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Africa's first large-scale HIV vaccine study launches

The launch of the first large-scale study to evaluate a candidate HIV vaccine on the African continent was announced today by study collaborators in the United States and South Africa. The trial will involve up to 3,000 participants ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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Fitness has fallen since the days of Ancient Greece

We may not be as fit as the people of ancient Athens, despite all that modern diet and training can provide, according to research by University of Leeds (UK) exercise physiologist, Dr Harry Rossiter.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Scientists identify 'missing link' in process leading to Alzheimer's disease

Scientists at the University of Virginia have identified what appears to be a major missing link in the process that destroys nerve cells in Alzheimer's disease, an incurable disease that slowly destroys memory and cognitive ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 08, 2007 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0


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