Financial constraints under the fiscal year 2006 budget proposed by President Bush might require... NIH to stop some ongoing AIDS vaccine research

People infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) have a higher risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and multiple myeloma, according to a recent study of the Swedish population. These finding

Scientists have uncovered new information that may help guide design of vaccines for HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS. A new detailed structural analysis of the complex formed by an anti-HIV ant

Women with diabetes have a significantly greater risk of dying from coronary heart disease (CHD) than men with diabetes, researchers reported today at the Second International Conference on Women

Women who have suffered a heart attack or have chest pain are being prescribed appropriate drug intervention at hospital discharge at the same frequency as men, researchers reported at the Secon

Leaping tall buildings in a single bound may be out of the question, but the genetically engineered supermice in Ormond MacDougald's laboratory at the University of Michigan Medical School are

Men middle-aged and older routinely get blood tests for prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, to screen for prostate cancer. However, PSA testing has shortcomings: many men with elevated PSAs don't

Proteins that shuttle lipids in the body might be a missing link between obesity and other conditions that tend to go along with the excess weight, including diabetes and fatty liver disease, sug

New imaging research about tongue shape and volume before and after surgery should ultimately help surgeons decide how to best reconstruct tongue defects resulting from cancer surgery, says a tea

Asia is poised on the brink of an HIV/AIDS explosion unless governments take radical steps to rein in the disease and the socio-economic problems that are fueling its spread, Susan Hunter, an

The rates of STI and HIV infection are on the rise in adults over the age of 45. In spite of this, they are 'universally omitted from prevention programmes' and, although patients in this age gr

The USA's largest association of faith-based physicians today said that Dolly creator Ian Wilmut's plan to clone human beings for medical research is a wolf in sheep's clothing. It'

Women who have type 2 diabetes are more likely to have poor pregnancy outcomes than nondiabetic women or women with type 1 diabetes, according to a study published in the February issue of...

List, MD, leader of the Hematologic Malignancies Program at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, recently conducted a phase I/II trial of the experimental drug Revlimid showing

Hopkins scientists discover that emotional shock can trigger sudden, reversible heart failure that is not a classic heart attack - Shocking news, such as learning of the unexpected death

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An Indiana University physician and nurse at Riley Hospital for Children have written a book containing both medical and practical everyday advice for families who have children who are HIV posit

Prions, infectious proteins associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease, were previously thought to accumulate mainly in the brain, but Yale and University of Zurich

President Bush during the State of the Union address on Wednesday surprised many in Congress by outlining an agenda aimed at U.S. inner cities, including a pledge to fight the growing HIV/AIDS

Public interest supporters of the NIH Enhanced Public Access Plan today declared the just-announced policy falls short of their expectations and long-standing recommendations. In a letter addres

Scientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine are closing in on potential treatments for neurofibromatosis, a genetic disease that afflicts 100,000 Americans with nerve tissue tumors, s

Gastric and colorectal cancers account for more than 1 million deaths worldwide every year and several research groups have been working to identify the molecular events that result in the initia

UK - In its evidence today (2 February 2005) to the Scrutiny Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill for England and Wales, the BMA has expressed extreme concerns about the proposed legislation.

Responding to the Secretary of State's comments today (2 February 2005) on patient choice and closing hospitals, Mr James Johnson, chairman of the British Medical Association, said: In a market

Governors from six states in a letter dated January 19 requested a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin to discuss the reimportation of lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada amid

In the largest grant ever to a Cancer Control and Prevention researcher at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, the National Institutes of Health awarded $10 million to Anna Gi

FDA Issues Nationwide Alert on IV Flush Brand of Preloaded Syringes Containing Heparin or Sodium Chloride Intravenous Catheter Flushes - FDA is issuing a nationwide alert against the use

Japan in 2004 recorded 748 new HIV cases and 366 new AIDS cases. The highest annual totals ever documented in the country -- indicating that the country's HIV/AIDS epidemic is becoming more wide

A phased withdrawal of the commonly prescribed painkiller, co-proxamol, was announced today by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. A recent consultation looking at e

Just fifteen minutes of training could make it possible for anyone to use a defibrillator to stop sudden cardiac arrest. A study published today in the journal Critical Care shows that a brief tr