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Ebola test vaccines appear safe in Phase 2 Liberian clinical trial
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Washington, DC - Two experimental Ebola vaccines appear to be safe based on evaluation in more than 600 people in Liberia who participated in the first stage of the Partnership for Research on Ebola Vaccines in Liberia (PREVAIL) Phase 2/3 clinical trial, according to interim findings from an independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board review. Based on these findings, the study, which is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, may now advance to Phase 3 testing.
HIV can spread early, evolve in patients’ brains
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Washington, DC - The AIDS virus can genetically evolve and independently replicate in patients’ brains early in the illness process, researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have discovered. An analysis of cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), a window into brain chemical activity, revealed that for a subset of patients HIV had started replicating within the brain within the first four months of infection.
For most children with HIV and low immune cell count, cells rebound after treatment
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Washington, DC - Most children with HIV who have low levels of a key immune cell eventually recover levels of this cell after beginning treatment, according to a study by researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health.
How A Little Inflation Could Lead to a Lot More Jobs
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Baltimore, Maryland - With the unemployment rate inching lower and lower, policymakers predict recovery from the recession is imminent. But the Federal Reserve could help create even more jobs by keeping interest rates near zero and tolerating a little inflation, a Johns Hopkins University economist argues.
What is a migraine headache?
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Lake City, Minnesota - More than 28 million Americans - three times more women than men - suffer from migraine, a type of headache that’s often severe. Mayo Clinic Health System Family Medicine physician Rachel Batdorf, M.D., says, "Although any head pain can be miserable, migraines are often disabling."
Should you choose to trust and be vulnerable?
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Rochester, Minnesota - Love is wishing others well. Love is kind. Love gives and is grateful in receiving. Love feeds on trust.
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