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Obama skipping AIDS conference; Black community still bearing high burden of the disease

For all the dignitaries on the schedule at the International AIDS Conference this week in Washington, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and former President Bill Clinton, it's the absence of one that has activists talking. With the conference being held in the U.S. for the first time in 22 years, President Barack Obama is out of town campaigning and raising money for his re-election. His only presence is a 50-second cameo in a three-minute video welcoming delegates.

26 Jul 2012

PlusNews interviews Global Fund director of country programs

In 2010, after allegations of fraud among some fund recipients in several countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria convened "an independent, high-level panel to review its financial controls and how grant money is spent," and the Fund "is now implementing the panel's recommendations," PlusNews reports.

26 Jul 2012

Lawmakers discuss politics of food aid at event launching new 'Roadmap to End Global Hunger'

"The chairman of the House agricultural appropriations panel warned anti-hunger groups on Tuesday that their pleas for more funding will fall on deaf ears unless they're willing to deal with the politics of foreign aid," The Hill's "Global Affairs" blog reports.

26 Jul 2012

Raising dopamine levels in frontal cortex reduces impulsivity in healthy adults

Raising levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the frontal cortex of the brain significantly decreased impulsivity in healthy adults, in a study conducted by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco.

26 Jul 2012

Vienna Declaration launches ad campaign calling on U.S. presidential candidates to end 'war on drugs'

As delegates gathered for the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) this week in Washington, D.C., "supporters of the 2010 Vienna Declaration, which urges governments to write evidence-based drug policies," launched an ad campaign calling on U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney "to stop the spread of AIDS by ending the so-called 'war on drugs,'" the Globe and Mail reports.

26 Jul 2012

Risk of endometrial cancer begins to decrease after age 30 in women

Women who last give birth at age 40 or older have a 44 percent decreased risk of endometrial cancer when compared to women who have their last birth under the age of 25, according to strong evidence in a new, international study led by a researcher at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC).

26 Jul 2012

AIDS activists march in Washington, India to protest marginalization of sex workers, drug users

"AIDS activists gathering in Washington, D.C., and Kolkata, India, this week have denounced conditions attached to U.S. global AIDS funding, which they say have damaged the response to the epidemic by further marginalizing sex workers -- among those hardest hit" by the epidemic, the Guardian reports.

26 Jul 2012

Rapamycin improves function and extends survival in mice with DCM and rare muscular dystrophies

Rapamycin, an immunosuppressant drug used in a variety of disease indications and under study in aging research labs around the world, improved function and extended survival in mice suffering from a genetic mutation which leads to dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and rare muscular dystrophies in humans.

26 Jul 2012

Vitamin B12 supplements and hepatitis C treatment: an interview with Gerardo Nardone and Alba Rocco

Since its discovery in 1989, hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been recognized as a major cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. The most recent WHO estimate of the prevalence of HCV infection is 2%, representing . about 150 million people. Every year, 3–4 million new people are infected with the hepatitis C virus, of those, approximately 60–80% develop chronic hepatitis, and 30% of them progress to cirrhosis and to end-stage liver disease.

26 Jul 2012

Viewpoints: 'No Cash, No Insurance, No Live'; Medicaid expansion is a good option; Eradicating polio

With all the talk about health care recently, I'm surprised that no one has challenged the crazy idea that hospitals should treat people who can't pay. This is a free market nation, dammit! The home of "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Dice" in store windows should have "No Cash, No Insurance, No Live" on our hospital doors.

26 Jul 2012

Virginia Hospital Center offers new Calypso System for patients with prostate cancer

Virginia Hospital Center is among the few hospitals along the east coast to offer the new Calypso® System featuring GPS for the Body technology and Beacon electromagnetic transponders for patients with certain types of cancer.

26 Jul 2012

Health care subsidies, combined with housing assistance, take $1 trillion bite out of federal budget

Two studies look at the burden posed by health care costs, both to the federal government and to households across America.

