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Hospital Don’t Test For HIV Routinely
In 2006, the Federal Government strongly advised that all patients who visit emergency rooms and...
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CDC Advice For HIV Testing Still Not Followed In Many ERs
Back in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
called for virtually all patients...
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Promising Results in Adult Stem Cell Research : 1st Trachea Transplant Performed
Doctors at four European universities have
managed to perform the first trachea transplant...
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Pioneering Stem-Cell Surgery Performed
Through a cooperation of 4 European universities, physicians
have performed the world’s first...
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Doctors Report First Windpipe Transplant Without Anti-Rejection Drugs
An article in the Nov. 19 online issue of the journal The
Lancet tells that story of a Colombian...
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Bone Marrow Transplants May Cure HIV
HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is such a hardy
pathogen that the concept of curing a
poor...
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Leukemia and HIV Gone After Bone Marrow Transplant
Medical history was written recently, after a patient with both leukemia and HIV received a bone...
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Breakthrough In Medicine: Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure HIV?
A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
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Clostridium Difficile Takes Over Hospitals
Despite being anti-septic, hospitals are still filled with the largest number of diseases,...
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Childhood Allergies, Asthma Problems Require More Attention
A report released last month by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has
revealed that...
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West Nile Threat Not Over Yet, First Human Case in Kern County
Health officials from Kern
County have confirmed the first human
case of West Nile virus...
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Condoms Help Heal Genital Infections
Munich - Condoms can help support the healing process of viral infections that affect the cervix,...
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Update: Full Cancer Genome Decoded
Cancer is one of the most destructive diseases of past and present centuries. Certain treatments...
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New Artificial Heart May Save The Day
During a press conference Monday in Paris, French scientists have unveiled a working prototype of a...
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Old Blood Is Highly Dangerous
Researchers at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., found that hospitalized patients given...
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Doctors Recommend An Earlier Start In Treating HIV
AIDS is one of the most disastrous diseases of our current and last centuries, and HIV is the virus...
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Study Calls For Earlier AIDS Treatment
HIV patients should begin antiretroviral treatments earlier than what current guidelines recommend,...
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Early HIV Treatment Shows 70% Improvement in Survival
HIV patients who began treatment earlier than is currently recommended lived longer compared to...
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New Zealand Approves Pig Cell Transplants for Diabetes
Wellington - New Zealand has approved trials of pig cell transplants to patients with Type 1...
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Leukemia Drug Shows Promise in Reversing Multiple Slerosis
Leukemia drug alemtuzumab appears to reduce or even reverse many of the disabilities caused by...
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Biological Drugs Raise Concerns about Their Safety
A group of
Dutch researchers have reported that about one fourth of the biological drugs
that had...
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FDA: Genentech Psoriasis Drug Raptiva to Get Warning on Fatal Infections
The Food and Drug
Administration announced today that the label of Genentech Inc's psoriasis...
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Hope for South Africa! “HIV Causes AIDS,” Health Minister Barbara Hogan States
This week, South Africa’s new Health Minister,
Barbara Hogan, said it was unquestionable that HIV...
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High Vitamin D Levels Protect Children from Rickets and Other Diseases
Millions of children will need to take their
vitamin D supplements each day to meet the new...
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Pediatricians Urge Doubling of Children’s Vitamin D Doses
Infants, children and adolescents should get double the
recommended amount of vitamin D because of...
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New Guidelines And The Benefits Of A Regular Exercise Regimen
The new Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of...
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First Double Arm Transplant, a Real Success
The first double arm transplant in the world took place in
Munich, at the University Clinic. The...
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German Farmer Recovering Well after Double Arm Transplant
A 54-year old German farmer received the
world’s first complete double arm transplant at the...
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Update: New Arms For 54-Year-Old German Amputee
The medical world is making astonishing progress in its mission to cure and heal the ill. One of...
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Does Circumcision Protect Gay/Bisexual Men From HIV?
More effort is needed to prevent new cases
of HIV infection and AIDS prevention techniques such as...
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Europeans Report First Windpipe Transplant Without Anti-Rejection Drugs
An article in the Nov. 19 online issue of the journal The
Lancet tells that story of a Colombian...
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First Stem Cells Trachea Transplant
An article in the British medical journal The Lancet
recently reported that physicians from four...
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New Artificial Heart Unveiled in Paris
People in need of a heart transplant can now breathe
relieved, as they would not have to wait for...
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Testicles an "ethical" source of stem cells, German scientists claim
Faced with strict German laws banning the use of human embryos, a team of German scientists came up...
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E17 Crew Welcomes Space Adventurer Richard Garriott
On Tuesday morning, Expedition 18 members, together with
space flight enthusiast Richard Garriott,...
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Video Game Designer Embarks On Space Journey
The love for space in general, and space travel in
particular, is something one might expect to...
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The AIDS Battle Continues! Researchers Join Efforts To Find A Vaccine
Around 33 million people had the AIDS virus in 2007. The majority lived in Sub-Saharan Africa,...
