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Oct 29th 2008Drug InformationHIV / AIDS
Merck’s antiretroviral drug Isentress suppresses levels of HIV in previously untreated patients better than the company’s antiretroviral efavirenz, according to research presented Sunday at a meeting of the American Society of Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America,
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Oct 29th 2008Drug InformationClinical Trials
An initial independent review of data from a study looking at whether selenium and vitamin E supplements prevented prostate cancer found they had no benefit, taken either together or alone. The review of data from the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) was funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the US and other institutes from the National Institutes of Health in the US.
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Oct 29th 2008Drug InformationBiology
The success of an infectious disease to invade a population is strongly controlled by the population’s specific connectivity structure. Here a network model is presented as an aid in understanding the role of social behaviour and heterogeneous connectivity in determining the spatio-temporal patterns of epidemic dynamics for diseases. We focus on sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis in which there is a period of temporary immunity after infection.
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