Non-Surgical Clubfoot Treatments Bring High Level Of Success

Two non-surgical treatments most commonly used to correct the condition known as clubfoot have similarly high levels of success, according to a new study published in the November 2008 issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (http://www.jbjs.org). While both treatment strategies use different approaches, each brings positive outcomes [...]

Bayesian Coalescent Inference Of Major Human MtDNA Haplogroup Expansions In Africa

Studies of human genetic diversity are revealing an increasingly detailed picture of our first steps towards colonizing the globe. Methods from population genetics can now provide evidence for ancient human population expansions.

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Aethlon Medical Reports Promising Treatment Results In Hepatitis-C Infected Patients

Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB:AEMD) announced preliminary data of Hepatitis-C (HCV) infected patients treated with the Aethlon Hemopurifier®, a medical device designed to assist the immune response in combating infectious disease. The HCV treated patients were among end-stage renal disease (kidney dialysis) patients enrolled in human safety studies being conducted at the Fortis Hospital, in Delhi, [...]

New Pathway For Malaria Infection Discovered

Cenix BioScience GmbH, a leading specialist in advanced RNA interference (RNAi)-based research services, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, and the Lisbon-based biomedical research centre Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), have announced the publication of their collaborative study in Cell Host & Microbe, describing the discovery and in vivo validation of [...]

More Antibiotic Development Needed Warns Health Protection Agency, UK

Ahead of its annual conference next week, the Health Protection Agency is warning about the need for new antibiotics to be developed to ensure the range of treatment options for some infections does not run out.

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