Chemists honor 'Heroes' for biotechnology achievements in health
...ing genital warts, one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the United States, affecting approximately 20 million people, and for treating certain skin cancers and pre-cancerous lesions. The cream is one of a family of medications being developed by the company that modify and strengthen the body'...New survey reveals surprising insights into parental attitudes toward teenage sexual behavior
...rents reportedly had personally discussed sexually transmitted infections (STIs) with their teens. Not surprisingly, HIV/AIDS was the most common topic (88 percent) in those discussions. While it is good news that parents discussed STIs with their adolescents, more than half (54 percent) did not talk about hep...UCSD partners with Peru in NIH grant to battle malaria, world's number 2 killer
...g skin diseases such as leishmaniasis, and viruses transmitted by mosquitos. Beginning this summer, Vinetz will ...ma and death. Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease transmitted from infected mammals (wild and domestic) to humans via infected urine that may be in water. It is ...Alzheimer's pathology reduced, longevity improved in mouse model, Gladstone study shows
...mputer becoming faulty -- signals can no longer be transmitted through broken connections," says senior author and GIND director Lennart Mucke, MD, who is also Joseph B. Martin Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco. "Our results suggest that Fyn plays a key role i...Prevalence of chlamydia high among young adults in U.S.
...ackground information in the article, the sexually transmitted diseases Chlamydia trachomatis (chlamydia) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonorrhea) cause substantial illness in the United States. In women, chlamydial and gonococcal infections may cause pelvic inflammatory disease, tubal infertility, chronic pelvic p...New UNC research finds high rate of chlamydia in U.S. young adults
...nfected with the organism that causes the sexually transmitted disease known as chlamydia, according to the lates...miology. "The marked differences in these sexually transmitted infections across racial and ethnic groups are disturbing," Miler said. "Our results provide compell...UMHS study links gonorrhea, prostate cancer in men
...equency of sexual activity and history of sexually transmitted diseases. "Our results suggest gonorrhea may play ...re than once with gonorrhea, a bacterial infection transmitted through sexual intercourse. Other researchers have proposed a possible link between sexually transmi...Prevalence of HIV among childbearing women has declined in New York
...nfection that has been reported for other sexually transmitted diseases." "Second, the study demonstrates the disproportional impact of HIV-1 infection on women of minority race or ethnicity. Despite a general decline in HIV-1 [prevalence] among childbearing women in New York State in general, this decline was ...Malaria: Plasmodium togetherness a strategy for breeding success
... the mosquito salivary glands. From there they are transmitted to humans during a second blood meal. Experimental gametocyte counts in the blood ingested by mosquitoes that had bitten volunteers naturally infected with Plasmodium falciparum showed that these sexual forms are overdispersed, in other words they h...International hepatitis C study examines new approaches to treatment
... a blood-borne infectious disease of the liver, is transmitted through body fluids, primarily blood or blood products, and by sharing needles. Hepatitis C chronically infects an estimated 2.7 million Americans and 170 million people worldwide and is the leading cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer and the number...New drug-resistant strain of salmonella identified
... some in a genetic element that can potentially be transmitted between bacteria. Although this strain was from only one patient, the public-health implications of multidrug-resistant salmonella are serious. "Constant surveillance is needed to prevent its further spread," warn the authors....Satellite technology to climb Everest
...e stored on Bluetooth-enabled PDA's and ultimately transmitted via satellite to a Canadian-hosted website. The light-weight, portable March Networks Health Monitoring Kit is fully equipped with the necessary medical devices, and can operate independently of its companion Video Services Gateway and videoconferen...Ultrasound treatment for hurt muscles may feel good, but doesn't promote healing, study suggests
...or five minutes per session. Ultrasound waves were transmitted through a small wand that was rubbed along the rats' limbs. The other limb, used as the control, was left to recover on its own. Rats were sacrificed at various points during the two-month study so that the researchers could evaluate how each gastroc...HIV prevention schemes neglect partner reduction
...ual behaviour could be used to tackle all sexually transmitted infections. They believe that, although partner reduction is critical, encouraging young people to delay sexual intercourse should be the first step in programmes to prevent these infections. Partner reduction is good epidemiology, not good ideology,...Carnegie Mellon interactive-video DVD helps teens avoid sexually transmitted diseases
...ves." The DVD includes information about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and the proper use of condoms. Downs' research has revealed that that although adolescent girls know a lot about AIDS, they know very little about other STDs--such as genital herpes, chlamydia and gonorrhea--that they are far more lik...Advances in prevention and treatment research hold promise for 'pipeline'
... HPV comprise a family of viruses that are often transmitted through sexual contact. While HPVs can cause genital warts, certain strains of the virus are known to induce cervical, vulvar and anal cancers, and are implicated in the development of other cancers including those to the head and neck. HPV is presen...Biology not behaviour could explain reduced risk of HIV infection for circumcised men
... observed how uncircumcised men attending sexually transmitted infection clinics in India were over six times more likely to acquire HIV infection than men who had been circumcised. All men were HIV-negative when first assessed; most men were assessed three times after initial assessment for around a year. No pr...Mouse model mimics real-world plague infection
...plague bacteria spreads through a host after being transmitted by a flea, with hopes of developing new treatments to counteract the spread of plague in an infected person. A plague vaccine available until the mid-1990s is no longer being made, Dr. Hinnebusch says, because of its short-term effectivenes...Rochester, BCM test bird-flu vaccine in humans
...fications, bird flu could gain the potential to be transmitted from person to person. While vaccines to protect against normal flu are widely used every year, there is currently no vaccine approved to protect against any of the more than a dozen forms of bird flu. The vaccine that Baylor and Rochester researche...MGH study details brain changes in autism, language disorder
...tep in maturation that allows nerve impulses to be transmitted properly. In both autistic and DLD patients, the most enlarged areas were those that myelinate latest in normal development and where myelination takes a longer period of time. "Knowing that white matter is most enlarged in the area that devel...