Forward
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Achieving Universal Access: The Way Forward Business Wire - December 01, 2009 IAVI Calls for Strong and Sustained Global Investment in New HIV Prevention Tools NEW YORK - As we approach World AIDS Day, observed globally December 1, we are reminded that while progress has been made in expanding ...
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INDIA: Towards an AIDS-Free Society, But at What Price?
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NEW DELHI, Dec 1 (IPS) - As the global community observes World AIDS Day today, India is caught in a rancorous debate about a government scheme which mandates that all pregnant women in the country be tested for HIV so that its 1.2 billion people can have "an AIDS-free generation".
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Statement from the National Institutes of Health on World AIDS Day 2009
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On Dec. 1, the National Institutes of Health joins the global community in commemorating World AIDS Day. On this occasion, we remember the more than 25 million people who have lost their lives to this terrible disease, and dedicate ourselves to meeting the needs of the many millions more who are living with HIV/AIDS. We also recognize their ...
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Pall lifts along with AIDS travel ban: Patients, families cheer lifting of U.S. AIDS travel ban
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Pall lifts along with AIDS travel ban: Patients, families cheer lifting of U.S. AIDS travel ban Chicago Tribune - December 1, 2009 Bonnie Miller Rubin, Tribune reporter Senora Desiree cries when she talks about her only son, who is HIV-positive. The fact that the 18-year-old has been barred from ...
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The World AIDS Day Project: Boogeyman Logic—A Requiem for Matthew
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Seeing the future doesn't mean you can change it. Remembering the past won't keep it the same. But sometimes, though separated by long years and even death, a friendship can endure.
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The Commonwealth must work together to battle HIV/AIDS
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As we mark this 22nd World AIDS Day, the disease remains a lethal threat to millions the world over, say Michel Sidib�, Kamalesh Sharma and Peter Piot.
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South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies
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South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS.
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Congress, with the support of the White House, appears poised to significantly improve the Indian health care system.
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Keys to Successful Health Care Reform
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(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Everyone agrees that the United States health care system is in need of reform that will reduce costs and improve the quality of care patients receive. Both eliminating waste and improving quality can lead to lower costs which allow the healthcare system to provide more affordable coverage for people.
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Economists Have Mixed Views On Senate Health Bill's Cost Controls
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With the public fretting about rising health costs and deepening federal budget deficits, White House officials, including budget director Peter Orszag, were quick last week to trumpet the optimism of some economists who said the Senate's version of health reform would help control costs, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, adding: "But many ...
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Tempers flare as Senate nears health vote
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A Republican senator contended Tuesday during rancorous floor debate that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will shorten the lives of America's seniors by cutting federal coverage for the elderly.
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Senate Democrats' First Amendment To Health Overhaul Would Protect Mammograms
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A revision proposed by Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski appears crafted in part to squelch criticism of government rationing under Democrats' plans for health overhaul.
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Tempers flare as Senate moves toward health vote
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A Republican senator asserted Tuesday during a rancorous floor debate that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will shorten the lives of America's seniors by cutting Medicare.
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Q&A: Pressing concerns on health care legislation
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During the health care debate, USA TODAY answers reader-submitted questions about the congressional bills.
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Senate plows to 1st vote on health care
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A Republican senator asserted Tuesday during a rancorous floor debate that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will ...
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Health Bill Would Impact Food, Drug Industries
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The Senate and House health care overhaul bills are each about 2,000 pages long. While the bills are mostly aimed at revamping the health insurance system, tucked in the pages are provisions that would spell big changes for the food, drug and medical device industries, too.
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Failing to address poverty and homelessness may undermine health reform
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Will the billions we’re thinking of spending on health care reform matter if we don’t address poverty and homelessness? Surgeon Amina Merchant has her doubts in a Washington Post opinion piece. She observes something that’s rarely mentioned, namely, that some patients abuse the health system to their benefit: “I am ...
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Researchers have found that a naturally occurring protein -- transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-�1) -- which normally suppresses the growth of cancer cells, causes a rebound effect after a prolonged exposure. Cancer cells go into overdrive and become even more aggressive and likely to spread, the researchers report.
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Rising cancer rate in girls baffles scientists
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Audio: Australian scientists are baffled by a rise in cancer rates among young girls (The World Today) It could be environmental factors, it could be genetics. Scientists actually do not know why cancer is more common in males than it is among females.
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Oklahoma cancer study takes major step toward improved treatment
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( University of Oklahoma ) Cancer researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to turn ineffective new cancer drugs into cancer-fighters. By using their patented chemical compound, SHetA2, researchers tricked cancer cells into responding to new treatments and undergoing cell suicide. All studies to date have ...
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Response: Re: Anti-Angiogenic Therapy Using Thalidomide Combined With Chemotherapy in Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
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Response: Re: Anti-Angiogenic Therapy Using Thalidomide Combined With Chemotherapy in Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
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Re: Anti-Angiogenic Therapy Using Thalidomide Combined With Chemotherapy in Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
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Re: Anti-Angiogenic Therapy Using Thalidomide Combined With Chemotherapy in Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
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ACCISS study rationale and design: activating collaborative cancer information service support for cervical cancer screening
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Background: High-quality cancer information resources are available but underutilized by the public. Despite greater awareness of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service among low-income African Americans and Hispanics compared with Caucasians, actual Cancer Information Service usage is lower than expected, paralleling excess ...
