 ISANGI, 19 Jul 2006 (IRIN) - It is the same brutal ritual every morning. As the nurses approach, the children in the tent outside Isangi hospital start to panic and scream. Three pairs of strong hands secure one after the other into a chair and slowly a syringe pumps poison through a catheter into their veins.
"The injection is a general attack on the body," said Katrien Timmermanns, a Dutch nurse working for Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium (MSF), who is supervising the treatment. "Melarsoprol [the drug] is burning their veins. The next day the veins are often so hard that they cannot be used for the next injection."
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CAPTOWN, January 26, 2006 (IOL) - Can African muti plants be used to treat Aids patients? This is the subject of a ground-breaking international collaboration between medical researchers from KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Town and the United States.
They plan to conduct extensive tests on the healing value of two species of African traditional medicine plants. The first part of the R26-million project - funded via the United States government - involves a team of American and local medical experts who will monitor human safety and clinical research at Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzburg for Aids patients treated with extracts of the cancer bush (Sutherlandia frutescens).
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London - Artificial sperm and eggs could be available within 10 years for fertility treatment, according to research into human embryonic stem cells carried out by British scientists, The Times reported on Monday.
The research by professors Behrouz Aflatoonian and Harry Moore, of the University of Sheffield in central England, showed it could be possible to produce primordial germ cells - the precursors of sperm and eggs - from embryonic stem cells.
Once these were obtained, the best method would be to transplant them directly into a man's testis or a woman's ovary, where the environmental and hormonal conditions were right to turn them into sperm or eggs, the report said.
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 June 7, 2005 - New vaccines against two killer viruses, Ebola and Marburg, have been proven 100 percent effective in monkey tests, scientists reported on Monday. In a study published in this month's on-line issue of the journal Nature Medicine, researchers from the Public Health Agency of Canada and the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), have developed vaccines against the Ebola and Marburg viruses that have been shown to be effective in non-human primates. |
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