Most women return to work after breast cancer
Women who worked before a breast cancer diagnosis often return to their normal job routine after treatment, a study in Swedish women found.
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25 July 2012
Leadership key in getting people to protect against HIV
Leadership is key in influencing people to protectthemselves against HIV, according to the latest HIV Communication Survey released yesterday (24 July).
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Mental illness tied to cancer risk
People with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder 2.6 times increased risk of developing cancer, according to a recent study in Psychiatric Services.
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UNAIDS and PEPFAR spotlight global progress in eliminating new HIV infections among children
WASHINGTON '€” Speaking at a satellite session today at the XIX International AIDS Conference, Ambassador Eric Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), commended countries and their international partners for recent progress in preventing new HIV infections among children and saving mothers'€™ lives.
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Vitamin D may help smokers’€™ lungs
Lung function may decline slower in smokers with sufficient vitamin D levels compared to smokers who are vitamin D deficient. This is according to a recent report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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Health-e board member addresses world AIDS Conference with Elton John
Washington DC - "I play before capacity crowds and get an awful sense of fulfillment from that. But the emotion cannot compare to listening to Florence this morning," so said Sir Elton John at a Congressional Global Aids breakfast meeting he hosted yesterday in the Kennedy Caucus Room in partnership with UNAIDS.
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Obama’s to-do list towards ending the AIDS epidemic
Existing treatment and prevention techniques could prevent millions of new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS -- but only if Obama sustains funding. By Mark Harrington
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First-ever study of HIV treatment policies in 23 countries
Washington '€“ A first-of-its-kind study released today by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) maps progress across 23 countries on HIV treatment strategies, tools and policies needed to increase treatment scale-up. The results show that governments have made improvements to get better antiretroviral treatment (ART) to more people, but implementation of innovative community-based strategies is lagging in some countries.
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