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 The majority of the people in the United States infected with HIV live in the South, shows a report released Monday.The nonprofit Southern AIDS coalition, a group of HIV/AIDS advocates trying to augment funding for prevention and treatment options, assigns the South's uneven impact of HIV/AIDS cases to increasing infection rates together...
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Tiny molecules that help cells regulate which proteins they make might one day help doctors predict which liver-cancer patients are likely to live longer than others, new research suggests.
Researchers compared levels of molecules called microRNA in tumor cells and adjacent nontumor cells from liver-cancer patients, most of whom also...
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 The American Cancer Society released a rather macabre study
on Monday saying that about 7.6 million people will die this year worldwide
from various types of cancer, with lung cancer, heavily driven by smoking, killing
975,000 men and 376,000 women.
In all, about 12.3 million people will develop cancer this
year, the organization...
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 Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS,
Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention) stresses the new estimates are not yet final, despite current media
reports about CDC's estimates of new HIV infections in the USA.
Dr. Fenton said "In recent years, CDC has...
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 The mission of the paparazzi at the golden couple’s French chateau ended with a confrontation between the camouflage-wearing photographers who were trying to get pictures of Pitt’s new twins and Brangelina’s bodyguards. Both sides have filed legal complaints, accusing each other of battery and causing injury and one of the photographers...
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 Hepatitis C harms the liver gradually and most people who suffer
from the disease do not have any idea about their health problems until liver
damage comes to light decades later.
It is reckoned that approximately 180 million people all
over the world suffer from chronic hepatitis C, with more than 4 million of
these cases in the...
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 Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler, often nicknamed
The Demon of Screaming, checked himself into Las Encinas Hospital’s rehab
clinic in Pasadena, Calif., seeking treatment for substance
abuse.
The clinic is featured in “Celebrity Rehab,”
the reality show hosted by Dr. David Drew Pinsky.
The musician’s representatives had...
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 Surprises at birthday bashes are usually welcomed, but when
it comes to the likelihood of a surprise infection with hepatitis A, everybody
needs to do the same thing: vaccinate!
Ashton Kutcher celebrated his 30th birthday at a West Village
drink and dance club, Socialista. But before the details and gossips of the
party were...
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 Legendary daredevil and motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel died Friday after lengthy illnesses aged 69, his family said.
A message on his website said "Robert Craig 'Evel' Knievel October 17, 1938 - November 30, 2007."
Knievel, who defied death in numerous stunts, had suffered in later
years from diabetes and pulmonary...
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 Ingrid Betancourt, the former hostage released by Colombia’s FARC revolutionaries this week, has
checked into a hospital located in Paris
for medial examinations. The checks
should disclose any health complications she might have suffered in the past
six years, when she was a captive in the Colombian jungle, said the...
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 The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, also called
People’s Army, a terrorist group self-proclaimed the Marxist-Leninist
revolutionary guerrilla organization, has captured around 750 hostages, holding
them in Columbia’s
jungles. Only six of them were released in the last three months.
Both the United
States and the...
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 French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a direct televised
appeal to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Tuesday, urging
hostage’s Ingrid Betancourt release. “Ingrid is in danger of imminent death.
She no longer has the strength to resist an interminable captivity which is
turning into tragedy,” Sarkozy said,...
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 Al-Qaeda’s chief operational planner, Abu Obaidah al Masri, died due to an infectious disease in Pakistan, anti –terrorism officials
said Wednesday. Al-Masri, suspected of orchestrating al-Qaeda plots including
the London
transportation bombings of 2005, is believed to have died of hepatitis C, the
Los Angeles Times...
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 The celebrities attending Ashton
Kutcher’s birthday party were advised to get vaccinated against hepatitis A,
after the New York City Department of Health issued an alert stating that a
case of hepatitis A was discovered at Socialista night club.
The agency said that a bartender,
who was on duty on Feb. 7, the night of...
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 Merck & Co Inc. on Wednesday voluntarily recalled about
1.2 million doses of its widely used children's vaccines after quality-control
checks found production equipment may not have been properly sterilized.
The vaccines protect against Hib disease (Haemophilus
influenzae type b), which used to be the leading cause of bacterial...
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 According to the Canadian health ministry, sale of
Novartis's anti-inflammatory drug Prexige was halted on Thursday due to high
risk of internal laceration to the liver, mainly hepatitis.
Health Canada
also stated that the drugs market authorization will be canceled.
Prexige, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, has...
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 Jack Kevorkian, a man accused of second-degree murder that
spent eight years in prison, announced at a news conference Monday, March 24,
he wants to run in the November election as an independent for a congressional
seat representing Detroit’s
suburbs.
