On April 7 th, W.R. Grace & Co. announced an agreement that will resolve all asbestos claims against the company. This applies to all current claims and any future claims. This action allows the company to emerge from bankrupts without
In recent months a spate of mutations have been found in a disease protein called TDP-43 that is implicated in two neurodegenerative disorders: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig's disease, and certain types of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). These
Are the estimated 1 million young adults who were exposed to cocaine before birth more vulnerable to drug abuse today? New research indicating long-lasting brain changes suggests the possibility - especially in males - according to a report from Wake
People who have had depression are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than people who have never had depression, according to a study published in the April 8, 2008, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of
A recent University of Iowa study reveals a biological link between pain and fatigue and may help explain why more women than men are diagnosed with chronic pain and fatigue conditions like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.Working with mice, the
Genetic factors that are associated with fears appear to change as children and adolescents age, with some familial factors declining in importance over time while other genetic risk factors arise in adolescence and adulthood, according to a report in the
Although behavioral studies clearly indicate that exposure to drugs, alcohol and tobacco in utero is bad for a baby's developing brain, specific anatomic brain effects have been hard to tease out in humans. Often users don't limit themselves to one
Not eating your apple a day? Perhaps you should be. Adults who eat apples, apple juice and applesauce have a significantly reduced risk of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of health problems that are linked to numerous chronic diseases such as
Gates Award for Global Health 2007 Winner: Population & Community Development Association (PDA). Using humor and fun to promote condom use has earned Mechai Viravaidya of PDA the nickname 'Condom King' in his native Thailand. The Population & Community Development
Film Submitted by ICA Canada. Il Ngwesi is a Maasai community of 730 families living on the edge of the Great Rift Valley in north central Kenya on a community-owned group ranch. In response to a growing awareness of the
BRAC (formerly known as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) was established by Fazle Hasan Abed in 1972 to help Bangladesh's war refugees. It has grown in to the world's largest non-governmental organization (NGO), serving more than 30 million people. BRAC's
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A second oral vaccine to prevent a leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants won approval from U.S. health officials on Thursday. The GlaxoSmithKline Plc vaccine Rotarix fights infection with the rotavirus, which causes about 55,000 hospitalizations
A policy maker who advocates population and gender issues, Dame Billie Antoinette Miller of Barbados, and a New York-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that helps save women's lives in developing countries, Family Care International (FCI), have won this year's United Nations
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Efforts to reduce the number of children dying of HIV/AIDS have made some progress but still fall well short of targets, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF reported on April 03. Last year, an estimated 2.1 million
In support of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the CDC Global AIDS Program (CDC GAP) assists countries and regions to develop and enhance HIV-related surveillance systems for impact monitoring, program planning, and policy making. This support builds
Answers, Solutions and Knowledge - ASK - on HIV/Aids. That is what 18 students acquired during a one-month training. They recently received their certificates. The training was organized by the international student's platform Aiesec in partnership with World Vision.
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has moved to allay fears that a drug many HIV patients use may also raise the risk of heart attacks over time, as suggested by a group of European researchers.
