Progress on HIV/AIDS significant but insufficient
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan shared his hope with a gathering of senior world officials at Headquarters that the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS would have heralded a response that matched the epidemic's scale, yet progress had been "significant but insufficient". Citing achievements in the core areas of political leadership, funding, the intensity and reach of pr...Clinical Renal Trails Do Not Have Sufficient Women Participants
New findings that are being presented during the American Society of Nephrology’s 38th Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, say that women are not being adequately represented during medical trials // more specifically renal trials. Through analyses of the recently conducted renal trials showed this shortcoming. It is theorized that this may be the r...Doctors Do Not Excise Sufficient Caution While Prescribing High-Risk Drugs
Despite Black Box Warnings (BBW) issued for high-risk medication by the FDA, doctors have been found to prescribe such medicines to ambulatory care patients. The percentage of patients found to receive // such drugs was nearly 42% according to a survey conducted by Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. The response of the doctors to comply with recommendations of the B...MRI Scan Insufficient For Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis
The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis using the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been found to be insufficient, says the new findings// published by the BMJ. MRI has been adopted in England and Wales by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) as part of the recommended criteria for diagnosing multiple sclerosis. Although its accuracy has been assessed, the e...Hypertension linked to Insufficient Sleep
According to research reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association sleeping five or less hours a night at middle age may increase risks of high blood pressure. // Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the College of Physicians and Surgeons conducted the study. James E. Gangwisch, Ph.D., lead author and post-doctoral fellow at Columbia Univers...Heat Avoidance Advice Insufficient During Heat Waves
The passive dissemination of advice on heat avoidance is insufficient for health protection during a heat wave, and vulnerable people need to be actively identified and cared// for, argues a public health expert in this week’s BMJ. This summer Europe has again been affected by a major heat wave, writes Sari Kovats of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The UK has recen...