To accelerate the translation of basic discoveries about HIV into advances in vaccine design and evaluation, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has formed a new Vaccine Discovery Branch within the Vaccine Research Program in the Division of AIDS (DAIDS).
Archive for June, 2008
NIAID Creates HIV Vaccine Discovery Branch to Promote Synergy between Basic HIV Researchers and Vaccine Designers
June 26th, 2008 
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No Comments »Newly Approved Ocular Safety Methods Reduce Animal Testing
June 24th, 2008 Von Federal regulatory agencies have accepted recommendations of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) for two methods that can reduce live animal use for ocular safety testing, the committee announced today. ICCVAM is a permanent interagency committee composed of representatives from 15 federal regulatory and research agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that use, generate or disseminate toxicology testing information.
Here’s to women’s health
June 24th, 2008 Von by Rebecca C. Rodriguez
In the 1990s, the all-girl British pop group the Spice Girls coined the term “girl power.” It aptly described the cultural phenomenon of women empowerment through ambition, assertiveness, and individualism. As the first to leave the group, Ginger Spice, a.k.a. Geri Halliwell, continued to spread the word. As United Nations’ goodwill ambassador to the Population Fund, she
Treating cancer is not just giving medicine
June 24th, 2008 Von by Cynthia Alberto Diaz
When Tony underwent radical nephrectomy for the removal of kidney cancer in 2004, he was already in the advanced stage of the disease. And even after one of his kidneys was removed by surgery, test results showed the malignancy had metastasized to his lungs and liver. Most doctors he consulted gave him only a five-percent chance to live, up to December of that year. There
Anesthesia Link to Post-Surgery Pain
June 24th, 2008 Von Certain general anesthesia drugs may increase post-operative pain, and scientists may have discovered how that happens.
