http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A study conducted by Université de Montréal researchers on downstream and upstream water from the Montreal wastewater treatment plant has revealed the presence of chemotherapy products and certain hypertension and cholesterol medications. http://www.physorg.com/news152196608.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:50:18 EST news152196608 While the treatment of heart failure has improved over the past two decades, a new study reported in the European Journal of Heart Failure finds that "the use of evidence-based treatments appears to be imbalanced according to the gender of the patient". http://www.physorg.com/news151855751.html Medicine & Health Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:09:26 EST news151855751 Levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in China are nearly twice the global average. Nationwide research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases has shown that almost 10% of Chinese TB cases are resistant to the most effective first-line drugs. http://www.physorg.com/news148193135.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:45:35 EST news148193135 Some 80,000 people in Germany suffer from multiple sclerosis - their immune system attacks and destroys healthy nerve tissue. Researchers at the Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg have succeeded in vaccinating mice with specially treated, autologous immune cells and preventing them from developing encephalitis, which is similar to multiple sclerosis in humans. A protein of the nervous system, that is the target of the harmful immune reaction in multiple sclerosis, was placed on the surface of the cells; the cells were treated with an agent that suppresses immune defense. http://www.physorg.com/news147367658.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:27:38 EST news147367658 (PhysOrg.com) -- A drug based on a chemical found in garlic can treat diabetes types I and II when taken as a tablet, a study in the new Royal Society of Chemistry journal Metallomics says. http://www.physorg.com/news146295856.html Chemistry Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:44:16 EST news146295856 The use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) to protect children from malaria has risen six-fold in the past seven years, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. Despite this success, however, 90 million children still do not have access to this simple protective tool, and remain at risk from the life-threatening disease. http://www.physorg.com/news146228765.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:06:05 EST news146228765