Infectious Disease
Top Researchers Appointed To Lead The Way In Health And Social Care Research, UK
A directory listing 100 of the most prestigious health and social care researchers has been published by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) today. The Directory lists Senior Investigators who have been chosen to support the people making the most outstanding contribution to patient and people-focused health research.
AARP And Consumers Union Convene Expert Panel On Role Of Research In Health Care Reform, USA
Despite years of conversation between policymakers and health care professionals, comparative effectiveness remains an elusive concept for consumers. Now two of the nation's largest consumer groups are convening a panel of experts to discuss what this research can mean for individuals as the country addresses health care reform.
Efforts, Events Seek To Improve Health Of Pacific Islanders, Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Among Blacks, Offer Support For Hispanic Nurses, Other
The following summarizes coverage of events and initiatives that seek to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma American Indian tribe a three-year, $1.
Healthcare Industry Leaders Call For Improved Prevention Of Catheter Infections
On October 3rd representatives from the roundtable summit, "A Leadership Strategy for the Prevention of Line Sepsis," released a policy statement outlining strategies for patients and healthcare professionals to reduce the incidence of line sepsis, a potentially fatal hospital-acquired infection that affects approximately 250,000 patients each year in the U.S. alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
CLSI Publishes Guideline For Characterization And Qualification Of Commutable Reference Materials For Laboratory Medicine
Reference materials are an important requisite for assuring reliable laboratory measurements and appropriate patient care. To ensure that a reference material is suitable for its intended purpose, its commutability characteristics need to be assessed in a defined manner considering all relevant aspects. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has recently published a new document,
Incomplete Medical Records After Major Surgery, Medical Journal Of Australia
Documentation of clinical review and vital signs following major surgery is commonly incomplete, according to an article in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia.
Ozone Controls Failing To Protect Human Health And The Environment, Warns The Royal Society
Existing controls are failing to reduce the air pollutant ground level ozone to a level that protects human health and the environment, and climate change will make the challenge harder, warns a major new report from the Royal Society(1) - the UK national academy of science - today (6 October 2008).
Lung Diseases From Solid Fuels And Smoking Will Kill 83 Million In China
Research from the US predicts that if smoking and solid fuel use in homes continues in China they will cause a total of 83 million deaths between 2003 and 2033 and that only large-scale interventions stand a chance of reducing this number. The research is the work of a team from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in Boston, Massachusetts, and is published online on October 4th and in the October 25th print issue of The Lancet.
Phasing Out Smoking And Solid Fuel Use In China Could Avert 32 Million Deaths In Next 25 Years
Many millions of deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, and tuberculosis could be averted in China if smoking and biomass and coal fuel use in homes were phased out over the next 25 years. These are the conclusions of authors of an Article published early Online and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet. The three diseases above are three of the ten leading causes of death in China, where prevalences of smoking and solid fuel use are also high.
Safer Buildings Are Goal Of New Code Changes Based On Recommendations From NIST WTC Investigation
Future buildings - especially tall structures - should be increasingly resistant to fire, more easily evacuated in emergencies, and safer overall thanks to 23 major and far-reaching building and fire code changes approved recently by the International Code Council (ICC) based on recommendations from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The Effects Of Disclosing Financial Interests On Participation In Medical Research
Knowing how an investigator is paid for running a research study surprisingly plays a small role in patients' willingness to take part in clinical trials. However, according to a new Johns Hopkins University study more participants are troubled when they are told that the investigator could profit or lose money depending on the results.
'Invisibility Cloak' To Protect Coastlines
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have tested an 'invisibility cloak' that could reduce the risk of large water waves overtopping coastal defences. Mathematicians at Liverpool, working with physicists at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Aix-Marseille Universite have found that coastal defences could be made 'invisible' when water is guided through a special structure called metamaterial.
Critical Health Risks From Plastic Revealed By 6 Environmental Research Studies
Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates and flame retardants (PBDEs) are strongly associated with adverse health effects on humans and laboratory animals. A special section in the October 2008 issue of Environmental Research, "A Plastic World" provides critical new research on environmental contaminants and adverse reproductive and behavioral effects.
