Archive for February 2009

Peanut Allergy Desensitization Trial Successful

A small group of children in the UK with peanut allergy were treated successfully in a trial desentization bring the hope that healing will ever be possible. Children have been gradually increasing peanut flour and peanuts until they are able to eat together at least 10 peanuts without having an allergic reaction.
The trial was conducted [...]

Community Pharmacists Launch Campaign

The $ 250,000 campaign to prevent the reduction in pharmacy reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid; allow small pharmacies to unite and negotiate prices directly with the federal government, and prevent the mandates would require that people enrolled in government-sponsored health coverage programs to use the mail-order pharmacies. Customers were enrolled by the pharmacists at the [...]

Alzheimer’s May Trigger Cell Death Mechanism

Researchers at a major U.S. biotech companies have discovered a new route through which the disease in May, either to start or sustain the destruction of brain cells: the mechanism that diverts is normally used for brain cells prune undesirable in early development and involves a part of unsuspected culprit known, APP, the precursor of [...]

AIDS is killing In China

China’s state-term news agency Xinhua reported that official figures show that AIDS claimed 6897 lives in China between January and September 2008, to head the list of infectious diseases in this country for the first time from the third position he held three years ago.
There were 264,302 confirmed cases of people living with HIV in [...]