AP – Injuries to American children during physical education classes increased by 150 percent from 1997-2007, a new study finds, a possible drawback to a movement encouraging more vigorous exercise in schools.
HealthDay – SUNDAY, Aug. 2 (HealthDay News) — As more people rise to the
challenge of rock climbing for fun and exercise, the number of injuries
related to the sport also increases, according to the first national study
on the subject.
HealthDay – SUNDAY, Aug. 2 (HealthDay News) — Metformin, one of the most
widely used diabetes drugs, may offer patients the added benefit of
lowering their odds for pancreatic cancer by 60 percent, a new study
shows.
HealthDay – SUNDAY, Aug. 2 (HealthDay News) — For the first time,
researchers have found evidence that the AIDS virus traveled from gorilla
to human, another confirmation that the disease continues to evolve even
as scientists race to vanquish it.
AP – A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday’s edition of the journal Nature Medicine.
Reuters – China has sealed off a remote far-western town of 10,000 people after two people died of pneumonic plague, state media said on Monday, but the World Health Organization said such outbreaks were nothing new.
Reuters – A woman from Cameroon has been found to be infected with an AIDS-like virus that came from gorillas, French researchers reported Sunday.
Reuters – Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Sunday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved its gout drug Krystexxa and that it seeks to resubmit its application to the FDA by early 2010.
AFP – French virologists on Sunday said they had found a new subtype of the AIDS virus that appears to have jumped the species barrier to humans from gorillas.
Reuters – Scientists have identified a class of immune cells that floods the brain soon after a stroke, causing inflammation and more neurological damage.