Rethinking Who Should Be Considered 'Essential' During A Pandemic Flu Outbreak
Not only are doctors, nurses, and firefighters essential during a severe pandemic influenza outbreak. So, too, are truck drivers, communications personnel, and utility workers. That's the conclusion of a Johns Hopkins University article to be published in the journal of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. The report, led by Nancy Kass, Sc.
Rethinking Who Should Be Considered 'Essential' During A Pandemic Flu Outbreak
Not only are doctors, nurses, and firefighters essential during a severe pandemic influenza outbreak. So, too, are truck drivers, communications personnel, and utility workers. That's the conclusion of a Johns Hopkins University article to be published in the journal of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. The report, led by Nancy Kass, Sc.
State Legislative Proposals Restricting Access To Generic Medicines Would Increase Costs $29 Billion Over 10 Years - New PCMA Research
Legislative proposals to exempt certain classes of drugs from generic substitution laws would increase costs by more than $29 billion over ten years if enacted nationally and provide no safety or clinical benefit for patients, according to a study conducted by the healthcare consulting firm Visante for the
NIH Funding For New Epigenomics Initiative
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces funding for the new NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Program. Epigenetic processes control normal growth and development, and epigenomics is a study of epigenetic processes at a genome-wide scale. The NIH will invest more than $190 million over the next five years to accelerate this emerging field of biomedical research. The first grants will total approximately $18 million in 2008.
Survey Finds Concerns About Economy May Increase Incidence Of Home Fires
The American Red Cross and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) today released results of a survey showing the majority (79%) of Americans are concerned about the rising cost of heating their homes, and many will use an alternative heating source to reduce their bills this winter. The survey identified additional behaviors related to appliance maintenance and cooking that could also present home fire hazards this winter.
Construction Firms Must Act On Advice Warn HSE, UK
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has reminded construction companies that if they ignore advice about risks they are likely to face prosecution. The reminder follows the prosecution of a Lancashire property developer after it failed to act on a series of warnings about poor security and lack of systems for managing site traffic.
HSE Issues Safety Alert On Gas Appliance Flues In Ceiling Voids, UK
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a safety alert aimed at builders and developers, managing agents, landlords and occupiers of residential properties with gas central heating boilers sited on internal walls. The purpose of the alert is to raise awareness of a potential poisoning risk. The risk arises from a particular arrangement of flues for gas boilers.
- Forcing pregnant women to take HIV tests
- Delusions in HIV and cancer treatment
- Competing theories of AIDS: Is HIV irrelevant?
- Causes of death among children younger than 4
- Syphilis causes "HIV" viral load spike, and T-cell decrease
- Finding your own road
- Parasite epidemic of the 1970s renamed AIDS in 1981
- HIV / AIDS drug trials: "Try this, let's see if you drop dead!"
- Vitamin C Incompatible with Chemotherapy - NewsGrabs 5 October 2008
- Vitamin C Incompatible with Chemotherapy - NewsGrabs xxx October 2008
- Shutting down vaccine 'conspiracies' - NewsGrabs 28 September 2008
- Enzymes: Non Toxic Biopesticides
- MMR Vaccine damage - Conflicted Prosecution
- FTC descends on unapproved cancer cures - NewsGrabs 21 September 2008
- FTC descends on unapproved cancer cures - NewsGrabs 21 September 2008
- Aspartame-Induced Hypertension
- Vaccines: To Heal or Not to Heal
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- Drug-Susceptible HIV-1 Infection Despite Intermittent Fixed-Dose Combination Tenofovir/Emtricitabine as Prophylaxis Is Associated With Low-Level Viremia, Delayed Seroconversion, and an Attenuated Clinical Course.
- Substantial Intrapatient Differences in the Breadth and Specificity of HIV-Specific CD8+ T-Cell Interferon-[gamma] and Proliferation Responses.
- Influence of the Toll-Like Receptor 9 1635A/G Polymorphism on the CD4 Count, HIV Viral Load, and Clinical Progression.
- Genetic Divergence of Hepatitis C Virus: The Role of HIV-Related Immunosuppression.
- Episodic Antiretroviral Therapy Increases HIV Transmission Risk Compared With Continuous Therapy: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
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