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AP – The United Nations says mother-to-child HIV transmission can be eliminated by 2015 if health programs receive increased investments as planned.
Read More: UN says mother-child HIV can be eliminated by 2015
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HealthDay – FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) — New American Cancer Society
guidelines on prostate cancer screening mean that many men will be faced
with a cascade of decisions, with a growing responsibility for those
decisions falling on their shoulders.
Read More: New Prostate Cancer Guidelines Aim to Empower the Patient
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AFP – Within five years the world could shield all newborns from HIV, while making strides in reducing deaths from malaria and tuberculosis, the Global Fund to fight the three diseases said Monday.
Read More: World could soon shield "all newborns from HIV"
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HealthDay – SUNDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) — Medications can reduce the
level of the AIDS virus in the blood to zero, but HIV doesn’t disappear
and often roars back when patients stop taking their pills. Now, research
is giving scientists new insight into how the virus manages to hide and
avoid the killing powers of medicine.
Read More: HIV Hides Out in Bone Marrow Cells
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Reuters – Disgust. Pity. Contempt.
Read More: Modern Etiquette: Do the obese really deserve contempt?
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AP – The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease.
Read More: Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow
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HealthDay – FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) –Increasing consumption of
sugary soft drinks contributed to 130,000 new cases of diabetes, 14,000
new cases of heart disease and 50,000 more life-years burdened with heart
disease in the last decade, a new U.S. study finds.
Read More: Increasing Soda Consumption Fuels Rise in Diabetes, Heart
Disease
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Time.com – A growing body of research suggests that your ever expanding gut is not only the result of weight gain, but could potentially be a cause
Read More: Obesity: How Intestinal Bacteria May Cause Weight Gain
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Reuters – Results of a trial of Pfizer’s Prevnar 7 vaccine against a major cause of pneumonia and meningitis showed on Wednesday that it can prevent three out of four cases of re-infection in HIV-infected adults in Africa.
Read More: Pfizer pneumonia shot helps HIV-infected patients
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HealthDay – FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) — U.S. researchers have
discovered a new form of prion disease that doesn’t act like related
illnesses, such as mad cow disease, but instead causes brain damage
similar to that produced by Alzheimer’s disease.
Read More: Prion Disease in Mice May Help Advance Alzheimer's Research
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Reuters – Young adults who were conceived through in-vitro fertilization are doing as well as the average young American as far as physical health, though their rates of certain psychological problems appear elevated, a new study finds.
Read More: Kids born via IVF mostly faring well into adulthood
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HealthDay – FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) — The makers of insulin pumps
used to treat diabetes should try to supply more information to U.S.
officials when filing reports about potential problems with the devices,
an advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said
Friday.
Read More: More Info Needed on Problems With Insulin Pumps
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HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of ClinicalConnection.com:
Read More: Clinical Trials Update: March 5, 2010
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AP – Puerto Rico’s government sent inspectors across the island Thursday to stop stores from selling locally produced hand sanitizers tainted with a dangerous bacteria.
Read More: FDA warning for hand sanitizer in Puerto Rico
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HealthDay – FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) — Freezing breast tumors helped
stop the spread of the cancer in mice, a new study has found.
Read More: Freezing Technique May Stop Breast Cancer
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AFP – The bugs that help digest food may also cause the body to pack on the pounds if they are not properly regulated, a new study has found.
Read More: Bugs in the gut can cause obesity: study
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AP – The World Health Organization says more than 85 million children under 5 in west and central Africa will be vaccinated against polio.
Read More: WHO: over 85M African kids get polio vaccination
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AP – Months after experts discounted the importance of routine mammograms and Pap smears for many women, the American Cancer Society is warning more explicitly than ever that regular testing for prostate cancer is of questionable value too, and can do men more harm than good.
Read More: Cancer society casts more doubt on prostate tests
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, March 4 (HealthDay News) — An investigational vaccine
for the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma is safe, according to a new
study.
Read More: Vaccine for Asbestos-Related Cancer Looks Safe
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AP – Federal regulators said Thursday that Takeda Pharmaceuticals will change the name of a heartburn drug that has repeatedly been confused by pharmacists with drugs meant to treat cancer and other ailments.
Read More: Takeda renames heartburn drug to avoid errors
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