health - "medicine"

Extended treatment with the antiretroviral drug nevirapine in conjunction with the standard therapy might reduce the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of medicine, Reuters reports (Emery, Reuters, 6/4).

Yale University has announced the appointment of James E. Rothman, one of the world's leading cell biologists, as chair of Yale School of medicine's Department of Cell Biology. Additionally, Rothman will launch the Center for High-Throughput Cell Biology at Yale's West Campus, formerly the site of Bayer Pharmaceuticals. (Source: Biology / Biochemistry News From Medical News Today) MedWorm Sponsored Message: Find out how you can get your message across here by sponsoring this MedWorm news feed.

More than half of Australians have used at least one complementary medicine, ranging from vitamins to treatment drugs for arthritis and weight loss.

The Complementary Healthcare Council has dismissed suggestions that tougher disclosure laws are required for alternative medicines.

The Federal Government says it is considering introducing tougher disclosure rules for complementary medicines.

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative medicine (NCCAM), part of the National Institutes of health (NIH), has launched Time to Talk, an educational campaign to encourage patients - particularly those age 50 or older - and their health care providers to openly discuss the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM ).

Two large studies, one from the United States and the other from Australia, involving more than 21,000 patients with Type 2 diabetes, found no reduction in heart risk and death from intensive control of blood sugar.The findings from the American ACCORD and the Australian ADVANCE trials, and a comprehensive editorial comparing their methods and results, are published in the 5th June issue of the New England Journal of medicine (NEJM).

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A research abstract that will be presented on Monday at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, finds that poor sleep is a problem in long-term breast cancer survivors.

A specialist cancer nurse will tell Teenage Cancer Trust's Fifth International Conference on Teenage and Young Adult Cancer medicine today (Monday) how a young man waited for ten months before doctors correctly diagnosed him as suffering from Hodgkin lymphoma, after he was delayed by the referral pathway and hospital system.

(Stanford University Medical Center) A single dose of antibiotics can significantly aid healing of the severe tearing that occurs in vaginal tissues during many births, according to researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, the Stanford University School of medicine and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.