health - "national hiv"

A protein linked to Alzheimer's disease also plays a role in hiv progression by promoting entry of the virus into cells, U.S. researchers say.

Bryan J. Pfister, PhD, a specialist in neural tissue engineering, has been awarded a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award by the national Science Foundation (NSF). Pfister, who is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT's Newark College of Engineering, received the award to support and expand his research into rapid axon stretch growth, a technique for regenerating damaged or diseased nerve cells.

A meeting of national firefighting authorities in Melbourne has voted unanimously in favour of a study into the incidence of cancer among firefighters.

Tufts University researchers and five Boston-area community groups received a national Institutes of health (NIH) grant to study the health effects of pollution exposure in neighborhoods adjacent to major highways. The 5-year, $2.5 million grant from the national Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) will fund a study of four communities, including Boston's Chinatown and Somerville, MA.

A group of over 150 AIDS Mexican advocates and activists held a passionate protest and advocacy march yesterday in Mexico City to demand that Mexico's Secretary of health declare a national state of emergency for HIV/AIDS due to the steep cost and limited availability of lifesaving antiretroviral drugs throughout Mexico.

According to a survey released today by C-Change, a national cancer coalition of key leaders from the government, business and non-profit sectors, Americans are not aware of the important role they play in cancer prevention.

LONDON -- Smokers in deprived parts of one of Scotland's biggest cities are being offered food vouchers worth 50 pounds a month if they give up smoking, the national health Service said Saturday.