A major breakthrough in HIV research by Murdoch?s Professor Simon Mallal has opened up a new era in personalised medicine. Professor Mallal spoke at the International AIDS Society bi-annual conference on 25 July.
Gaining or losing weight in between pregnancies can have major health implications for an unborn baby, warn two senior obstetricians in today?s BMJ.
An implanted stimulator being studied at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital may be able to predict and prevent seizures before they start in people with uncontrolled epilepsy.
Health Minister George Abbott opened newly renovated areas of the BC Cancer Agency?s Fraser Valley Centre today, where approximately $12.5 million in funding has provided new radiation therapy equipment and increased chemotherapy capacity to improve patient care.
A type 2 diabetes drug taken orally and in widespread use for more than a decade has been found to have distinct advantages over nine other, mostly newer medications used to control the chronic disease, according to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins.
Internal medicine faculty heavily involved in residency programs believe that resident duty-hour limitations negatively affect aspects of residents? patient care, education and professionalism, but improve residents? well-being, according to a report in the July 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Hundreds of thousands of babies around the world are born each year with HIV–more than half a million in 2006 alone. Caring for these children is complicated by the fact that their immune systems are not fully developed in the first year of life, which makes them especially susceptible to rapid HIV disease progression and death.
Older adults who cannot read and understand basic health information appear to have increased mortality rates over a five-year period than those with adequate health literacy, according to a report in the July 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
A quarter of adult New Yorkers have elevated blood mercury levels, according to survey results released today by the Health Department, and the elevations are closely tied to fish consumption.
Using chemotherapy to delay or avoid radiotherapy in children under three with a type of brain tumour called ependymoma reduces the risk of potentially damaging long term side effects, reveal trial results published online in the Lancet Oncology.