A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology and Albany Medical College has illuminated the important role of natural killer (NK) T cells in Lyme disease, demonstrating that the once little understood white blood cells are central to clearing the bacterial infection and reducing the intensity and duration of arthritis [...]

Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP - News) today reported that a planned interim analysis of a Phase II study showed that boceprevir, its investigational oral hepatitis C protease inhibitor, in combination with peginterferon and ribavirin markedly increased sustained virologic response (SVR) rates with 28 weeks of therapy and nearly doubled SVR with 48 weeks of therapy [...]

Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP - News) today reported that a planned interim analysis of a Phase II study showed that boceprevir, its investigational oral hepatitis C protease inhibitor, in combination with peginterferon and ribavirin markedly increased sustained virologic response (SVR) rates with 28 weeks of therapy and nearly doubled SVR with 48 weeks of therapy [...]

New clinical data from four Phase 2 clinical trials of the investigational hepatitis C protease inhibitor telaprevir (VX-950) to be presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) in San Francisco support a broad profile for telaprevir in the treatment of chronic genotype 1 hepatitis C [...]

With over 1.4 million Americans of all ages, races, and backgrounds suffering from Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, two painful and often debilitating chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation today proudly announced its partnership with Heath Slocum, a two-time Champion on the PGA TOUR. The partnership will enable the Foundation to come [...]

1.Definition
Is the introduction of whole blood or component of the blood, e.g. plasma or erythrocytes into venous circulation.
2.Blood Group
Human blood is classified in to four main groups (A, B, AB and O) on the basic of polysaccharide antigen on the erythrocyte surface. These antigens type A and Type B, commonly cause antibody reaction and are [...]

For children who are somewhat apprehensive of that smiling woman in the nurse’s office, this book is for them. Marjorie Picard, R.N. (Ret.), a prize-winning artist, tells children there is nothing to fear in her new children’s book, Meet The School Nurse, which she penned and illustrated herself.
Schoolchildren will have to go to the school [...]

On a lazy October afternoon, the air crisp with autumn, Ler Bweh, a 25-year-old Karen refugee from Burma, lay on his stomach in his apartment, assembling a map-of-the-world puzzle. Slight and almost ethereal, with moist caramel skin and a diffident demeanor, Ler Bweh had been a geography teacher in the Mae La refugee camp on [...]

For children who are somewhat apprehensive of that smiling woman in the nurse’s office, this book is for them. Marjorie Picard, R.N. (Ret.), a prize-winning artist, tells children there is nothing to fear in her new children’s book, Meet The School Nurse, which she penned and illustrated herself.
Schoolchildren will have to go to the school [...]

For children who are somewhat apprehensive of that smiling woman in the nurse’s office, this book is for them. Marjorie Picard, R.N. (Ret.), a prize-winning artist, tells children there is nothing to fear in her new children’s book, Meet The School Nurse, which she penned and illustrated herself.
Schoolchildren will have to go to the school [...]