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The malaria parasite has waged a successful guerrilla war against the human immune system for eons, but a study in this week's Journal of Biological Chemistry has exposed one of the tricks malaria uses to hide from the immune proteins, which may aid in future drug development. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)

Schering's drug, boceprevir, is the closest competitor to Vertex's experimental hepatitis C drug telaprevir and, although Vertex is further ahead in development, investors are closely watching the competitive ...

Infections following treatment are a grave problem for patients, and resistant germs can be particularly devastating. Scientists have now developed a process for coating surfaces with an antimicrobial layer to effectively hinder infections.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said most countries have failed to live up to a commitment they made two years ago to fight AIDS and probably won't meet the UN AIDS Millennium Development Goal to reverse the spread of the disease by 2015.

People living alone in middle age are at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia than married people.

It has been already 30 years that scientists over the world are puzzled by HIV/AIDS treatment and vaccine development, but still there is no success, and researchers accept that previous attempts to finding HIV treatments were useless. Now the main issue for them is to examine the current treatment and vaccine methods and to clarify which one is on the right way.read more

Patients receiving rifampicin-based anti-tuberculosis therapy are more likely to experience virological failure when starting nevirapine-based antiretroviral therapy, an HIV treatment that is widely used in developing countries because of lower cost, than when starting efavirenz-based antiretroviral therapy, according to a study in the August 6 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on HIV/AIDS.Andrew Boulle, M.B.Ch.B., M.Sc., of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, presented the findings of the study at a JAMA media briefing on HIV/AIDS.read more

HealthDay - MONDAY, Aug. 4 (HealthDay News) -- People who drink too much haveincreased odds of developing metabolic syndrome, a series of risk factorsand conditions that are strongly related to cardiovascular disease, a newstudy says.

The Baltimore City health Department is urging city residents to protect themselves against West Nile Virus, a virus borne by infected mosquitoes that flares up in the summer and continues into the fall. About one in 150 infected people will develop severe illness. Severe symptoms can include high fever, headache, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness and paralysis. These symptoms may last several weeks, and neurological effects may be permanent.read more

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