Baby Milk Manufacturers Are Breaking The Rules
...itute breast milk. Taylor's study is the first of its kind and covered cities in Bangladesh, Poland, South Africa and Thailand. The author found that baby milk manufacturers violate the code by continuing to send free gifts to mothers or indirectly apply marketing pressure through free gifts or samples...Procter & Gamble Supports Yale University Collaboration For Public Health Training Throughout China
...nt and regulatory affairs. P&G established its first joint venture in China in 1988, and is nowcelebrating its tenth year in China. P&G currently has eleven joint venture andwholly owned companies in China -- l...UF Psychiatrists Use Antidepressants To Treat Smoking Addiction
...lp smokers kick the habit by tackling addiction at its root: long-lasting changes in brain chemistry that train the brain to expect new levels of pleasure it eventually considers normal. This chemical conditioning occurs gradually, but the changes persist for months after someone stops smoking, ...Researchers Identify Candidate Immunosuppressant With Fewer Side Effects
...were able to see how NFAT attaches to DNA, and how its structurechanges during this process. Knowing what...hers'ability to design new drugs to interfere with its activity and suppress theimmune system. Editors, please note: a diagram of the immune system signali...Research Offers New Tool In Fight Against Prostate Cancer
...nhas been controversial because opinions differ on its validity and precisely howto interpret test results. The U-M researchers found that patients whose PSA levels declined at least 50percent after eight weeks of chemotherapy survived for 91 weeks (median),compared with 38 weeks for those whose PSA leve...UB Plants "Seeds" By Investing In Research Projects; Researchers Leverage Investment 14 Times Over
...aid, "so the university needs to reinvest." Now in its fifth year, the program has met with great enthusi...t came time to apply for federal funding." Now in its third year, the U.S. Department of Education-funded model, the focus of which is to facilitate play ...PITT Researchers Demonstrate Human Brain's Natural Mechanism For Guarding Against Errors
...Science. "Our research shows the brain has its own built-in system for detectingcompetition betwe...tition and tells the brain to pay attention before its laxexecutive control allows the driver to make a catastrophic error. "Until now, we didn't k...Asthma-Airways Clinic Improves Lives, Reduces Medical Costs
...duled to discuss the program and the evaluation of its results atthe 1998 conference of the American Lung Association and American ThoracicSociety in Chicago, scheduled from April 24-29. Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory condition in the United States,and the number of cases has increased dur...Study Shows Child Health Plus Eases Access, But Some Barriers Remain
...y was funded by theDepartment of Health as part of its initial legislation to createthe program. "Child Health Plus appears to have leveled the playing field interms of having a medical home," said Laura Pollard Shone, MSW,principal investigator for the study. "However, there are stillsome racial and eth...Neurotransmitter-Induced Electrical Activity Identified As Key Regulator Of Synaptogenesis
...resynaptic cell, neurotransmitter is released from its nerve endings. The released transmitter molecules diffuse to the adjacent nerve cell and activate specific receptor proteins that are highly concentrated within the membrane segment underlying the presynaptic ne...Cost-Effective Treatment Possible In Africa For HIV-Positive Pregnant Women If Drug Prices Lowered
...lf," he added. Glaxo Wellcome also has announced its plan to reduce AZT prices for verticaltransmission prevention in low-income countries to about 25 percent ofindustrial world prices, according to Marseille. "These events open the way forlarge-scale drug interventions because we now know that these ...Compound In Meat Prevents Diabetes, Study Suggests
...anden Heuvel plan to begin human trials on CLA and its effects on diabetes as soon as possible. Meanwhile, Houseknecht plans additional animal studies to determine how CLA regulates glucose metabolism. "Our next step will be to see if the weight loss is real and sustained over time, and the second thing ...... a drug with modest anti-prostate cancer activity, its unique contributionhas been unclear. In the clinical trial, researchers determined that 43 percent of patientsreceiving suramin with hydrocortisone experienced a reduction in pain, incontrast to 28 percent of those with hydrocortisone and a placebo....ONYX Pharmaceuticals Reports Phase II Clinical Trial Results At ASCO Meeting
...oday reported results from two Phase II studies of its leadanticancer viral therapeutic, ONYX-015, in patients with tumors of the head andneck. In an ongoing Phase II study combining ONYX-015 with standardchemotherapy, the company reported that nine out of ten patients with recurrenttumors have experienc......ehensive cancer centers, the UPCI isrecognized for its interdisciplinary approach to cancer prevention, d...reatment, education and community outreach and for its commitment totranslational research that rapidly brings new cancer therapies from thelaboratory benc...Polish Dumpling-Like Particle Has Potential In Drug Delivery
...sity knedl is a synthetic nano-sized particle that its creators hope someday will be the carrier of drugs...ater-soluble shell that allows them to bind DNA to its surface. This in turn causes small aggregates to form that protect the genetic material from being d...First Patients Enrolled In NIH Clinical Trial On Effects Of Marijuana In HIV Patients
...don the amount of virus in the body, as well as on its potentialinteractions with antiviral drugs such as... and loss of appetite broughton by the disease and its treatments, but we don't know how THC--the activeingredient in marijuana--interacts with HIV drug th......ina heart-attacks that the researchers recommended its useas part of a new therapeutic standard of care. The researchers' study andclinical recommendation will be published in the May 21 issue of The New EnglandJournal of Medicine. Unstable angina is a life-threatening cardiac condition that occ...Drug's Effect On Chromosomes May Explain Second Cancers
...ak. Etoposide prevents the enzyme from completing its repair step. “Thedrug actually subverts the enzyme into a DNA damaging agent,” saidMuller. The researchers studied etoposide and five other topo II inhibitors onfragments of DNA that contained telomeres. Based on a knowledge of how the dr...Wistar Scientist Awarded American Cancer Society Grant For Study Of Tumor Suppressor Proteins
...fere as it should with tumor growth. "Because of its key role in the development of tumors," explains Dr.Marmorstein, "the CDK4 protein is an excellent target for anti-cancertherapies." His laboratory's findings on the structural properties of theP16INK4 protein are expected to provide a framework for...