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Survey offers solutions to meet the needs of young people with HIV

Very few children are born with HIV in Thailand today. During the 1990s, the Thai government implemented a vast prevention programme in order to control the epidemic that was rife in the North of the country. The reduction of mother-to-child transmission was one of the major successes resulting from these measures. However, before this programme was established, numerous infants were born with the infection.

25 Jul 2012

First Edition: July 25, 2012

Today's headlines detail new Congressional Budget Office health law estimates that reflect the Supreme Court's decision on the Medicaid expansion.

25 Jul 2012

HemoGlobe device can identify women with anemia

Could a low-cost screening device connected to a cell phone save thousands of women and children from anemia-related deaths and disabilities? That's the goal of Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering undergraduates who've developed a noninvasive way to identify women with this dangerous blood disorder in developing nations. The device, HemoGlobe, is designed to convert the existing cell phones of health workers into a "prick-free" system for detecting and reporting anemia at the community level.

25 Jul 2012

Scientists use inactive, fat rats to study juvenile obesity

Childhood obesity has nearly tripled in the past three decades, and by 2009, 17 percent of those 2-19 years of age were classified as obese. If actions against childhood obesity do not take place it is likely that today's children could be the first generation in over a century to experience a decline in life expectancy due to the epidemic of childhood obesity which leads to complications in later life.

25 Jul 2012

Pennsylvania Hospital to participate in Best Fed Beginnings

Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH) has been selected to participate in Best Fed Beginnings, a first-of-its-kind national effort to significantly improve breastfeeding rates in states where rates are currently the lowest.

25 Jul 2012

Burgess to offer legislation to fund high-risk pools, reinsurance programs

Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, plans to offer the bill before the August recess. Meanwhile, after fighting back a tea-party primary challenge, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, hopes to emerge as a dealmaker on tax and budget issues.

25 Jul 2012

Mercyhurst expert addresses FDA's recent ban on Bisphenol-A

The FDA says baby bottles and sippy cups can no longer contain Bisphenol-A (BPA), an endocrine disruptor that mimics estrogen. But what about the hundreds of other plastic items, from water bottles to dental sealants, containing BPA?

25 Jul 2012

Deep look into how brain mechanisms for memory retrieval differ between adults and children

Neuroscientists from Wayne State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are taking a deeper look into how the brain mechanisms for memory retrieval differ between adults and children.

25 Jul 2012

Health law implementation: McDonnell wants better answers to exchange questions; GAO says some kids may miss out on coverage

Also in the news, the Boston Globe examines the possible impact of the Supreme Court's health law decision on state-federal relations.

25 Jul 2012

Penn expert can offer commentary on provision of human milk during World Breastfeeding Week

During World Breastfeeding Week, designated by the World Health Organization from August 1 to 7, an expert at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing can offer expert commentary.

24 Jul 2012

N.J. Dental School receives HSS grant to address nationwide shortage of faculty

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Dental School (NJDS) is helping to address what is perhaps dental education's greatest challenge yet: a critical nationwide shortage of faculty.

24 Jul 2012

Esophageal biopsy advised in children with foreign body impaction

Study findings suggest that a considerable number of children with esophageal foreign body or food bolus impaction have eosinophilic esophagitis.

24 Jul 2012

ADHD increases risk for comorbid psychiatric disorders

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in childhood is associated with an increased risk for a broad range of comorbid psychiatric disorders in adolescence, study results show.

24 Jul 2012

Low serum albumin increases graft failure risk in kidney-transplant children

Children with hypoalbuminemia undergoing kidney transplantation are at an increased risk for graft failure, US research shows.

24 Jul 2012

Coagulation history ‘should be taken before tonsillectomy’

Adults scheduled for tonsillectomy should be asked about their coagulation history before the procedure, researchers warn.

24 Jul 2012

FDA approves 152 antiretroviral drugs in association with PEPFAR to treat HIV/AIDS

Today, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg announced the agency has approved or tentatively approved a total of 152 antiretroviral drugs in association with the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to treat those infected with HIV/AIDS in countries that lack the tools needed to fight the AIDS epidemic.

24 Jul 2012

First results from community HIV testing campaign in Uganda

A clinical study in a remote region of southwest Uganda has demonstrated the feasibility of using a health campaign to rapidly test a community for HIV and simultaneously offer prevention and diagnosis for a variety of other diseases in rural and resource-poor settings of sub-Saharan Africa.

24 Jul 2012

Health law's under-26 provision applies to same sex partners' children

On Friday, adminstration officials published a proposed rule to this effect. Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is questioning the Obama administration's decision to allow temporary firefighters to gain access to health insurance through the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program.

24 Jul 2012

Community worker assisting with polio campaign in Pakistan shot, killed

In a statement on Saturday, the World Health Organization and UNICEF said "a local community worker who helped an anti-polio campaign in Pakistan has been shot and killed in Karachi -- days after two of its staff were injured in a shooting in the city," the Associated Press reports.

24 Jul 2012

First Edition: July 24, 2012

Today's headlines include news from the campaign season as well as reports from the international AIDS conference currently taking place in Washington, D.C.

24 Jul 2012