Vitamin E Supplements May Raise Lung Cancer Risk (HealthDay)
Posted by admin on Feb 29, 2008
FRIDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay news) — Vitamin supplements won't protect people fronting lung cancer and taking vitamin E may even make higher the peril, a new study finds.The survey covered the supplement-taking study habits and lung cancer incidence of almost 78,000 adults in the state of Washington over a four-year period.
"Our study of supplemental multivitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E and folate did not show any evidence for a decreased risk of lung cancer," study author Dr.
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New York Times Profiles Documentary Aimed To Help Parents Discuss Sex, HIV/AIDS With Their Kids
Posted by admin on Feb 29, 2008
New York Times reporter Donald McNeil on Tuesday profiled the new documentary “Please Talk to Kids About AIDS,” which aims to help parents talk about sex and HIV/AIDS with their children. The film features two sisters — Vineeta and Sevilla Hennessey, ages six and four — as they accompany their parents, who are the filmmakers, to the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006. The documentary has been shown to schools of notorious health and at film festivals.
According to McNeil, a stop at the Condom Project’s booth at the conference prompted the filmmakers, Brian Hennessey and Radia Daoussi, to center the film on their daughters. (Read the full post about ‘New York Times Profiles Documentary Aimed To Help Parents Discuss Sex, HIV/AIDS With Their Kids’…)
Scientists Devise Approach That Stops HIV At Earliest Stage Of Infection
Posted by admin on Feb 29, 2008
Their study, which appears this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), may re-energize attempts to create a preventive/curative vaccine against HIV, allege the authors. To date, more than a dozen candidate vaccines, which have attempted to cause to grow immunity against the spiky proteins on the viral envelope, have all failed in clinical testing.
The investigators have created devices they call glycodendrons that are designed to do two things at once: inhibit the transport of HIV from where it traditionally enters the body, preventing it from moving deeper inside where it can infect immune cells; and set up an immune antibody response to a unique carbohydrate structure on the surface of the venom.
“This paper is about a new direction in HIV vaccine design,” said the studious mood’s lead investigator, Scripps Research Chemistry Professor Chi-Huey Wong. (Read the full post about ‘Scientists Devise Approach That Stops HIV At Earliest Stage Of Infection’…)
Needle-Exchange Pilot Program In New Jersey Is ‘Struggling’ To Enroll IDUs, AP/Long Island Newsday Reports
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New Jersey’s steersman needle-exchange program is “struggling” to enroll injection drug users in part because of a lack of funding, the AP/Long Island Newsday reports (Mulvihill, AP/Long Island Newsday, 2/23). The pilot programs were recently launched in Camden and Paterson, N.J. Another program has been in effect in Atlantic City since November 2007, and a program in Newark is also scheduled to start, according to Roseanne Scotti, director of the Drug Policy Alliance of New Jersey.
The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services in August 2007 approved the establishment of three-year needle-exchange programs in the four cities. Gov. (Read the full post about ‘Needle-Exchange Pilot Program In New Jersey Is ‘Struggling’ To Enroll IDUs, AP/Long Island Newsday Reports’…)
UNAIDS And OHCHR Call For Greater Protection Of The Human Rights Of All Persons Regardless Of Sexual Orientation Or HIV Status
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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) are alarmed at fresh reports of human rights violations committed against people on the basis of their male sexual tonic orientation and their actual or presumed HIV condition.
UNAIDS and OHCHR urge all governments to be vigilant in respecting and protecting the rights of individuals in this regard, in particular the rights of all to be free from assassinate, torture, violence, tyrannous obstruct and vilification, regardless of their HIV status or sexual orientation. (Read the full post about ‘UNAIDS And OHCHR Call For Greater Protection Of The Human Rights Of All Persons Regardless Of Sexual Orientation Or HIV Status’…)
Vitamin pills don’t cut lung cancer risk: Study (Reuters)
Posted by admin on Feb 29, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who take vitamin supplements are proper as likely as those who don't to make known lung cancer, and vitamin E supplements may absolutely slightly raise the risk, researchers uttered on Friday.Their study involved 77,721 people in Washington state ages 50 to 76, tracking their use over the prior decade of supplemental multivitamins, vitamin ( buy vitamin a & d) C, vitamin E and folate to see if this would offer protection from lung cancer.
None of the vitamins looked at in the examine was tied to a reduced expose to danger of lung cancer.
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Agilent Technologies Hosts China Anti-Doping Agency Officials
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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) announced it has hosted the first of three leadership delegations from China’s Anti-Doping Agency, as China prepares for the 2008 Olympic Games. The meetings include technical training on anti-doping instruments and methods developed by Agilent, a primary supplier of technology to China’s Anti-Doping Agency since 1988.
The China Anti-Doping Agency is one of the largest and most technologically advanced testing facilities in the world; it will examine more than 4,500 samples from athletes for the period of the 2008 Olympic Games. (Read the full post about ‘Agilent Technologies Hosts China Anti-Doping Agency Officials’…)
Rwanda To Launch Campaign Aimed At Addressing Circumcision Myths, Encouraging Procedure In Effort To Prevent HIV
Posted by admin on Feb 29, 2008
Health authorities in Rwanda are planning to launch a nationwide campaign this year aimed at addressing myths about male animal (experiment enhancement) circumcision and encouraging men to be circumcised in an effort to prevent the spread of HIV, McClatchy/Miami Herald reports (Bengali, McClatchy/Miami Herald, 2/24).
Rwanda announced plans to launch the campaign in September 2007. According to final data from two NIH-funded studies — conducted in Uganda and Kenya and published last year in the journal Lancet — routine male circumcision could model a man’s risk of HIV infection through heterosexual sex by 65%. (Read the full post about ‘Rwanda To Launch Campaign Aimed At Addressing Circumcision Myths, Encouraging Procedure In Effort To Prevent HIV’…)
Growth Hormone Boost For HIV Patients
Posted by admin on Feb 29, 2008
A new growth hormone therapy helps boost the immune system of HIV patients, reports The Guardian. The newspaper goes on to say that the treatment “doubled the number of immune cells HIV patients had circulating in their blood, suggesting it was rebuilding their ailing immune systems”. The newspaper report is based on a small American study that treated 22 HIV patients and monitored their progress over two years. In this particular group of people, growth hormone seems to increase the levels of circulating CD4+ T-cells, which are important for immune function. However, it isn’t possible to apply the results of this study to other people, the research needs to have existence extended and any benefits need to be weighed up against the damaging effects of the treatment. (Read the full post about ‘Growth Hormone Boost For HIV Patients’…)
Decline In Cystic Fibrosis Since Introduction Of Prenatal Carrier Screening
Posted by admin on Feb 29, 2008
A brief report in the February 28, 2008, New England Journal of Medicine, led by researchers at the New England Newborn Screening Program (NENSP) of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), indicates a declining incidence of a genetic malady, providing what may be the first demonstration of a link between two exempt from arbitrary control population-based screening programs.
The state of Massachusetts has offered universal newborn screening to detect cystic fibrosis (CF) since 1999. Independently, recommendations for nationwide (adult) carrier screening for CF were introduced in the U.S. (Read the full post about ‘Decline In Cystic Fibrosis Since Introduction Of Prenatal Carrier Screening’…)