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Mozambique completes first HIV vaccine clinical trial

Last week, "researchers at Mozambique's Polana Cancio Centre for Research and Public Health completed a trial evaluating the safety of an HIV vaccine candidate," the country's "first HIV vaccine trial," and it "is set to embark on a second, a demonstration of the country's increased HIV research capacity," PlusNews reports.

20 Mar 2013

Blog reports on PPP aimed at improving health status of poorest Central Americans, Mexicans

"At the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) recent annual meeting in Panama, the two richest men in the world" -- Mexican businessman and philanthropist Carlos Slim and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – "discussed their contributions to a little-known public-private partnership that aims to improve the health status of the poorest Central Americans and Mexicans -- Salud Mesoamerica 2015 or SM2015," Amanda Glassman, director of global health policy and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD), writes in the center's "Global Health Policy" blog.

20 Mar 2013

Study explores new mechanism that may contribute to development of cancers

A study published today in the journal Nature Genetics explores a new mechanism that may contribute to the development of several tumours, including Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia, a type of cancer that affects more than a thousand new patients in Spain each year.

20 Mar 2013

Study provides new insights about polycystic ovarian syndrome, insulin resistance

A group of tiny RNA molecules with a big role in regulating gene expression also appear to have a role in causing insulin resistance in woman with polycystic ovary syndrome and, perhaps, in all women, researchers report.

20 Mar 2013

IRIN interview examines implementation of financial transaction tax in Mozambique

Noting "Mozambique has become the latest African country to implement a financial transaction tax and airplane levy to fund health services in developing countries, part of the UNITAID initiative," IRIN interviews Philippe Douste-Blazy, board chair of the international financing mechanism, "about the state of play in innovative health financing."

20 Mar 2013

PNAS Editorial Board selects six papers to receive 2012 Cozzarelli Prize

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Editorial Board has selected six papers published by PNAS to receive the 2012 Cozzarelli Prize, an award that recognizes outstanding contributions to the scientific disciplines represented by the National Academy of Sciences.

20 Mar 2013

Analysis, commentary examine access to, unmet need for contraceptives

In an analysis published online in the Lancet, researchers from the National University of Singapore and the U.N. Population Division "estimated and projected indicators of contraceptive prevalence and unmet need for family planning from 1990 to 2015," according to the paper's abstract.

20 Mar 2013

Nanomedicines prevent tissue damage associated with atherosclerosis, other chronic diseases

Doses of medicine 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair prevent the tissue damage associated with atherosclerosis and other chronic diseases in mice.

20 Mar 2013

Ill health and retirement: an interview with Dr Sabrina Pit, University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney

In our study population, which was drawn from NSW Australia only, the proportion of working aged men who were fully retired due to ill-health in cities is five percent, eight percent for inner regional areas and nine for outer regional areas.

20 Mar 2013

Mayo Clinic neurology experts present research findings at AAN meeting

Mayo Clinic neurology experts will present research findings on Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, sleep disorders, concussions, multiple sclerosis and more at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting in San Diego, March 16-23.

20 Mar 2013

HIV treatment should be started earlier for most, but challenges remain

Noting "French researchers have identified 14 adults" who appear to have been functionally cured of HIV after beginning treatment "within a couple of months of infection" and continuing treatment "for one to seven and a half years" before stopping, a New York Times editorial writes, "The researchers estimate that as many as 15 percent of adults who start treatment early and continue for at least a year may then be able to stop their drug regimen and live healthily without the drugs."

20 Mar 2013

Study links inherited variations in few genes to increased risk of pediatric leukemia

Humans have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes that carry instructions for assembling the proteins that do the work of cells. Work led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital found that children who inherit certain variations in four particular genes are at much higher risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

20 Mar 2013

Study reveals how adolescent brain matures as they sleep

New study conducted by monitoring the brain waves of sleeping adolescents has found that remarkable changes occur in the brain as it prunes away neuronal connections and makes the major transition from childhood to adulthood.

20 Mar 2013

Blog examines potential for success of office of global health diplomacy

Writing in the Center for Strategic & International Studies' "Smart Global Health" blog, J. Stephen Morrison, CSIS senior vice president and director of the center's Global Health Policy Center, discusses the history of the Global Health Initiative and the recent creation of the State Department's Office of Global Health Diplomacy.

20 Mar 2013

TGen effort combines fundraising, gardening to combat pancreatic cancer

More northwest Ohio garden centers this spring are teaming up with an Arizona-based biomedical research organization to fight pancreatic cancer through the sale of purple flowers, which symbolize the nation's fourth leading cause of cancer death.

20 Mar 2013

Study finds patients in wheelchairs often have trouble getting appointments with specialty doctors

One in five speciality practices said they couldn't accommodate the needs of disabled patients using wheelchairs, researchers report.

20 Mar 2013

Physician-researchers develop anatomically-based classification for detecting spinal stenosis

Physician-researchers at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson have developed a new, clinically meaningful scale of severity for diagnosing patients with cervical spinal stenosis.

20 Mar 2013

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital receives patent for genetically modified human immune cells for caner therapy

The United States Patent and Trademark Office today awarded St. Jude Children's Research Hospital U.S. patent number 8,399,645 for St. Jude's invention of compositions for genetically modifying human immune cells so they can destroy some of the most common forms of cancer in children and adults.

20 Mar 2013

Arkansas report finds little additional federal costs would result from state's 'private option' for Medicaid expansion

The report, issued by the Arkansas Department of Human Services, found that the plan would add less than 15 percent to federal health care costs in the state.

20 Mar 2013

Physician experts support clinician-led innovation to improve, advance health services delivery

Physician experts in health system issues propose a timely alternative process for harnessing and supporting physician-led innovations to rapidly address front-line health care delivery problems and improve health.

20 Mar 2013

Research News and Research

Mozambique completes first HIV vaccine clinical trial

Blog reports on PPP aimed at improving health status of poorest Central Americans, Mexicans

Study explores new mechanism that may contribute to development of cancers

Study provides new insights about polycystic ovarian syndrome, insulin resistance

IRIN interview examines implementation of financial transaction tax in Mozambique

PNAS Editorial Board selects six papers to receive 2012 Cozzarelli Prize

Analysis, commentary examine access to, unmet need for contraceptives

Nanomedicines prevent tissue damage associated with atherosclerosis, other chronic diseases

Ill health and retirement: an interview with Dr Sabrina Pit, University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney

Mayo Clinic neurology experts present research findings at AAN meeting

HIV treatment should be started earlier for most, but challenges remain

Study links inherited variations in few genes to increased risk of pediatric leukemia

Study reveals how adolescent brain matures as they sleep

Blog examines potential for success of office of global health diplomacy

TGen effort combines fundraising, gardening to combat pancreatic cancer

Study finds patients in wheelchairs often have trouble getting appointments with specialty doctors

Physician-researchers develop anatomically-based classification for detecting spinal stenosis

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital receives patent for genetically modified human immune cells for caner therapy

Arkansas report finds little additional federal costs would result from state's 'private option' for Medicaid expansion

Physician experts support clinician-led innovation to improve, advance health services delivery

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