health - "national hiv"

Should the legal drinking age be lowered from 21 to 18? One hundred university presidents, from some of the nation's best known colleges, are trying to provoke a national debate.

A new campaign to promote hiv testing is trying to reach young Canadians where they're at - on the Internet and listening to tunes.

Now, scientists at the Albert Einstein College of medicine of Yeshiva University have found strong evidence that a component of the cell walls of intestinal bacteria - a chemical present in high levels in the ...

The BBC World Service Trust has launched a ringtone campaign to promote the use of condoms in India, where about 2.5 million people are living with hiv.

A new online initiative called One Life is targeting sexually active Canadians 18 to 30 years old and urging them to practice safer sex and undergo hiv testing, the Toronto Star reports. Launched Monday, the campaign, which includes the musical group U2 and singer Mary J. Blige, is a collaboration between Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada and Universal Music Canada. It also includes HIV/AIDS service organizations, medical clinics, testing facilities and physicians.read more

Caribbean nations will establish national HIV/AIDS workplace policies as soon as a regional policy modeled after International Labour Organization guidelines is ready, the Jamaica Observer reports. According to Carl Browne, director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS who spoke at the XVII International AIDS Conference earlier this month, the organization will work with individual countries to implement national workplace policies tailored to specific needs with the goal of benefitting employees and their families.read more

'Health care reform is a divisive issue in Washington, but there is wide agreement on one solution to lower costs and improve care': health care information technology, Drew Greenblatt, president and owner of Marlin Steel Wire Products and a member of the board of the national Association of Manufacturers, writes in a Baltimore Sun opinion piece. According to Greenblatt, with health care IT, 'all medical records are stored electronically and available worldwide,' and physicians can 'instantly access medical information' for their patients.read more

To help stem the spread of the hiv epidemic, public health officials are making a renewed effort to reach out to closeted gay men in oppressive societies

The Lancet in its Aug. 16 issue published an article about biomedical interventions to prevent hiv, as well as the U.S. presidential candidates' global health plans. Summaries appear below. 'Biomedical Interventions To Prevent hiv Infection: Evidence, Challenges and Way Forward': Nancy Padian of the

The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone, report researchers from the national Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the national Institutes of health. Instead, most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection. The pneumonia was caused when bacteria that normally inhabit the nose and throat invaded the lungs along a pathway created when the virus destroyed the cells that line the bronchial tubes and lungs.