Promising DR-TB drugs are grabbing headlines but not reaching patients
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Imperial, California - Wendy Marijnissen 5-year-old Umeda has MDR-TB. Here she holds up her star chart. She gets a sticker every time she takes her medicine properly. Treating young children with MDR-TB can be very difficult and incentives like these are used to help them take the drugs they need during their treatment.
Grant seeks to identify how JC virus causes fatal brain disease
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University Park, Pennsylvania - A two-year grant from the PML Consortium awarded to scientists in the Eberly College of Science aims to unravel sequence variations within the JC virus genome that could case the development of a rare fatal brain disease.
CDPH issues Claravale Farm’s raw milk and raw cream recall and quarantine order
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Sacramento, California - Raw milk, raw nonfat milk and raw cream produced by Claravale Farm of San Benito County are the subject of a statewide recall and quarantine order announced by California State Veterinarian Dr. Annette Jones. The quarantine order came following the confirmed detection of campylobacter bacteria in Claravale Farm’s raw milk and raw cream from samples collected and tested by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).
California Teens from Military Families at Higher Risk of Suicidal Behaviors
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Los Angeles, California - California adolescents from military families are more likely than non-military youth to think about, plan and attempt suicide, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Southern California and Bar Ilan University in Israel.
Researchers develop new combination therapy to fight melanoma
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Los Angeles, California - UCLA cancer researchers have found that a new triple combination therapy shows promising signs of more effectively controlling advanced melanoma than previous treatments and also with fewer side effects.
Bucky-Balls Become Buckybombs
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Los Angeles, California - In 1996, a trio of scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery of Buckminsterfullerene – soccer-ball-shaped spheres of 60 joined carbon atoms that exhibit special physical properties.
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