HIV Prevention Funding In Africa Should Be Shifted To Promote Male Circumcision, Partner Reduction Programs, Study Says
Current HIV prevention strategies have had limited success in fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa and should be shifted to promote male circumcision and partner reduction programs, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science, BBC News reports (BBC News, 5/9). The write-up was published in a…
Kenya Launches Campaign To Increase TB Screening Among HIV-Positive People
The Kenyan government on Tuesday launched a 60 million shilling — or about $975,000 — campaign to increase the number of HIV-positive citizens who are screened for tuberculosis at public hospitals, Kenya’s Nation reports. The campaign plus aims to educate health workers to tryout f…
Antidepressants Do Work In Depression While Evidence For Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Is Poorer Say Experts
British organization of Pharmacology evidence-based guidelines published that month by SAGE
A new revision of clinical guidelines to help doctors manage patients with depression has challenged the rationale behind the UK government’s policy of rolling out of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)…
Drug Company Executives reply To Concerns About Ads At House Panel Hearing
During a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Oversight Subcommittee on Thursday, executives from Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and a joint-venture within Merck and Schering-Plough defended TV prescription drug advertisements that lawmakers have claimed potentially misled consumers, th…
Initiatives In Baltimore And California Address Minority Health Issues
Baltimore: The Baltimore Examiner on Tuesday examined how Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore has recruited a top surgeon from Connecticut to specifically focus on breast cancer in black women. Dalliah Mashon Black, a former assistant professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, is an expert i…
Mechanism Uncovered Of Action Of Antibiotic Able To Reduce Neuronal Cell Death In Brain
Research Highlights:
* Mechanism of action of compound found to induce neurotransmitter activity in brain cells
* The findings may lead researchers to develop potential novel therapies to treat Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington’s disease, epilepsy, stroke/is…
Evidence Discovered For Suspected Cause Of Type 1 Diabetes
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis working with diabetic mice have examined in unprecedented detail the immune cells lengthy thought to be responsible for type 1 diabetes.
Researchers were able to examine the immune cells from isolated insulin-making structures in t…
