ESA's first Swedish astronaut to fly to the ISS
... From 7 to 20 December, 'SpaceCamp Stockholm' will host exhibits, lectures, workshops, film shows and many other activities geared to promoting space activities and applications. As part of this, a local live event for the general public and media representatives is being arranged for the launch itself....Liverpool launches 20 million project to develop medicines for children
...pool Children's Hospital has been appointed as the host institution for the Cheshire, Merseyside & North Wales LRN, with Dr Matthew Peak and Dr Jo Blair as co-directors and Dr Charlie Orton as manager. A 20 million grant will support the MCRN over five years and help to establish a world-class health se...Hajj pilgrims should get flu jab to avoid pandemic
... At the end of next month Saudi Arabia will again host the Hajj the largest annual gathering in the world which attracts more than two million pilgrims from almost every country on earth. For the individual pilgrim this is a deeply spiritual journey, but from a public health perspective, such a gathe...St. Jude, El Salvador create research ethics committee
...then the ethical review of medical research in the host country. The El Salvador REC enabled the Hospital Nacional de Nios Benjamin Bloom (Hospital Bloom) in San Salvador to collaborate with St. Jude on two projects: research into the effect of nutrition on the immune systems of Salvadoran children and...CHPA statement regarding 'Monitoring the Future' findings on cough medicine abuse
...nership for a Drug-Free America, we have created a host of English- and Spanish-language educational resources for parents and community leaders, including public service announcements, brochures, and web sites. We also are working with the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America to develop the first t...Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
...shur. "Isolated cases do not so clearly raise the host of public health issues we discuss." According to the paper, "factors that facilitate the spread of tuberculosis are well known and abundantly present in sub-Saharan Africa . Alongside inadequate health care systems response, poverty and global ine...New research brings initial find of Alois Alzheimer to fore once again
...f study widely done now by scientists looking at a host of diseases, using vast gene arrays that can tell how active thousands of genes are in a part of the body. As Zlokovic perused the list of genes whose activity differed depending on whether the person had Alzheimer's or not, he recognized that seve...New blood thinner studied for patients with leg and lung clots
...us line needed for medicine, can injure vessels. A host of things contribute to hypercoagulability, including birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy, age, and perhaps smoking and obesity. Cancer, particularly solid tumors, is a big risk factor for clotting. Ironically its primary treatments, che...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 28, 2007
...merican Chemical Society, and Ursinus College will host the 39th ACS Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting. http://www.marmacs.org ...National addiction treatment leaders to meet at first NIATx Summit
...he Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) will host the first NIATx Summit in San Antonio. Addiction treatment providers, payers, policymakers and clinicians will come together to celebrate recent successes in treatment access and retention, unveil a national campaign and learn cutting-edge practices ...Darveau receives Periodontal Disease Research Award
... major paradigm shifts in the understanding of the host response to periodontal bacteria. As early as 1995, Dr. Darveau was one of the first scientists to recognize the ability of the periodontal pathogen P. gingivalis to down-regulate inflammatory responses in the gingival crevice. His findings that P. g...Biologists learn structure of enzyme needed to power 'molecular motor'
...nsures that the virus can reproduce by infecting a host organism. "This research represents a significant step forward to understanding how DNA genetic material is packaged in viruses," Rao said. Energy to run the packaging motor is produced when the ATPase enzyme breaks down a biological compound cal...Tissue engineering for craniofacial reconstruction
...ing regeneration and eventually integrate into the host tissue. The traditional tissue-engineering paradigm combines isolated cells with appropriate bioactive agents in a biomaterial scaffold. It is widely recognized that scaffold architecture can profoundly influence the behavior of cells on tissue-engin...Drug used to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child damages DNA
... shown that NRTIs also incorporate into the DNA of host cells, causing damage that could have long-term health consequences for those exposed to the drugs. Two new animal studies have examined the cancer-causing effects of transplacental exposure to AZT in mice and rats and found increased rates of tum...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 4, 2007
...merican Chemical Society, and Ursinus College will host the 39th ACS Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting. http://www.marmacs.org...Bypassing eggs, flu vaccine grown in insect cells shows promise
...ons of fertilized eggs, youre dealing with a whole host of agricultural issues, as well as scientific concerns regarding the flu virus itself. Flu viruses can be temperamental, and its not always an easy matter to get the virus to grow as you want in eggs. The use of cell culture systems to grow vaccine...Professors named Fulbright scholars
...iala, Punjab, Asias largest sports institute, will host Kalinski, who has enjoyed collaborative research with scientists in Ukraine, Poland, Russia and Spain for more than a decade. He also served as a visiting professor in Italy and Spain in 2006. Holm will use his scholarship to continue a collaborat...New class of HIV drug attacks previously untargeted enzyme
...e is responsible for insertion of HIV DNA into the host cells DNA. Until now all antiretroviral drugs for HIV which target enzymes have been reverse-transcriptase or protease inhibitors. Dr Bach-Yen Nguyen, Merck Research Laboratories, Westpoint, Pennsylvania, USA, and colleagues divided their patients ...Bovine tuberculosis could spread by human-human contact
...quent disease was probably due to a combination of host and environmental factors. Prospective surveillance and DNA fingerprinting identified the cluster, enabling health protection teams to set up control measures and prevent further transmission." In an accompanying Comment, Charles O Thoen (College o...Low education predicts lower quality of life for prostate cancer patients
...tion or watchful waiting. After adjusting for a host of factors including severity and stage of cancer, treatment, age, education, income, marital status, and other diseases, the researchers found that men without high school diplomas experienced greater decline and less recovery during the first year ...