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HIV Treatment Now Reaching More Than 6 Million People In Sub-Saharan Africa
Date: Jul-12-2012More than 100-fold increase in access to HIV treatment in less than a decade. African Union to review roadmap to increase access to medicines and ensure sustainable financing. For the second year in a row, an additional 1.1 million people in sub-Saharan Africa received antiretroviral therapy, reaching a total of 6.2 million people across the region in 2011. In less than a decade, access to HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa has increased more than 100-fold...
Hepatitis C Virus More Frequent Among African-Americans And Males
Date: Jul-12-2012Epidemiologists have determined that levels of hepatitis C virus (HCV) found among injection drug users (IDUs) were higher in individuals who are male or African American even after differences in other factors were considered. The study, which was funded by the National Cancer Institute and performed with collaborators from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and the University of California - San Francisco, was the first to simultaneously examine the association of demographic, viral and human genetic factors on HCV RNA levels...
Lifestyle Behavior In Adolescents May Adversely Affect Blood Pressure And Cardiovascular Risk In Adulthood
Date: Jul-12-2012Lifestyle behaviour in adolescents may adversely affect blood pressure and cardiovascular risk in adulthood, according to results from a large pregnancy follow-up study in Australia.(1) In particular, alcohol consumption among boys, use of the Pill among girls, and high salt intake and increasing body mass index (BMI) in both sexes were important factors linked to blood pressure levels in late adolescence...
What Is REM Behavior Disorder?
Date: Jul-12-2012REM behavior disorder, also called REM sleep behavior disorder or RBD is a sleeping condition that has always been present, but was only first described in 1986. RBD is considered a sleep disorder which involves unusual actions or behaviors during the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep phase. REM behavior disorder is a type of parasomnia. Parasomnias are sleep disorders in which strange or dangerous events occur, that affect or intrude on sleep. Examples include sleep terrors, REM behavior disorder, nocturnal dissociative disorder, somnambulism (sleepwalking), and sleep talking...
Metastatic Breast Cancer: Bevacizumab Slows Progression, But Has No Impact On Survival
Date: Jul-12-2012The cancer drug bevacizumab (Avastin®) offers only a modest benefit in prolonging disease progression in patients with advanced stage breast cancer, according to a systematic review by Cochrane researchers. The researchers assessed the efficacy of bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy, an established cancer treatment in this indication, and found no overall survival benefit when adding bevacizumab to chemotherapy. Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer death among women...
New Breast Cancer Treatment Available In France
Date: Jul-12-2012Reimbursement granted for Halaven® (eribulin) for women with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer Halaven® (eribulin), a novel treatment for patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer who have progressed after at least two chemotherapeutic regimens for advanced disease, has today received reimbursement approval from the French health authorities. Prior therapy should have included two common types of chemotherapy, an anthracycline and a taxane, unless patients were not suitable for these treatments [1]...
Fewer Iron Supplements During Pregnancy Work Just As Well For Preventing Anaemia
Date: Jul-12-2012Taking iron supplements one to three times a week instead of every day is just as effective at preventing anaemia in pregnant women, according to the findings of a new Cochrane systematic review. The authors of the review also showed that women experienced fewer side effects when taking iron supplements intermittently rather than daily. Lack of iron can cause anaemia in pregnant women, potentially increasing the risk of complications at delivery. It may also be harmful to their babies, through increased risk of low birth weight and even delayed growth and development later in life...
Measuring Liver Stiffness Can Predict Liver Failure, Cancer And Mortality In Cirrhotic Patients
Date: Jul-12-2012Researchers from Spain established that liver stiffness, measured by transient elastography (TE), is an independent predictor of liver failure, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and mortality in cirrhotic patients coinfected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and hepatitis C virus (HCV)...
Drugs Used To Treat HIV Also Reduce Risk Of HIV Infection
Date: Jul-12-2012People at high risk of HIV infection can reduce their risk of acquiring the disease by taking antiretroviral drugs, according to Cochrane researchers. In an update of a systematic review first published in 2009, the researchers found that uninfected people in relationships with HIV-infected partners, men who have sex with men and those in other high risk groups are at a lower risk of becoming infected with the virus if they regularly take drugs that are normally prescribed to treat people with HIV...
Do People Want To Know If They Are At Risk For Alzheimer's Disease?
Date: Jul-12-2012Genetic tests exist to identify risk for the rare inherited form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to predict susceptibility to the more common, late-onset form of AD, but do people want to know, and how do they react? The answers can be found in the article published in Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The article is available free on the Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers website...
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