Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major and increasing global health epidemic that has received insufficient attention from the health-care profession, governments, and the pharmaceutical industry, argues Professor Peter Barnes, one of the world’s leading experts on lung disease.
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has received a five-year, $9.7-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop and test candidate vaccines to prevent HIV infection in children.
Up to 25,000 people may die needlessly each year due to the failure to prevent blood clots known as venous thromboembolisms (VTE) in UK hospitals, say experts in this week’s BMJ.
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro will walk with a contingent of United Nations staff members and about 50,000 other people in the annual fundraiser called AIDS Walk New York on Sunday, a UN spokesman said today.
Nearly three out of four ulcerative colitis sufferers (73 percent) responding to a new nationwide survey say not feeling well has become a normal part of life. Furthermore, they describe UC as disruptive when it comes to their relationship with a spouse (64 percent), their sexual relations (75 percent) and their emotional state (82 percent).
A vaccine that prevents HIV infection remains an important goal in the fight against AIDS, but the current top HIV vaccine candidates may not work in this way, say scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Recent evidence suggests that therapy currently used to treat Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection, a major cause of upper gastrointestinal disorders, is unsuccessful in around 25 percent of cases.
Using the new and highly publicized CDC guidelines for HIV screening, a university-based Emergency Department implemented opt-out screening in Washington, DC, where HIV infection rates are known to be high.
Fewer than one in every 10 injecting drug users have access to basic HIV prevention and treatment services, even though they comprise almost one third of new infections outside sub-Saharan Africa, according to the Joint UN Programme Against HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Even though HIV can be well treated these days, drug users are still more cautious about using needles than they used to be. That is the conclusion of Colette Smit following her study into 25 years of HIV in the Netherlands.