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West Nile virus kills San Bernardino County man
The 48-year-old's death is the third West Nile fatality in California this year. ...
English Health-care System Failing To Provide Basic Care, Shows Major Survey
The NHS and private health care are not providing good enough basic care to a large portion of the population in England, especially older and frailer people, according to a...
Boys more likely to outgrow asthma, study shows
Young boys may be more apt than girls to have childhood asthma, but they're also more likely to grow out of it, say researchers who studied more than 1,000 children.
Personalized Immunotherapy To Fight HIV/AIDS
The main obstacle to creating an AIDS vaccine has been the high genetic variability of the HIV virus. Scientists have overcome this difficulty by designing a personalized immunotherapy for HIV-infected...
Study Details How Gold Nanocages 'Cook' Cancer Cells
Platinum-based anticancer agents have a long history as proven therapeutic agents, but their toxicity and short lifetime in the body and the ability of tumors to develop resistance to these...
Researchers to study lyme-like illness in Texas
Tao Lin, D.V.M., and Steven J. Norris, Ph.D., both with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, have been named grant...
Study finds way to prevent protein clumping characteristic of Parkinson's disease
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a protein from a most unlikely source -- baker's yeast -- that might protect against Parkinson's disease. More than...
Study shows that surgical weight loss does not eliminate obstructive sleep apnea
A study in the August 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that surgical weight loss results in an improvement of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), but most...
Antibody Drug Unleashes Tumor-Killer T Cells
Scientists have developed a two-pronged protein that grabs immune system cells with one arm and introduces them to cancer cells it has snagged with the other. The result: eradicated tumors--at...
Nova Scotia rolls out Avastin drug program
The Nova Scotia government has started paying for a costly drug used in the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer.
Ice storm babies prone to developmental delays: study
Babies born to women who were pregnant during the 1998 ice storm in Eastern Canada and faced unusual stresses show some developmental delays such as lower IQ scores, researchers have...
Inhibitors Of The Molecule PI3K Throw One Form Of Leukemia A CurveB-ALL
Some cases of a form of leukemia known as pre-B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (pre-B-ALL) are caused by a genetic event that leads to the generation of a rogue chromosome...
Helping Tumor Cells Not To Stick To The Wound During Surgical Removal
Sometimes during surgery to remove a tumor, cells become detached from the bulk of the tumor. In a small number of cases, these tumor cells stick to cells at the...
Prototype test for predicting clinical outcome for melanoma patients
Investigators from the Melbourne Center of the international Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and Pacific Edge Biotchnology Ltd today reported that they have developed a test to predict whether...
Hope For Patients With COPD
For the first time, a drug therapy appears to reduce lung function loss in patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to the results of a randomized,...
Measures To Assess Potential Lung Injury During Ventilation Inadequate
Ventilator-induced injury in the lungs is responsible for a vast number of deaths in acute respiratory distress syndrome. Even healthy surgical patients, who require temporary mechanical ventilation, are at risk...
Scientists reveal 'most effective' drug for HIV/TB patients
Scientists have recommended the antiretroviral drug efavirenz for patients suffering from both HIV and tuberculosis.
Argentina investigates deaths of vaccinated kids
(AP) -- Argentine authorities are exploring a possible link between the deaths of 14 children and an experimental vaccine they were taking in a clinical trial run by GlaxoSmithKline.
Cancer charity excited by results of new drug trial
A cancer charity has welcomed 'exciting preliminary results' in trials of an immune system-boosting drug
Ancient Greek plays resonate with Marines
Actors read from Sophocles at a conference on post-traumatic stress. The warrior characters express feelings that veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts can identify with. ...
More female neurosurgeons sought
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Efforts are under way to boost the number of women who train to become neurosurgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons said.
Flawed gene boosts liver disease risk
ROME, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Italian researchers said a genetic mutation may be increase the risk of steatohepatitis, also known as non- alcoholic fatty liver disease.
VIDEO: Children Mine Gold in Africa
In Africa boys as young as 12 and 13 risk mercury poisoning in mines to help provide for their families.
Obesity traced to brain's reward system
BOSTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers using an animal model say they have discovered a linkage between obesity and the defective signaling of the neurotransmitter dopamine.
Women and war: The toll of deployment on physical health
More than 80 percent of a sample of Air Force women deployed in Iraq and other areas around the world report suffering from persistent fatigue, fever, hair loss and difficulty...
'Flu Vaccination' Protects Bacteria Against Virus
Bacteria – like people animals and plants – can become infected by a virus. Researchers have now unravelled a mechanism with which bacteria can defend themselves for a longer period...
Safer Triggers and Training Decrease Nail Gun Injuries
Nail gun injuries decline with the use of safer triggers and training, but safety regulations are needed for residential carpenters, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center.
Ontario hands out free bike helmets to kids
Ontario's Ministry of Health Promotion is distributing 8,000 free bike helmets to children across Ontario, including 800 in Ottawa.