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The results of a new study are being published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and it relates different issues dealing with the AIDS epidemic and drugs that...

One of the major reasons that treatment for HIV/AIDS often doesn't work as well as it should is resistance to the drugs involved. Now, scientists at McGill University have revealed how mutations hidden in previously ignored parts of the HIV genome play an important role in the development of drug resistance in AIDS patients. Their study will be published Aug. 8 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Not many people know that smoking causes bladder cancer, according to a new study published in The Journal of Urology® by Drs. Seth A. Strope and James E. Montie of the University of Michigan health System in Ann Arbor. In fact, only slightly more than one third of adults surveyed connected smoking with an increased risk of bladder cancer.

'Exercise in a pill' is how scientists are describing a remarkable discovery where they used drugs to switch on genetic triggers that are normally only activated by exercise, to dramatically increase endurance in mice and confer other related benefits. The study is published in the 31st July advanced online edition of Cell and is the work of researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, and other colleagues.

High levels of alcohol and drug consumption by young people in Europe is leading to an increase in unsafe sexual practices and a consequent rise in sexually-transmitted disease infections, according to a recently published study by the European Institute of Studies on Prevention (IREFREA).

A recent study investigating the relationship between complications of body contouring surgery and body mass index has confirmed an increase in the occurrence of such complications with worsening degree of obesity. Findings from the study are published in the July/August 2008 issue of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, the peer-reviewed publication of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS).

A new study published in the August issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry concludes that the quality of antipsychotic prescribing is no worse for black patients than for white patients. In the past, there have been suggestions of institutional racism in UK mental health services.

Researchers in Germany have discovered that methadone, an agent used to break addiction to opioid drugs, has surprising killing power against leukemia cells, including treatment resistant forms of the cancer. Their laboratory study, published in the August 1 issue of cancer Research, a journal of the

Short durations of stretching prior to activity may not alter muscle strength, and appears to temporarily improve joint range of motion (ROM), suggests a study published in the August 2008 issue of medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise ®, the official scientific journal of the

Based on a pilot study in children with sarcoma, researchers at the National Institutes of health (NIH) believe that immunotherapy could prove beneficial in treating high-risk forms of this cancer. the researchers tested a novel dendritic vaccine as well as a standard flu vaccine to potentially strengthen the immune system post chemotherapy. Their findings, published in the August 1 issue of Clinical cancer Research, a journal of the