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New properties of skin stem cells

Recent research from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet reveals completely new properties of the skin's stem cells - discoveries that contradict previous findings.

13 Oct 2008

Obese teenagers face higher metabolic syndrome risk in South America than Europe

Obese teenagers are much more likely to suffer from metabolic syndrome - which can lead to heart disease - if they live in Brazil than Italy, according to a study in the October issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice.

13 Oct 2008

Scientists image transfer of antibodies from mother's milk, to baby's gut

The transportation of antibodies from a mother to her newborn child is vital for the development of that child's nascent immune system. Those antibodies, donated by transfer across the placenta before birth or via breast milk after birth, help shape a baby's response to foreign pathogens and may influence the later occurrence of autoimmune diseases.

13 Oct 2008

Is men's dancing ability dictated in the womb?

Men who visit the University of Hertfordshire's Health and Human Sciences Research Institute Showcase next week can have their ears and fingers measured and dance moves scrutinised to get a rating on their expected attractiveness to women.

13 Oct 2008

Program in India aims to implement HIV/AIDS services in private maternity hospitals

India's Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society is launching a campaign that will focus on providing a comprehensive package of HIV/AIDS services to private maternity hospitals in the state in an effort to match services provided at government-run maternity hospitals, The Hindu reports.

13 Oct 2008

Workshop in Ghana encourages NGOs, volunteers to bolster TB control efforts

Volunteer community health workers and nongovernmental organizations should collaborate with Ghana's health sector to enhance the country's capacity to curb the spread of tuberculosis, Austin Arinze, national coordinator of the Stop TB Ghana Partnership, said recently in Winneba, Ghana, during a two-day workshop, GNA/My Joy Online reports.

13 Oct 2008

Global Health Group to assist Namibia in developing strategic malaria control plan

A five-member team from the University of California-San Francisco's Global Health Group will help Namibia develop a strategic plan aimed at eradicating malaria in the country, the New Era reports. The team, which arrived in Namibia on Oct. 5, has conducted site visits in the country's malaria-endemic northern region and met with Prime Minister Nahas Angula on Wednesday to discuss malaria control efforts.

13 Oct 2008

HIV drug resistance spreading in China, researcher says

As HIV spreads beyond high-risk groups into China's general population, drug-resistant strains of the virus also are appearing in parts of the country, Chen Zhiwei of the AIDS Institute in Hong Kong said recently, Reuters reports.

13 Oct 2008

Drug companies plan to invest in HIV/AIDS drug development, improve access, U.N. Secretary-General says

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday said that many large pharmaceutical companies -- including Abbott Labs, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer -- plan to increase their efforts to develop HIV/AIDS drugs and diagnostics for impoverished regions, Reuters reports.

13 Oct 2008

35% of annual new HIV infections in Spain occur among immigrants, researcher says at conference

Thirty-five percent of the 2,000 to 2,500 new HIV infections in Spain last year occurred among immigrants, Daniel Zulaika, president of the AIDS Interdisciplinary Society of Spain, said Wednesday at the XI National Congress on AIDS in Cordoba, Spain's El Pais reports.

13 Oct 2008

Empowering people living with HIV/AIDS can address poverty in Nigeria, advocate says

Alhaja Roli Daniju, executive director of the nongovernmental organization Ajegunle Community Project, recently called on Nigerian government officials and other stakeholders to help reduce poverty in the country by empowering people living with HIV/AIDS, This Day/AllAfrica.com reports.

13 Oct 2008

Women's independence necessary to address HIV/AIDS in Uganda, opinion piece says

Although Uganda had many achievements to celebrate on the anniversary of its independence on Wednesday, the country must "focus on independence on the individual level," especially among women affected by HIV/AIDS in the country, Milly Nattimba of the Makerere University School of Public Health writes in a New Vision opinion piece.

13 Oct 2008

Panel discusses how Asian migrant women are vulnerable to HIV

Although Asian migrant women working in Arab countries generate significant economic benefits for both their home and host countries, many of them are at risk of HIV because of the unsafe conditions under which they migrate and live, according to a panel of experts organized by the United Nations Development Programme Regional Center in Colombo, Sri Lanka, The Hindu reports.

13 Oct 2008

North Carolina County officials face lawsuit after denying permit to build health clinic expected to serve low-income residents

The North Carolina Tri-County Community Health Council has filed a lawsuit against Johnston County, N.C., alleging discrimination by county commissioners who denied a zoning permit to build a health clinic in a rural community that would serve low-income residents, the Raleigh News & Observer reports.

13 Oct 2008

More Arizona Hispanics uninsured in 2005 than whites, new census analysis finds

In 2005, 34.6% of Hispanics in Arizona were uninsured, compared with 12.7% of whites, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday, Cronkite News/Arizona Republic reports (Konopken, Cronkite News/Arizona Republic, 10/10).

13 Oct 2008

Kinaxo partners with Boehringer Ingelheim

Kinaxo Biotechnologies GmbH announced today that it has entered into a two-year collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim. Under the agreement Kinaxo will apply its new platform technologies to studies on drug mode of action and target identification. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

13 Oct 2008

Medical News

New properties of skin stem cells

Obese teenagers face higher metabolic syndrome risk in South America than Europe

Scientists image transfer of antibodies from mother's milk, to baby's gut

Is men's dancing ability dictated in the womb?

Program in India aims to implement HIV/AIDS services in private maternity hospitals

Workshop in Ghana encourages NGOs, volunteers to bolster TB control efforts

Global Health Group to assist Namibia in developing strategic malaria control plan

HIV drug resistance spreading in China, researcher says

Drug companies plan to invest in HIV/AIDS drug development, improve access, U.N. Secretary-General says

35% of annual new HIV infections in Spain occur among immigrants, researcher says at conference

Empowering people living with HIV/AIDS can address poverty in Nigeria, advocate says

Women's independence necessary to address HIV/AIDS in Uganda, opinion piece says

Panel discusses how Asian migrant women are vulnerable to HIV

North Carolina County officials face lawsuit after denying permit to build health clinic expected to serve low-income residents

More Arizona Hispanics uninsured in 2005 than whites, new census analysis finds

Kinaxo partners with Boehringer Ingelheim

Jam and jelly offers some protection form cancer, fruit and veg still best option

Researchers say bipolar disorder also afflicts children

Health warning for low energy bulbs

WHO makes urgent call for services for mental disorders to be scaled up

Digital pathology and the PathoVerse: A conversation with Dr. Singh

Bioprocess Efficiency with Cell Density Monitoring

Exploring electron microscopy for plant and microbial imaging at the John Innes Centre

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