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.
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.
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.
A new combination of drugs to treat tuberculosis (TB) could offer renewed hope in the fight against the disease, thought to kill around 1.4 million people every year. The results of a Phase II trial involving 85 patients, and reported in The Lancet, show that the new combination could kill more than 99% of patients'€™ TB bacteria within two weeks, and could lead to improved treatment for patients infected with forms of TB that are resistant to existing drug treatments, as well as those infected with drug-susceptible TB.
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says it'€™s time that the country focuses on family planning programmes to reduce the scourge of maternal and child mortality. The minister was speaking at the opening of a new health facility whose primary purpose is child and maternal health.
WASHINGTON DC, 23 July 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Fewer babies are being born HIV-positive, but treatment for the more than three million children living with HIV remains under-researched and underfunded. As part of efforts to boost access to paediatric HIV treatment, researchers are getting creative, moving to better pills, kid-friendly treatment "sprinkles", micro-tabs and even medicine-dispensing pacifiers.
Deputy President, Kgalema Motlanthe addressed the delegates at the opening of the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington. Read it here.
Researchers have identified various successful and promising interventions from around the world that could be used to improve opportunities for regular physical activity and encourage more people to be physically active.
Information and communication technologies, especially mobile phones, could be an effective way of encouraging millions of people worldwide to become more physically active.
The high prevalence, global reach, and colossal harms of physical inactivity means it should be recognised as pandemic, according to a paper in The Lancet.
With the world'€™s biggest sporting showcase kicking off in London Friday, researchers are warning that physical inactivity has become a contributor to the burden of disease similar to tobacco smoking or obesity, responsible for 5,3 million of the 57 million deaths that occurred globally in 2008.
Worldwide, around a third of adults (about 1,5 billion people) and four out of five adolescents are failing to do the recommended amount of physical activity, placing them at a 20 to 30 percent greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and some types of cancer.
An international team of researchers examined the current understanding of why some people are more physically active than others.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced new results today that show a significant increase in treatment of HIV and in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
A TB drug combination that killed 99 percent of patients'€™ bacteria in two weeks could cure TB in record time and cut treatment costs by 90 percent.
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