| Title |
Date |
| Swine flu pandemic threat puts the world on high alert |
04/28/09 |
| An outbreak of swine flu in humans has health experts and officials around the world on high alert and there is great concern, as more countries report new cases of the disease, that the world may be on the brink of a pandemic. |
| Australian researchers win bumper grant from Bill Gates for HIV research |
04/28/09 |
| Australian researchers have won themselves a bumper grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine the best way of using drugs to treat HIV. |
| Test for best potential HIV/AIDS vaccine in the pipeline |
04/28/09 |
| Scientists in Britain are well on the way to developing a test for the best potential HIV/AIDS vaccine. |
| New Federal Government rules on cancer treatment unfair |
04/28/09 |
| Critics say new measures proposed by the Australian Federal Government, due to come into force in July this year, will mean an end to Government subsidies for leftover cancer drugs - worth about million a year - are unfair to both patients and pharmac |
| New scan may lead to better treatment for epilepsy |
04/28/09 |
| Australian scientists have found that new technology may help in the treatment of epilepsy. |
| Update on swine flu in the United States and Mexico |
04/28/09 |
| As of 26 April 2009, the United States Government has reported 20 laboratory confirmed human cases of swine influenza A/H1N1 (8 in New York, 7 in California, 2 in Texas, 2 in Kansas and 1 in Ohio). |
| Countries unite to reduce animal use in product toxicity testing worldwide |
04/28/09 |
| Representatives from four international agencies, including the director of the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP), today signed a memorandum of cooperation that could reduce the number of animals required for consumer product safety testing worldwide |
| New doctors, teaching physicians disagree about essential medical procedures to learn |
04/28/09 |
| Physicians teaching at medical schools and doctors who have just completed their first year out of medical school disagree about which procedures are necessary to learn before graduating, according to a new survey done by researchers at Wake Forest Univer |
| Nanosensor arrays ''sniff out" cancer |
04/28/09 |
| In 2006 researchers established that dogs could detect cancer by sniffing the exhaled breath of cancer patients. Now, using nanoscale arrays of detectors, two groups of investigators have shown that a compact mechanical device also can sniff out lung canc |
| Hybrid metal and organic nanoparticles for targeting, imaging, and treating cancer |
04/28/09 |
| Using a set of three biocompatible polymers and a nanoparticle containing gadolinium, a team of investigators at the Colorado School of Mines has created a nanoparticle platform that has the potential to target, image, and treat cancer. |
| Nanoscopic 'pearl necklaces' track and attack cancer cells |
04/28/09 |
| A team of investigators at Purdue University has developed nanoscale probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells. |
