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Public health leaders file amicus brief in Supreme Court case challenging 'anti-prostitution pledge'

"The case of the 'anti-prostitution pledge' heading for the Supreme Court this month focuses on whether the requirement that groups funded by [PEPFAR] create policies 'explicitly' condemning prostitution is compatible with the First Amendment," the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog reports.

6 Apr 2013

Nobel Prize recipient describes on innate immunity at Annual Drosophila Research Conference

A young scientist's astute observation - that grasshoppers don't get sick - eventually led to profound insights into our own immunity.

6 Apr 2013

New York Times describes opposition to, support of Obama administration plan to reform food aid

"An Obama administration plan to change the way the United States distributes its international food aid has touched off an intense lobbying campaign by a coalition of shipping companies, agribusiness and charitable groups who say the change will harm the nation's economy and hamper efforts to fight global hunger," the New York Times reports.

6 Apr 2013

Research shows diabetes trials worldwide failing to address key issues relating to condition

An analysis of diabetes trials worldwide has found they are not addressing key issues relating to the condition with almost two thirds focusing on drug therapy while only one in ten addresses prevention or behavioural therapies.

6 Apr 2013

Journalists, experts discuss China's response to H7N9 outbreak

In a conversation in the ChinaFile blog, David Wertime, co-founder and co-editor of Tea Leaf Nation, an English-language online magazine that analyzes Chinese social media, speaks with Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations; journalist Isabel Hilton; Donald Clarke, a professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.; Susan Jakes, editor of ChinaFile; Dorinda Elliott, editor at large at ChinaFile; and James Fallows, a correspondent for The Atlantic, about the emergence of a new strain of avian flu called H7N9 in China and the country's response to the outbreak so far.

6 Apr 2013

Vertex to conduct two Phase 2 studies of VX-135 in combination with daclatasvir

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated today announced it has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company to conduct Phase 2 studies of once-daily all-oral treatment regimens containing Vertex's nucleotide analogue hepatitis C virus polymerase inhibitor VX-135 and Bristol-Myers Squibb's NS5A replication complex inhibitor daclatasvir for the treatment of hepatitis C.

6 Apr 2013

India's Supreme Court ruling on drug patent will promote affordable medicines, 'preserve' innovation incentives

Noting that India's Supreme Court on Monday ruled that drug maker Novartis "should not be given a patent for a cancer drug because it was too similar to Novartis's earlier version," a New York Times editorial writes, "The decision, which is the culmination of a high-profile, seven-year legal battle, should help protect the availability of cheap generic drugs for poor patients."

6 Apr 2013

SiDMAP announces publication of Isotopolome Wide Association Study in FASEB Journal

SiDMAP, LLC, a leading provider of metabolic profiling and biomarker development services to the pharmaceutical, academic, governmental, and biotechnology industries, announced today the publication of its 13C Isotopolome Wide Association Study matrix in the official journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in collaboration with scientists at the University Of Utah School Of Medicine.

6 Apr 2013

Fighting for abortion rights in Ecuador

Writing in RH Reality Check, Heather Sayette of Planned Parenthood Global/Latin America examines how Ecuador's newly re-elected President Rafael Correa this week "voiced unconditional support for contraception, including emergency contraception."

6 Apr 2013

Study applying OPKO Health's technology to identify synthetic peptoid in NMO patient serum published

OPKO Health, Inc. today announced the publication of a study applying its novel library screening technology to identify a synthetic peptoid that binds to anti-Aquaporin 4 antibodies in the serum of patients with Neuromyelitis optica.

6 Apr 2013

Ending poverty within a generation may prove tougher than tackling AIDS, World Bank president warns

"The president of the World Bank has warned that ending the worst of global poverty within a generation would prove a tougher challenge than tackling AIDS, as he urged direct action to help more than a billion people benefit from growth," The Guardian reports.

6 Apr 2013

Scientists say detecting single viral protein components challenging for Ebola

By screening a library of a billion llama antibodies on live Ebola viruses in the Texas Biomedical Research Institute's highest biocontainment laboratory, scientists in San Antonio have identified a potential weakness in the make-up of these deadly agents that can immediately yield a sensitive test.

6 Apr 2013

Scientists discover that drinking milk early in life could change how certain genes are expressed

It seems the ads were right. A milk mustache is a good thing to have. Animal and dairy scientists have discovered that drinking milk at an early age can help mammals throughout their lives.

6 Apr 2013

Penn Medicine scientist, trial participant detail experiences on leading edge of gene therapy

Harnessing the patient's own immune system to fight cancer through genetic modification of their own cells is rapidly emerging as a promising treatment option.

6 Apr 2013

Drought, flooding in Haiti leading to increase in malnutrition, U.N. report says

"A growing number of people in Haiti do not have enough to eat, according to the United Nations relief wing, mostly as a result of drought and the impact of recent tropical storms," the U.N. News Centre reports (4/3).

6 Apr 2013

Young people don't have fine motor movements compared to middle-aged people, find researchers

People in their 20s don't have much on their middle-aged counterparts when it comes to some fine motor movements, researchers from UT Arlington have found.

6 Apr 2013

China begins slaughter of birds in Shanghai market after 6th death from H7N9 announced; U.S., global experts begin vaccine research

"China announced a sixth death from a new bird flu strain Friday, while authorities in Shanghai halted the sale of live fowl and slaughtered all poultry at a market where the virus was detected in pigeons being sold for meat," the Associated Press reports (Wong, 4/5).

6 Apr 2013

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Public health leaders file amicus brief in Supreme Court case challenging 'anti-prostitution pledge'

Nobel Prize recipient describes on innate immunity at Annual Drosophila Research Conference

New York Times describes opposition to, support of Obama administration plan to reform food aid

Research shows diabetes trials worldwide failing to address key issues relating to condition

Journalists, experts discuss China's response to H7N9 outbreak

Vertex to conduct two Phase 2 studies of VX-135 in combination with daclatasvir

India's Supreme Court ruling on drug patent will promote affordable medicines, 'preserve' innovation incentives

SiDMAP announces publication of Isotopolome Wide Association Study in FASEB Journal

Fighting for abortion rights in Ecuador

Study applying OPKO Health's technology to identify synthetic peptoid in NMO patient serum published

Ending poverty within a generation may prove tougher than tackling AIDS, World Bank president warns

Scientists say detecting single viral protein components challenging for Ebola

Scientists discover that drinking milk early in life could change how certain genes are expressed

Penn Medicine scientist, trial participant detail experiences on leading edge of gene therapy

Drought, flooding in Haiti leading to increase in malnutrition, U.N. report says

Young people don't have fine motor movements compared to middle-aged people, find researchers

China begins slaughter of birds in Shanghai market after 6th death from H7N9 announced; U.S., global experts begin vaccine research

Loyola University Medical Center's Acute Rehabilitation Unit achieves CARF accreditation

Research examines stress, space flight impact on body's ability to fight viruses

NAIC offers states options to 'mitigate' the premium increases that are expected when the health law takes effect

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