In 1998, he helped Thomas Youk, 52, of Waterford Township,
a man with Lou...
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 As announced in December, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was paroled after promising not to assist in any more suicides. While most doctors pride themselves with saving lives, Kevorkian was more into ending lives, those of terminally ill patients."It's wonderful. It's one of the high points of life," Kevorkian said upon his release. The...
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 Six people have died between May 22 and May 28 after being
injected with human immunoglobulin, proteins with features of antibodies. The
cases were registered in east China's
Jiangxi Province,
according to statements local authorities made on Sunday.
The immunoglobulin was produced by Jiangxi Yabo
Bio-pharmaceutical Co at a...
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A large number of hepatitis C cases was recorded recently in
Las Vegas. All
the individuals infected were former patients of the Endoscopy Center of
Southern Nevada. The cause of the contamination was supposed to be the reuse of
syringes and medicine vials.
State health officials contacted the Centers for Disease
Control and...
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 Seventy-seven more cases of hepatitis C contamination have been recorded, in an outbreak occurred among patients of the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada. The information was brought out by Nevada health officials.
These last findings raise the number of persons infected with this disease to eighty-five, as there had been eight...
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 The unsafe medical procedures that spread hepatitis C among
patients at an important Las Vegas surgical clinic may actually be more
widespread than investigators imagined, health officials announced Thursday.
Health inspections at 13 other outpatient clinics in the Las
Vegas area revealed several violations of practices, Lisa...
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 A week after 40,000 people from Nevada found out that unsafe
medical procedures might have infected them with Hepatitis C or the AIDS virus,
five certified nurse anesthetics gave up their licenses today until authorities
learn why a surgical center reused syringes and vials for four years, the Las
Vegas Sun reports.
The nurses...
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 A clinic in Las Vegas was ordered to shut down after
authorities discovered that more than 40,000 patients may have been exposed to deadly
diseases such a hepatitis C and the HIV virus, through the reuse of syringes
and vials.
The Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada "was served
with an emergency suspension of its business...
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 A bunch of
A-list stars might have got hepatitis A, after a bartender at actor Ashton
Kutcher’s 30th birthday party was found to have this highly infectious
disease. Unfortunately for them, hepatitis A is not something we can’t escape
just like that, because you’re a Hollywood
star and everyone saw you in many popular movies....
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 Tattoos may be fashionable, but
they are not too safe for the health of their fans. The U. S. Food and
Drug Administration has started a series of studies, which could take several
years, to identify the chemical composition of tattoo and permanent makeup ink,
after several reports of skin problems such as itching, blistering, rashes...
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 Scientists report that pre-chewing the baby’s food is another way of transmitting AIDS to infants. As this is a frequent custom in the less developed countries, health officials warn the mothers who practice it that there are great chances for the baby to be infected.
Indeed, the infection is transmitted through blood, not...
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 The National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day was
observed by many health care professionals and organizations gathered Thursday
in an effort to lower the number of HIV or AIDS infections among black people,
and also to draw people’s attention on the gravity of the problem.
Needle exchange is considered a beneficial
strategy to stop...
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 A nine-year ban on city funding for needle-exchange programs
in the District of Columbia has been lifted, a move city officials say is key to
reducing the soaring rate of AIDS and HIV infections in the nation's capital.
President Bush on Wednesday signed a $555 billion federal
spending bill that includes a provision allowing the...
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 According to researchers, Cirrhosis of the liver, an
irreversible condition usually caused by heavy drinking, may be reversible
after all.
Experiments in mice show that the condition may be prevented
— and the liver allowed to recover — if a protein activated by liver injury can
be silenced.
Experiments by the same scientists...
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 No more than a month after endangering his patients with
hepatitis infection, Nassau County health officials yesterday reported another
positive test for hepatitis among the patients of an anesthesiologist on Long
Island whose faulty infection-control practices put hundreds of people at risk
The officials will not know for
several...
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 According to records that show investigations
of hepatitis C transmission in health care facilities on Long Island and in New
York City in recent years, that of Harvey Finkelstein is not unprecedented.
A spokeswoman for the New York State Health Department, Claudia Hutton, told
Newsday yesterday there are at least "a half...
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 According to recent statistics, blood banks across the USA have a
shortage of blood due to the aging donor population and ever-changing donor
restrictions.
Some banks, including blood banks in Washington, Kansas
and Georgia, have dropped their minimum age for donors from 17 to 16. Others
are using networking sites MySpace and...
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 The FDA continues to stand by its 1983 policy to refuse blood donations from “men who have had sex with men since 1977,” saying that this would increase the risk of spreading HIV, hepatitis B and other infections transmittable through transfusion.
In an attempt to reduce the spread of HIV through blood donations, the Food...
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