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A ban on the sale of poultry in market stalls disinfection of markets or market closures may need to be considered to prevent the spread of the virus from animals to people the researchers said.


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There's some evidence that Jobs who was diagnosed never actually with OCPD (Kendall asserts that he's simply suggesting the diagnosis based on current criteria) also had an eating disorder that's frequently associated with OCPD.


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The chemical analysis of the ancient wine continues erhaps in enough detail for creative winemakers to one day recreate this ancient Canaanite brew.


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and we will start chemical analysis soon she said. The German process uses a special conveying system to load de-stemmed grapes onto a belt that travels past a sorting module.


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Scientist Snaps Shot of Colorful Urine From red to blue to violet all the colors of the rainbow appear regularly in urine tests conducted at hospital labs. The prismatic pee collection seen in this stunning photo took only a week


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Plants exploited by ancient apothecaries have given rise to more complex and effective cures and alkaloids isolated from natural herbs have found their way into the neat little pills people get from the pharmacy today.

More than four decades ago scientists isolated vincristine and vinblastine from the plant and showed that these alkaloids could be used in chemotherapy treatments.

The active agent in curare a chemical known as tubocurarine was found to be useful as a muscle relaxer during surgeries and electroconvulsive therapy.


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The team led by Lorenzo Perez-Rodrä guez of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid Spain first used skin tests to measure immune responsiveness


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From 1998 through 2011 a total of 148 outbreaks associated with the consumption of raw milk products were documented in the United states resulting in 2384 illnesses 284 hospitalizations and two deaths according to the CDC.


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Top 7 Germs in Food that Make You Sick Over the past decade consumption of raw milk has resulted in 93 illness outbreaks 1837 illnesses 195 hospitalizations and two deaths according to the Centers for Disease


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Rainer Henn a forensic pathologist who examined Ãzi died in an auto accident one year later.


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Raw foods are detoxifying Dietary detoxification is an alternative medicine concept with little scientific credibility. Usually two organs are cited as needing detoxification:

the liver and the colon. In reality toxins can accumulate anywhere in the body particularly in fat and fatty tissue but also in proteins and bone.

6'Magic bullet'Cures That Don't Exist Another argument is that burning fat in this case on a raw vegan diet would release toxins from the body.

At best detoxification schemes (juicing fasting) can help by virtue of not placing more toxins in our body for a day or two.


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Cures what ails you Resistant starch might sound like some kind of miracle cure-all but independent studies have found this substance more


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Most forms of kidney disease have no cure except through a kidney transplant from a healthy donor.


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but also for spider-venom peptides that are being considered for therapeutic use study researcher Glenn King of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland Australiaâ said in a statement.


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and blood test results Here are six slimming strategies for surviving the holidays without the bloat. 1. Beware variety.


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It's like physical therapy for the tree. If you stake it too tight it does not allow the plant to produce stronger tissues.


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Recent chemical analysis revealed these soldiers were killed probably not by swords or spears but by sulfur gases ignited by the invading Persian army.


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Biopsies aren t the only sources for culture. The process could potentially use stem cells.

They work with communities on a wide range of issues including synthetic biology and bionic implants.


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and self-interest nor is scientific research free from cultural influence (consider halal vaccines for example). Some people have very good reasons to be suspicious of scientists and science.


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or seeds nuts or shells were more likely to require hospitalization than those who choked on other foods.


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But a new study found breast cancer patients responded better to chemotherapy and the cancer was less likely to spread


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Hoping that she would someday become a therapy dog Honey's owner took the dog to meet a person in a wheelchair.


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Melatonin is used sometimes to mitigate the side effects of chemotherapy including weight loss nerve pain weakness and a condition called thrombocytopenia.


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At the same time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans of those who drank the corn syrup drink showed increased activation in a region of the brain called the nucleus accumbens


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which correlates to similar increases in positive allergy skin-test results according to Bielory. Most experts believe the impact of climate change on allergic diseases will vary by region depending on latitude altitude rainfall and storms land-use patterns urbanization transportation and energy production.


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Detoxification Onions have amino acids that are rich in organic sulfur. They initiate detoxification by forming the basis for glutathione helps the liver process toxins.

Digestion The fiber in onions promotes good digestion and helps keep you regular. Additionally onions contain a special type of soluble fiber called fructan


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which an elastic band is wrapped tightly around the tail cutting off blood supply until the tail falls off There is no anesthesia used during this procedure.


