Archives mensuelles : janvier 2013

Suntory delivered a presentation on Gozugon, a food made of sesame, soybean and konbu (dried kelp) and fermented by plant-derived Lactobacillus pentosus S-PT84, at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Nutrition and Food Science. The company reported … Lire la suite →

In new subgroup analyses of a Phase III study (STARTMRK) that compared Merck & Co., Inc.’s integrase inhibitor ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) to efavirenz [one of the leading antiretrovirals prescribed for previously untreated (treatment-naГЇve) HIV-infected patients], ISENTRESS was found to be as … Lire la suite →

In a world’s first, a man in Canberra, Australia, was awake during an operation to have an aneurism removed from a vein in his brain. The aneurism was affecting his vision and giving him dizzy spells. Despite its precarious location, … Lire la suite →

Comments about HIV/AIDS made by former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma during his rape trial earlier this week « have angered [HIV/]AIDS educators, » BBC News reports (BBC News, 4/5). Zuma, a former chair of South Africa’s AIDS Council, currently is … Lire la suite →

Human cells in the gut can release molecules that neutralize the toxic effects of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection, a common hospital-acquired infection. The researchers, from David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the University of Texas Medical Branch … Lire la suite →

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of the sanofi-aventis Group, has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has licensed Pentacel®, Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Adsorbed, Inactivated Poliovirus and Haemophilus b Conjugate (Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate) Vaccine. … Lire la suite →

Two UK companies have been awarded joint funding for a research project that could see significant advances in the quest to aid detection and eradication of Tuberculosis (TB), across the world. The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Orla Protein Technologies … Lire la suite →

Although the Colombian government mandates that private health companies provide essential services, including those related to HIV/AIDS treatment, care and prevention, many have refused to do so, and critics of the country’s national health insurance system argue there is no … Lire la suite →

Opponents of male circumcision have begun lobbying the United Nations to classify the practice as a human rights violation despite the recent release of a study showing that the practice might reduce the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission, the… Religion … Lire la suite →

Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (« Rib-X » or the « Company »), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel antibiotics for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections, announced the enrolment of the first patients in two separate Phase 2 clinical trials. The studies will … Lire la suite →