Natural compounds offer AIDS cancer drug promise
Researchers at Fort Detrick report five promising compounds from algae trees and a rare vine show potential against AIDS and hard to treat cancers. Lab results in HIV-1 HIV-2 and brain kidney and colon cancer cells are encouraging, but human safety and supply challenges remain to be solved.
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House Approves Expanded Older Americans Act
The House passed legislation expanding the Older Americans Act and its meals on wheels and nutritional programs for the elderly. It sends the bill to President Bush after accepting Senate amendments removing 7.3 billion dollars in new Social Security benefits over four years, while preserving many health, nutrition, and legal aid provisions and caregiver support.
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Doctors slip away from placement program study finds high rural exit rates
Nearly nine of ten doctors in rural areas leave their posts after completing obligations under the National Health Service Corps. The Journal of the American Medical Association report argues the corps fails to meet its goal of boosting doctors in underserved areas.
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Chicago
Journal of the American Medical Association
National Health Service Corps
Donald E. Pathman
University of North
Carolina
Chapel Hall
Pathman
Robert G. Harmon
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