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Tobacco Plant Could Aid Patients With Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
The tobacco plant could actually aid
patients with follicular B-cell lymphoma, US researchers...
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Food Allergies Boost the “Free-from” Food Markets
The 12 million people in the USA with food allergies together with the 2 million people who suffer...
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Scientists Report A New Method To Create Human Antibodies
The U.S researchers have discovered a new technology to
identify and clone human antibodies...
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Human-Friendly Dolphin Saved Whales
Malcolm Smith, field office supervisor at the Conservation Department's Wairoa office, told AP that...
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Ocean Scientists Discover Rare White Killer Whale In Alaska
A group of scientists aboard the NOAA research vessel Oscar Dyson in the North Pacific spotted a...
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New Discovery Reveals Tuberculosis Is 500,000-Years-Old
A new discovery made by the scientists from The University
of Texas at Austin
revealed that...
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Patient Receives New Windpipe Made From Owen Stem Cells
Some European doctors have performed the first trachea transplant using a woman’s own stem cells...
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Bone Marrow Transplant Possibly Curing HIV
People suffering from the immunodeficiency virus may be soon
cured through a bone marrow...
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Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure AIDS? Or Not?
A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
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Panel Slashes FDA over Bisphenol Safety
A panel of environmental health, toxicology and statistics
experts from three major universities,...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Could Double Risk of Heart Attack
Three studies scheduled to be presented this week at the
American College of Rheumatology's annual...
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EPA Strengthens Air Quality Standards For Lead Emissions
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday strengthened
the nation’s air quality...
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More Vitamin D Is Needed To Keep Kids Healthy
Vitamin D deficiency in early childhood can lead to an
increased risk for osteoporosis later in...
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Gardasil Vaccination Rate Tops 25 Percent despite Initial Doubts
More girls in the United States are vaccinated with
Gardasil, the vaccine designed to prevent...
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Female Shark Reproduces through Virgin Birth
Scientists reported on Friday that a female blacktip shark, dubbed “Tidbit”, who resided in a...
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A Chip off The Old Block
Former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott must be as proud as a father can be, as his son Richard is...
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Keep Hamsters and Exotic Pets Away From Your Children
U.S. leading pediatricians' group warned parents
all over the nation and people with immune system...
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Overeating Causes “Vicious Cycle” Leading to Obesity
A recently-conducted study revealed that overeating causes the brain to go haywire. Eating like a...
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Iowa Woman Dies of West Nile; The Virus Is Still a Threat
West Nile virus appears to have made another victim in Iowa this time in the person of an elderly...
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Los Angeles County Reports First Death from West Nile
Although the mosquito season is due to end in October, West
Nile virus continues to make...
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Update1: Google's Chrome: More Than A Browser?
The question: Are the current browsers good enough to keep
up with the user’s online needs?...
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Survivors of 1918 Flu Pandemic Still Immune
Although hard to believe antibodies from survivors of the most devastating 1918 influenza pandemic...
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First Human Case of Infection with West Nile Virus in Illinois
The most recent human case of infection
with West Nile virus is a 28-year-old woman from Aurora....
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Bernie Mac Fondly Remembered, Badly Missed
Comedian and actor Bernie Mac, whose untimely death on Aug. 9
has left fans, friends and...
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Weather Conditions Give The West Nile Virus A Helping Hand
The West Nile
Virus keeps expanding. The standing water left from Tropical Storm
Edouard now...
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Prevention Might Lead To Better Outcomes In Fighting HIV
Thursday was a very active day for the 25,000 participants
of the 17th International AIDS...
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Squash That Mosquito! Its Bite Could Be Deadly
Who would have thought that such a little insect, the
mosquito, could turn into the most dangerous...
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The West Nile Virus is not a Joke
After years of declining infection rates the West Nile virus hit the headlines once again....
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Goshen Scout Camp Closed Following E. coli Outbreak
After fourteen Boy Scouts and one adult contracted E. coli
infection while attending a popular...
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The AIDS Battle Continues! Researchers Join Efforts to Find a Vaccine
Around 33 million people had the AIDS virus in 2007. The majority lived in Sub-Saharan Africa,...
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AIDS Vaccine Trial Suspended
Plans for a large-scale human trial of a prospecting HIV
vaccine in the United States
were...
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Ulcer Bacterium Could Protect against Asthma
Helicobacter Pylori bacterium, which usually causes ulcers
and stomach cancer may protect children...
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Peppers Now Linked To Salmonella Outbreak; Cases Rise to 1,065
If you’re a fan of the Mexican cuisine and especially fresh salsa, you may need to think twice...
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Trojan Horsie Messes With Mac OS X
Last week, SecureMac, the company that offers anti-spyware
solution for Macs, issued a warning on...
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Immunotherapy Proved Efficient in Melanoma Patient
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine describes
how immunotherapy helped a 52-year-old...
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Salmonella Scare Prompts Tomato Withdrawal Nationwide
Following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s tomato
warning, more restaurants and grocery...
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