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New hope for horse lovers as effective control for killer ragwort is proposed
10-10-2007 · EurekAlert!An effective natural control alternative for ragwort -- a weed that the British Horse Society has warned "poses a real threat to the horse population in the UK" -- is being proposed by the international scientific organization CABI.
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06-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
A targeted campaign of testing and counseling aimed at those who are at high risk for HIV would be more effective than the mass patient screening proposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an analysis by David Holtgrave, Ph.D., an expert on HIV prevention at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Holtgrave's study is the first to examine the cost-effectiveness of the CDC's testing plan.
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- Effective HIV control may depend on viral protein targeted by immune cells
12-17-2006 · EurekAlert!
An effective response of the immune system's "killer" T cells against infection with HIV may depend on exactly which viral protein is targeted, according to an international group of researchers. A new study finds that HIV-infected individuals in whom virus-specific CD8 T cells are targeted against the Gag protein have lower viral levels than do those with CD8 responses directed against other viral proteins.
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- Sling surgery is more effective than Burch for bladder control in women
05-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
In the largest and most rigorous U.S. trial comparing two traditional operations for stress urinary incontinence in women, a team of urologists and urogynecologists supported by the National Institutes of Health has found that a sling procedure helps more women achieve dryness than the Burch technique. The study is being released early by the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association on May 21, 2007.
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- Stellar Birth Control In The Early Universe
10-02-2006 · ScienceDaily
An international team of astronomers based at Yale and Leiden University in The Netherlands found that "old stars" dominated many large galaxies in the early universe, raising the new question of why these galaxies progressed into "adulthood" so early in the life of the universe. Their results imply that the galaxies have a method of "birth control" that is very effective.
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- When it comes fighting to C. difficile, the Palme d'Or goes to soap and warm water
09-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
Hospitals world-wide battle nosocomial infections on a daily basis. One of the most difficult bacteria to combat is Clostridium.difficile. To help ensure the best control methods possible, Dr. Michael Libman, director of the division of infectious diseases at the McGill University Health Center, studied the most effective ways to eliminate C.difficile bacteria from the hands of health-care workers, with the highest honor going to soap and warm water!
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- Largest study to investigate risk factors of autism to begin enrolling families
11-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers from Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as from five other sites nationwide, today will begin enrolling thousands of families in the largest study to date investigating the genetic and environmental factors that may cause autism and other developmental disabilities. Researchers hope the study will contribute to better services and treatments, and to prevention strategies. Autism affects about one in 150 children born in the US.
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- Antifolate therapies found effective against certain type of malaria
05-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
Toby Leslie, M.Sc., of HealthNet TPO Malaria and Leishmaniasis Control Programme, Peshawar, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan, and colleagues tested the relative efficacy and safety of two antifolate drugs (sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and chlorproguanil-dapsone) against P vivax malaria and compared each with chloroquine.
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- Gene therapy offers new hope for treatment of peripheral neuropathy
05-31-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine report that they have successfully used gene therapy to block the pain response in mice with neuropathic pain, a type of chronic pain in people for which there are few effective treatments. These findings are being presented at the 10th annual meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy, being held May 30 to June 3 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle.
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- High blood pressure medication strategy proves effective in Hispanic women
07-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers studied 22,500 patients enrolled in the landmark International Verapamil SR-Trandolapril study, known as INVEST, and tracked a subgroup of 5,017 Hispanic and 4,710 non-Hispanic white women who were randomly assigned to a drug strategy containing either a sustained release form of the calcium antagonist verapamil or the beta-blocker atenolol. Hispanic women achieved greater blood pressure control and were half as likely as white women to suffer adverse outcomes.
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09-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
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