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These might include individuals with weakened immune systems such as cancer patients who are receiving chemotherapy. The risks are increased also in people undergoing organ transplants


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Detoxification Phytocheimcals glucoraphanin gluconasturtiin and glucobrassicin compose a terrific trio in broccoli. Together they aid all steps of the body's detoxification process from activation to neutralization and elimination of contaminants.

A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United states of america found that the sprouts of broccoli may be especially potent in this regard.


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There is no cure for celiac disease and the only way to manage the disease is to avoid eating gluten altogether according to the American Celiac disease Alliance.


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Making an initial diagnosis is not easy; it usually starts with a high fever which can have many causes.

and until June 13 daily hospitalisations never fell below double figures. The outbreak then fizzled out.

To some extent this is down to better diagnosis but probably not entirely. The realities of 21st century mass production of cheap meat are likely to have driven up infection for example.


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I took aspirin ibuprofen anti-inflammatories prescription pain pills and a cortisone injection in search of relief.

But authentic shamans are masters of a sacred craft living repositories of centuries of therapeutic wisdom.

and responsiveness to therapy often demonstrating a remarkable insight into the natural history of disease processes as we understand them.


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Instead the study researchers sent the whole hunk to Penn State university to be scanned with high-resolution computed tomography (CT) a technique that yields virtual slices of the interior of an object.


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In the new study researchers used high-resolution micro-computed tomography (CT) scanners to analyze two fossils of leafcutter-bee nests excavated from the pits.


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Blood tests can reveal the concentration of uric acid in the blood and further confirm the diagnosis

. However according to the Mayo Clinic blood tests can be misleading because some gout patients do not have an unusual level of uric acid in their blood

and some people with high levels of uric acid do not go on to develop gout. A patient s gout will not get better until they start taking uric-acid-lowering drugs.


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Hospitalization for intravenous hydration may be necessary. Diarrhea can be much more than an inconvenience. Diarrhea can be lethal to older people.


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Getting Viral Cure Elizabeth Summer is cofounder and chief science officer for Phage Biocontrol Inc. This article was prepared by the U s. National Science Foundation (NSF) for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers publication Chemical engineering Progress.


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Cow urine offers a cure for around 70 to 80 incurable diseases like diabetes Om Prakash of the RSS Cow Protection Department told Reuters. All are curable by cow urine. 7

Though Westerners may find the practice surprising if not outright disgusting the therapeutic use of cow urine has a long history in India particularly in Ayurvedic medicine an ancient health care tradition that has been practiced in India for at least 5000 years.

We refer to gau ark (cow urine) as gau jal (cow water) as it has immense potential to cure various diseases Prakash told The Telegraph.

This study supports the traditional use of Gomutra Ark in diabetes the researchers wrote noting that it has a high therapeutic index


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This is by no means a'cure 'but sulforaphane may ameliorate symptoms of autism Zimmerman told Live Science.


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#Tobacco Plants May Contain Cure for Cancer, a New Twist in Protein Lipid Interactions This article was published originally at The Conversation.


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Lyuba's last moments The team got permission to perform computed tomography (CT) scanning as well as some limited dissection of the body.


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#Medieval Italian Skeleton's Surprising Diagnosis: Livestock Disease A sip of unpasteurized sheep or goat's milk may have spelled doom for a medieval Italian man.

This medieval Italian man joins many other long-dead people in getting a postmortem diagnosis of brucellosis.

It still affects more than 500000 people around the world yearly though livestock vaccination and dairy pasteurization have hampered its spread.


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Many of these symptoms can be signs of another condition Sheth said adding that blood tests can confirm a deficiency

Doctors may prescribe Vitamin b12 injections to treat people who have a deficiency but would not benefit from Vitamin b12 pills.

and these people had a higher risk of being diagnosed with cancer within one year of their abnormal blood tests especially a cancer related to smoking (lung cancer)

The patients underwent six months of treatment including therapy and medication before giving another blood sample.


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It is possible that one day we might be able to save lives by replacing electronic hardware with an injection of genes.


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because you know it's not true Mccaskill told Oz On his show Oz has called some herbal weight-loss products the magic weight-loss cure and the No. 1 miracle in a bottle.

but this little bean has scientists saying they've found the magic weight-loss cure for every body type.


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Excessive fluoride ingestion and chemotherapy directed at the head and neck also result in intrinsic stains.


