Archive: 25/07/2017

Research looks to slow prostate cancer's 'joyride'

When it comes to arresting cancer's joyride through the body, one Western researcher's work looks to be the 'traffic cop' on the bloodstream highway.

Jul 25, 2017

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Opinion: How killing the ACA could lead to more opioid deaths in Trump states

President Trump spoke at the National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia on July 24, joining a long list of presidents who have spoken to the huge meeting of Boy Scouts, troop leaders and volunteers. The visit was not surprising, ...

Jul 25, 2017

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Japan woman dies of tick disease after bitten by sick cat

A Japanese woman has died from a tick-borne virus after being bitten by a stray cat in what is possibly the world's first animal-to-human transmission of the disease.

Jul 25, 2017

HIV prevention dapivirine vaginal ring found safe and acceptable in US adolescent girls

A vaginal ring that researchers are hopeful will be approved as a method for preventing HIV in women was found to be safe and acceptable in teen girls, according to results of a study conducted in the United States and reported ...

Jul 25, 2017

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Researchers report new system to study chronic hepatitis B

Scientists from Princeton University's Department of Molecular Biology have successfully tested a cell-culture system that will allow researchers to perform laboratory-based studies of long-term hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections. ...

Jul 25, 2017

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Zebrafish study reveals clues to healing spinal cord injuries

Fresh insights into how zebrafish repair their nerve connections could hold clues to new therapies for people with spinal cord injuries.

Jul 25, 2017

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Love hotels targeted to fight HIV among Cameroon's teens

The two big maps show the districts of the northern Cameroonian town of Guider along with its brothels, nightclubs and other seedy spots to identify places from where AIDS could spread among adolescents.

Jul 25, 2017

Pressure mounts to curtail surgery on intersex children

Children whose sexual characteristics don't neatly align with the norm have for decades faced surgery to rearrange their anatomy to resemble that of more typical boys and girls—long before they were old enough to have a ...

Jul 25, 2017

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Black seniors test power of reminisce to protect aging brain

Sharon Steen dons her tennis shoes and, with two fellow seniors, walks streets that in her youth were a vibrant center of Portland, Oregon's African-American community. Wasn't this the corner where an NAACP march began in ...

Jul 25, 2017

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Toddlers begin learning rules of reading, writing at very early age, study finds

Even the proudest of parents may struggle to find some semblance of meaning behind the seemingly random mish-mash of letters that often emerge from a toddler's first scribbled and scrawled attempts at putting words on paper.

Jul 25, 2017

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