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HIV survival improves if patients stay in care

...n, they face challenges of substance abuse, mental health problems and financial issues. Now they have to st...reatment that they visited their HIV physicians or health care provider. Sixty-four percent of them had at least one visit in all four quarters, 18 percent in...

Heavy multivitamin use may be linked to advanced prostate cancer

...ltivitamins because of a belief in their potential health benefits, even though there is limited scientific ...ital in Denmark, discuss the positive and negative health effects of antioxidant supplements. “Lawson [and colleagues] add to the growing evidence that questi...

Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia

...a more finely tuned map of an individual's overall health and gain information about how an individual is re...esearch Institute and NARSAD, both national mental health research associations. Kaddurah-Daouk thinks this technology could lead to earlier diagnosis of s...

Spreading viruses as we breathe

...investigate the global effect of dried droplets in health care facilities to see how viruses were spread around the world. ...

Herpes infection may be symbiotic, help beat back some bacteria

...ze or in any way disregard the human suffering and health risks caused by disease-causing herpes infections.... Pathology and Immunology. "If so, that has public health implications because we would want to very carefully weigh the risks and benefits of eliminating a v...

The quest for an effective HIV vaccine presents new possibilities, challenges

...ntrol infection. There will be a tremendous public health challenge as well, in an HIV vaccine that does not...ot stand alone as a preventive measure; the public health community would need to include it as part of a broader HIV prevention program, so that recipients w...

Better health twice as likely for nonsmokers who live and work with smoking restrictions

...g restrictions in the workplace and at home affect health status, researchers at the Mailman School of Publi... two and a half times more likely to report better health than those without smoking bans. The study surveyed 1,472 Chinese American adults who live and work...

Study shows dramatic increase in Caesarean sections

...n caesarean rates also has a significant impact on health costs in both the public and private sectors." ...an increased risk of maternal and infant death and health complications. "These data illustrate how a medical intervention that is effective when applied t...

Cornell lab confirms deadly fish virus spreading to new species

...to the European or Japanese genotypes and poses no health threat to humans, said Bowser. However, as a general rule, people should avoid eating any fish (or game) that appears abnormal or behaves abnormally. Not all infected fish, however, exhibit symptoms. Some may be carriers, and visible signs of the dis...

Sleep quantity affects morning testosterone levels in older men

...mine the importance of these relationships for the health of older adults." Recent studies associate lack of sleep with serious health problems such as an increased risk of depression, obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. E...

NIDA study identifies genes that might help some people abstain from smoking

... the success rate of cessation programs by helping health care providers choose the most appropriate treatment based on individual differences.? Dr. Uhl and his colleagues performed a genome-wide analysis on the DNA of two types of nicotine-dependent individuals, one that was able to successfully quit the...

NIAID expands capability for influenza research and surveillance

...rnment with important information to inform public health strategies for controlling and lessening the impac...ndemic is a major source of concern for the public health community,?says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. “The new NIAID Centers of Excellence for Influ...

Fish extinctions alter critical nutrients in water, study shows

... finds that overfishing could threaten the overall health of an ecosystem because it targets important fish species that play major roles in recycling nutrients. In fact, 20 percent of fish species accounted for more than half of all the recycled nutrients in the ecosystems studied, the computer simulations...

It's never too late to get it back! Aging interrupted

...has shown that reduced calorie intake can increase health and longevity. Professor Stephen Spindler (Univers... intake later in life can still induce many of the health and longevity benefits of life-long calorie reduction. Importantly, this also includes anti-cancer e...

Rapid response was crucial to containing the 1918 flu pandemic

... Philadelphia when both implemented similar public health measures? What made the difference, according to t... different cities responded. Cities where public health officials imposed multiple social containment measures within a few days after the first local cases...

Risk of HIV transmission highest early in infection

...ontreal, and colleagues from several hospitals and health clinics in Canada studied HIV transmission through phylogenetic analysis—essentially, drawing the virus’s family tree. The technique follows the history of a virus as it spreads from one person to another by looking at the evolution of viral genetic ...

Heart failure: Intervention possibilities from imaging programmed cell loss

...p of heart patients. "Heart failure is a major health care problem," said Hofstra, "and researchers are looking at novel ways to improve patient care." With heart failure, a person's heart no longer pumps sufficient blood to the body's organs. Nearly 5 million Americans are living with heart failure—a l...

UCI scientists reconstruct migration of avian flu virus

...By knowing where H5N1 strains develop and migrate, health officials can better limit the spread of the virus by strategically intervening. Local vaccinations can be better administered by using strains from regions that have repeatedly contributed to infections. "If you can control the virus at its sourc...

Scientists genetically engineer tomatoes with enhanced folate content

...opmental problems in children, as well as numerous health issues in adults, such as anemia. "Folate deficiency is a major nutritional deficiency, especially in the developing world," said Parag Chitnis, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, ...

Allergy to hair dye increasing

...utting people at risk and increasing the burden on health services. It may not be easy to reverse these trends, however, as some patients have continued to use such dyes even when advised that they are allergic to them and risk severe reactions, they conclude. ...

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