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HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate

...r to estimate HIV infection rates. The number of men and women aged 15 to 49 years who are infected wit...aborators in Mexico, was to estimate the number of men and women in Tijuana, aged 15 to 49 years, infected with HIV. This is the age group assumed to be a...

Parents need to be educated about HPV vaccinations for daughters

... changes that HPV infection can trigger. Women and men need to be more aware of HPV infection and what it may mean. Parents who may be asked to consent to their children being vaccinated need to be aware of these important issues." There are nearly 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer diagnosed each ye...

Combination therapy improves AIDS-related lymphoma outcome

...cantly improves the survival rates of HIV-positive men and women treated for lymphoma, according to a new...herapy (HAART) revolutionized care of HIV-positive men and women. It not only improves laboratory indicators, such as increased CD-4 cells and reduced vira...

Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide

...such as phenylketonuria (PKU); Educate women and men of childbearing age about how they can work with health professionals to maximize the chances of having a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. Improvement Is Possible, March of Dimes Says Although poorer nations may lack resources for these rec...

Men and women differ in brain use during same tasks

...research from the University of Alberta shows that men and women utilize different parts of their brains ...at different regions of the brain are activated in men and women in response to the same task has large potential implications for a variety of different c...

Researchers use 'trickery' to create immune response against melanoma

... family history of the disease, age (predominantly men over 50 years of age) and a diet high in red meat and dairy products.3 Once the cancer has been diagnosed it is graded and staged to assess the aggressiveness of the tumour and how far it has spread, and for evaluating the type of treatment required...

Targeted drug delivery achieved with nanoparticle-aptamer bioconjugates

... family history of the disease, age (predominantly men over 50 years of age) and a diet high in red meat and dairy products.3 Once the cancer has been diagnosed it is graded and staged to assess the aggressiveness of the tumour and how far it has spread, and for evaluating the type of treatment required...

Travelers can avoid jet lag by resetting their body clocks

...ythms Research Lab studied 44 healthy adults -- 24 men and 19 women -- between the ages of 19 and 45 years old. The participants were randomly divided into three groups and assigned one of three treatments -- placebo, 0.5 mg melatonin, or 3.0 mg melatonin. Each participant was assigned a strict eight...

New research examines genetics of successful aging

...ncluding DYS389 and DYS390, some of which affected men or women, but not both. "Historically women have lived longer than men on average, the prevalence of numerous serious diseases differs in men and women, and there are impo...

Mapping alcohol brain damage

...n tissue from dead alcoholics, mostly Anglo-Celtic men who've averaged more than 10 drinks a day. The group analyses samples using a microarray analysis, a process they pioneered with human brain samples in 2000. From a DNA sample applied to a microscope slide, the microarray computer produces about ...

UK sperm donor crisis

... UK fertility centre has found that the numbers of men ?especially students ?coming forward as potential ...act more volunteers ?particularly from among older men ?and for fears over the release of donor information to be allayed. The results of the study of ove...

Viagra's hidden help for wildlife

Chinese men spurn traditional virility medicines Chinese men are selectively switching from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to Viagra to treat erectile dysfun...

Rutgers researchers scientifically link dancing ability to mate quality

...females and that female evaluators rated symmetric men higher than male evaluators rated symmetric men. ... correlate with that expectation. More symmetrical men put on a better show, and women notice." The researchers worked with a group of Jamaicans, building...

Bigger brain size matters for intellectual ability

...zed brain regions which underlie spatial skills in men is related to spatial intelligence, as was shown i...r sex difference, brain size decreased with age in men over the age span of 25 to 80 years, but age hardly affected brain size in women. It is not known w...

Russian 'surrogate' alcohols are a killer

... In an ongoing study of 25- to 54-year-old Russian men living in an industrial city, researchers have dis...ical Medicine. "We have been looking in detail at men in Izhevsk, a city in central Russia. While we confirmed what we already knew, that a lot of vodka ...

Prostate cancer uses Wnt signaling proteins to promote growth of bone tumors

...t are extremely painful. More than 80 percent of men who die from prostate cancer die with metastatic disease in their bones. But scientists know very little about how migrating prostate cancer cells set up housekeeping in bone tissue and produce the dense bony lesions characteristic of prostate cancer...

Sudden change in social status triggers genetic response in male fish, study finds

...w-ranking male cichlids can quickly become leading men without even putting up a fight. In fact, a drab s...w-ranking male cichlids can quickly become leading men without even putting up a fight. In fact, a drab subordinate male cichlid will begin physically tran...

PLoS Medicine publishes first trial of effect of male circumcision on HIV infection

...uced the rate of new infections among heterosexual men in South Africa by about 60%. Because HIV infec...d young sexually active uncircumcised heterosexual men the chance to be circumcised and then monitored for HIV infection. The participants (3,274 men) were...

Minimally Invasive Cancer Treatments Highlighted

... Kidney cancer is the eighth most common cancer in men and the tenth in women. The most common type of kidney cancer is renal cell carcinoma. Interventional radiology treatments provide minimally invasive options for patients who are not good surgical candidates. Study of note: ?A prospective study of M...

Housecat-sized Siberian tiger cubs get collared

...state Cancer Foundation, one of every six American men develops prostate cancer, making it the most common form of non-skin cancer. Growing evidence suggests that there is a significant hereditary component to the disease, and one of the most strongly associated genomic regions lies on the X chromosome....

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