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An international study that examined the extent of infections in nearly 1,300 intensive care units (ICUs) in 75 countries found that about 50 percent of the patients were considered infected, with infection associated with an increased risk of death in the hospital, according to a study in the December 2 issue of JAMA.
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Can treatments that reduce risks for cardiovascular disease also help combat age-related macular degeneration, an eye disease that affects millions of Americans? CVD and AMD share some risk factors, such as smoking, high blood pressure and inflammation.
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Heart failure linked to gene variant affecting vitamin D activation
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( University of Michigan Health System ) Previous studies have shown a link between low vitamin D status and heart disease. Now a new study shows that patients with high blood pressure who possess a gene variant that affects an enzyme critical to normal vitamin D activation are twice as likely as those without the variant to have congestive heart ...
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Stung by the struggle to make a swine flu vaccine, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said her department would review its approach to disaster preparedness.
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Fed to review policy after vaccine shortage
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Washington -- A top Obama administration official, citing problems with the swine flu vaccination campaign and other shortcomings in preparedness, announced plans Tuesday for a major review of the federal government's policies for developing public health defenses.
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WHO approves Glaxo's swine flu shot
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LONDON (AP) -- Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline says one of its swine flu vaccines has been certified by the World Health Organization, making it available for donors to buy for developing countries....
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WHO approves Glaxo's swine flu shot
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AP - Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline says one of its swine flu vaccines has been certified by the World Health Organization, making it available for donors to buy for developing countries.
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Nation's preparedness for health threats will be reviewed
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Citing the balky swine flu vaccination campaign and other shortcomings in the nation's medical defenses, a top Obama administration official has announced a major review of the government's efforts to develop new protections against pandemics, bioterrorism and other health threats.
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Second wave of swine flu may have peaked
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The level of flu activity across the nation has dropped for the fourth week in a row, federal health officials reported Monday, indicating that the second wave of the swine flu pandemic in the United States has peaked.
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Pandemic flu as urban health crisis
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Many thanks to the reader who sent the link to today's must-read, an article in Emerging Infectious Diseases: Pandemic Influenza as Urban Health Crisis. It's a long article but deserves to be read in full. An excerpt from the discussion...
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TOKYO, Dec 2 (IPS) - Sachiko Yamada has been hoping to spend her retirement years traveling and living the good life. Today she devotes her time to taking care of her 90-year- old mother five days a week, leaving her with two days off while her mother goes to a care centre for the elderly.
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Democrats sought additional medical benefits for women and Republicans vowed to protect Medicare for older Americans.
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Low-income Women 4 Times More Likely To Report Fair Or Poor Health
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Low-income women are four times more likely than higher-income women to report fair or poor health and nearly twice as likely to report a health condition that limits their basic physical activities, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. These women also experience inadequate access to health insurance ...
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Harvest Technologies Corp. announced today results from the company sponsored 60-patient clinical trial conducted at Sri Ramachandra Medical Center in Chennai, India using the company's BMAC System to treat patients with non-reconstructable Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI). Sri Ramachandra Medical Center is a Harvard Medical international-associated ...
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Malaria parasites are able to disguise themselves to avoid the host's immune system, according to new research.
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Glial cells can cross from the central to the peripheral nervous system
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Glial cells, which help neurons communicate with each other, can leave the central nervous system and cross into the peripheral nervous system to compensate for missing cells, according to new research. The animal study contributes to researchers' basic understanding of how the two nervous systems develop and are maintained, which is essential ...
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Queensland Health is asking people showing signs of Norovirus to stay away from the Nambour Hospital.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced today that Ruth Pettengell, M.D. of St. George's Hospital, University of London, the lead investigator for the PIX 301 EXTEND trial will present new data on the pixantrone phase III trial in relapsed/refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin's ...
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InCytu Incorporated, a therapeutic device engineering company, announced the details of its Cellarium™ Cancer Vaccine program. Cellarium™ is a small bioactive sponge which regulates dendritic cells and T-cells to eliminate normally fatal tumors in a preclinical model of late stage melanoma. The details of such a promising new vaccine were ...
Dr. Jocelyn Rapelyea, Associate Director of Breast Imaging and Intervention at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., demonstrated how occult lesions identified with Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) can be localized utilizing multi-modality imaging for needle biopsy as well, as for pre-operative localization today at ...
Hit-and-run attacks by sharks can be solved with a new technique that identifies the culprits by the unique chomp they put on their victims, according to a University of Florida researcher and shark expert.
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Soda can manufacturers replaced pull tabs with “stay-tabs” because children had a habit of pulling off the tab, throwing it into the drink to avoid throwing it on the sidewalk and then swallowing it when they took a big swig.
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A study from the Menzies Institute shows at least one in six Tasmanians have chronic kidney disease.
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