A new approach toward preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in Malawi boosted the number of pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV who started antiretroviral therapy (ART) by more than 7-fold in 1 year, federal health officials reported today. Malawi’s Ministry… Read More ›
Imagine the following scenario: it’s October 2013, you’re a health care professional, and Sara Smith, a 45-year-old woman with diabetes, arrives in your clinic for the first time in more than 4 years. You ask her why it’s been so… Read More ›
More young women in the United States apparently are being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than in the past, a trend not seen among older women, according to a study appearing today in JAMA. Although the numbers remain small, the… Read More ›
It may be time for many postmenopausal women to put down the calcium and vitamin D supplement bottles for good, as the latest in a string of influential health care organizations has recommended against the use of such supplements to… Read More ›
After South Africa rolled out large-scale antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs for people with HIV infection during the early 2000s, life expectancy in 1 rural community increased sharply and treatment was proven cost-effective, according to new research in today’s Science. Researchers… Read More ›
By David Cutler, PhD, and Nikhil Sahni, MBA, MPA/ID The President pushed his budget in last week’s State of the Union address, but the show was stolen by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) 2 weeks ago, when it released its… Read More ›
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently projected that 7 million people will enroll in new health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) next year when the exchanges come online. This is out of tens of millions of people… Read More ›
A new analysis has found that hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a fluid product used to help resuscitate critically ill patients, does not improve patient survival and may cause harm, according to results published in JAMA today. The results suggest that alleged… Read More ›
Researchers from Newcastle University in England were researching whether an enzyme isolated from a bacterium found on the surface of seaweed could prove useful in cleaning the hulls of ships. In new studies of this enzyme, however, they explored whether… Read More ›
Smoking synthetic marijuana has been linked with acute kidney injury, according to federal health officials. The designer drugs have been associated with hypertension, rapid heart rate, seizures, and hallucinations, but today’s report is the first to link them with kidney… Read More ›
