Friday, June 1, 2012

Sanofi says MS treatment reduced relapse rate

Sanofi says MS treatment reduced relapse rate
PARIS (Reuters) - Sanofi said on Friday a trial of its multiple-sclerosis treatment teriflunomide found that a daily dose of the drug reduced the rate of relapse by 36 percent compared with a placebo. Teriflunomide, marketed as Aubagio, is one of the two multiple sclerosis drugs Sanofi has in late-stage development as it seeks to catch up with a fast-selling oral treatment from Novartis. The study assessed the efficiency and safety of the drug in 1,169 patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis. ...
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Horse Hearers Know Who's Talking

Horse Hearers Know Who's Talking
When horses heard a familiar person's voice from a loudspeaker they preferentially looked at that person versus a stranger. Amy Kraft reports.
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How To Get Healthy Skin - Get Clear Skin Naturally With These Easy Tips

How To Get Healthy Skin - Get Clear Skin Naturally With These Easy Tips
If you're anything like me, you really care about your health. You are trying to live a healthy life even though it's not so easy all the time, try to eat right and get some exercise. Perhaps you even take a multivitamin or some supplements and make time to relax though your life is busy? But are your lifestyle choices making your skin look as healthy and clear as you expect? If not, it could be that there are still some ways to get healthier skin that I might be able to teach you. If you want to learn how to get clear skin naturally, try these easy tips...
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How to Treat a Sunburn

How to Treat a Sunburn
It's that time of year again- summertime! Unfortunately, chances are that if you go out in the sun unprotected, you will get a sun-burn and it's never fun; you'll definitely need to know how to treat a sunburn. Sunburn is caused by the sun's UV rays which are wavelengths of sunlight too short for humans to see.
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In Myanmar, stigma and neglect add to HIV misery

To match Feature MYANMAR-HIV/YANGON (Reuters) - The mother and child who touch hands in an overcrowded Yangon hospice are not family, but their tragic history begins in the blood. Jam, 42, a mother of six, and Kanama, aged 2, are both HIV positive. Abandoned by their families, they must now find comfort in each other, although Jam still yearns for her husband to return to the private HIV hospice in the suburbs of Myanmar's biggest city. "He promised to come back but I'm afraid he never will," said the woman as she burst into tears. She is known in the hospice by her nickname, Jam. ...


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