Arranon cancer drug receives advisory committee support
... Cancer Center sees patients from 34 states and 26 countries and sees nearly 25,000 annually in its outpatient clinic. All of its physicians are faculty members at Baylor College of Medicine. For more information about Texas Children's Cancer Center, visit www.texaschildrenshospital.org . For more informatio...Why are so few HIV/AIDS trials conducted in Africa?
... Few principal investigators were based in African countries and there was no mention of ethical approval or informed consent in 19 and 17 trials, respectively. The relatively small number of HIV/AIDS trials conducted in Africa is not commensurate with the burden of disease, say the authors. This may reflect a...Scrapping health care fees in Africa could prevent over 200,000 child deaths a year
...hs annually in children aged under 5 in 20 African countries (estimate range 153,000-305,000). This amounts to 6.3% of deaths in children under 5 in these countries. Most of these lives would be saved by increased use of simple curative interventions, such as antimalarials and antibiotics combating dysentery a...Why are the best malaria drugs not being used in Africa?
...-resistant malaria across Africa has prompted many countries to adopt artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) as policy. These drug combinations are highly effective, and appear to be safe and well tolerated. Yet a study from Zambia, one of the first adopters of ACTs, shows that only 22% of children eligible...Palm Pilots could change how health care is delivered
... of all doctors younger than 35 years in developed countries used a PDA in 2003. Despite the increasing use of PDAs, more evidence from well-designed research studies is needed to show how much these devices can improve the quality of care, save patients' lives, and ultimately reduce health-care expenses, conc...Novartis MS drug shows promising results
...large Phase II study conducted at 32 centers in 11 countries (Europe and Canada). In the initial, placebo-controlled part of this study, 281 patients were randomized in equal numbers to receive either placebo, 1.25 mg or 5.0 mg FTY720 orally once-daily for six months. The study evaluated the effect of FTY720 ...Do the Europeans turn ill sitting up so late?
...rs from UK, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. Many countries are involved in sleep research, but especially in the smaller countries it is very difficult to acquire the funding. This sleep restriction project brings together research...UCL conference to launch global health institute
...: "There is no longer one set of diseases for rich countries and another for poor but diseases linked to economic and social conditions that vary within and between countries. The new UCL institute has a scientific agenda and a moral concern to deal with global health problems." The new Institute will be linke...Merck investigational vaccine GARDASIL prevented 100 percent of cervical pre- & non-invasive cancers
... GARDASIL, which involves over 25,000 people in 33 countries worldwide. Merck remains on track to submit a Bio...th quarter of 2005. More than 12,000 women from 13 countries participated in this trial. This phase III study, titled FUTURE II, is a prospective, randomized, do...Cervical cancer vaccine proves effective: Test results
..., which has involved more than 25,000 people in 33 countries worldwide in total. Women aged 16 years to 26 years were chosen at random to receive a three-dose regimen of either Gardasil TM or placebo at Day 1, Month 2, and Month 6. Gardasil TM was successful in preventing 100 per cent of cases of high-grad...Eating fish associated with slower cognitive decline
...Nonetheless, data from the United States and other countries indicate that it is a widespread and increasing public health problem." "This study suggests that eating one or more fish meals per week may protect against cognitive decline associated with older age," the authors conclude. "More precise studies of ...One dose of vaccine against Japanese encephalitis provides sustained protection
...10,000 deaths every year in Asia. While some Asian countries have nearly eliminated Japanese encephalitis or reduced its incidence, in other countries, such as Nepal and India, the disease has become a substantial public-health problem. In a previous study in July 1999, Heechoul Ohrr (Yonsei University Colleg...National and regional leadership needed to coordinate response to avian flu pandemic
Strong national and regional leadership in all countries is urgently needed to coordinate a response to the looming avian influenza pandemic, states an editorial in this week's issue of The Lancet. A draft of the US preparedness report was leaked to The New York Times last week. One of its major shortcomi...Moderate alcohol consumption can act as a 'blood thinner'
...rokes in the United States," he said, "but in some countries such as Japan, they have much higher rates of bleeding strokes and lower rates of heart attacks than we do, which is perhaps related to dietary differences."...Booster vaccination against hepatitis B not necessary for long-term protection
... are chronically infected. WHO recommends that all countries should have universal infant or adolescent hepatit...ation programmes by 1997. By the end of 2004, 168 countries implemented these immunisation programmes. However, whether vaccinated infants maintain protection o...High blood pressure a greater risk for stroke and heart disease in Asia says new study
...sease and stroke in Asia, as compared with Western countries such as Australia and New Zealand. A paper from t...sion (high blood pressure) is higher in many Asian countries than in Australia. For example, around 28% of people in China are estimated to have hypertension, c...Menzies secures $1.8m in funding for the NT
...mote Aboriginal communities and in many developing countries throughout the world. Dr Walton's lab based research is geared towards aiding early identification of scabies, vaccine development, and investigating the escalation of scabies mite resistance to current treatment methods. Grants awarded by NHMRC ...Smoking ban is protecting bar workers in Ireland
...cations for policy makers and legislators in other countries currently considering the nature and extent of their smoke-free workplace legislation, they conclude. In the Tobacco Control study, a representative sample of 769 adult smokers in Ireland and 416 in the UK were surveyed three months before, and nine ...Hopkins scientist to direct international studies of antibiotic as new treatment for tuberculosis
...rve University. The study will take place in five countries - the United States, Canada, Brazil, Spain, South ...he spread of tuberculosis and treat the disease in countries hit most hard by the duel epidemics. CREATE, which is sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Found...In a crisis, creating DNA vaccine could help save lives, slow spread of 'bird flu'
...elected biopharmaceutical and antibiotic plants in countries such as the United States, China and India. "A DNA vaccine is not a panacea, however it could be useful if the situation gets out of hand," Dunnill says. "But if we're going to try it, we need to move. You can't expect to walk into a production facil...