health - "national hiv"

Reverend Deborah Warren founded the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network in Charlotte, N.C. Discussions about the fast-rising rate of hiv-AIDS infections among African Americans in the South are rare.

Common tree species in the Amazon will survive even grim scenarios of deforestation and road-building, but rare trees could suffer extinction rates of up to 50 percent, predict scientists in the journal Proceedings of the national Academy of Science.

Though skin cancer is deadly to male fish, it also has one perk: The black melanoma splotches arise from attractive natural markings that lure female mates. A new study published in the Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences this week shows that the melanoma gene can be conserved in swordtail fish because of its beneficial role in sexual selection.

Researchers in England have discovered that by looking at the prevalence of deaths related to alcohol use in a different way, the national numbers they arrive at are close to double what officials in the country previously have cited.

Africa has educated researchers and enough HIV/AIDS history background to offer hiv and AIDS treatment methods, but at the same time African researchers never receive enough funding to conduct proper research on the disease.There is no cure for hiv yet, but only anti-retroviral therapy - a combination of certain drugs - that slows down the disease progression. The disease mutates quickly and the combination of drugs needs to be monitored and modified regularly to adjust the disease. The therapy is very powerful for those who detect the symptoms of HIV/AIDS virus early.read more

During the programme Terry Pratchett criticises the national Institute for health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE) decision to limit Alzheimer's drugs. Terry Pratchett is right. It's an absolute disgrace that people with early-stage Alzheimer's continue to be denied access to the only drugs proven to treat the disease. Time and quality of life is being snatched away from thousands of vulnerable people who are unable to pay privately for their own treatment.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and at the national Institute of Environmental health Sciences (NIEHS) have shown how broken sections of chromosomes can recombine to change genomes and spawn new species.read more

The senses of smell and taste may have greater bearing on health than is generally accepted by both doctors and patients. Recent research suggests that these senses and their influence on behavior have implications for nutrition, aging, mental health, obesity, diabetes and safety. Researchers supported by the national Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the national Institutes of Health, will be presenting their work at the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste.Epidemiological Studies of Taste and Smellread more

Summaries of select publications and initiatives appear below. ' The Changing HIV/AIDS Landscape ,' World Bank : The report examines how the HIV/AIDS pandemic and environment are rapidly changing and says that ...

The number of physicians per capita in the New Orleans region has exceeded the national average, a sign that medical professionals say indicates the area's health care system is recovering, according to a report published Friday in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. The report finds that the number of physicians in Orleans, St.