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Larger HIV prevention programs are cheaper

A UCSF-led team of researchers has found that larger HIV prevention programs in low and middle-income countries can increase efficiency and cause program unit costs to plummet. HIV prevention programs in Uganda, South Africa, Mexico, Russia and India were examined.

12 Jul 2007

Striking north-south differences in EpiPen prescribing

A new study suggests strong variation in the occurrence of anaphylaxis between the northern and southern U.S. Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction that can be fatal without treatment with epinephrine.

12 Jul 2007

How many simple objects can you think about at once?

Even though people feel they have rich visual experiences, researchers have found that the average person is only aware of about four items at a time.

12 Jul 2007

Functional data analysis in renal anemia

Anemia is one of the most frequent complications of hemodialysis, and its correction is an important factor in restoring a tolerable quality of life to dialysis-dependent patients.

12 Jul 2007

Next generation painkillers

Scientists studying one of nature's simplest organisms have helped to unravel the structure of a key molecule that controls pain in humans.

From The University of Manchester 12 Jul 2007

Global Med Technologies awarded new patent for transfusion software

Global Med Technologies has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office will be issuing a patent for SafeTrace Tx, its proprietary transfusion software, which is located at more than 337 sites in the United States and abroad.

12 Jul 2007

First mouse model of lung transplantation

Lung transplants have been performed successfully for more than 20 years in humans but never before in mice – until now.

12 Jul 2007

Free fruit scheme in schools may not help that much

The free fruit scheme in schools, introduced by the UK government in 2004, may confer no long term benefit, says a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health .

12 Jul 2007

Taxing certain foodstuffs could prevent 3,000 heart attack and stroke deaths every year

Taxing certain foodstuffs in the UK could prevent up to 3200 deaths from heart attacks and stroke every year, suggests a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

12 Jul 2007

New evidence of very recent human adaptation

A Cornell study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years, when people began migrating from Africa.

12 Jul 2007

A genetically informed study of the intergenerational transmission of marital instability

The first study to examine genetics as a culprit in the higher-than-usual divorce rate among children of divorced parents found that the parents' divorce itself, not genes or even problems such as parental substance abuse or delinquency, played a key role in the failed unions.

12 Jul 2007

Flavonoids in tomatoes increase over time in organic fields

Levels of flavonoids increase over time in crops grown in organically farmed fields, according to a rare long-term study scheduled for publication in the July 18 issue of ACS's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry a bi-weekly publication.

12 Jul 2007

Caraco Pharmaceutical Labs announces FDA approval to market generic Tenormin

Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted final approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Atenolol Tablets USP (atenolol).

12 Jul 2007

Calypte announces India approval for HIV test

Calypte Biomedical Corporation has announced that it has received registration and marketing approval for its Aware HIV-1/2 OMT (oral fluid) rapid test in India from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, commonly referred to as the Drug Control Authority of India ("DCAI").

12 Jul 2007

Chemotherapy may benefit all women with a BRCA1 mutation

Breast cancer patients who possess one of the so-called "breast cancer" or BRCA genetic mutations do not have a higher risk of dying than patients with no BRCA mutations, according to a detailed study by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto.

12 Jul 2007