South Africa in denial over number of deaths from HIV/AIDS
...rican Government needs to stop being defensive and show backbone and courage to acknowledge and seriously tackle the HIV/AIDS crisis of its people. The progress in provision of antiretroviral treatment to all people with advanced HIV has been painfully slow since the Government's first report of a planned...Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
...l and disabled people adapt to their condition and show a resilience of spirit that many healthy people can't imagine. It's published in the new issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General by a team led by University of Michigan Health System researchers. The researchers made their surprisin...New mosquito control strategy proves successful against dengue fever
... in other countries. Dr Hales states: "Kay and Nam show that low-technology approaches to vector control can be effective if well planned and supported, with strong emphasis on community participation. Their strategy is not a universal answer to the problem of dengue, but has the potential to make an impo...HIV infection still on the rise
... say the authors. Nevertheless, the latest figures show a 20% increase in the prevalence of HIV in 2003 and 2004 compared with 2002, partly because of infections acquired abroad. Furthermore, each newly diagnosed HIV patient consumes 12,500 in healthcare costs each year, while the lifetime costs of care f...Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective
...the same findings as we did. Both of these studies show that screening is life-prolonging and affordable." The Yale/Harvard study was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the United States Ce...PCBs, fungicide open brain cells to Parkinson's assault
...he course of Parkinson's disease. Researchers also show that low levels of maneb, a fungicide commonly used in farming, can injure the antioxidant system in those same types of cells. Environmental contaminants might make dopamine cells more vulnerable to damage from normal aging, infection, or subsequent...Early HIV screening prolongs life and is affordable, Stanford study shows
...ngs as we did," said Owens. "Both of these studies show that screening prolongs life and is affordable." Added Yale's Paltiel, "The publication of these papers represents a golden opportunity to jump-start the expansion of HIV testing services in the United States." Now that researchers have determined th...Physicians call for increased funding for federal infectious disease programs
...reats. "We urge Congress and the Administration to show the same commitment and leadership as they move forward with the budget and appropriations process," he said. The Society, which represents the nation's infectious disease physicians and scientists, is encouraged by increases in funding for the Food ...Elderly people cared for by spouse are at greater risk for abuse, Pitt researchers find
...mily members, such as adult children, they did not show the same treatment toward the care recipient, even if the pair lived together. Beach speculated that the reason for the especially harsh spousal treatment was "marital relationships--some of this could have been going on before caregiving began. "Th...Bone density returns when teens stop using Depo Provera, Group Health study finds
...ediatric and Adolescent Medicine , is the first to show that teen-aged Depo-Provera users' bone loss appears to be reversed once young women stop taking the contraceptive. The findings come less than three months after a decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to issue a black box warning on Dep...Abnormal brain activity during the observation of others' actions
...and Alvaro Pascual-Leone of Harvard Medical School show that in some particular instances, brain areas that are normally active during the observation of hand movements are silent in individuals with autism. Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation, the researchers showed that when autis...New survey finds red dress symbol prompts women to take action to care for their hearts
...d Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, the fashion show brings to life the Red Dress, the national symbol ..., Celestial Seasonings, and Swarovski, the fashion show is hosted by actress Vanessa Williams and will be held at 2 p.m. on February 4, under "The Tent" at ...Tiny superconductors withstand stronger magnetic fields
...r-scale superconductors. "Our experimental results show an excellent agreement with the theory of pair-bre...erconductivity." In fact, the researchers' results show that thin wires do not really have zero resistance, as bulk samples do. They also show that the thi...Government approach to cutting hospital stays may be misleading
...for them at home. But Martin Roland and colleagues show that this approach could be seriously misleading because admissions would probably decline anyway, without intervention. To test their theory, they tracked emergency admissions in people aged 65 or more who had had at least two emergency visits to ho...Older people get the big picture faster, and they are less inhibited
.... "The results are exciting not only because they show an odd case in which older people have better vision than younger people, but also because it may tell us something about how ageing affects the way signals are processed in the brain" says Patrick Bennett, the other senior author, also a Canada Rese...Substance protects resilient staph bacteria
...The group used genetic and biochemical analyses to show that PGA is produced in S. epidermidis. They then ...oduction and one altered to produce excess PGA--to show that PGA protects S. epidermidis from innate immune defense, human antibiotic compounds and salt con...Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
...m. "It's the first program that has been able to show this much improvement in stroke care so rapidly across this scope and scale of patients and hospitals," he said. "Guidelines by themselves are not successful in changing practice. However, guidelines tied to individual patients at the point of care...Third of European cancer patients use complementary and alternative therapies
...CAM and how dismissive they might be, our findings show that patients are using, and will continue to use CAM. So, this will probably necessitate rethinking the provision of medical and healthcare education, broadening our understanding of the concept of medicine and working towards integrating into mains...Mayo Clinic researchers create 'obedient virus'; First step to use measles virus against cancer
...It's very clean, very clear targeting. Our results show that we've efficiently ablated (destroyed) the abi...ract with its two natural receptors. And they also show that we can take our pick as to what new receptor we target and send the virus after it." How The......ays. Crashing While Talking Federal statistics show that the most accident-prone drivers are the young and old, with fatal accident rates high during teenage years, then declining until age 30 and staying relatively level until age 60, when accident rates climb again as age increases. Six participan...