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CHICAGO -- Mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease can be safely and effectively treated with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy, according to preliminary results from a trial reported here.

If black America were a country, it would rank 16th in the world in the number of people living with the AIDS virus, the Black AIDS Institute, an advocacy group, reported Tuesday.

In recent years, a class of small molecules known as microRNAs have been found to play an important role in regulating gene products in most animal and plant species. A new study now indicates that microRNA may influence the development of alcohol tolerance, a hallmark of alcohol abuse and dependence. Researchers supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of health, report the findings in the July 31, 2008 issue of the journal 'Neuron.'

Significant demographic shifts, including the emergence of a young generation of Hispanic heroin users, are in evidence in a newly issued report on substance use trends in the state of Texas.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- Giving the transplant drugcyclosporine to heart attack patients can prevent the injury that's causedby blood rushing back to the damaged heart, French researchers report.

While medication-related fatalities in clinical settings have long captured the attention of researchers and health authorities, skyrocketing rates of deaths at home from combining medications and other substances have gone largely unnoticed.

Since she was 12 years old, Suzanne Africa Engo has been working to raise AIDS awareness.

Scotland's 2006 ban on smoking in public places cut the heart attack rate by 17 percent within one year, with non-smokers benefiting most, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found the brain's appetite center uses fat for fuel by involving oxygen free radicals-molecules associated with aging and neurodegeneration. The findings, reported in the journal Nature, suggest that antioxidants could play a role in weight control.

The nearly 10-year decline in U.S. infant mortality rates has stalled and disparities between black and white infant mortality persist, according to CDC data, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the data, black infants are 2.4 times more likely to die before age one than white infants.read more