Sierra Leone: Nigerian Medicos Give Facelift to Sierra Leone Medical Sector
[Concord] Nigerian medical doctors have over the years, through the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps (TAC), worked in various communities across the country and have helped saved the lives of many Sierra Leoneans.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Great-grandmother, 80, is set to have a facelift next month to get rid of her 'turkey neck'
Toni Goldenberg, 80, of Wallington in Surrey, has dreamed of having a facelift since she started to notice wrinkles when she just in her mid twenties. She is going under the knife next month.
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

La Jolla Institute awarded renewal of NIH contract to host of Immune Epitope Da
(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) has been awarded a $22 million contract renewal over seven years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to host and expand the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB). The database is the world's most comprehensive collection of scientific data on how the immune system responds to a wide range of infectious agents, allergy-causing substances, and other stimuli that activate the immune system.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - January 23, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

La Jolla Institute awarded renewal of NIH contract to continue its role as host of Immune Epitope Database
(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) has been awarded a $22 million contract renewal over seven years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to host and expand the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB). The database is the world's most comprehensive collection of scientific data on how the immune system responds to a wide range of infectious agents, allergy-causing substances, and other stimuli that activate the immune system.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - January 23, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

The amazing scar-free facelift that gave one facial palsy victim her beaming smile back  
Stevie Jenkins from Hampshire lost her beautiful smile seven years ago after surgery to remove a brain tumour resulted in the left side of her face being paralysed.
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Cook Medical to market Zelegent ’s ‘facelift for the soft palate’
Zelegent’s Elevoplasty device shortens, elevates and stiffens the soft palate to prevent snoring. Just a month after receiving FDA 510(k) approval for its new anti-snoring device, startup Zelegent has signed a marketing agreement with Cook Medical, the companies announced. Zelegent’s Elevo kit snoring intervention device employs specially shaped, resorbable, barbed sutures to lift the soft palate by1-4 millimeters, expanding the mean diameter of the airway. In a typical snoring patient who doesn’t have sleep apnea, the airway is just barely obstructed by the soft palate, the company said on its website. The proc...
Source: Mass Device - January 14, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Nancy Crotti Tags: Blog Source Type: news

Newly identified T cells could play a role in cancer and other diseases
FINDINGSResearchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the La Jolla Institute for Immunology have identified a new type of T cell called a phospholipid-reactive T cell that is able to recognize phospholipids, the molecules that help form cells ’ outer membranes.The scientists also discovered that phospholipids compete with glycolipids, another type of molecule that helps form cells ’ outer membranes, in a way that prevents glycolipids from readily reaching the surface of a cell.BACKGROUNDCell membranes are primarily made up of two types of lipids — phospholipids and glycolipids. Inside cells, these...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 5, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Maternally acquired Zika immunity can increase dengue disease severity in mouse pups
(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) To say that the immune system is complex is an understatement: an immune response protective in one context can turn deadly over time, as evidenced by numerous epidemiological studies on dengue infection, spanning multiple decades and countries worldwide.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - November 14, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

LJI investigators discover how protein pair controls cellular calcium signals
(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) wo studies recently published by La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) investigators Patrick Hogan, PhD, and Aparna Gudlur, PhD -- one paper appearing early this year in Cell Reports and the other in the October 31, 2018, issue of Nature Communications -- report how a calcium-sensing protein called STIM1 signals that it's time to initiate calcium retrieval and then relays that message to its partner, the calcium channel ORAI.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 31, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Nigeria:The Rise of Cosmetic Surgery in Nigeria
[Guardian] When 27-year-old Modupe Ozolua introduced her plastic surgery company, Body Enhancement in 2001, in Nigeria, she promised that her introduced business held the secret to a youthful appearance with offerings of plastic surgeries, facelift, Botox, tummy tuck, breast augmentation, laser liposuction among others. Despite the criticism from members of the public, her expensive service attracted the bourgeoisie of the society. Among the bourgeoisie who embraced this new method is the self-confessed liposuction d
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 30, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Royal facialist Daiva Kamysova's yoga facelift revealed
London facialist Daiva Kamysova, who has treated the likes of Lady Amelia Windsor, has revealed how she performs her £150 'Yoga Facelift', which Meghan Markle is a fan of.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Salk Institute Cofounder Melvin Cohn Dies
Cohn was a leader in gene regulation and immune system research and left a lasting legacy in La Jolla.
Source: The Scientist - October 26, 2018 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news

La Jolla Institute receives $ 4.5 million Cancer Moonshot award
(La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology) Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and UC San Diego have been awarded $ 4.5 million as part of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Moonshot initiative. The funding will support research to develop new and improved immunotherapeutic treatment options for patients with head and neck cancer.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - October 18, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

Zimbabwe:Harare's Elite Avenues Clinic Gets U.S.$10 Million Facelift
[New Zimbabwe] Harare's upmarket hospital, Avenues Clinic has set aside $10 million to give the private health institution a facelift as it continues to attract the country's political elite and foreigners.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 9, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news

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