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The finding stems from an animal study that indicated that leading erectile dysfunction medications sildenafil (Viagra) and vardenafil (Levitra) can enable the chemotherapy drug Herceptin to more easily penetrate the so-called blood-brain barrier that must be breached in order to successfully target cancer that has spread to the brain. Although the blood-brain barrier is a naturally occu...

Bev Oda, Canada’s minister of international cooperation, was speaking at the end of a three-day meeting of Group of Eight aid ministers who will report to a leaders’ summit at the end of June. Canada is chairing the G8 this year. "All G8 members lauded Canada’s initiative to champion healthier mothers, healthier babies and to reduce maternal and child mortality," Oda told reporters. ...

She swallowed it, lay on the couch with her eyes covered, and waited. And then it came. "The world was made up of jewels and I was in a dome," she recalled. Surrounded by brilliant, kaleidoscopic colors, she saw the dome open up to admit "this most incredible luminescence that made everything even more beautiful." Tears trickled down her face as she saw "how beautiful the world could actuall...

Tests of their device showed the thin, flexible electrodes recorded signals from a cat’s brain more accurately than thicker, stiff devices. Such devices might help people with epilepsy, spinal cord injuries and even help operate artificial arms and legs, the researchers report in the journal Nature Materials. John Rogers of the University of Illinois, Urbana and colleagues at the Univer...

A steady flow of funds is essential for health sector improvements, Gorik Ooms from Belgium’s Institute of Tropical Medicine said. Research by Ooms and other experts published in The Lancet medical journal Friday said the amount and regularity of international aid was often unpredictable, making it hard for governments to plan ahead. Another study, by Harvard Medical School and the Univ...

For years, the international community has forked over billions in health aid, believing the donations supplemented health budgets in poor countries. It now turns out development money prompted some governments to spend on entirely different things, which cannot be tracked. The research was published Friday in the medical journal Lancet. Experts analyzed all available data for government spend...

The result is a loss of human dignity and the potential for misery and disease will increase when the rainy season arrives in April, said Colette Gadenne, emergency coordinator in Haiti for MSF. "I was in camps where people have had absolutely nothing. They didn’t receive tarpaulins and tents and they weren’t even on the list (for deliveries)," Gadenne told Reuters. "It’s shocking a...

"Displaced persons living outdoors or in temporary shelters and thousands of emergency responders in Haiti are at substantial risk for malaria," the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in its weekly morbidity and mortality report. Malaria caused by plasmodium falciparum, which is the most deadly and severe form of malaria, is endemic in Haiti, and the mosquito that carri...

The shipment of Tamiflu and Relenza, worth 15 million dollars and enough to treat 500,000 people, was taken over the border to the North’s town of Kaesong in refrigerated trucks, the unification ministry said. North Korea this month reported nine cases of the (A)H1N1 virus. But Seoul officials and private groups suspect there are more and that the disease is spreading amid poor health ...

They launched a new project to try to publicize some public health successes in foreign aid, to encourage the U.S. and other governments to keep giving money. "Dollar for dollar, global health is America’s best investment for saving lives," Gates told reporters. "U.S.-supported global health programs are saving and improving the lives of millions of people." Gates, the billionaire...