HIV & AIDS
India gets its first free condom store
A global charity Wednesday launched a free condom store in India to try to reduce new cases of HIV/AIDS in a country with the world's third highest number.
Apr 26, 2017
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News tagged with government funding
Health
How food and diet impact the treatment of disease
Today, the Center for Food As Medicine (famcenter.org) and the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center (nycfoodpolicy.org) released its groundbreaking, 335 page (with more than 2500 citations), first ever, academic narrative ...
Mar 30, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
UK virus hunting labs seek to bolster global variant network
The air conditioners hum constantly in the lab at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, countering the heat thrown off by rows of high-tech sequencing machines that work seven days a week analyzing the genetic material of COVID-19 ...
Jan 13, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
The US has bought most of the world's remdesivir. Here's what it means for the rest of us
To beat the coronavirus pandemic, countries need to collaborate. We need the best possible science to develop vaccines and drugs, and to test, track and contain the virus. If we've learned anything from the rapid global spread ...
Jul 3, 2020
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Medications
Study shows NIH spent >$100 billion on basic science for new medicines
Federally funded research contributed to the science underlying all new medicines approved by the FDA over the past six years, according to a new study by Bentley University.
Feb 12, 2018
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Medical research
Opinion: Intellectual property waiver for COVID vaccines should be expanded to include treatments and tests
Global inequities in access to COVID vaccines have turned out to be a "catastrophic moral failure," just as the World Health Organization warned they would in January 2021. Yet it took 20 months of negotiations for members ...
Nov 22, 2022
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HIV & AIDS
Global Fund lifts China grant freeze
(AP) -- A high-profile global health fund that has come under pressure to clean up corruption has ended its dispute with China and will resume hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for programs to fight AIDS and other ...
Aug 24, 2011
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Neuroscience
Parkinson's disease is more common than thought. Toxins may contribute to rising rates
Parkinson's disease strikes nearly 90,000 older Americans a year, 30,000 more than was previously estimated, according to a study published Thursday.
Dec 15, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Engineers are hoping to perfect masks before the next COVID wave or pandemic
In the coronavirus pandemic's early days, health care workers turned to bandannas and other makeshift protections because they lacked the official stuff. That gave engineers at the University of Maryland an idea.
Mar 16, 2022
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Dentistry
Oral disorders research funding 'severely lacking,' finds study
Major government research funding schemes aren't keeping up with the burden of oral diseases, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney, the University of Queensland ...
Dec 21, 2022
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