News tagged with preventive treatment
UN summit adopts AIDS targets amid condom storm
A UN summit on Friday ordered a huge expansion in AIDS treatment, but sparked protests by the Vatican and some Muslim nations over its endorsement of condoms and calls to help prostitutes, gays and drug users.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 11, 2011 |
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E. coli outbreak prompting experimental treatments
(AP) -- Faced with an unprecedented E. coli outbreak, a team of German doctors is trying something equally new: an antibiotic therapy that some fear could do more harm than good.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 07, 2011 |
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CDC: New regimen drastically shortens TB treatment
(AP) -- Health officials on Monday celebrated a faster treatment for people who have tuberculosis but aren't infectious, after investigators found a new combination of pills knocks out the disease in three months instead ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 16, 2011 |
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Influenza virus strains show increasing drug resistance and ability to spread
Two new studies raise public health concerns about increasing antiviral resistance among certain influenza viruses, their ability to spread, and a lack of alternative antiviral treatment options. The findings are published ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 07, 2010 |
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More developing countries show universal access to HIV/AIDS services is possible
Significant progress has been made in several low- and middle-income countries in increasing access to HIV/AIDS services, according to a new report released today. The report Towards Universal Access by the World Health Organization ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 28, 2010 |
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'Needle-free' intervention as natural vaccine against malaria
A study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine proposes that preventative treatment with affordable and safe antibiotics in people living in areas with intense malaria transmission has the potential to act ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Firms, researchers aim to keep seniors steadier on their feet
Rocky Miller has just made a career change that's likely to turn a few heads. After years of selling motorcycles, the 60-year-old Plano, Texas, resident has launched a business, Slip Doctors, that will treat floors with a ...
Sep 08, 2009 |
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As swine flu spreads, who should get Tamiflu?
(AP) -- The swine flu epidemic may seem mild now, with relatively few deaths even as the virus infects thousands in at least 33 countries. But experts worry it could mutate into something more dangerous - ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 12, 2009 |
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New treatment reduces severity of asthma attacks in preschoolers
The largest study of its kind on preschoolers has demonstrated that preventive treatment with high doses of inhaled corticosteroids is effective in reducing the severity and duration of asthma attacks triggered by colds. ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 22, 2009 |
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