From 21 May, HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) will be running a new City & Guilds course in understanding HIV and AIDS. The course has already run successfully in Leeds, Manchester and London and is now launching in Brighton.
The qualification is designed for people interested in HIV and AIDS or working [...]
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Terrence Higgins Trust To Run New HIV Awareness Course In Brighton
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Partners HealthCare Offers $40 Million To Control Costs Health Insurance Costs In Massachusetts; Neb. Gov. Signs New Abortion Law
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The Boston Globe: “Partners HealthCare, whose Boston teaching hospitals have been blamed for helping to drive up medical spending, is offering $40 million toward reducing double-digit health insurance rate increases for small businesses, part of a broader package that will be unveiled today by Senate President Therese Murray. Murray will tell business leaders this morning [...]
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No Comments »HHS 2009 Quality Report Shows Increase In Hospital-Acquired Infections
Posted by admin on Nisan 16th, 2010
The Associated Press: “The Health and Human Services department’s 2009 quality report to Congress found ‘very little progress’ on eliminating hospital-acquired infections and called for ‘urgent attention’ to address the shortcomings – first brought to light a decade ago.” Specifically, the report found that, for three out of the five major types of serious hospital-related [...]
UN Experts Report Greater Access To Cell Phones Than Toilets In India
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Far more people in India have access to a cell phone than to a toilet and improved sanitation, according to UN experts who published today a 9-point prescription for achieving the world’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for sanitation by 2015.
They also urge the world community to set a new target beyond the MDG (which calls [...]
Also In Global Health News: Online Tools For Infectious Diseases; Liberian Health Funds Misused; Drinking Water In India; Humanitarian Aid In Pakista
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Online Map, Twitter Could Be Used To Predict, Warn Against Spread Of Infectious Diseases
The “Supramap” application, which is an online map that shows the spread of pathogens and significant mutations across time, could be a helpful way for scientists to monitor and predict infectious disease outbreaks, according to a Cladistics study, the Scientific American reports. [...]
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Posted by admin on Nisan 16th, 2010
Research led by T. Cooper Woods, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and Director of the Molecular Cardiology Research Laboratory at Ochsner Clinic Foundation, has identified the mechanism of how a drug commonly used on stents to prevent reclosure of coronary arteries, regulates cell movement which [...]
Artificial Pancreas Succeeds In Small Trial With Type 1 Diabetes Patients
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In the first clinical trial of a system using two hormones, an artificial pancreas delivered insulin and glucagon in a way that closely mimics the body’s control of blood sugar and maintained near-normal levels of glucose in a small group of type 1 diabetes patients without them developing hypoglycemia.
You can read about the trial, conducted [...]
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Kenta Biotech has presented positive Phase IIa results of its lead drug candidate, panobacumab (KBPA101), with all patients completing the treatment for hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-acquired pneumonia (VAP) caused by P. aeruginosa achieving an effective clearance of pneumonia as well as a 100% survival rate. Panobacumab, a fully human IgM monoclonal antibody, is a [...]