Other Infections
Researchers Transform Mouse Skin Cells Into Functional Liver Cells
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- Category: Other Liver Disease
- Published on Friday, 28 February 2014 00:00
- Written by Gladstone Institutes
Scientists from the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF have found a way to transform human fibroblast skin cells into mature functioning hepatocytes that could repopulate mouse livers without first having to be turned into pluripotent stem cells, according to a report in the February 23 advance edition of Nature.
Researchers Use Live Ticks to Diagnose Persistent Lyme Disease
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- Category: Emerging Diseases
- Published on Friday, 14 February 2014 00:00
- Written by NIH
Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have used live larval ticks in an attempt to determine whether Borrelia burgdorferi-- the bacteria that cause Lyme disease -- remain in the body of people who continue to experience symptoms after completing antibiotic therapy. In this small study, most patients did not have detectable bacterial spirochetes.
Reports Look at HIV+ and LGBT People Gaining Health Coverage Under Obamacare
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- Category: Health Care & Insurance Reform
- Published on Thursday, 23 January 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Nearly 200,000 people with HIV will be eligible to obtain health coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) -- better know as Obamacare -- which also includes provisions to improve access to care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, according to 2 new Issue Briefs from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
February 4th Is World Cancer Day
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- Category: Oncology
- Published on Tuesday, 04 February 2014 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
February 4 is the annual observance of World Cancer Day. This year's theme is reducing stigma and dispelling myths about cancer. In the lead-up to the day, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer released a new report emphasizing that treatment alone will not win the global battle against cancer without also focusing on prevention. Recent reports from the U.S. show that cancer death rates continue to decline and fewer years of life are being lost to cancer, but cancer mortality has not fallen as fast of that of other diseases.
FDA: Discontinue Higher-dose Acetaminophen Combo Pills
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- Category: Other Liver Disease
- Published on Thursday, 16 January 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week encouraged health-care providers to stop prescribing combination pills that contain more than 325 mg of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) due to the risk of liver of severe liver injury.
Helicase Inhibitor Pritelivir Shows Promise Against Genital Herpes
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- Category: Herpes
- Published on Friday, 31 January 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Pritelivir, a helicase inhibitor that interferes with viral replication, reduced the rate of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) genital shedding, which has the potential to reduce sexual transmission, according to a small study described in the January 16, 2014, New England Journal of Medicine.
Most States Have Widespread Flu Outbreaks, Young and Middle-aged at Greatest Risk
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- Category: Influenza
- Published on Thursday, 16 January 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
All regions of the U.S. are now experiencing influenza outbreaks, predominantly with the H1N1 "swine flu" strain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In contrast to some prior flu epidemics, young and middle-aged adults -- rather than young children and elderly people -- appear to have the highest risk of serious complications and death.
Mass Screening, Prevention Did Not Improve TB Control in South African Trial
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- Category: Tuberculosis (TB)
- Published on Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:00
- Written by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Widespread screening for tuberculosis, treatment of people with active disease, and providing everyone with preventive isoniazid did not significantly improve tuberculosis (TB) control in a study of workers in South African gold mines, researchers reported in the January 23, 2014, New England Journal of Medicine.
CDC STD Report Shows Rise in Gonorhea, Syphilis
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- Category: Other STDs
- Published on Friday, 10 January 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week released its annual sexually transmitted disease (STD) surveillance report on chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, showing that the latter two infections have increased by 4% and 11%, respectively, with the rise in syphilis occurring primarily among gay and bisexual men.
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