Today, AARP endorsed the Part D Equity for Low-Income Seniors Act, introduced by U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Gordon Smith (R-OR), that would help people with limited incomes on Medicare get the prescription drugs they need.
Today, the long-awaited federally funded evaluation of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs was released showing that the programs had no impact on teen behavior.
The National Sleep Foundation released the following statement regarding the announcement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, ?FDA Requests Label Change for All Sleep Disorder Drug Products:?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin) as a treatment for gonorrhea in the United States.
As a week-long meeting of health ministers organised by the African U nion (AU) got underway in Johannesburg on Monday, AIDS activists expressed concern that commitments on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, reached at several meetings last year, were missing from the agenda.
For the growing number of people with diminished immune systems — cancer patients, transplant recipients, those with HIV/AIDS — infection by a ubiquitous mold known as Aspergillus fumigatus can be a death sentence.
On World Health Day the Australian Government recommits to combating the growing threat of HIV/AIDS in our region, the Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Greg Hunt, said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is committed to work towards universal access, by 2010, to HIV prevention services and to treatment and care for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Abbott and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Margaret Chan, have agreed on a balanced approach to provide Kaletra/Aluvia (lopinavir/ritonavir) capsules and tablets to more patients in the developing world, while supporting continued long-term biopharmaceutical research and development.
Collaborators from Mayo Clinic and IBM have exploited parallel computer architecture and memory bandwidth to dramatically speed the processing of 3-D medical images.