HIV infection is transmitted primarily by exposure to contaminated body fluids, especially blood and semen. And US health agency FDA – Food and Drug Administration has rejected appeals to lift a ban that prevents gay men from donating blood, stating that such a measure is important to fight the rising spread of AIDS.
Women who regularly enjoy an alcoholic drink or two have a significantly lower risk of having a non-fatal heart attack than women who are life-time abstainers, epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo have shown.
Aspirin therapy?s ability to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, an association seen in a large number of studies, appears to depend on the drug?s inhibition of the COX-2 enzyme, the action that also underlies aspirin?s usefulness for treating pain and inflammation.
A hand-foot-mouth outbreak that began in April in Linyi city of east China’s Shandong Province has hit 863 people, mostly children, but no new deaths have been reported, a local official said.
Leading researcher to present information on circumcision and HIV transmission during AUA Annual Scientific Meeting.
UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) has opened one of the few clinics in the nation dedicated to providing services to adult patients with Down Syndrome.
Treating skin wounds with a concentrated topical gel of the patient’s own blood platelets may result in faster healing, says a researcher at the University of Cincinnati (UC).
Today, the Director of Health and the Health Insurance Commissioner jointly released the eighth annual publication of the Rhode Island Health Plans? Performance Report . This Report, based on 2005 submissions to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), provides information on 29 separate measures covering 7 dimensions of performance (i.e., enrollment, utilization, prevention, screening, treatment, access, and satisfaction). Health plan performance is both trended over time and compared to regional and national averages.
Researchers at the University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have shown for the first time that an association exists between long-standing periodontitis, or gum disease, and risk of tongue cancer.
Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that the standard British cooking habit of boiling vegetables severely damages the anticancer properties of many Brassica vegetables such as broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower and green cabbage.