health - "national hiv"

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine and collaborators are using minute, naturally occurring proteins called zinc fingers to engineer T cells to one day treat AIDS in humans.

MEXICO CITY – Tropical Storm Boris is weakening far off Mexico's Pacific coast and isn't a threat to land. The U.S. national Hurricane Center says the storm's maximum sustained wind speeds ha...

Twelve investigators have received grants totaling $5 million over two years to lead high-impact, innovative studies of food allergy, a significant public health concern. This program, called Exploratory Investigations in Food Allergy, is funded by the national Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the national Institutes of health, and two advocacy groups, the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) and the Food Allergy Project (FAP).

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine and collaborators are using minute, naturally occurring proteins called zinc fingers to engineer T cells to one day treat AIDS in humans.read more

A new, updated guide to finding local substance abuse treatment programs is now available from the Substance Abuse and Mental health Services Administration (SAMHSA). national Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs 2008 provides information on thousands of alcohol and drug treatment programs located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and five U.S. territories.read more

The Massachusetts Department of Public health (DPH) today announced that twelve cases of salmonella in Massachusetts have been linked to the nationwide outbreak associated with certain types of raw tomatoes.read more

A new program to identify patients at risk of strokes and cardiovascular disease could save the lives of thousands of Manchester residents.In the same week that drugs authority NICE (the national Institute for Clinical Excellence) issued new guidelines encouraging GPs to prescribe statins to more adults at high risk of CVD, Manchester Primary Care Trust has revealed it is to introduce a groundbreaking new scheme which could result in more of the drugs being prescribed.read more

Communities nationwide on Friday will promote and offer no-cost hiv screenings to mark national hiv Testing Day, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports (Torbati, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 6/26). According to HHS, an estimated 250,000 people in the U.S.

Health Minister Ivan Lewis outlined proposals to improve the quality of dementia care and provide more help for people with dementia, as he launched a consultation on the first ever national Dementia Strategy.The full Strategy, to be launched in the Autumn, will have three main aims:- to increase awareness of dementia and remove the stigma associated with it- ensure early diagnosis and intervention- improve the quality of care that people with dementia receiveread more

'Personal Factors Affecting African-American Men's Prostate cancer Screening Behavior' (.pdf), Journal of the national Medical Association: The study seeks to identify the personal factors that affect black men's decisions to undergo prostate cancer screenings. Black men have the highest prostate cancer rate of any other racial or ethnic group.