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NYU Langone's CMC offers tips to avoid injuries during summer

The summer is officially here and more people are playing sports and exercising outdoors. Experts from NYU Langone's Center for Musculoskeletal Care (CMC) offer tips to avoid injuries during these warmer months.

24 Jul 2012

Recent release: Kaiser Family Foundation/Washington Post poll shows positive news about public opinion and HIV

As the XIX International AIDS Conference convenes in Washington, D.C., Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) President and CEO Drew Altman highlights positive news about public opinion and HIV from KFF's new survey of the American people conducted with the Washington Post in his latest "Pulling It Together" column.

24 Jul 2012

Views on AIDS: Despite advances, still no cure, no vaccine, and indifference grows

The story of the AIDS pandemic has been grim for so long that optimism seems hardly possible. But as the 19th International AIDS conference opens in Washington on Sunday, there is hope for control of a disease that has killed nearly 35 million people over three decades and 1.7 million in the past year.

23 Jul 2012

HALO, UND enter agreement to develop biomarkers for early detection of breast cancer

HALO Healthcare, Inc., a provider of innovative diagnostic solutions for women's breast care announced that it has signed a definitive license agreement with the University of North Dakota (UND) to develop biomarkers for the early detection of breast cancer.

23 Jul 2012

Reward-related decision making may be affected by the emotional processing system

Anxiety disorders affect approximately 40 million American adults each year, and although they are treatable, they often cause significant distress.

23 Jul 2012

Physician-targeted intervention could reduce self-harm risk in elderly

Older patients whose physicians take part in a practice audit and education-based intervention have reduced odds of depression and self-harm at 24 months – significantly so in the case of self-harm, show results of an Australian trial.

23 Jul 2012

Low-calorie sweeteners play an important role for healthy, active people

The International Sweeteners Association (ISA) draws attention to a growing number of experts supporting the message that low calorie sweeteners play an important role for healthy, active people. Used in more than 6,000 products around the world, low calorie sweeteners can significantly reduce the energy density of foods and beverages when used as a substitute for sugar.

23 Jul 2012

HIV-positive women may use new methods to help reduce frequency of cervical cancer screening

Compared to the general population, HIV-positive women have a high risk of cervical cancer and thus are advised to undergo more frequent screening tests. This creates a burden for HIV-positive patients and the health care system, leading to frequent biopsies, which often do not reveal clinically relevant disease.

23 Jul 2012

University of Utah chemist wins 2013 Priestley Medal from ACS

Only months after collecting a National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama, University of Utah organic chemist Peter J. Stang has won the highest honor from the world's largest scientific group: the 2013 Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society.

23 Jul 2012

Recent guidelines that recommend cholesterol tests for children fail to weigh health benefits

Recent guidelines recommending cholesterol tests for children fail to weigh health benefits against potential harms and costs, according to a new commentary authored by three physician-researchers at UCSF.

23 Jul 2012

Researchers explore how male couples of different races make decisions about condom use

Black gay couples tend to practice safe sex but don't talk about it, while white gay couples discuss safety but are less likely to use condoms, according to new findings presented at the 19th International AIDS Conference.

23 Jul 2012

Study addresses African patients’ attitudes toward HIV antiretroviral therapy

An ongoing clinical study in rural Uganda, begun in 2011, suggests that many people infected with HIV/AIDS would take antiretroviral drugs if they were available to them—even before they developed symptoms from the disease.

23 Jul 2012

Researchers identify several gene mutations responsible for medulloblastoma

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital have identified several gene mutations responsible for the most common childhood brain tumor, called medulloblastoma, adding evidence to the theory that the diagnosis is a group of genetically distinct cancers with different prognoses. These and accompanying findings are likely to lead to less-toxic, better-targeted treatment approaches over the next two years, the researchers said.

23 Jul 2012

Hispanics or Asians have higher percentage of HIV infections attributed to heterosexual contact

An examination of the characteristics of persons born outside the United States diagnosed with HIV while living in the U.S. finds that, compared to U.S.-born persons with HIV, they are more likely to be Hispanic or Asian, and to have a higher percentage of HIV infections attributed to heterosexual contact, according to a study appearing in JAMA being published online.

23 Jul 2012

Researchers identify high ARV drug exposure in hair samples of HIV uninfected infants

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Makerere University in Uganda have used hair and blood samples from three-month old infants born to HIV-positive mothers to measure the uninfected babies' exposure—both in the womb and from breast-feeding—to antiretroviral medications their mothers were taking. The results, they said, are surprising.

23 Jul 2012

International Congress on Natural Products Research to be held in New York City

The urgent need to evaluate nature's repository of chemicals in plants, microbes, and marine organisms for their potential value in health care will be a major theme of a five-day scientific conference in New York that is expected to draw some 1,200 natural products researchers from around the world.

21 Jul 2012

Recognizing how food, nutrition impact the HIV response

"Ahead of the International AIDS Conference next week in Washington, D.C., Martin Bloem, chief of Nutrition and HIV Policy at the World Food Programme, shares the impact of food and nutrition on the HIV response," in this post in the ONE Blog.

21 Jul 2012

New CHAIT initiative on development of novel immunological therapeutic interventions

The CHAIT initiative is a public-private partnership focusing on the development of novel immunological therapeutic interventions to achieve a 'functional HIV cure' with the ultimate goal of HIV eradication.

21 Jul 2012

FDA's approval of Kyprolis offers hope to myeloma patients, says IMF

The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) - the oldest and largest foundation dedicated to improving the life and care of myeloma patients - says today's Food and Drug Administration approval of Onyx's Kyprolis (carfilzomib) offers hope to myeloma patients who have run out of options when available therapies have stopped working.

21 Jul 2012

Menu labeling at chain restaurants has some benefits

The recent Supreme Court decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has cleared the way for national requirements about posting nutritional information at chain restaurants. Listing calories, fat content, and sodium levels of menu items at the point of purchase has been promoted as a way to address the obesity epidemic.

21 Jul 2012

Education News and Research

NYU Langone's CMC offers tips to avoid injuries during summer

Recent release: Kaiser Family Foundation/Washington Post poll shows positive news about public opinion and HIV

Views on AIDS: Despite advances, still no cure, no vaccine, and indifference grows

HALO, UND enter agreement to develop biomarkers for early detection of breast cancer

Reward-related decision making may be affected by the emotional processing system

Physician-targeted intervention could reduce self-harm risk in elderly

Low-calorie sweeteners play an important role for healthy, active people

HIV-positive women may use new methods to help reduce frequency of cervical cancer screening

University of Utah chemist wins 2013 Priestley Medal from ACS

Recent guidelines that recommend cholesterol tests for children fail to weigh health benefits

Researchers explore how male couples of different races make decisions about condom use

Study addresses African patients’ attitudes toward HIV antiretroviral therapy

Researchers identify several gene mutations responsible for medulloblastoma

Hispanics or Asians have higher percentage of HIV infections attributed to heterosexual contact

Researchers identify high ARV drug exposure in hair samples of HIV uninfected infants

International Congress on Natural Products Research to be held in New York City

Recognizing how food, nutrition impact the HIV response

New CHAIT initiative on development of novel immunological therapeutic interventions

FDA's approval of Kyprolis offers hope to myeloma patients, says IMF

Menu labeling at chain restaurants has some benefits

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