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and chooses endpoints to suit so-called#surrogates like blood test results weight CVD cancer and total mortality.#


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and progress in cancer care-a collaboration with the UICC (global cancer body) and Globalrt (a group that aims to increase global access to radiotherapy).

The good news though is that the two viruses that cause these cancers are largely preventable by vaccine-Hepatitis b

and being vaccinated for the most common cancer-causing infections. These are largely the focuses of public health policies for cancer for

which prevention is better than cure#will always be a core mantra. Building on prevention early detection and early access to treatment is of paramount complementary importance-with treatments falling into three broad groups:

surgery chemotherapy and radiotherapy#Breast cervical and colorectal cancers for example can often be cured if found and treated in the early stages of disease


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and are now even hacking off elephants'toenails for new traditional medicine cures. Raising awareness about the plight of elephants is without doubt necessary.


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and transmitting them to an implant in his brain wearables are being created to assist people who are disabled.


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These toxins now reside in a virtual form on the Internet on hydrotherapy websites promoting well nothing but crap.


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But for those with persistently bad symptoms immunotherapy (a series of injections or a course of under the tongue drops or tablets) can alleviate the disease better still.

Although there is not yet an absolute cure for hay fever it can be managed so if you re showing symptoms it s worth seeking advice from your GP

Chris Corrigan lectures for Glaxosmithkline and Allergy Therapeutics and consults for Novartis Stallergenes and Allergy Therapeutics.


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Recent research has found that radiation therapy can cause severe complications in cancer patients by reducing the populations of helpful bacteria in the intestines.


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Another story about how some food holds the cure for cancer is making headlines in the Daily Express.


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and 2138 hospitalizations between 2000 and 2008 in the U s. The researchers mixed a cocktail of three phages

Phage therapy was the big thing in the 19 20s and 30s#said Jason Gill a microbiologist at Texas A&m University in College Station who was involved not in the study.

After penicillin hit the market in the early 1940s phage therapy was abandoned largely. But now that many bacteria are resistant to one

But numerous obstacles obstruct the path to phage therapy in humans in the U s. Regulations make phages difficult to patent.


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Detox schemes fall into three categories liver cleansing colon cleansing and whole body detoxification and each one is flawed based on science.

Yet good health can be maintained not through periodic detoxification but rather by preventing toxins from taking hold through a healthy diet.


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In a new study published today (Aug 27) in the journal PLOS ONE the researchers describe what their chemical analysis turned up:


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Easy cheese A chemical analysis revealed that the ancient dairy product didn't require an enzyme known as rennet


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Other work revealed that probiotics may enhance the effects of the vaccine against rotavirus vaccine the most common cause of severely dehydrating diarrhea in infants and children according to a 2008 study in the journal Vaccine.


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7 Gruesome Ways to Take a Life A recent execution by lethal injection that went awry has renewed interest in the protection against cruel and unusual punishment as guaranteed in the U s. Constitution.

But because of frequent mishaps and botched electrocutions the practice soon fell out of favor as lethal injections became more common.


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The patients were monitored for several months while getting physical therapy. Three of the five patients improved enough for the doctors to call the operation a success;

If such therapies become more widespread it might change the way people with muscle-loss injuries are treated.

Currently these patients don't start physical therapy until after surgery. However this treatment requires that therapy start as soon as possible

because therapy signals the stem cells to make new muscle. Badylak told Live Science that this technique could also solve some problems of current stem cell therapies.

One big issue is that simply injecting stem cells into an area of the body isn't enough since many of those cells simply die.

The new study shows that a scaffold and a signal from surrounding muscles seems to be help regrow the muscle.


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The results are welcome news as plant pathologists race to arm themselves against an ongoing epidemic of stem rust (P. graminis) caused by a recently emerged fungus called Ug99 (see'Wheat fungus spreads out of Africa'.

From there, pathologists believe wind currents may sweep Ug99 spores into India and, eventually, China. Meanwhile, new types of stripe rust that can overcome the defences bred into commercial varieties have sparked a separate epidemic in the United states. It is amazing that we are still fighting this battle,

says James Kolmer, a plant pathologist at the US Department of agriculture in St paul, Minnesota. It has been exposed to so many rusts in many different environments for a long period of time,


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THE WHO defends itself against allegations it overhyped the dangers of H1n1 under pressure from vaccine manufacturers at a hearing of the Council of europe's health committee.

After around 65 million people have been vaccinated, THE WHO says H1n1 vaccines appear to have an excellent safety profile.

