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Stroke Patients Less Likely To Meet Treatment Goals Than Heart Disease Patients
A majority of high-risk stroke patients are less likely to meet clinical treatment targets to prevent repeat stroke or heart attacks compared to those with heart disease, suggesting the need to examine new therapeutic strategies, according to a study led by St. Michael"s Hospital neurologist Dr. Gustavo Saposnik. What"s more, medical procedures or ongoing specialty care may improve patients" awareness and consequent treatment success.

The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative And Crucell Announce Collaboration To Test New Adenovirus-based Malaria Vaccine Approach
The US-based PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Malaria Vaccine Development Program (MVDP), and Dutch biopharmaceutical company Crucell N.V. (Euronext, Nasdaq: CRXL; Swiss Exchange: CRX) today announced a collaboration to accelerate development of a promising type of malaria vaccine. Through funding from the USAID MVDP, the partners will conduct studies to determine the effectiveness of Crucell"s novel prime-boost vaccine approach against the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. This approach uses Crucell"s proprietary recombinant adenoviruses (a type of virus associated with the common cold and other mild respiratory infections) to deliver a malaria antigen to the immune system.
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Scientists Examine HIV's Effect On Immune System
A study by researchers from Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and published in PLoS Medicine has found that upon infection "three lines of attack by the immune system are quickly neutralized by HIV," findings they hope "will provide a better understanding of how to develop a vaccine to protect against the virus," the Raleigh News & Observer reports. The study, lead by Duke"s Barton Haynes, showed that HIV, "once considered a slow if stealthy invader, actually works incredibly fast at disarming key immune fighters in the body." Haynes said scientists still have a difficult task in developing a vaccine, adding, "It would have to be different than any other vaccine made" (Avery, 7/7).
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University Of Rochester Medical Center Receives HANYS' 2009 Community Health Improvement Award

The Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) presented its 2009 Community Health Improvement Award to University of Rochester Medical Center for its Health-e- Access (HeA) Telemedicine Network. HANYS established the Community Health Improvement Award in 1997 to recognize outstanding initiatives that improve community health and well-being. The award is presented to facilities and programs that target specific community health issues, demonstrate leadership, collaborate, create partnerships among diverse groups, and achieve quantifiable results. The HeA program has provided telemedicine care and service to children in 23 sites including childcare programs, elementary schools, and a program for severely developmentally disabled children. To date, more than 7,000 telemedicine visits have taken place among children in child-care centers and schools. Ten different physician practices are participating in this initiative, including more than 50 clinicians. 96% of telemedicine visits were successfully completed at the child site, and did not require a follow-up referral to a primary care practice or emergency department. In city child-care centers, absence due to illness dropped by 63% following the introduction of Health-e-Access. In a six-year study, emergency department use was 22% less for children with telemedicine access. Healthcare Association of New York State


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