News tagged with gel
Clinical trial of antiretroviral-based HIV prevention strategies for women now under way
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 16, 2009 |
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A new, large-scale clinical trial is examining whether antiretroviral medications normally used to treat HIV infection can also prevent HIV infection in women when applied as a vaginal gel or taken as oral tablets once daily.
An HIV-blocking gel for women
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 10, 2009 |
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University of Utah scientists developed a new kind of "molecular condom" to protect women from AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. Before sex, women would insert a vaginal gel that turns semisolid ...
Healing power of aloe vera proves beneficial for teeth and gums, too
Jul 17, 2009 |
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The aloe vera plant has a long history of healing power. Its ability to heal burns and cuts and soothe pain has been documented as far back as the 10th century. Legend has it that Cleopatra used aloe vera to keep her skin ...
Scientists use bed bugs' own chemistry against them
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Scientists here have determined that combining bed bugs' own chemical signals with a common insect control agent makes that treatment more effective at killing the bugs.
DNA gripped in nanopores
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 14, 2009 |
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Molecular biologists, including the cool dudes from CSI, use gel electrophoresis to separate DNA fragments from each other in order to analyze the DNA. A team of researchers under the leadership of Vici winner Serge Lemay, ...
FDA: Kids at risk from testosterone gel
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A little testosterone might be good for adults, but it can cause serious harm to children, federal health officials warned Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration said adults using prescription testosterone gel ...
A Good Eye for Oxygen
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- We cannot live without it; yet too much of it causes damage: oxygen is a critical component of many physiological and pathological processes in living cells. Oxygen deficiency in tissues is thus related to ...
U-M researcher's idea jells into potential new disease-detection method
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Relying on principles similar to those that cause Jell-O to congeal into that familiar, wiggly treat, University of Michigan researchers are devising a new method of detecting nitric oxide in exhaled breath.
AIDS: Microbicide gel 'highly encouraging' in lab tests
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 04, 2009 |
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The dogged search for a vaginal gel to thwart the AIDS virus earned some good news on Wednesday as scientists announced that a cheap, commonly-used compound shielded monkeys from a lethal cousin of HIV.
Anti-HIV gel shows promise in large-scale study in women
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 09, 2009 |
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An investigational vaginal gel intended to prevent HIV infection in women has demonstrated encouraging signs of success in a clinical trial conducted in Africa and the United States. Findings of the recently concluded study, ...
Reversible 3-D cell culture gel invented
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2008 |
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Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, has invented a unique user-friendly gel that can liquefy on demand, with the potential to revolutionize three-dimensional ...
Gel undergoes Peristalsis
Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Large or small, machine parts only move when controlled by an external impulse. Biological systems, on the other hand, are capable of autonomous movements that continuously follow their own rhythms and spatial ...
Rectal gel prevents transmission of AIDS-like virus in macaques
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 05, 2008 |
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The HIV drug tenofovir may prevent AIDS transmission when applied rectally as a gel, according to results from a macaque study published in PLoS Medicine.
Over-the-counter anesthetic gel puts the squeeze on mammogram pain
Jul 22, 2008 |
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The simple application of a pain-relieving gel may reduce the breast discomfort some women experience during mammography exams, according to the results of a clinical trial published in the online edition of Radiology.
HIV prevention researchers to compare common ARV as a pill and vaginal gel in unique study
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 09, 2008 |
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In battle with an epidemic that has outpaced nearly all efforts to contain it, researchers are turning to strategies centered on the same antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that have been used successfully to treat HIV in hopes they ...
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