PillCam enables study of esophagus by swallowing a pill
...ickly and easily assess the presence of esophageal diseases such erosive esophagitis, Barrett's esophagus and esophageal varices. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration late last year, the PillCam ESO is a smooth plastic capsule about the size of a large vitamin pill with video cameras on each end, equ...Invasive pneumonia and antibiotic resistance decreased after childhood vaccine introduced
...ir of medicine and division director of infectious diseases in Emory University School of Medicine, was published in the March 5, 2005 issue of The Lancet. Following approval of the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for young children in the U.S. in February 2000, the vaccine was in general use in...Virginity pledges do not reduce STD risk: May encourage high risk sexual behavior
...as likely to be infected with sexually transmitted diseases as those who do not take virginity pledges, Yale and Columbia University researchers report in the March 18 issue of Journal of Adolescent Health. The virginity pledges may even encourage higher risk sexual behavior among young adults, say study aut...Liverpool to lead 20M Department of Health initiative to develop medicines for children
...ncluding those for the prevention and treatment of diseases affecting newborns and children on intensive care.... work towards developing treatments for a range of diseases in children such as meningitis, asthma, epilepsy and migraine. The network will involve all types of...Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges
...e immune system, making abusers more vulnerable to diseases such as HIV. The new study is the first to suggest that the drug can engage the body's defense system to attack methamphetamine in such a way that makes users inclined to use more of the drug, the researchers say. Their study, which paints a clearer ...Antiretroviral therapy may prevent excess risk of some cancers in people with HIV
...pidemic and how the knowledge of cancer and immune diseases has grown since it began. They note that questions remain about the types and severity of cancers that will appear in coming years among patients on HAART, who have less severe but prolonged immunosuppression. "Controlling the epidemic and ameliorat...Epstein-Barr virus protein crucial to its role in blood cancers
...lays a role in cancers such as lymphoproliferative diseases in transplant or AIDS patients, Burkitt's lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and also causes the well-known disease, infectious mononucleosis. As many as 95 percent of adults 20 years and older have been infected with EBV, bu...Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
...nd rats 40 percent by preventing them from getting diseases of aging such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, ...ogether avoid or mitigate the onset of age related diseases as demonstrated by the research in caloric restriction," said Mr. Glenn. "Recent discoveries of lon...Openness is key to winning the war over MMR
...int had so far reduced the risk of contracting the diseases that parents began to see the vaccine itself as more of a threat to their children. He believes that the explanation for the reversal lies not with Wakefield or even with parents who took his claims seriously, but with a failure of leadership by heal...Aircraft cabin ventilation influences the transmission of diseases in-flight
...ircraft cabins can reduce the spread of infectious diseases in-flight, suggests a review published in this wee...d data from studies looking at the transmission of diseases during commercial air travel. They found that while commercial airlines are a suitable environment f...Study examines lessons learned at Africa's first public antiretroviral treatment clinic
...will help not only with HIV but with other chronic diseases that would normally be easily treated in the West," Dr. Marlink said....Growing your own replacement teeth? Not science fiction!
...ogy will improve our understanding of degenerative diseases and assist in developing therapies for replacing damaged or diseased parts/tissues. During the 83rd General Session of the International Association for Dental Research, convening today at the Baltimore Convention Center, several research groups are ...2005 Behavioral Sciences & Health Services Research Award
...en is an international leader in the field of oral diseases risk assessment and dental disease prevention. He obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Dentistry in 1965 and his Licentiate of Dentistry in 1968, both from the University of Turku (Finland); his Dr. of Dentistry degree (DOdont.) from the Univer...Awards & fellowships at the International & American Association for Dental Research General Session
...the area of periodontal tissue development, mainly diseases affecting periodontal tissue formation. The award, sponsored by the Procter & Gamble Co., is in memory of William B. Clark, the late Professor of Oral Biology and Director of the Periodontal Research Center at the University of Florida. National S...Many children are undervaccinated or have delayed vaccinations in their first 2 years of life
... a child's risk of contracting vaccine-preventable diseases and prevents disease outbreaks, according to backg...nt incompletely protected from vaccine-preventable diseases is important to the health of individuals and to public health and should be given greater emphasis ...Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
... muscular atrophy, once among the least understood diseases in medicine, has recently emerged as one of the genetic conditions closest to a treatment. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) has selected SMA to serve as the prototype for a translational research project that is ex...HIV testing should no longer be accorded any special status
...ctor can initiate tests aimed at excluding serious diseases without an in-depth discussion of all possible results, provided that the test result, positive or negative, should benefit the patient. Routine voluntary counselling and testing was appropriate to the 1980s, but times have changed and the benefits o......rnment policy on one of the most feared infectious diseases of our time. South Africa, like many other countries around the world, has been severely hit by an explosive HIV/AIDS epidemic. For the past 20 years, Karolinska Institutet has been carrying out AIDS research in Africa, predominantly in Tanzania, and...IADR & GSK announce 2005 Innovation in Oral Care Awards
...y be widely available to those suffering from oral diseases which today are not easily prevented or treated," said Dr. David Alexander, Director of Worldwide Professional Affairs for GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. "We have been extremely pleased with the progress of the projects funded from last year an...US cancer researchers launch first American-Israeli cancer conference
..., and DNA repair. Errors in the system can lead to diseases such as cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis. Scientists at the conference will address research advances in cancer genetics; cell signaling at the DNA/RNA level; immune system therapies; targeted treatments; novel approaches to breast cancer and soli...