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If you happen to be among those (many) people who can't enjoy warm weather on account of suffering from hay fever, here is some good news for you: due to extensive new research, the sneezing and runny nose could no longer prevent you from enjoying the summer season. Instead of following grueling treatments that ... |
6 June 2008
08:29 GMT |
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Tattoos have been part of human culture for thousands of years. But in the last century, the practice spread worldwide. A tattoo says a lot about you and your life history. And a German team has found that tattoos may be more than that: they could represent the best method of delivering vaccines. The research publish... |
7 February 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Prostrate cancer impairs (mostly) old men's life and sexuality. Surgery leaves them impotent in most of the cases, as penile nerves are touched. Recently, a team at the University of Southern California has developed a prostate cancer vaccine impeding the development of cancer in 90% of young mice engineered to ... |
5 February 2008
06:42 GMT |
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Chimps gave as the HIV virus, but now they could compensate with another one that may cure malaria. This virus triggers cold and stomach trouble in chimps, but it is harmless for humans. Trials made at the Oxford University found an antimalaria boost of the human immune system caused by this virus in 100% of the case... |
1 February 2008
06:25 GMT |
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They hit hard on what represent femininity and fertility. But soon, with just one injection, women would be protected from the devastating ovarian and breast cancers. The vaccine for ovarian cancer would instruct the immune cells to kill the tumor cells. "This trial is a phase I/II trial that is just getting started.... |
24 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The discovery of the antibiotics by the middle of the 20th century seemed to have doomed the human pathogens. They proved effective against many bacteria and fungi causing hospital infections, like meningitis, pneumonia and scarlet fever, which before were deadly. But antibiotics cannot attack viruses, like HIV or fl... |
13 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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HIV, syphilis or gonorrhea are words that go like bullets through your brain, but amongst all STDs, Chlamydia, the "Silent Epidemic" (named so because in women it may not induce any symptoms and will linger for months or years before being detected) is the most widely-spread. In men, Chlamydia can sometimes cause abn... |
5 November 2007
06:04 GMT |
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Children could no longer be terrified because of a new method of delivering a vaccine developed at Texas A&M University. The new vaccine would turn into a jelly when sprayed into the nose."Even though trial treatments are being used to treat bird flu in humans, the vaccine has the potential for numerous other uses, s... |
28 September 2007
03:30 GMT |
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It is the scourge of the 21st century and for over two decades scientists have been looking for an AIDS vaccine. But the long battle experienced a severe blow last week when a long-waited trial of a new HIV vaccine was prematurely stopped after failing in inducing any stop or slow down of the infection. The STEP tria... |
27 September 2007
03:31 GMT |
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HIV, syphilis or gonorrhea may sound more familiar for you, because these STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) are severe, but chlamydia, also called the "Silent Epidemic" (as in women, it may not induce any symptoms and will linger for months or years before being detected), is the most widespread STD. Now a team at... |
13 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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About 25 million women have got an infection with a strain of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Over 3 million have one of the four strains provoking cervical cancer and genital warts. HPV is a sexually transmitted virus and oral sex has been linked to HPV-connected oral and oropharyngeal cancers in both women and men... |
13 September 2007
03:11 GMT |
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Till the end of the 20th century, vaccines managed to deal with some of the worst evils of humankind: smallpox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, diphtheria or polio. There was a moment when the new intelligent drugs and high technologies almost turned vaccines into something obsolete. But after the anthrax attacks in ... |
17 July 2007
12:01 GMT |
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Drugs are even more deadly than viruses. So, why not a vaccine against them? That's what a team at Baylor College of Medicine, Canada, has developed: two novel vaccines designed to fight cocaine and methamphetamine dependencies. The new vaccines not only relieve addiction but also decrease withdrawal symptoms. T... |
22 June 2007
07:04 GMT |
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Rotavirus is a dangerous pathogen for children, elders and persons with a weak immune system. It induces severe diarrhea and vomiting in children, killing roughly 600-650,000 annually, aged 0-2 years, mainly in developing nations. Rotavirus vaccine is currently delivered in a liquid or freeze-dried form that must be ... |
15 May 2007
17:21 GMT |
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Large clinical trials and years of researches led Merck researchers to create a cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, found to be 100% effective against the cancer but also against vulval and vaginal warts induced by HPV (human papilloma virus) (types 6, 11, 16 and 18) and 98% protection against advanced pre-cancers in... |
14 May 2007
19:16 GMT |
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You surely won't be happy to see this on your sex partner. Genital warts often occur in clusters and can be very tiny or spread into large masses on the genital or penis area. Women can have genital warts occuring outside and inside of the vagina, on the opening (cervix) to the womb (uterus), or around the anus.... |
12 May 2007
07:03 GMT |
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Worldwide, each minute, six young people aged 15 to 24 get infected with HIV. Researchers have been studying a way to improve the life quality of the HIV patients the so-called "autovaccine". Researches in this direction have been made in Barcelona (Spain), Laussane (Switzerland) and New York. This method consists in... |
11 April 2007
10:36 GMT |
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Rabies was as invincible as HIV. Now this ancient scourge could offer itself in defeating the plague of the XX century: HIV. A team at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia has employed a drastically weakened rabies virus to transport HIV-related proteins into animals, like vaccinating them against an AIDS-like d... |
4 April 2007
10:52 GMT |
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Blue Gene Watson (BGW) is IBM's biggest supercomputer and currently ranks number three in the world.It has 20 racks and at peak performance it processes 114 terraflops (FLOP - Floating Point Operations per Second). It has been deployed for scientific research, undertaking computations that couldn't be done... |
24 March 2007
11:19 GMT |
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