Smallpox panel backs gene test
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An advisory committee to the World Health Organization has for the first time recommended that Russian and American scientists be allowed to manipulate a gene in the smallpox virus to speed
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Gov. Mark R. Warner is reviewing a proposal to test random samples of old DNA evidence from thousands of crime scenes after genetic tests exonerated a man who had served 22 years in prison for two rapes, the third such reversal in Virginia.
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The FDA approves a diagnostic test that can diagnose viruses including the common cold, pneumonia and several varieties of flu -- up to 12 at the same time.
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Roche Holding, the world&#39;s biggest maker of diagnostic tests, has received Food and Drug Administration approval to market the first laboratory gene test that can help doctors reduce the risk of side effects for certain medications.
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Scientists say they have found a safer way of controlling genes to treat disease.
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A research team has been awarded a $3.5 million federal grant to use a molecular detective technique to study and potentially improve the military&#39;s anthrax vaccine.
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SUNDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers are launching a phase I clinical trial to test an engineered measles virus against the bone marrow cancer multiple myeloma.
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The Department of Health is to consider vaccinating children in England against chickenpox.
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Scientists win approval for controversial research from the fertility and embryo research watchdog
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[World News]: New York, Nov 12 : A World Health Organisation (WHO) committee has sanctioned genetic research on the heavily protected smallpox virus that ravaged the world for centuries, sending shockwaves among scientists worldwide.
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A new genetic test could one day spare many women diagnosed with breast cancer from the rigors of chemotherapy, a new study says. But at least one cancer expert says more
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Will Genzyme's Campath get approval?
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SAN DIEGO - When President Bush signed Project BioShield into law in July, he said he was immediately making $5.6 billion available to counter such anticipated threats as smallpox genetically engineered to render current vaccines useless.
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The smallpox vaccine protects for a lifetime, and so does actual an infection of measles or mumps, according to the first long-term study of immunity to childhood diseases.
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WASHINGTON -- Doctors can check patients&#39; DNA when choosing medication for them, using a test the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it has approved.
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A simple genetic test can identify which patients with deadly brain tumors will be helped by a treatment hailed as the first significant advance against the disease in decades and in which patients the drug is a waste of time, scientists said Wednesday.
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A panel of experts is expected to recommend whether girls should be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer.