Leading Drug Database To Be Housed At U-M The University of Michigan received $5 million from the National Institutes of
Health to develop the world's leading resource of high-quality experimental data sets of drug-making compounds that will ultimately take computer-aided drug design to a new level. The resource will house the data needed to improve computer programs that can predict the effectiveness of potential new
drugs, said Heather Carlson, associate professor in the U-M College of Pharmacy and Medicinal Chemistry.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPartnership To Develop Next Generation Of HIV Vaccines Elevation Biotech, a start-up biotechnology company funded by LIFElab, an agency of the South African Department of Science and Technology, and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), the world's only global non-profit organization dedicated solely to AIDS vaccine development, have partnered to develop the next generation of AIDS vaccine candidates. "An AIDS vaccine remains our best hope for ending AIDS.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBlogs Comment On Obama's Abortion Stance; Supreme Court; Access To Contraception ~ "Media, Obama Afraid of Abortion Issue," John Jakubczyk, ProLifeBlogs.com: Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) "does not want to talk about his radical abortion position" and has deliberately "stay[ed] far away from that very volatile issue" to avoid losing support from Christian voters, Jakubczyk writes in a blog entry.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGloucester, Mass., School Committee Votes To Allow School To Distribute Contraception The seven members of the School Committee in Gloucester, Mass., on Wednesday voted unanimously to allow the distribution of contraceptives at the high school about four months after a reported "pregnancy pact" was made among several students, the Boston Globe reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWomen's Independence Necessary To Address HIV/AIDS In Uganda, Opinion Piece Says Although Uganda had many achievements to celebrate on the anniversary of its independence on Wednesday, the country must "focus on independence on the individual level," especially among women affected by HIV/AIDS in the country, Milly Nattimba of the Makerere University School of Public
Health writes in a New Vision opinion piece.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
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