Scientists identify new vaccine targets for cancer-causing strains of human papilloma virus
...may lead to an effective vaccine for treatment and prevention of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), pre-cancerous lesions that develop into cervical cancer. An estimated 20 million Americans are infected with HPV, a virus that is well known for causing genital warts but also accounts for over 95 percen......: An artificial enzyme that could lead to the prevention of skin cancer. Reducing chemotherapy's side effects and avoiding multidrug resistance. A new flu vaccine for people who are allergic to eggs. Newly discovered lead-contaminated factory sites across the country. Risks and benefi......year or early 2002 of epitope-basedvaccine for the prevention and treatment of HIV Keystone, CO, April 2, 2001 - Epimmune Inc. (Nasdaq: EPMN) today announced positive pre-clinical data on its HIV vaccine that is designed to directly address the problem of viral mutation. At the Keystone Symposium: "AIDS Va...Naturally occurring protein could slow Alzheimer's disease
...ease by the middle of the century unless a cure or prevention is found, according to the National Institute of Aging. There is no known cure for Alzheimer's disease....Virus studies reunite two families of major insect-borne viruses
...hem to thrive and develop new strategies for their prevention and control." The findings provide new insights on how these major families of insect-borne viruses, which together cause millions of cases of human illness each year, are structured and how they evolved to infect cells. The discovery may help sci......: An artificial enzyme that could lead to the prevention of skin cancer. Reducing chemotherapy's side effects and avoiding multidrug resistance. A new flu vaccine for people who are allergic to eggs. Newly discovered lead-contaminated factory sites across the country. Risks and benefits of biotech c...Tipsheet: April journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ing resistance to a drug recently approved for the prevention and treatment of the disease, say researchers from...mantadine, has only recently been approved for the prevention and treatment of influenza in Japan, but had been widely used for years to treat symptoms of Parkins......his research will eventually lead to a vaccine for prevention of HHV8," he said. This project, too, is part of the Pitt Mens Study. Directed by Dr. Rinaldo, the Pitt Mens Study is the Pittsburgh site of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS), one of the longest-running studies of the natural history of AIDS a...USGS issues wildlife health alert for foot-and-mouth disease
...lead agency on the disease, in developing outbreak prevention and containment strategies. Wright notes that although foot-and-mouth disease is primarily an economically devastating disease of domestic livestock, experimental studies have clearly demonstrated that the disease is also a threat to wildlife. Recent...Immune system helps prevent tumors after all
...that both IFNg and lymphocytes are involved in the prevention of tumors and that the two interact with one another to protect individuals from cancer development," says Schreiber. "Thats the good news." Theres also bad news, however. When MCA-induced tumors from normal mice were transplanted into healthy norma...Key step in gene activation discovered
...ry is expected to aid development of therapies and prevention strategies for certain genetically triggered diseases such as breast cancers, pediatric cancers, and leukemia. The research is published in a recent edition of the journal Cell by a Penn State team lead by Jerry L. Workman, the Paul Berg Professor ...Breast-fed babies less likely to be overweight children, teens
... hard to treat," Gillman says. "For these reasons, prevention is paramount." Gillman and his colleagues analyzed questionnaires filled out by 8,186 girls and 7,155 boys ages 9 to 14 in the Growing Up Today Study. About 5 percent of the girls and 9 percent of the boys were overweight, defined as having a body m......ht help curtail the epidemic by augmenting current prevention efforts involving education, treatment of other se...d efforts to diagnose primary infection as part of prevention in the past," he said. "If primary infection is driving the epidemic, we'll need to pay a lot more -...... This presentation will cover the Maryland primary prevention law aimed at reducing risk in rental housing and how it has resulted in reduction in lead poisoning cases. (Presenter Susan Guyaux, Maryland Department of the Environment, Baltimore, MD) Current and future measurements of lead in blood and urine -...Nonprofits, corporations can collaborate to improve environmental management
...us on developing clean manufacturing and pollution prevention processes and technologies, exploring environmentally neutral or beneficial products and services and helping conserve natural resources and improve environmental conditions. The World Wildlife Fund, for example, forged a partnership with Unilever to...Vitamin C produces gene-damaging compounds, test-tube study in Science reports
...'s possible that vitamin C isn't working in cancer prevention studies because it's causing as much damage as it's preventing, but that's really speculation at this point. What we can say is that vitamin C clearly doesn't work when you expect it to, and now we're in a position to see if that's what's happening ...Alzheimer's genetic susceptibility could bring fear and misunderstanding, religious scholars say
...erson who is going to get Alzheimers. If effective prevention or treatment of AD is developed, it may become possible to argue that early discover of ones susceptibility will be of benefit. At that time it may be appropriate for those at risk to be tested, but that possibility does not justify calling for such...Can a 'universal' HIV-1 vaccine be developed? AIDScience.com describes current research strategies
...h (NIMH), AIDScience.com is designed to serve AIDS prevention and vaccine researchers. Site content will include...hed by the AAAS. "Our objective is to provide AIDS prevention scientists with the most current and rigorous data available on new research strategies," he adds. ...Cutting the risk of coronary disease - start before birth says UK doctor
... Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology that prevention of conditions such as coronary heart disease, stro...ant growth is a key area in strategies for primary prevention of coronary heart disease. Further benefit will come from preventing rapid weight gain after infancy......al infections and is focusing greater attention on prevention strategies. Undoubtedly, the availability of the complete genome sequence will provide additional avenues for follow-up studies on the basic biology and pathogenicity of this important pathogen. Genome analysis revealed a number of novel insights rel...