July 13, 2011Cross-posted from Nature Medicine‘s Spoonful of Medicine blog Results from two trials released today provide the first evidence that taking antiretroviral drugs can prevent HIV infection among heterosexual men and women. The preventative strategy, known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), was first shown to be effective among gay men. But PrEP suffered a setback in April [...]
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July 11, 2011BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say a farm involved in a deadly E. coli outbreak is being cleared to reopen following thorough testing and the removal of all fenugreek seeds — considered the likely source. The outbreak was traced in early June to the vegetable sprout farm at Bienenbuettel, south of Hamburg. Eur Read All [...]
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July 10, 2011It seems climbing up the social ladder is good for your health, as a Swedish study has found that people who succeed in life have a lower risk of heart attacks and strokes. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm studied the backgrounds and medical records of 12,030 people born between 1926 and 1958. They [...]
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July 7, 2011Surgeons claim to have carried out the world’s first transplant of a fully synthetic organ, a windpipe created using a cancer patient’s stem cells and an artificial scaffold. The 36-year-old cancer patient received the organ a month ago at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, ‘The Daily Telegraph’ reported. The process involved scientists at University [...]
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July 6, 2011Research published in Nature Materials this month takes lessons from cooperation in nature, including that observed in insect swarms, to create better targeting methods for cancer therapeutics [1]. “Smart” anti-cancer drug systems can use mechanisms similar to to locate sites of disease in the human body. Swarm intelligence arises when swarm behavior, for example bees [...]
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