ambitious goal

US wants effective Alzheimer's treatment by 2025

Headlines from the Associated Press  Tue, 01/17/2012 - 05:26

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is setting what it calls an ambitious goal for Alzheimer's disease: Development of effective ways to treat and prevent the mind-destroying illness by 2025....


 

Obama on AIDS: 'We can beat this disease'

Headlines from the Associated Press  Thu, 12/01/2011 - 15:32

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama set an ambitious goal Thursday for significantly increasing access to life-saving AIDS drugs for people in the U.S. and around the world, as he announced a renewed American commitment to ending a pandemic that has killed 30 million people....


 

New AIDS report sets zero new infections goal

Headlines from the Associated Press  Fri, 04/01/2011 - 06:53

NEW DELHI (AP) -- As HIV infections decline across the globe, the United Nations says it has set an ambitious goal of zero new infections and zero AIDS-related deaths as the next stage of the war on the disease....


 

Last sample collected for one of the world's 'deepest' biobanks

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Thu, 10/21/2010 - 22:00

(University of Montreal) This week, the last questionnaire was filled out and the final vial of blood was drawn, closing CARTaGENE's first ambitious goal of collecting samples and data from 20,000 Quebecers.

With this last recruit, the CARTaGENE Universite of Montreal research project has emerged as one the world's most comprehensive and powerful resources for providing an epidemiological snapshot of the health of its participants.


 

AIDS study hopes to use HIV treatment as prevention

washingtonpost.com - Health  Thu, 11/12/2009 - 12:44

The National Institutes of Health and the D.C. Health Department are preparing this month to launch a study in the District with an ambitious goal: to determine whether aggressive treatment of every adult with HIV could eliminate AIDS.