None of the deaths investigated in those vaccinated have found a direct link to vaccination.

2 november 2009: Ministry of Health of Ukraine 1103/en/index. html>reports it has recorded over 250,000 cases of influenza-like illness, with 70 deaths.

Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization issues vaccination advice to THE WHO, including use of a single dose of vaccine in adults and adolescents and use of any licensed vaccine for pregnant women.

vaccinations get underway in many European countries. 18 october 2009: 1023/en/index. html>This week, Mongolia, Rwanda,

Australia begins mass swine flu vaccinations. 25 september 2009: European Medicines Agency recommends approval of two H1n1 vaccines, from Novartis and Glaxosmithkline.

15 september 2009: FDA approves four H1n1 vaccines, from CSL Limited, Medimmune LLC, Novartis, and Sanofi Pasteur.

10 september 2009: Two papers published in the New england Journal of Medicine show two new vaccines against H1n1 are likely to be effective after just one dose (paper 1,

paper 2). The obvious advantage of a one-dose schedule is that, in the current time of vaccine scarcity,

it doubles the number of people who may be vaccinated with a fixed amount of vaccine, writes Kathleen Neuzil, of PATH, in an accompanying editorial.

On the basis of these data, it would be appropriate to begin vaccination with the use of one dose of the usual antigen content.

3 september 2009: Novartis says a trial on 100 subjects shows its H1n1 vaccine is potentially protective for 80%of subjects after one dose and over 90%after two doses. 21 august 2009:

Healthy victims of swine flu should not routinely be given antiviral drugs, the World health organization useantivirals 20090820/en/index. html>warns.

Two Australian companies say they have started human trials of their swine flu vaccines. 16 july 2009: WHO changes reporting requirements for H1n1

Chinese state news source Xinhua reports tests have begun on the first H1n1 vaccine developed in the country.

Medimmune, a biotechnology firm in Gaithersburg, Maryland, wins a $90 million contract from the federal government to begin developing a live attenuated vaccine for H1n1.

The CDC reports that hospitalization rates in the US are coming down, to 3. 5,


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for example we invest heavily in public-private partnerships for developing new drugs, new diagnostic techniques, new vaccines.


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In the past, work on cattle led to the development of the smallpox vaccine and in vitro fertilization techniques.


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Capua showed that serum samples from people vaccinated against seasonal flu strains showed little or no cross reactivity against H1,


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which is critical for vaccine production, as is the current practice. Nevertheless, reliance upon patchy data from historical flu viruses has its limitations.


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the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) halted plans for the world's first clinical trial of a therapy generated from human embryonic stem cells.

bioengineering and imaging technologies at the two campuses. The chance to test therapies on different populations makes the collaboration particularly attractive for physicians.


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The International Society for Stem Cell Research has created a committee to weed out companies that offer unapproved stem-cell'therapies'.

Research HIV vaccine: An experimental HIV vaccine has shown moderate success at preventing infection by the virus. A US$119-million study involving more than 16,000 HIV-negative men

and women from Thailand found that a combination of two older drugs, which had failed to work individually, together reduced the risk of contracting HIV by nearly a third.

It's the largest step forward that's ever occurred in the HIV-vaccine field, says Dan Barouch of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical center in Boston, Massachusetts.

which includes Solvay's vaccines business, based in Belgium. The acquisition will also see Abbott increase its annual US$2. 7-billion pharmaceutical research and development investment by $500 million.


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plant pathologists will be working flat out on new strategies for breeders based on how the blight operates and its potential weaknesses.

I would hope that some clever plant pathologist would be able to genetically engineer resistance.


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Vaccine report: More children than ever are being immunized, but 24 million infants in the world's poorest nations still do not receive routine immunization, according to a report by the World health organization, UNICEF and the World bank.

The 21 october State of the World's Vaccines and Immunization report says that although four in five children now have access to lifesaving vaccines,

at least another US$1 billion is needed annually to help raise immunization rates above 90%.%This would cover the rising costs of immunization

HIV vaccine doubt: Results of the largest-ever HIV-vaccine trial looked less impressive when full details were published formally last week (S. Rerks-Ngarm et al.

N. Engl. J. Med. doi: 10.1056/nejmoa0908492; 2009) than when they were outlined in a press release a month earlier.

In September, the trial was said to show that a vaccine combination reduced the risk of HIV infection by nearly one-third.