26 Jul 2012

Recent release: News coverage of AIDS 2012

The NYU Development Research Institute blog features an AIDS 2012 "Conference Political Courage Meter" graphic, based on Google News hits on different search terms.

26 Jul 2012

Two Ottawa researchers take innovative approaches to improve virus-based cancer therapy

Two Ottawa researchers are taking innovative approaches to improving virus-based cancer therapy with new funding from the Canadian Cancer Society.

26 Jul 2012

House unlikely to seek health law defunding in bill to fund government; 'Doc fix' bill on the agenda

Politico reports that Speaker John Boehner has hinted that the House will not seek to end health law funding in the bill that Congress is expected to pass to keep the government running.

26 Jul 2012

ZOLOFT holds promise against cryptococcal meningitis

New research conducted by biologists at Texas A&M University suggests that ZOLOFT, one of the most widely prescribed antidepressants in the world, also packs a potential preventative bonus - potent mechanisms capable of inhibiting deadly fungal infections.

26 Jul 2012

Assistant Sec. of Health Koh addresses AIDS 2012 plenary; HHS Sec. Sebelius speaks at Washington Post event

Speaking at the plenary session of the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington, D.C., on Monday, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Howard Koh discussed the development and implementation of the United States' first-ever comprehensive National HIV/AIDS Strategy, ABC News reports.

26 Jul 2012

NIDA announces 2012 recipient of Avant-Garde Award for Medications Development

Dr. Gary R. Matyas has been selected the 2012 recipient of the NIDA Avant-Garde Award for Medications Development. Matyas proposes to develop an effective, safe and easily manufactured combination anti-heroin/HIV vaccine that could treat heroin addiction while at the same time prevent HIV infection in those receiving the vaccine.

26 Jul 2012

Child who received first stem cell trachea transplant functioning well two years on

The first child stem cell-supported trachea transplant is functioning well two years on, according to an Article published Online First in The Lancet today. The follow-up of the procedure, carried out in 2010 at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), shows that the new organ has strengthened and does not appear to have induced any signs of rejection. The 13-year-old boy who received the transplant continues to breathe normally, has grown 11 cm in height and has returned to school. He does not require any anti-rejection therapy.

26 Jul 2012

Federal appeals court rules South Dakota can force doctors to warn of suicide risk before performing abortion

Reversing an earlier ruling, a South Dakota federal appeals court has ruled the state can require doctors to warn women before an abortion that they stand a greater risk of suicide.

26 Jul 2012

Research News and Research

Obama skipping AIDS conference; Black community still bearing high burden of the disease

PlusNews interviews Global Fund director of country programs

Lawmakers discuss politics of food aid at event launching new 'Roadmap to End Global Hunger'

Raising dopamine levels in frontal cortex reduces impulsivity in healthy adults

Vienna Declaration launches ad campaign calling on U.S. presidential candidates to end 'war on drugs'

Risk of endometrial cancer begins to decrease after age 30 in women

AIDS activists march in Washington, India to protest marginalization of sex workers, drug users

Rapamycin improves function and extends survival in mice with DCM and rare muscular dystrophies

Vitamin B12 supplements and hepatitis C treatment: an interview with Gerardo Nardone and Alba Rocco

Viewpoints: 'No Cash, No Insurance, No Live'; Medicaid expansion is a good option; Eradicating polio

Virginia Hospital Center offers new Calypso System for patients with prostate cancer

Health care subsidies, combined with housing assistance, take $1 trillion bite out of federal budget

Recent release: News coverage of AIDS 2012

Two Ottawa researchers take innovative approaches to improve virus-based cancer therapy

House unlikely to seek health law defunding in bill to fund government; 'Doc fix' bill on the agenda

ZOLOFT holds promise against cryptococcal meningitis

Assistant Sec. of Health Koh addresses AIDS 2012 plenary; HHS Sec. Sebelius speaks at Washington Post event

NIDA announces 2012 recipient of Avant-Garde Award for Medications Development

Child who received first stem cell trachea transplant functioning well two years on

Federal appeals court rules South Dakota can force doctors to warn of suicide risk before performing abortion

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