CONRAD, a reproductive health research organization, announced today that it has halted a Phase III clinical trial of cellulose sulfate — a topical microbicide gel being tested for HIV prevention in women — because preliminary results indicated that cellulose sulfate could lead to an increased risk of HIV infection in women who use the compound.
The Society of Gynecologic Oncologists of Canada (GOC) applauds the recommendation by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) that all Canadian girls and women aged 9 to 26 should be routinely vaccinated with GARDASIL to protect them against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), the primary cause of cervical cancer.
New research suggests that different treatments may be needed for chronic asthma, depending on whether it results from allergies or lung infections.
The former Saskatchewan Roughrider Trevis Smith is being tried in Regina provincial court on two counts of aggravated sexual assault for allegedly having unprotected sex with two different women without informing them he had HIV.
Australian scientists have developed a drug that may stop people from dying of septic shock after surgery preventing kidney failure brought on by post-operative complications.
The rapidly climbing obesity rates in the United States have created a higher risk of esophageal cancer linked to reflux disease. And this has some surgeons wondering if a currently popular procedure to remove the esophagus is as safe in obese patients.
An international study led by Johns Hopkins suggests that the rate of HIV-associated dementia is so high in sub-Saharan Africa that HIV dementia along with Alzheimer?s disease and dementia from strokes may be among the most common forms of dementia in the world.
Since 1995 there has been a considerable increase in the number of infections with a specific type of Salmonella bacteria transmitted via food. This type, Salmonella serovar Typhimurium DT104, is resistant to at least five different antibiotics.
It seems bird flu outbreak is spreading in Japan. A suspected outbreak of bird flu reported in the southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki, Japan.
Merck recently has been providing lobbyists throughout the country with information about its human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil in an effort to encourage states to mandate that middle-school age girls receive it.