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Herrera-Estrella's team also found more than a dozen genes related to heavy-metal detoxification and environmental-stress tolerance that were conserved in B73 and Palomero,

The conservation of the metal-detoxification and stress-tolerance genes in the derived strains strongly suggests that environmental changes caused by volcanic activity represented an important driving force that acted early in maize domestication,


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in fact received a diagnosis that already exists in the medical literature, although one with a rare presentation.


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a vaccine containing the attenuated virus that was heat-stable and could be stored and transported over long distances.

regional efforts and focused on widespread vaccination programmes and on long-term monitoring of cattle and wildlife.

Although the rinderpest vaccine can provide lifelong protection, it also poses a challenge. Because it contains the live virus

diagnostic tests can't differentiate between infected and vaccinated animals, as both will test positive for antibodies against the virus. Cows also pass on antibodies to their offspring through their milk.

vaccinations must stop for a period of two years and calves younger than two years old then need to be tested.


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The programme's success depended on widespread vaccination programmes and long-term monitoring of cattle and wildlife.

when a heat-stable vaccine was developed that contained the attenuated virus, allowing the vaccine to be stored

and transported over long distances. Oura says that the biggest scientific challenges in eradicating the virus is the large-scale monitoring

Although the vaccine can provide lifelong protection, it has caused also some problems. Because it contains the live virus

diagnostic tests can't differentiate between infected and vaccinated animals, as both will test positive for antibodies against the virus. Cows also pass on antibodies to their offspring through their milk.

vaccinations must stop for a period of two years and calves less than two years old tested.


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Fate Therapeutics, a biotech company based in San diego, California, has been granted the first US patent for genetic reprogramming technology to create induced pluripotent stem (ips) cells.

1998) that began the scare over a purported link between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.


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and less extreme measures such as vaccinating the animals may have been enough. I've never encountered anything like that before,

Vaccination of dairy goats is now mandatory everywhere in the country. After the first round of vaccinations in the southern Netherlands in 2008, initial findings showed that the vaccine,

produced by animal drug company CEVA of Libourne, France, cut down on the amount of bacteria in the goats'milk and afterbirth during lambing season the following year1.

But the first infected goats to be vaccinated were slaughtered in 2009. That put a crimp in possible findings from this year's lambing season

already under way, as to how much vaccination could help already infected farms, says Hendrik-Jan Roest, project leader on Q fever in goats for the Central Veterinary Institute (CVI) in Wageningen, The netherlands.

but in the end, documenting the impact of the vaccinations may have to wait at least another year. Researchers are also racing to work out

Roest says that CVI researchers and veterinary pathologist Annie Rodolakis of INRA, The french agricultural research institute, will start by looking at how the bacteria spreads in mice.

and detecting infected animals using blood tests something Dutch researchers have improved radically is difficult. She will take their methodology back to Canada,


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the two in vivo studies have shown significant therapeutic activity of a crystal protein against two species of nematode,


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Research Stem-cell therapy: Twenty-two clinics around the world that offer patients experimental adult stem-cell treatments have been surveyed by the International Cellular Medicine Society based in Salem, Oregon.

The society has established also a registry to track the health of people who undergo stem-cell therapy.


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says Zacharias Pretorius, a wheat pathologist at the University of the Free state in Bloemfontein, South africa,

The fungus and its variants are now able to overcome at least 32 of around 50 resistance genes, according to Ravi Singh, a plant geneticist and pathologist at the Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre.


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Business watch A generation of drugs with the potential to cure hepatitis C is set to flood the market.


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Therapies that target specific tumour-causing mutations have already been approved, or are on the verge of approval, for most of these conditions, says Peach.

Researchers will have access to consenting patients'genetic data as well as to medical records of the outcomes of the treatment.

because numerous targeted therapies already exist, but there's no reason why this should be restricted to cancer,


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But chemical analysis can add many more details to the picture. When Nature visited Tel Megiddo in October,

Chemical analysis can distinguish between soil layers that look identical to the naked eye explains Weiner.


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In any case, the findings point to IGF1 as a potential therapy for cystic fibrosis particularly because regulators in the United states and Europe have approved already synthetic IGF1 for the treatment of severely short stature.


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which specializes in vaccines and antibody therapies. Crucell's board of directors unanimously supports the deal, and shareholders will vote on the matter on 8 february.

TB diagnosis The World health organization (WHO) said on 8 december that a test that can rapidly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) was a'major milestone'for disease control.


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