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Risks, benefits of cancer-preventing drugs 2 Dec 2008 02:30 GMT
... antibiotics to prevent the development of cancers of the colon and digestive tract. An African-sleeping-sickness drug called eflornithine, marketed as a drug to block unwanted hair growth, is thought to be ...
McGill researcher on a quest to cure disfiguring parasitic disease 1 Dec 2008 21:51 GMT
... eatery in Ouagadougou, the capital of the African nation of Burkina Faso, had profound implications ... treating Leishmania and related diseases like African Sleeping Sickness and Chagas' Disease, according to a study published in ...
Point/Counterpoint: Providing Medicines For The Poor 1 Dec 2008 17:16 GMT
... in Chagas disease, dengue fever, human African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, leprosy, malaria, HIV/AIDS, onchocerciasis, and various ... inferior. Antimony (schistosomiasis) is toxic and melarsoprol (sleeping sickness) even kills 5% of users. Chloroquine (malaria) ...
New start on the cards as Joanne fights back 1 Dec 2008 09:13 GMT
... refused to give in to illness after she was diagnosed with ME and the sleeping sickness narcolepsy, which meant she was unable to work as normal. The former art and ...
Parasites push woylies to the edge 29 Nov 2008 01:30 GMT
... face a new survival threat — a parasite similar to the one that causes sleeping sickness in humans. Struggling populations, already ravaged by foxes and cats, are infested with parasites ...