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...over the years, maintenance treatment with methadone and other synthetic opiates like buprenorphine has proved successful - more than any other heroin-addiction therapy - in getting people off illicit drugs and lowering HIV transmission rates, crime and death among users. That success, in part, has got researchers wondering whether addiction to other drugs - namely to the stimulants cocaine and methamphetamine - could be curbed in the same way, by substituting a chemically similar alternative. (See the Year in Health, from...
...malaria, which has for so long had its way with us, may at last have met its pharmaceutical match. Two breakthrough papers published early Monday morning in the New England Journal of Medicine report the success of a pair of new vaccines tested in groups of children in Africa. That could open the door to sweeping trials of the vaccines in seven African nations by early 2009 and a completed formulation ready for approval by 2011. "We are," says Dr. Christian Loucq, director of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, "one step closer to the day when malaria will join diseases...
...malaria parasite and malaria antibodies. On average, the group that received the injections had a 53% lower infection rate than the control group, and the effect lasted for up to eight months. That still leaves 47% unprotected, of course. But this is nonetheless a big jump from the 35% success rate of an earlier formula. "Even a partially effective vaccine could save hundreds of thousands of lives," says Loucq...
...Much of Okonjo-Iweala’s success in her work is due to her love for what she does, according to her children...
...freshly-minted record, leading off in 1:47.66. Her speedy performance pushed her teammates, sophomore Laura Murray, freshman Catherine Zagroba, and Clarke, to a fourth-place finish and new school record of 7:17.75. That time places them in the top 10 in the nation. Yesterday brought further success for Harvard, as the talented freshman class finally got a chance to show off.After Clarke and Kaufman finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 1650-yard freestyle, freshman Meghan Leddy swam her way to the top individual Harvard finish on the weekend, placing fourth overall in the 200-yard backstroke...