health - "national hiv"

The coalition was '[s]purred' by the publication of a national HIV/AIDS strategy blueprint, which was written by Chris Collins and released last year by the Open Society Institute , according to the American ...

The French national Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis , with the support of Pharmasset, Inc.

Using carbon nanotubes linked to tumor-homing antibodies, a research team headed by Ellen Vitetta, Ph.D., M.D., of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has shown that they can specifically kill the targeted tumor cells using near-infrared light. This work appears in the Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences.

Last month it was announced that diabetes UK won the Everyclick Charity Challenge, winning a national outdoor advertising campaign. This great opportunity will see the re-launch of the popular Measure Up campaign. A number of innovative methods were created to promote the Everyclick service to supporters via the internet, both internally and externally. This resulted in 118,836 searches through Everyclick which raised £4,584.88 for the charity.

National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication(NOTE), has joined hands with Goa's private FM channels -- Radio Mirchi and Big FM --for the campaign. Anti-tobacco messages are continuously put on air an...

The Seattle Times on Monday examined how 'an obscure panel' of citizens in Washington state that reviews 'potentially questionable medical technologies and decide[s] whether their track records and costs merit coverage by state agencies' has 'turned Washington into a national trailblazer in embracing evidence-based medicine free of overt interference from political and economic interests.

More and more people are living longer. But living to extreme old age is unusual and tends to run in some families. A new study, supported by the national Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the national Institutes of health (NIH), aims to learn more about the secrets to long healthy life, and investigators are seeking long-lived families to help study this important question.read more

The Los Angeles Times on Sunday examined efforts within the black community to address HIV/AIDS. According to the Times, a 'growing number of [black] celebrities and leaders' are joining up with local activists, who 'have worked for decades to draw attention to the toll of hiv in the black community.'Blacks account for almost half of the estimated 1.

Hiv drug manufacturer Roche Laboratories has updated the package insert for its protease inhibitor Invirase (saquinavir) to warn of possible drug interactions. The possible interactions include:Invirase can cause a significant...

Unfortunately, hiv is not as easily diagnosed as you would think. Understandably, people who think they may have been infected are afraid; they are afraid to see a doctor and...