Headaches May Plague Many With HIV/AIDS (HealthDay)
HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) —
Headache affects 50 percent of HIV/AIDS patients in the United States, and
many of those headaches are severe, a new study says.
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South Korean and Australian defense ministers agree to more exercises and …
CANBERRA, Australia — The South Korean and Australian defense ministers signed an agreement Wednesday to deepen military cooperation between the two countries through increased joint exercises. The move comes after the United States announced last …
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Nestle Expands Nutrition, Health and Wellness Footprint in the United States
Nestle is also helping its own employees achieve and maintain a healthy weight by offering them weight loss management, programs to help stop smoking and on-site health screenings. — The landmark Nestle Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) was …
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AIDS Research Holds Promise for Reducing HIV Transmission Rates (HealthDay)
HealthDay – THURSDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) — The data may at first seem
dire: More people are living with HIV/AIDS than ever before in the United
States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Pfizer cancer drug effect may be limited: FDA staff (Reuters)
Reuters – Slower tumor growth in kidney cancer patients taking Pfizer Inc’s experimental drug, Inlyta, in a clinical trial was driven by a subset of patients who are rare in the United States, U.S. Food and Drug Administration researchers said.
FDA staff find small subset behind Inlyta effect (Reuters)
Reuters – Slower tumor growth in kidney cancer patients taking Pfizer Inc’s drug Inlyta in trial was driven by a small subset of patients who are likely rare in the United States, Food and Drug Administration researchers said.
Obese people use more meds: study (Reuters)
Reuters – Obese adults in the United States use a number of prescription drug types more frequently than normal-weight adults, says a new study from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
China to conduct Pacific naval exercise
CHINA has said it will conduct "routine" naval exercises in the Pacific Ocean, in the week after a major diplomatic campaign by US President Barack Obama to assert the United States as a Pacific power. The defence ministry said the exercises were …
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Two sex-spread diseases increase, syphilis down (AP)
AP – Cases of some common sexually spread diseases continue to increase in the United States, but the syphilis rate dropped last year for the first time in a decade.
Women, Younger Men Under-Treated Before Heart Attack: Study (HealthDay)
HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) — Women and younger men account
for a large number of heart attacks in the United States but are less
likely than older men to receive preventive medications that lower heart
attack risk, a new study indicates.
Can weight loss reset health risks in heavy kids? (Reuters)
Reuters – Overweight children who shed their excess pounds in adulthood don’t face a higher risk of obesity-related health problems, an analysis of four studies involving children and adults in the United States, Australia and Finland has concluded.
Hepatitis C Now More Deadly than AIDS in United States (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – Hepatitis C, or HCV, is now causing more deaths in the United States than HIV/AIDS, as reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the 62nd annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease. Due to the already-high number of baby boomers who die from HCV, the CDC is on the cusp of officially recommending one-time HCV testing for this age group.