Infectious Disease
SWAZILAND: Torn Social Fabric Leaves Many Exposed
MBABANE, Sep 27 (IPS) - An abandoned straw hut slumps amidst overgrown
bushes on a somewhat deserted homestead. Only a foot path leading
past it indicates that the place is still occupied. Beside it is
the mis-shapen tent that is Joseph Mathe's new home.
Sens. Baucus, Grassley Release Draft Bill To Link Medicare Payments For Inpatient Hospital Care To Quality
Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Wednesday released a draft bill that would link Medicare reimbursement levels for inpatient hospital care to the quality of care, rather than the number of services provided, CQ HealthBeat reports.
Proposed Biomass Plant In Leon County, Fla., Might Exacerbate Area's High Black Infant Mortality Rate, Opinion Piece Says
A "biomass plant should not be built" in Leon County, Fla., Edward Holifield, a retired Tallahassee physician writes in a Tallahassee Democrat opinion piece. The Florida Department of Health has "
Esophageal Pressure Used to Guide Ventilation in Acute Lung Injury
BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- A ventilator strategy using esophageal pressures to estimate transpulmonary pressure significantly improved oxygenation and respiratory-system compliance among critically ill patients, a pilot study found.
Categorías: Infectious Disease, Western Medicine
Hib Incidence Holds Steady Despite Vaccine Shortage
ATLANTA --There has been no significant increase in the incidence of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) in young children since a vaccine shortage necessitated deferral of the Hib booster last year, according to a CDC analysis.
Categorías: Infectious Disease, Western Medicine
Obama Appoints Former Sen. Daschle As HHS Secretary, Democratic Officials Say
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) has accepted an offer from President-elect Barack Obama to become the new HHS secretary, according to Democratic officials, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports (Freking, AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 11/19).
State Budget Shortfalls Force Cuts In Home Care For Low-Income Elderly, People With Disabilities
At least 15 states facing widening budget shortfalls are cutting funding for services for low-income elderly residents and people with disabilities, mostly for programs that allow low-income "shut-ins" to receive personal care in their own homes, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the
Health Care Workers Face Increased Risk Of Mortality From HIV, Other Bloodborne Diseases, Study Finds
A new CDC study published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine has found that health care workers face an increased risk of dying from bloodborne diseases, such as HIV, and related illnesses compared with workers in other fields, Reuters reports.
S.D. Abortion Script Threatens Doctor-Patient Relationship, NEJM Opinion Piece Says
A South Dakota law that requires a physician to tell a woman seeking an abortion that the procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being" with whom she has an "existing relationship" signals "a new step in states' efforts to restrict abortion," Zita Lazzarini of the University of Connecticut Health Center and
Study Looks At Physicians' Likeliness To Refer Minority Patients To Clinical Trials
"Factors Influencing Physician Referrals of Patients to Clinical Trials" (.pdf), Journal of the National Medical Association: The study, by University of South Carolina medical researchers, looks at physicians' attitudes and beliefs about recruiting patients to clinical trials, particularly minorities.
GOP Must Renew Focus On 'Core' Social Values, Conservative Leader Says
The Republican Party will regain political power only if its leaders remain firm in their socially conservative positions, including the party's antiabortion stance, Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention said this week, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. Land is the president of the
AARP Public Policy Institute Releases Issues Report On Racial, Ethnic Disparities In Medicare Beneficiaries' Immunizations
"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Influenza and Pneumococcal Immunization Rates Among Medicare Beneficiaries" (.pdf), AARP Public Policy Institute: The issues report discusses factors that might contribute to black and Hispanic Medicare beneficiaries' access to immunizations.
Impact Of Aging Society To Be Examined By New MacArthur Network
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is creating a new inter-disciplinary research network to help America prepare for the challenges and opportunities posed by our aging society. In the middle of the next decade, the United States will become an aging society, one feature of which is that those over age 60 will outnumber those under age 15.
Symposium: Public Health And Human Rights: The Work Ahead Of Us
On December 5, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and The New York Academy of Sciences will host a half-day symposium to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The event, "Public Health and Human Rights: The Work Ahead of Us," will evaluate progress in public health and human rights over the last 60 years. Navanethem Pillay, SJD, LLM, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights will be the keynote speaker.
