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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008New findings include data on sexual function, risk behaviors in newly-circumcised men; World leaders urged to scale up life-saving procedure for nations at greatest risk
With millions of lives at stake over the next two decades, researchers and advocates at the AIDS 2008 Conference today called on the global health community to ramp up male circumcision [...]
Verbal aggression may affect children
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008The methods mothers use to control their children during playtime and other daily activities could have a negative impact on their child’s self-esteem and behavior, according to a new Purdue University study.
“It’s hard to tell parents how to interact with their children based on one study, but what we see here is that parents [...]
MDCT accurate in assessing myocardial infarction in emergency setting
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Multidetector CT (MDCT) is just as accurate as MRI in assessing myocardial infarct size–an important predictor of clinical outcome– in an emergency setting according to a recent study conducted by researchers in collaboration between the VA Medical Center in San Francisco, CA and the University Claude Bernard in Lyon, France.
“The size of the infarct [...]
Metabolic insight to illuminate causes of iron imbalance
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008New insight into key players in iron metabolism has yielded a novel tool for distinguishing among root causes of iron overload or deficiency in humans, the researchers report in the August issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press.
While the body needs iron to produce hemoglobin, a substance in red blood cells that [...]
Black girls who use marijuana engage in riskier sex, have higher STD rate
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Black girls who use marijuana are more likely to engage in risky sexual acts and contract a sexually transmitted disease, a new study finds.
The study, by Emory University public health researchers, is being presented at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. It analyzed the marijuana use and self-reported sexual behavior of 439 sexually active [...]
HIV drug can persist in mothers
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008A drug commonly used in the developing world to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child persists in the breast milk and blood of the mothers, putting them and their babies at risk for developing drug-resistant strains of the virus, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
The researchers found that the [...]
