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Susan G. Komen Starts U-Turn After Planned Parenthood Cut-Off

February 3, 2012
After announcing that it was going to cut funding for Planned Parenthood's breast screenings, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer foundation, today announced that it is changing its funding criteria, meaning it will probably resume funding to Planned Parenthood, a sexual health organization. The public outcry regarding ...

Optimal Heart Health Starts Early: Study

January 26, 2012
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- People who reach midlife without developing high blood pressure, diabetes or other risk factors for cardiovascular disease are much less likely to have a heart attack or stroke by age 80 than ...

Zambia starts first-ever diarrhoea vaccines on children

January 23, 2012
Zambian health authorities on Monday started the country's first-ever vaccine campaign against diarrhoea on children under five years of age, in an attempt to reduce deaths arising from the disease.

Sangamo BioSciences starts Phase 2 clinical studies to develop functional cure for HIV/AIDS

January 9, 2012
Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. announced today the initiation of two new Phase 2 clinical studies (SB-728-1101 and SB-728-902, Cohort 5) in its program to develop a "functional cure" for HIV/AIDS.

Stopping influenza evolution before it starts

December 20, 2011
If you get vaccinated against the flu and then become infected with the virus, your body mounts an immune response that prevents you from getting sick. However, that pressure from the immune system can provoke the virus to mutate into a slightly different form — one that could be more ...

Mayo Clinic Collaboration Finds Multiple Sclerosis Often Starts In Brain’s Outer Layers

December 8, 2011
Multiple sclerosis (MS) may progress from the outermost layers of the brain to its deep parts, and isn't always an "inside-out" process as previously thought, reported a new collaborative study from researchers at the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic. The traditional understanding is that the disease begins in the ...

Multiple sclerosis often starts in brain’s outer layers: study

December 8, 2011
Multiple sclerosis (MS) may progress from the outermost layers of the brain to its deep parts, and isn't always an "inside-out" process as previously thought, reported a new collaborative study from researchers at the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic. The traditional understanding is that the disease begins in the ...

Path to oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere: long series of starts and stops

December 6, 2011
The appearance of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to geoscientists who investigated rock cores from the FAR DEEP project. The Fennoscandia Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth ...

Rescued killer whale starts new life in Spain

November 30, 2011
A female killer whale captured in the North Sea began a new life in the Canary Islands on Wednesday after being flown over from The Netherlands, a Spanish zoo said.

Stop Holiday Weight Gain Before It Starts

November 22, 2011
Every year people agonize over the best way to fight weight gain that seems to go hand in hand with the holiday season. While recent studies have shown that the average American only gains about a pound over the holidays, each pound adds up over time. But who has time ...

Guido Rasi Starts As New Executive Director Of European Medicines Agency

November 18, 2011
On November 16th, Professor Guido Rasi began his position as Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). On 8 June 2011, the Management board of the Agency nominated Rasi as Executive Director with a renewable five year mandate. This was confirmed on 13 July 2011, after a hearing before ...

Transmission of HIV: Study spotlights virus that starts infection

November 8, 2011
(Medical Xpress) -- When HIV is transmitted from one person to another, the virus faces a genetic "bottleneck." This means that usually during heterosexual transmission, only one virus out of a swarm of frequently mutating viruses establishes the new infection.