Tracing Metal Pollution Back To Its Sources
A new way of pinpointing where zinc pollution in the atmosphere comes from could improve pollution monitoring and regulation, says research out this week in the journal Analytical Chemistry. Imperial College London researchers say their work is a major breakthrough as current methods for analysing zinc pollution only measure pollution in the atmosphere; they do not trace it back to its source.
AAMC Applauds Senate Democrats For Including NIH Funds In Stimulus Bill
AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D.
Final World Trade Center 7 Investigation Report Released By NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City. The final report is strengthened by clarifications and supplemental text suggested by organizations and individuals worldwide in response to the draft WTC 7 report, released for public comment on Aug.
The King's Fund Calls For Major Overhaul Of Key Government Health Reform
A major shake-up of one of the government's central health policy reforms to devolve greater power to GPs and deliver higher quality services to local communities is urgently needed, concludes a two-year study of practice-based commissioning published today by The King's Fund.
Thanksgiving Podcasts From The American Chemical Society Feature Advances Toward Safer, Healthier Food
With a whole nation set to gather for the annual Thanksgiving Day feast, scientists are describing major advances in making Thursday's meal - and others - safer and more nutritious in the 10th and 11th episodes of the American Chemical Society's Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions (GC/CS) podcast series. Part One of the podcast focuses on food safety. It includes research by Dan Donoghue, Ph.D.
The Value Of A Medical Intervention To Be Discussed In Upcoming Issue Of 'Value In Health'
Value for money has become an important part of the overall assessment of medical interventions. But, the choice of method for assessing value has significant impact to the result. The quantification of the value of a medical intervention is assumed to be standardized although different methodology is available; thus the objective of a recent study was to assess whether this holds true or not.
- Forcing pregnant women to take HIV tests
- Delusions in HIV and cancer treatment
- Competing theories of AIDS: Is HIV irrelevant?
- Causes of death among children younger than 4
- Syphilis causes "HIV" viral load spike, and T-cell decrease
- Finding your own road
- Parasite epidemic of the 1970s renamed AIDS in 1981
- HIV / AIDS drug trials: "Try this, let's see if you drop dead!"
- Multicultural Community of Bugs - NewsGrabs 23 November 2008
- Yes, He Can. Maybe. When He Gets Around To It: An Ongoing Series
- eHarmony Forced to Create a Dating Service for Gay Singles
- JUPITER Cholesterol Drug Trial: Marketing Tactics Threaten Public Health and Wealth
- Beyond the Bailout: A new Economy - NewsGrabs 16 November 2008
- Beyond the Bailout: A new Economy - NewsGrabs 16 November 2008
- Mormon Outed by Campaign Finance Laws
- Melissa Etheridge, Tax Protester
- Healthcare as a Commons? - NewsGrabs 9 November 2008
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- Variable adherence to prescribed dosing regimens for protease inhibitors: scope and outcomes.
- Clinical application of the inhibitory quotient: is there a role in HIV protease inhibitor therapy?.
- Protease inhibitor therapy in resource-limited settings.
- Clinical pharmacology of HIV protease inhibitors in pregnancy.
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- New insight into the response of human skin to radiation
- Bionovo to present phase 1B trial results of BZL101 in metastatic breast cancer
- Light drinking has certain health benefits, researchers look at why
- Exposure to Dioxin linked to increased heart problems
- FDA accepts Vanda Pharmaceuticals Iloperidone resubmission
- Comparison of 5 Flow Cytometric Immunophenotyping Systems for Absolute CD4+ T-Lymphocyte Counts in HIV-1-Infected Patients Living in Resource-Limited Settings.
- Characterization of Quantitative and Functional Innate Immune Parameters in HIV-1-Infected Colombian Children Receiving Stable Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy.
- Ritonavir Greatly Impairs CYP3A Activity in HIV Infection With Chronic Viral Hepatitis.
- Antiretroviral Therapy Exposure and Insulin Resistance in the Women's Interagency HIV Study.
- Improved Measures of Quality of Life, Lipid Profile, and Lipoatrophy After Treatment Interruption in HIV-Infected Patients With Immune Preservation: Results of ACTG 5170.
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