Malaria In Pregnant Women : A First Step Towards A New Vaccine
By managing to express the protein that enables red blood cells infected with the malaria agent Plasmodium falciparum to bind to the placenta and by deciphering its molecular mechanisms, a team of researchers from CNRS and the Institut Pasteur has taken an important first step in the development of a vaccine against pregnancy-associated malaria. Their work was published in the journal PNAS. In endemic areas where malaria is rife, the main victims are children less than three years old... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)div id=medwormpbiMedWorm Message:/i/b Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm ba href=http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29t=Swine+Fluf=infectiousdiseasesr=Anyo=d target =_selfSwine Flu RSS news feed/a/b - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources./p/div
Male Batterers Consistently Overestimate General Rates Of Violence Toward Partners
Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days, according to new research conducted at the University of Washington. Those men overestimated by two to three times the actual rates of seven behaviors ranging from throwing something at a partner to rape, according Clayton Neighbors, lead author of a paper to be published in a spring issue of the journal Violence Against Women... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)div id=medwormpbiMedWorm Message:/i/b Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm ba href=http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29t=Swine+Fluf=infectiousdiseasesr=Anyo=d target =_selfSwine Flu RSS news feed/a/b - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources./p/div