A comprehensive response to HIV could prevent 10 million AIDS deaths in Africa by 2020
...6 million adults dying of AIDS in this region each year within the next two decades. The authors predict that combining effective prevention and treatment efforts, however, could yield substantially greater benefits than the sum of the two alone--lowering projected new infections by 74% and projected annu...New guideline: Corticosteroids recommended for duchenne muscular dystrophy
...n 3,500 males worldwide has the disorder, and each year approximately 400 boys in the United States are born with it. Symptoms usually appear between ages two and five and include frequent falls, large calf muscles, and difficulty running, jumping, and getting up. There is no cure. The guideline author...2005 NIH Director's Pioneer Award program opens
...outstanding group of scientists chosenin the first year of this program." Unlike other NIH grants, which ...ioneer Awards ofup to $500,000 in direct costs per year for five years. The first ninePioneer Awards were made in September 2004 and support scientists wor...Spinal cord injury patients show improvement in early device study
... remained in the trial also showed improvement one year post surgery, although the degree of improvement v...nction. Patients recorded a net improvement at one year of 20.4 points (maximum 112) pinprick sensation, 25.5 points (maximum 112) light touch sensation, an...'Healthy' patients with abdominal lymph nodes seen on CT do not need follow-up imaging
...," Dr. Lucey said. "We examined hospital records a year after each of these patients had been examined, and there was no evidence that any of them had developed disease," he said. Dr. Lucey notes that there is the possibility that patients could have gone to other institutions for further medical care, h...The sustained benefits of very early treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with anti-TNF-alpha therapy
...scans were repeated a final time at 104 weeks one year after the patients stopped taking infliximab. ... plus methotrexate group. One year after withdrawing from anti-TNF-alpha therapy, the patients in this group continued to experience th...Simple sputum test for confirmation of childhood tuberculosis
...with a positive sputum culture being less than one year of age. Professor Zar comments: "In children with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis, sputum induction, not gastric lavage, should be the standard technique for microbiological diagnosis. One sample is sufficient, but if resources allow and if the chil...No advantage of combination drug therapy for chronic hepatitis B Infection
...ndicating disease remission at the end of the half year follow-up period. The study also highlights the importance of hepatitis B virus genotype as a predictor of response to pegylated interferon -2 treatment. Dr Janssen comments: "Just like in chronic hepatitis C, the genotype of the hepatitis B virus wi...Injury toll in US homes tops 12 million yearly: UNC, other experts call for action
...erience this magnitude of trauma in the home every year and have it go virtually unnoticed," Runyan said. "Federal and state government, as well as private groups, should support more work on this issue." Other contributors, all with UNC affiliations, are Drs. Stephen W. Marshall, assistant profe...Making emergency contraception readily available does not increase unprotected intercourse
...3.5 million unintended pregnancies that occur each year in the United States could be averted if emergency contraception (EC) were easily accessible and used, according to background information in the article. In efforts to increase access to EC, six states (Alaska, California, Hawaii, Maine, New Mexico,...Sex habits of young women unchanged by morning after pill, UCSF study finds
...ted with pharmacy or clinic access, she said. Each year 3.5 million unintended pregnancies occur in the United States and some researchers speculate that as many as half of those could be averted if EC were easily accessible and used. Raine said although the FDA's 2004 decision to reject over-the-counter ...Study finds that adherence to diet, not type of diet, more important factor for losing weight
...ty of popular diets have been limited. In this one year study, Michael L. Dansinger, M.D., of Tufts-New En...he researchers found that average weight loss at 1 year was 4.6 lbs. for Atkins (21 [53 percent] of 40 participants completed), 7.1 lbs. for Zone (26 [65 pe...New findings on patient safety at children's hospitals
... that the new study complements one published last year by a team that looked at the safety of hospital ca...Q formula. The Hopkins-AHRQ study was based on one year of data from 27 state databases. As a result, the two study populations were different: One-third o...Good parent-doctor relationships may improve the advice parents receive
...y, the leading cause of death of children over one year of age in this country," says the study's lead aut...hers were interviewed when their children were one year old. Nelson notes that because the study was limited to at-risk families, their findings may not be ...Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt ranked 8th in nation by 'Child' magazine
Nashville, TN -- Less than one year after its move into a facilitythat is nationally r... of children and theirfamilies." This is the third year Child magazine has published this ranking. Thecomprehensive survey - whose results will appear in th...NIH action plan charts future challenges for liver disease research
...iver cancer, accounts for about 46,000 deaths each year and ranks ninth in overall causes of death. Because of the high rates of liver disease, liver transplantation is now considered standard therapy for patients with end-stage liver disease, regardless of diagnosis. Currently, about 5,000 liver transp...Study shows long-term use of NSAIDs causes severe intestinal damage
...lizations and 16,500 deaths. More people die each year from NSAIDs-related complications than from AIDS and cervical cancer in the United States. This study analyzed 43 generally healthy patients, including those who use NSAIDs daily for relief of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis or non-specific arth...Study links sexual behavior, genetic factors to increased risk of kidney infection in women under 50
... tract infection A new sex partner in the previous year Having a mother with a history of UTIs Recent spermicide use In addition, the researchers found a higher risk of kidney infection among women with a history of incontinence and diabetes. The study appears in the January 4 issue of the Annals of Inter...Heart failure patients treated for diabetes with insulin have increase in mortality
...ure after adjusting for various risk factors. One year survival rates were 89.7 percent for non-diabetic patients, 85.8 percent for non-insulin-treated diabetic patients, and only 62.1 percent for insulin-treated diabetic patients. Heart failure affects 5 million in the United States and is the most com...Surgical treatment of migraines reduces sick days and increases employee productivity ASPS study
...in." Businesses lose approximately $13 billion per year due to migraines, according to a study published in the April 1999 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. In addition, the National Headache Foundation estimates 157 million workdays are lost annually because of the pain and associated symptoms ...