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Boost for Blackburn medical park - Lancashire Telegraph 26th October 2009
"A NEW ‘health hub’ could turn East Lancashire into a regional leader in the bio-medical sector, it is hoped.
Regeneration leaders have teamed up with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) to move the development from Preston to the Medi Knowledge Park, in Shadsworth, Blackburn. "
Breast cancer study to be largest in the world - The Bolton News 22nd October 2009
"DOCTORS behind the world’s biggest study on breast cancer are looking for 60,000 women from Greater Manchester.
Everyone who attends the NHS breast screening programme in the county over the next three years will be invited to join the study, being carried out at Wythenshawe Hospital. "
£11 million spent studying public fitness levels - The Times 23rd October 2009
"Discovering fitness levels among the population in England is proving an expensive business — £11 million and counting, in fact. That is the cost to the public purse of three national opinion polls asking adults which sports they played and how often. "
Ethnic liver cells help drug race - BBC Health News 20th October 2009
"Scientists have produced liver cells specific to different ethnic groups which could revolutionise the development of drugs to treat diseases.
The Edinburgh University-led study paves the way for a liver cells library to help work-out the reaction of drugs for different ethnicities. "
Growing doubts about HIV vaccine - BBC Health News 19th October 2009
"Doubts have been raised about the reliability of a trial suggesting success for a vaccine against HIV.
In the large-scale trial in Thailand, a combination of vaccines seemed to give volunteers a protective effect of 31%. "
Breast cancer study to be largest in the world - The Bolton News 15th October 2009
"DOCTORS behind the world’s biggest study on breast cancer are looking for 60,000 women from Greater Manchester.
Everyone who attends the NHS breast screening programme in the county over the next three years will be invited to join the study, being carried out at Wythenshawe Hospital. "
World's largest breast cancer study to be launched in Wythenshawe - Altrincham Messenger 7th October 2009
"SIXTY thousand women in Greater Manchester are needed to volunteer to take part in the world’s largest study of its kind to predict breast cancer risk.
Researchers from the Nightingale Centre and Genesis Prevention Centre, based at UHSM’s Wythenshawe Hospital, will invite all women who attend the national NHS breast screening programme in the region to join the study over the next three years. "
Letter: Drug trials in Africa - The Guardian 2nd October 2009
"Concerns about ethics of drug trials in developing countries usually focus on fair respect for participants (Editorial, 28 September). Far less attention is paid to whether they are relevant to the population under study. Often, clinical trials are done in developing countries to cut costs, but the target market is Europe and the US, and so many clinical questions important to patient care in developing countries are left unfunded and unanswered because they are not relevant to western populations."
HIV breakthrough as scientists discover new vaccine to prevent infection - The Guardian 24th September 2009
First evidence of possible vaccine as US military-backed medical trial in Thailand cuts HIV infection rate by a third
Q&A: Aids vaccine - The Guardian 24th September 2009
New Aids vaccine gives modest protection but trial is important because it is the first to come up with a positive result
HIV-positive Aids orphans in Thailand receive an anti-HIV tablet - The Guardian 24th September 2009
Drug trial in Thailand shows that an experimental vaccine could protect against HIV/Aids, even if only to a limited extent
A modest but significant step towards conquering Aids - The Guardian 24th September 2009
The success of a Thai trial vaccine in reducing HIV infection by up to a third is a genuine breakthrough that needs to be built on
Vaccine heralds new dawn in the fight against Aids - The Independent 25th September 2009
Jeremy Laurance reports on the jab made in Thailand that cuts infection rates by 30% – and offers hope to millions
Africans resigned to long wait before drugs are available - The Independent 25th September 2009
The news of progress in medical trials in Thailand was greeted in Africa with a combination of excitement and resignation yesterday.
Leading article: The fruits of scientific persistence - The Independent 25th September 2009
When scientists identified HIV as the cause of Aids more than 20 years ago, they predicted that a vaccine to prevent the infection would be developed long before drugs to treat the symptoms. The opposite happened. Today, millions of people around the world, especially the wealthy but increasingly including the poorest in sub-Saharan Africa, depend on a cocktail of drugs to hold the disease in check.
Aids vaccine found to cut risk of infection - The Times 25th Spetember 2009
An experimental HIV vaccine that has become the first to show signs of protecting people has been described by scientists as a “historic breakthrough” in the battle against the condition.
Findings from the world’s largest HIV vaccine trial , involving more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand, suggest that a drug known as RV144 reduces the chances of being infected by nearly a third.
Analysis: HIV holy grail comes a little closer - The Times 25th September 2009
The findings of the RV144 trials and the excitement they are generating are a heady mix of success and failure. It is both about a small but tangible scientific advance and a sense of relief — verging in some quarters on hysteria — that some good news can finally be drawn from HIV vaccine research.
HIV case studies: we saw it as our duty - The Times 24th September 2009
Thanad Yommaha wanted to do his bit for Thailand. So, four years ago, the 33-year-old businessman from the coastal province of Rayong volunteered to take part an HIV vaccine trial. He was injected six times over six months.
HIV vaccine: first glimmer of hope after 25 years, leading expert says - Daily Telegraph 24th September 2009
After 25 years of research and $6bn spent this is the first good news on the fight against HIV
HIV vaccine hailed as 'historic milestone' in fight against Aids - Daily Telegraph 24th September 2009
A vaccine has reduced the chance of HIV infection in humans for the first time, in what the scientific community has hailed a breakthrough in the fight against Aids.
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