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Tuberculosis Cases in Africa Tripled Since 1990
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 1:50 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: Every year 1.7 million people die of Tuberculosis (TB) worldwide, although this disease is avoidable as well as curable. The spread of the lung disease in Africa has been alarming and on World TB Day the World Health Organization (WHO) ... More >>
Ethics Of Extracting Nerve Cells FromHen Eggs OK
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 1:26 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: Stem cells extracted from an ethically unobjectionable source - hen eggs - are going to be used in the treatment of neuropathies. Adult stem cells from the bone marrow can develop to neurones. Norwegian researchers have shown a way how ... More >>
Dark Chocolate Found To Be Good For Your Health
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 6:49 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: Marietta Gross reports that dark chocolate lovers can indulge their desires without cause for concern or guilt over what their passion may do to their health, according to an Italian scientist who has studied the effects of chocolate ... More >>
A Billion People Lack Clean Water
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 4:45 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: Marietta Gross reports that more than one billion people worldwide source their drinking water from polluted founts, springs or rivers, reported the organization UNICEF on the UN's “Day of the Water” on March 22nd. More >>
Apples Protect Rats Against Colon Cancer
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 5:55 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: Scientists have discovered that antioxidants found in apples may block colon cancer cell growth and kill potential cancer cells. A study of the Institute for Cancerous Diseases of the Intestinal Tract in Strasbourg concludes that the consumption ... More >>
Malaria Vaccine Successfully Tested In Mice
Monday, 21 March 2005, 6:12 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
The search for a malaria vaccine has proven successful. Scientists from the university hospital in Heidelberg have vaccinated mice with a genetically engineered malaria agent. When rodents were repeatedly stuck by infected mosquitoes, they did not come ... More >>
Aggressive HIV Strain Advances Onslaught Of AIDS
Monday, 21 March 2005, 3:06 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scientists have examined an HI-Virus which is resistant against most drugs and leads faster that other forms of the virus to the low immunity disease AIDS. More >>
Mysterious Disease Similar To Ebola Infects Young
Monday, 21 March 2005, 2:38 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Disease similar to Ebola affects particularly children - In past three months 39 people in Angola have succumbed to a disease not yet identified. The anonymous disease, which has similarities with Ebola, has particularly affected children beyond the ... More >>
Tumour Cells Shifted In “Deep Sleep”
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 5:56 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scientists of the Marie Curie Research Institute have managed to block the growth of carcinoma by shifting the tumour cells into permanent “deep sleep”, reports the BBC. This breakthrough in cancer research has the potential for completely new methods ... More >>
Vitamin E Increases Risk Of Heart Disease
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 4:34 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: Large doses of vitamin E can increase the risk of cardiac insufficiency, instead of reducing it. That's the conclusion of a major U.S.-study that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Wednesday. More >>
China Tests AIDS Vaccine On Humans
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 11:43 am | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: China has begun AIDS vaccine tests trials on humans. The first candidate to receive a vaccine was a twenty-year old, reports the public news agency Xinhua. Tests on nine other human-subjects followed. In total there are 49 volunteers available ... More >>
Warning Of Adiposity (Obesity) Epidemic In Europe
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 6:16 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: Europeans are being warned about a mass increase in obesity with a recent report finding within the European Union over 200 million people are obese. The EU Commission hopes food manufacturers and the food industry will adopt voluntary ... More >>
Brain Scan Recognizes Alzheimer’s Disease
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 5:23 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: Protein agglutinations in the brain are indicators for Alzheimer’s disease. Now scientists have developed a method to prove it within living patients. Researcher Takaomi Saido and his colleagues from the Riken Brain Science Institute ... More >>
WWF Fears Deglaciation Of Himalaya-Glaciers
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 12:50 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: The environment protection organisation WWF has warned of a melt-down and break-up of glaciers in the Himalaya. Floods have struck in China, India and Nepal. Then in contrast, these areas suffer from drought and water shortage. The ... More >>
Climate Change Advances Rapid Spread Of Diseases
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 10:46 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: Global warming and changes to the earth's environment are accelerating the spread of diseases. These facts have been revealed in the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP). yearbook. More >>
Scoop Report: Germany Fears Spread of AIDS
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 12:31 am | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: AIDS-cases in Germany have been increasing over the last two years and the German government fears a significant spread of HIV-infections in Germany will continue. More >>
New Method For The Cultivation Of Stem Cells
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 8:32 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: Scientists from the US company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) have cultivated human embryonic stem cells without any animal host cells. And while it is questionable if embryonic stem cells can be used for therapies scientists say ... More >>
United Nations Call For Prohibition Of Cloning
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 3:13 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: The United Nations has asked all countries worldwide to forbid human cloning - but within the detail there is plenty of room for cloning scientists to move. On Tuesday the United Nations passed a declaration seeking to ban cloning of ... More >>
Connection Made Between Diabetes III & Alzheimer's
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 6:31 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: Scientists of the Brown Medical School USA www.brown.edu have discovered a new form of diabetes. This type III has no effects on blood sugar but influences the insulin levels in the brain and seems to be associated with Alzheimer’s disease. ... More >>
Physicians Link Crohn's Disease To Cow Bacteria
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 5:44 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: One million people worldwide are suffering from the enteritis Morbus Crohn disease. Recent studies suggest the disease is transmitted by cattle. More >>
