Scientists find new structural motif in key enzymes is essential to prevent autoimmune disease. Structure may also hold key to drug resistance in cancer treatments. Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute and the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation have found a specific mutation that leads to the development of severe autoimmune kidney disease [...]
Inter Press Service on Saturday examined a new emphasis of HIV/AIDS campaigns that focuses on “knowing your epidemic” by analyzing the local HIV/AIDS situation through specific factors that drive the epidemic. The approach helps advocates accurately determine who is HIV-positive and how to address the epidemic successfully with certain populations, Inter Press Service reports. Inter [...]
Electrical stimulation of the brain — a treatment in which a pacemaker-like device sends pulses to electrodes implanted in the brain — is riskier than drug therapy but may hold significant benefits for those with Parkinson’s disease who no longer respond well to medication alone. That is the conclusion of researchers from the Department of [...]
In Washington state in 2007, 23.9 percent of women ages 18-44 were obese, according to the March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center. Women who are overweight or obese have higher odds of having complications during pregnancy including hypertension (high blood pressure), preeclampsia and eclampsia or gestational diabetes. Each of these conditions may require medication and [...]
HIV/AIDS cases in South Dakota increased from 25 cases in 2007 to 34 cases in 2008, and prevalence of sexually transmitted infections reached record levels, according to an infectious disease report released recently by the South Dakota Department of Health, the AP/Sioux City Journal reports. The state also reported 2,948 cases of chlamydia, an increase [...]
Women who called 9-1-1 complaining of cardiac symptoms were 52 percent more likely than men to experience delays during emergency medical services’ (EMS) care, according to a report in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. The data did not reveal why women were more likely to be delayed. However, other research suggests that heart conditions in [...]
Researchers estimate more than 11 million older Americans may be newly eligible for statin therapy if findings from a recently published large clinical trial are adopted into clinical practice guidelines, according to a new analysis of the trial data. The analysis is published online in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Using data from the 1999–2004 [...]
Although the Colombian government mandates that private health companies provide essential services, including those related to HIV/AIDS treatment, care and prevention, many have refused to do so, and critics of the country’s national health insurance system argue there is no incentive for the companies to promote HIV testing, IRIN/PlusNews reports. Ricardo Garcia, UNAIDS country coordinator, [...]
The European Commission on Tuesday called on HHS to drop a requirement that visitors inform U.S. authorities whether they have HIV, Agence France-Presse reports (Agence France-Presse, 1/13). A law that made foreigners living with HIV/AIDS inadmissible in the U.S. was repealed when President Bush signed legislation reauthorizing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in [...]
A spokesman for the Centre for Health Protection of the Hong Kong Department of Health said that further laboratory tests on water samples taken from a spa pool in a private club house in Discovery Bay confirmed positive growth for Legionella, a type of bacteria that caused legionnaires disease (LD). CHP’s investigations revealed that a [...]
